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If you’ve ever wanted to be locked in a room while a ticking clock signals your impending doom, well, now’s your chance.

Escape Manor is a new interactive facility on Queen Street with a concept that’s either exciting or terrifying, depending on how you look at it.

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Up to six people are trapped in a small, dimly-lit room and given 45 minutes to escape. During that time, participants’ wits, spatial reasoning and problem solving abilities are all tested as they try to piece together scattered clues that help to unlock the exit door.

“I’ve watched movies or television dramas and you see someone open up a book, and in that book there’s a cut-out,” said Billy Rogers, one of Escape Manor’s four founders. “In that cut out there’s a special box or hidden key, and I’ve always thought that’s really cool. That never happens in real life.

“So for me, that’s what’s really exciting. It’s a mystery within a mystery, and everything is in play in the room.”