Each one of the rooms the characters encounter in Escape Room has an intended solution.
But if Breath of the Wild has taught me anything, it's that there are often more than one
possible solution for any given puzzle, and I don't think they always found the intended
path.
Stick around to the end of the video if you want to hear the real solutions for these
rooms.
[INTRO]
Welcome back to Things You Missed and Happy New Year 2019.
I've got an exciting week packed with content for you this week and to kick it all off,
we're going to be covering some of the hidden details and their meanings in the first horror
movie of the year: Escape Room.
Let's start with the beginning of the movie.
The opening shot pulls out from a chess board.
You're probably thinking that this is a microcosm of the entire movie being a chess
match against the creators of the game, and the participants are just trying to become
the last piece standing.
There's actually a little bit more to it than that.
When Zoey heads back to her dorm after class, there's a poster advertising a chess group
meeting at the college.
That might be where she gets some of her deductive reasoning skills, because I spotted a chess
piece in her room.
But it wasn't just any chess piece, it was a King, and if you've ever played Chess
you know that the King is the one piece that must remain standing in order for the game
to continue.
So when Zoey faked her death in the hospital themed room, I knew he hadn't heard the
last of her.
But that's not the only clue left in the opening scene, the flash-forward of Ben's
final test.
There is also some Latin text printed on the top of the wall near the ceiling that says
Acta Est Fabula, which roughly translates to "The Play Is Over" or "The Performance
Is Over", a clue that the entire game was created for entertainment, which is explained
once Ben reaches the final room.
That's not the only clue towards the game being an entertainment trail for the super-rich.
We are first introduced to Zoey at her college physics lecture.
Her professor brings up the phrase "A watched pot never boils", and explains how that
may actually be true under the Quantum Zeno effect in which observation stops movement
in atoms.
Zoey's plan for getting out kind of mirrors that effect, she smashes every camera in the
room so she's no longer being observed, then passes out and waits for the cleanup
crew to come around so she can take them out and escape.
After that lecture she has a little chat with her professor, who tells her that reducing
variables won't change the outcome.
At the time it's more of a reference to her life choices of being an introvert, but
you could also apply it to the game and say she's doomed to eventually lose no matter
what.
The name of the company who runs the Escape Room is Minos.
The logo of this company is explained in the movie, but the name is not.
It goes back to ancient Greek mythology.
Minos of the first King of Crete who commanded that seven young boys and seven young girls
be sent into the Labyrinth, a giant maze structure that houses a minotaur, with the intention
that they be eaten by the Minotaur.
In other words, the company being named Minos should have been a huge red flag that the
seven contestants were not meant to survive.
Seven seems to be a recurring number throughout the movie as well.
In addition to the seven contestants when you add in the guy introduced into the game
at the winners room, there are 7 rooms and the clue in the second room is a 7 letter
word.
Seven, of course is considered a lucky number, and the winner of each game is considered
lucky to be alive.
When Zoey and Ben meet up again after getting out alive, they get lunch together on St.
Patrick's day, which is often considered to be a lucky day.
But let's go back to when the contestants all meet.
Amanda, the redhead girl, reads a newspaper headline about 5 people being found burned
alive.
I would theorize this is from another iteration of the game, or a beta testing of the game.
The waiting room turns out to be the first trial room, the giant oven.
Anyone who's played Ocarina of Time should have figured out how those weight sensitive
pedestals work, but it didn't click for them until it was almost too late.
The obvious intended solution was to fill up the cups with water and place them on the
switches, however, they didn't have enough water because Amanda drank some of it, so
they ended up using some liquid that Ben had in a flask.
They also could have had someone pee in the last cup, or place literally any heavy object
in the room on top of the cup, but they were lucky enough to have the flask on hand.
So they moved onto the inside of the cabin, where they needed a 7-letter word to advance.
If you don't remember the word was "Rudolf".
There were three clues in in the cabin and Ben was able to figure it out having only
found two, the text that said YOU'LL GO DOWN IN HISTORY, which to be honest should
have been enough on its own.
The other clue they saw was the reindeer mantles.
Again, probably should have been enough on their own.
But they didn't seem to notice that the camera in this room is the only one in the
game with a blinking red recording light, which could have also tipped them off as a
clue pointing to Rudolph's shining red nose.
After solving that puzzle, they move onto the ice level.
It start with them finding the jacket, Zoey gets to wear it for a bit, and she discovers
the compass with the text, True North is a lie.
This is actually the same compass seen hanging from her mother's pocket when she later
has the flashback to the plane crash that killed her family AND the brand of the compass
is Stanley, London and London happens to be the location she buys the plane tickets to
in order to try to infiltrate Minos at the end of the movie.
Meanwhile, Mike gets distracted by the Husky dog, which matches the description of his
old dog that he told everyone about when they are all in the waiting room.
This leads him to find the fishing rod in the tree.
The compass leads to the magnet and the magnet goes on the bottom of the fishing rod to help
them find the ice box with the key.
This is where the intended solution is a little bit unclear, and I don't really buy that
they are supposed to use the warmth of their hands to melt the ice.
I do have a theory though.
There's one object that is never used, the thermometer.
Maybe they are supposed to break open the thermometer and spill out the mercury on the
ice block.
I looked it up, and I guess Mercury is not flammable, but in the presence of water it
can become explosive.
This is assuming that they don't lose the lighter, which they do when Danny falls through
the ice.
If you're an expert on chemistry, let me know if that would actually work, because
honestly I have no idea.
They also could have potentially started a fire using branches from tree, so there may
have been more than one solution there.
Next room is the upside down 8-Ball Room, where the song 'Downtown' plays over and
over on repeat.
Everything they need to know to solve this puzzle is in the lyrics if they had only stopped
to listen.
"Just listen to the music of the the traffic in the city."
It's literally telling them, stop and listen to the music first.
"Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty.
How can you lose."
In this case, the "sidewalk" is the area on the sides of the room, where the floor
isn't falling away and the "neon signs" are the color coded puzzle which corresponds
to the numbers on the balls of the pool table.
It's telling them if they study these signs, they won't lose.
"Downtown, things will be great when you're downtown."
This line is a bit trickier, but basically it's telling them to go down, but since
the room is upside-down they really need to go up, and that's where Amanda finds the
safe.
"When you've got worries all the noise and the hurry seems to help I know.
Downtown."
This just lets them know they have limited time to solve this room.
"Don't hang around and let your problems surround you there are movie shows.
Downtown."
Amanda ends up hanging from the telephone wire, and the problems that surround her are
the bottomless pits on each side of her.
I mean, not bottomless, but you know what I mean.
She sits there and "hangs around" and ends up paying the price for it.
"You may find somebody kind to help and understand you.
Someone who is just like you and needs a gentle hand to guide them along."
The other contestants literally offer Amanda a helping hand when she's hanging there,
but she doesn't take it.
This movie is absolutely filled with other possible clues, so if you caught anything
I didn't notice in my video -- go ahead and let me know in the comments.
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