For students of Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK) who enjoy solving puzzles and riddles, participating in an escape room from which you are under pressure to find your way out of a suspenseful situation can be fun.
Students will get to do just this at 7 p.m. on Oct. 22 in the Memorial Student Union Building, as the Campus Activities Board (CAB) is hosting an escape room.
While the event will be held at the university, people who are not students and up to the challenge will be able to participate.
The event will be free of charge, and as people show up, they will be put into groups of 10 to go through the room together.
The theme of the escape room will be a virus challenge. In this room, participants will have to solve puzzles to beat escape.
“They will use their knowledge and skills to solve riddles and jigsaw puzzles all while attempting to not get infected by the virus which lingers in the lab everyone is trapped in,” the CAB president Darrell Sanchez said.
The members of CAB put together the event to set a spooky mood.
They were inspired to put together an escape room at TAMUK after experiencing one themselves at a conference and hearing about the rooms at “The Great Escape of C.C.” located in Corpus Christi.
“The Board got the idea of having an escape room after experiencing one first hand at one of the national conferences as well as having good feedback from the escape room in Corpus Christi. CAB felt the best time to have an escape room was in October. With Halloween being the main reason to have this escape room, CAB believed it would set the mood as the first event during Homecoming Week,” Sanchezsaid.
CAB encourages everyone to invite their friends and partake in the thrilling challenge of escaping from the “virus.”
“CAB and its members encourage everybody to attend our event to have a good time with friends during the Spooky Season.
“After students have gone through the escape room, we hope they feel better about working in a team and accomplishing difficult tasks,” Sanchezsaid.
Leticia Torres, a communications major, is looking forward to the event.
“It’s kind of exciting. I feel like it’s almost like a scavenger hunt event. It sounds genuinely fun,” Torres said.
Madison Ortega also thinks this event seems interesting.
“I think it’s really cool. I wish they could [do] stuff like that more often,” Ortega, a communications major, said.
The Campus Activities Board recommends for anyone who attends the escape room event to give feedback so that the Board may get a better understanding of what events students like, to work on putting together more events, such as the escape room, for students to enjoy.
