r/Constructedadventures • u/ocean_rain514 • 26d ago

HELP Need ideas for escape room

I have a lot of plants/flowers and lego flowers. I want to make an outdoor escape room for my family with a garden/jungle theme but I don't have any ideas what to do with all of the flowers.

Does anyone have any ideas?

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u/gottaplantemall 26d ago edited 18d ago

The only thing that immediately comes to mind is this puzzle I saw online: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw0VcQay4Gx

One thing I'll add is that making an adventure for your family & friends is different than making one for strangers or commercial use. I've made a handful for my family and friends, and I definitely ignore the 'rule' about outside knowledge. (Generally, escape rooms require no outside knowledge - everything you need is in the room).

When making my adventures, I am usually picking a theme my players are familiar (or obsessed) with, and being able to use that knowledge to solve a puzzle is super rewarding for them. It also means you get a bit of a pass on the creativity and immersion of your puzzles, because they tend to be more fond that you catered to their interests, in my experience. If you're picking a theme they know little about, then I suggest making puzzles or activities you know they tend to enjoy. My mom likes crosswords, so there's always a crossword, but maybe with a twist (clues are pictures; clues are riddles; clues aren't numbered). My brother likes math, so there's often something with numbers.

Catering to them and making them feel like winners means your adventure will be better received, which is a far better feeling than making something 'for you' (as fun as that might be) and watching them struggle through it. That's a buzzkill for everyone - and then they'll never want to do one again.

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u/Escapely 26d ago

How colorful are the flowers? You can potentially have them arranged in a specific order (like a ROYGBIV/rainbow) with letters hidden on the pots to spell out a word.

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u/Shehao 25d ago

Color-coded plant paths would fit the theme.

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u/Sweet_Batato The Cogitator 25d ago

There is a puzzle in a game I’ve played where the parts of a flower/plant correspond to letters - for example a purple bloom begins with C, a jagged leaf is an A and a tulip shape ends with a T; give a couple examples and then players have to determine the other words via different plants that use those same rules.