Escape Games
Players try to solve a puzzle in the medieval escape room at TRAP in Budapest, Aug. 1, 2014. In a ramshackle old building in Budapest, Hungary tourists pay to be locked up in a room and try to escape by solving a series of mysterious clues, opening locks and finding their way out.
Some 100 or so escape-room games have sprung up in the Hungarian capital in the last three years, becoming a top attraction for tourists. Escape games take advantage of Budapest's many decrepit cellars and old rundown houses. These same spots served as venues for the city's popular "ruin bars" in the past decade.
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Players try to solve a puzzle in the medieval escape room at TRAP in Budapest, Aug. 1, 2014.
Can you get out in time?
A player searches for clues in an escape room at ExitPointGames in Budapest Aug. 1, 2014.
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Istvan Karacsony, a manager at TRAP, holds up a battle axe in the medieval escape room, in Budapest, Aug. 1, 2014.
Can you get out in time?
A player searches for clues in an escape room at ExitPointGames in Budapest, Aug. 1, 2014. In a ramshackle old building in Budapest, tourists pay to be locked up in a room and try to escape by solving a series of mysterious clues, opening locks and finding their way out.
Can you get out in time?
A girl stands in the entrance to the cellar where the company TRAP operates two escape room games in Budapest, Hungary, Aug. 1, 2014.
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A clock, clues and locks are seen in an escape room at ExitPointGames in Budapest, Aug. 1, 2014.
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A player searches for clues at the Prison escape room at TrapFactory in Budapest, Aug. 4, 2014.
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A player searches for clues at the Prison escape room at TrapFactory in Budapest, Aug. 4, 2014.
Can you get out in time?
Players search for clues at the Prison escape room at TrapFactory in Budapest, Aug. 4, 2014.
Can you get out in time?
A player searches for clues at the Prison escape room at TrapFactory in Budapest, Aug. 4, 2014.
Can you get out in time?
A player walks in the corridor at escape room games TrapFactory in Budapest, Aug. 4, 2014.