Beat the Bomb Digital Escape Rooms Allow Team Building Even During Lockdown

Beat the Bomb: Digital Escape Rooms Allow Team Building Even During Lockdown

Virtual escape rooms can provide more than just a fun puzzle experience — they can also help groups hone their communication under pressure.

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Beat the Bomb Digital Escape Rooms Allow Team Building Even During Lockdown

Lockdowns have made in-person puzzle experiences difficult. Some escape rooms have transitioned to digital versions, while other companies have created intentionally virtual experiences designed for people to work together to solve puzzles. These virtual versions work great not only for puzzle-loving groups but also for corporate team building. Beat the Bomb translates its physical puzzles to a virtual experience that has proven effective as a communication exercise for companies looking to foster better relationships between their employees.

Beat the Bomb had its start as a physical escape room that asked players to work their way through a series of communication and pattern-match puzzles before deactivating a paint bomb. What set this room apart was its significant failure rate, with 92% of teams failing to disarm the bomb in time, leaving them splattered in paint. The brightly-colored, messy premise is a good design move, leaning into the physical experience, but it makes the transition to virtual particularly difficult.

The virtual version of this escape room takes players through three different puzzles that require teammates to actively communicate. Finding the correct number sequence when each player only has a portion of the numbers available to them can quickly devolve into shouting while creating sound patterns collaboratively asks teams to listen above all the talking. Finally, sharing the controls of a bomb-disposal robot makes driving and aiming particularly difficult.

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Beat the Bomb may not feature the most inventive puzzles and doesn’t focus on an original or poignant narrative. But not all games need such finesse to be effective. Where Beat the Bomb excels is its focus on team communication — no puzzle can be solved independently. All of them require careful communication to share information and controls with the team while listening to all other members. Players have to find ways to share their information quickly and efficiently over Zoom, finding ways to describe a sound, give instructions and take turns.

This focus on communication has made Beat the Bomb’s virtual game a favorite option for companies looking to provide team-building exercises. Not only are the games fun, they actively train groups in the important aspects of communicating during projects, making them at the very least work-adjacent. The platform wants at least three participants but can handle much larger groups, even split into multiple teams.

The appeal of a social gaming system as a means of team-building has meant that Beat the Bomb has been busy during lockdowns. Large scale companies from banks to tech leaders like Opendoor have tried their hand but stood no chance against student teams from a Manhattan high school. Even EA used Beat the Bomb for a group outing.

While the virtual version of Beat the Bomb may lose something without the threat of colorful paint explosions, it provides a communication-focused experience that has become a quick favorite not only of puzzle lovers but of companies eager to foster collaboration.

Link Source : https://www.cbr.com/beat-bomb-digital-escape-rooms-lockdown/

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