Great Escapes Arkansas Escape Room Game

GR8 Escapes is for sale! Both puzzle sets and the hearse, contact us if interested.

Private room price drop!  Now only $100!  

Come test your ability to think outside the box, as well as your observational and communication skills. 

Please help us! Frank was a local gangster and is trapped in an object with his girlfriend, Lilly Rose, and you have 60 minutes to solve the puzzles and find where he is trapped, then send him away! Ages 8 to 80 can play. We recommend group sizes of 4 to 6, but we will take as few as 2 and as many as 8. Our Escape Room Game is listed in the top 5 Escape Rooms in Arkansas!

We are closed on Wednesdays to try to keep our sanity in check.

Here’s how to set a record in our Escape room:

1. Think Simple. You have to finish in 60 minutes or less, so trying to do a Fourier Transform on a set of numbers is far too complicated.

2. When you start your game, search everything. Don’t try to solve a puzzle until you have searched the whole room.

3. Organize what you have found. For instance, if you found a bunch of objects with numbers, it would be best to put all those objects in one location. DON’T WALK AROUND WITH AN OBJECT - your teammates may need it and not know where it is.

4. If you get stuck on a puzzle, get the whole team involved in solving it.

5. Appoint a leader. The leader doesn’t play an active role in solving the puzzles, instead, you take what you have found to him so that he can alert the rest of the team. It’s too hard to listen to everyone, but easy to listen to only one.

6. Before you come, learn as many different lock types and code types as you can. And if you can’t open a lock, let someone else try if you think the code is correct.

7. Look for patterns in written clues. Such as Bold or Underlined, Capitalized, words missing letters, written numbers, words down the left or right sides, or the first word of every sentence. Or the last.

8. ASK FOR HELP when you are stuck. PRIDE is a game killer. Don’t be the proud one, be the hero.

9. Listen to what the game master says before you start. He may give clues or tell you about problem areas before you encounter them. He is there to help you. He WANTS you to win!

10. Our room can accommodate up to 16 people. But don’t bring that many. Just like the TV show, Eight really is enough.

I had a great time.  What else can I do while I'm here?

There are lots of wonderful things to do here.  At the downtown location, Rolando's restaurant is next door if you're hungry.  On the other side of us is the Pancake Shop.  I can't say enough about them - they have fed me over the years.  They are only open until 12:45 pm, and as they say, no wait before eight.  Savory Pantry is next door and they have samples of Arkansas foods and lots of gourmet items.  For other entertainment there is Maxwell Blade's magic show at the south end of the strip, 4D Adventure a block or so to the south, Haunted Tours at night which is on Central in front of the Free Parking Deck (I recommend if you want to learn about our history), the Hot Springs' Ducks if you want more history and like amphibious vehicles driving straight into the water.  I'm sure you are already aware of the bathhouses, Madam Tussaud's Wax Museum (formerly the Southern Club), the Gangster Museum, the Baseball Museum, Oaklawn Park,  Magic Springs, all the lakes and I can go on and on.  I recommend going to one of the two visitors centers as they have all sorts of information on places in Hot Springs.  If you are in a celebratory mood, I suggest Fat Jacks, the Ohio Club, Superior Brewery, Rolando's and the Arlington Hotel.  All of which are within walking distance.  At the other end of the strip is Craft Beer Cellar, take a right at the light just past Maxwell Blade's theater.