Escape room games are beneficial for your health. They help you improve your health in a number of ways. For starters, they improve your brain health, but also help you build relationships, improve social skills, improve communication skills, and work performance. But most importantly, you get to have fun and reduce the stress in your life.
We all know stress is the number one cause of problems nowadays. A lot of illnesses, health conditions, and diseases are triggered by stress. Heck, headaches are constant for a lot of people due to stress. Go to an escape room or get a printable one, and wave goodbye to stress.
With that in mind, today, we will talk about the top 10 skill benefits of playing escape room games.
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Improve Brain Health
Every puzzle you solve is a treat for your brain. Being the latest craze, escape rooms improve your brain health, and with that, your concentration, memory, and focus skills.
To put it simple, it feels good to win. Solving puzzles can cause spike of dopamine in your brain. Yes, that same happiness hormone we all crave. Playing an escape room, and solving puzzles gives you an instant feeling of gratification and that is why people try to solve the puzzle. You see people fighting to be the one who inputs the code or turns the key. It is all about dopamine.
The hormone, which acts as a neurotransmitter as well, provides benefits like positive mood, sharper concentration, improved memory, and improved social skills.
Improve Concentration
Speaking of concentration skills, it is all about how escape room games work. They are mostly linear, meaning you have to solve one puzzle to progress to the next one. You cannot progress until you solve the puzzle. That means you will have to put all of your concentration to work and solve the complex task at hand.
Players are required to focus their attention on the same problem until it is solved. This skill translates perfectly in real life.
Practice Communication Skills
You are locked in a room with friends, family members, or colleagues for one hour. At one point, you will have to talk and communicate with others, like it or not. Even if you are angry at someone, you will have to put your differences aside and work together to solve the problem.
When you talk to other people, you practice and improve your communication skills. You learn how to approach somebody, how to give him/her important information and communicate every detail.
In addition to talking to other people, you will also have to listen. And listening is an underrated aspect of communication. Don’t be the one that always talks. Listen to what others have to say as well.
Practice Teamwork Skills
We all know the old saying, “there is no I in team”. And that applies perfectly in an escape room. There are puzzles that require two or more team members work on the same task together. In an escape room, there is a common goal, and that is leaving the room before the clock ticks to zero.
And in order to win, you have to work together. You are left to figure out how to best each other skills and strengths in order to win.
Encourage Critical Thinking
Before you even start an escape room game, the game master will give you instructions, and information about the game. But while directions are given, you are on your own once you are inside. Yes, you can get a hint every now and then, but you depend on your critical thinking to solve puzzles. Think outside of the box, solve puzzles, and progress to the next challenge.
Develop Problem-Solving Skills
Critical thinking and problem solving skills go hang in hang. Do you want to improve your problem solving skills? Do you face challenges and have hard time resolving them? Well, doing an escape room can help you.
Essentially, an escape room is a room filled with unique puzzles. And each puzzle will require you to step outside of your comfort zone, and think of things in a way you haven’t before. Practicing this skill will help you solve problems and issues in your real life as well.
Develop Attention To Details
If you have been to an escape room just once, you’ve probably noticed there are a lot of details. And nothing is there by chance. Every object, every detail in an escape room has a purpose. And you have to pay attention to all of them.
While playing an escape room, every detail is important. Missing even on the most stupid detail can throw you off your entire game, and cost you a win.
Doing escape rooms is a fun way to develop your attention to details skills. After that, you will start noticing a lot more details around you.
Improve Time-Management Skills
Escape rooms are limited. The time limit can go anywhere between 45 minutes, up to two hours. In most cases, the time limit is set to 60 minutes. And during that limited amount of time, you have to complete all of the tasks and puzzles. Usually, there are between 20 to 30 puzzles in a single room. That is a lot of adventure, and you have to manage time wisely.
Spending too much time on a puzzle can cost you a win, and you have to manage your time properly. Avoid the unnecessary time spending. Look at the big picture, which is the end goal.
Enhance Creativity
As we mentioned before, playing an escape room game requires you to think outside of the box. In other words, look for creative solutions for the problem at hand. You constantly challenge yourself, and people around you to step outside of their comfort zone. That enhanced creativity will translate perfectly in your real life.
Even big companies encourage games and play. For example, Google has its own gaming room in any office. Games not only provide break from normal routines, they encourage innovation and creativity as well.
Build Empathy
Empathy is a skill not many people have. More and more people are becoming selfish. And that is just plain wrong. Empathy means having understanding of others and their problems. In an escape room, you struggle together, you fail together, or you win together. And that means you have to be empathetic towards your teammates. If they struggle with a task, go help them.
Last But Not Least
With the clock counting down, solving puzzles brings to life the need to get through right until the end. Escape rooms are great for building competitive drive, but also social skills. Book your first escape room, and you will get hooked on immediately.
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