Check out a Christmas-themed escape room at Lougheed House

Calgary’s Lougheed House is being turned into a huge escape room house this Christmas.

The Victorian mansion will be taken over by Escape Capers YYC from December 26 to 29, allowing Calgarians the chance to test their wits against the puzzles, brain-teasers, and riddles that bar their freedom.

Taking a regular escape room up quite a few notches, the Holly Jolly Christmas Caper will include up to nine teams of six to nine people working their way through the house and solving clues as they go.

The ticking clock will also be extended far past the usual 45 to 60 minutes that most escape rooms offer, with over 100+ minutes supplied to adventurers looking to solve this year’s story, which has been supplied in a rhyme by Escape Capers YYC:

He stood by his scheme, and he grinned a sly smile.
“It’s so fun to be mean, all this plotting worthwhile.
Oh Rudolph, so wild, but simply too cool.
And Buddy, a child, so easy to fool.
Little Claus and the elf, too dumb, and too dry.”
He said to himself, with a gleam in his eye.
So he cricked all the cracks, in his green Grinchy hands
And he set to enact his most naughty Grinch plans.

The experience costs $50 to $55 per person, though anyone who books a team of six or more before December 24 will save $5 per person.

The Holly Jolly Christmas Caper 2018

When: Wednesday, December 26 to Saturday, December 29

Time: Multiple times available for booking

Where: The Lougheed House — 707 13th Avenue SW, Calgary

Cost: online$50 to $55, booking available