Howard Schultz once said, "success is best when it's shared," and when it comes in the form of collectively beating a challenging escape room, there is truly nothing more satisfying than when you're with a great team.
Whether you plan to go with friends, coworkers, or as a fun date idea, escape rooms are a fantastically amusing way to test your skills in collaboration, communication, intuition, and most importantly, your teamwork. Here we have rounded up all the best ones in San Francisco that are guaranteed perfect for groups at any level, as they are both the right level of perplexing, and channel the city's essence into its themes.
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150 Kearny St / Website
This first option is a quintessentially San Francisco-themed one, providing colorful scenarios from a Gold Rush one to an art gallery mystery, and an Alcatraz-esque prison escape. This is a great choice in the Financial District's Crocker Galleria, as you'll truly be urged to think creatively, and maybe even channel your inner kid with their special playground-themed room with plenty of play structures!
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PanIQ prides itself on having plenty of interactive puzzles to facilitate cooperation and trust, all within their imaginative and eerie settings. You will have the choice of three, all with their own degrees of spooky and unsettling themes.
We recommend their "Medieval Madness" room, which is a tough, expert-level theme in which you try to escape imprisonment in the duration of a solid hour.
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Escape SF near the Transamerica Pyramid is another great Financial District venture for those looking for corporate team building. This intimate space turns up the dial on high-octane adventure with their special Escape from Alcatraz theme set in a swanky and sultry speakeasy. They also have wonderful 15% off Discount Tuesdays.
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With another classically picturesque San Francisco backdrop, this vintage-inspired escape room is within the grand and stunning Palace of Fine Arts. You are sure to give your brain a proper cognitive workout at either their Edison, Roosevelt, or Great Houdini Escape themes, which also provide historical accuracies for a full immersion, all while trying to narrowly escape their truly challenging rooms.
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364 11th St / Website
Lastly, Reason is a can't-miss, award-winning experience that describe themselves as "Future Tech Escape Rooms." They are all about integrating innovative and high-tech gadgets such as drones and 3D printers with their rooms for a fully immersive sci-fi adventure that is offered either for groups up to 49, individually, and even remote and virtually!
This is a uniquely cutting-edge and modern approach to escape rooms not found anywhere else.
Whether you lean towards the classically vintage themes or the more contemporary and futuristic, you are sure to receive a fitting challenge that test both your problem-solving and social skills! Why not reward yourself to a triumphant drink after as well?
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