hey everybody this is legacy escape box and my name is Brian today we're going to talk about the four things you need to host your own escape room hosting an escape room is a blast I've done it a bunch of times you get to have people over friends and family you get to run through the escape room that you've created or in our case the escape room that we've created so we have designed a jillion escape rooms we'll be sharing them one at a time online so always check back at legacy escape box for more escape rooms so you can see what we've done see what we've created you can utilize all or part of it you can create and combine all of the different rooms and all of the different components and aspects and create your own things and I'm really excited to see what you guys are gonna create so the very first thing you need to host your own escape room is a plan so use the plans that we've created for example the cold war escape room is a great spy theme escape room so you can go in you can go through the content you can use that as a starting point to host your own escape room one of the neat things about the escape rooms that we've created is that they can be done over and over again so we've given these really open concepts and yes we do walk you through some very specific things but you can use those open concepts and create your own rooms and that's really what the future of the home escape room is is getting those things together and making your own things that can be used over and over as opposed to only one and done and that's pretty exciting the second thing you'll need to host your own escape room is an invitation now this is a paper invitation that we used in an escape room but we've actually created some really awesome digital escape room invitations that you can use we've made it really easy so all you have to do is get on your smartphone or other device download it write your own things on that invitation and send it out to your friends so if you have a smartphone any other device at all would probably work for the smartphone is great all you have to do is write your own text on it you need your name address place and time and we've designed a lot of these in different themes so if you have a cold war Sherlock columns any heist escape room any of a host of other escape rooms we've designed a bunch of different themes time travel sci-fi outer space whatever add your own custom information send it out to family and friends and boom there you go you've got an invitation to your skipper the third thing you need to host your own escape room is a music playlist now we've actually already gone through and spent a lot of hours curating escape room themed playlists it's a great finishing touch to put on an escape room to have the themed music playing in the background we've gone through and created a lot of different playlists which can match your specific themed room so make any escape room you want all you have to do now is press play on the playlist that we've made for you you can check all of this out at legacy escape voxcom we've got rooms that we're sharing with you of course a lot of YouTube content and then we've also got the music playlist and the invitations which brings me to our last point the fourth and final thing you'll need to host your own escape room is general a moderator so a moderator can be anyone I've designed a lot of escape rooms and I really enjoy being the moderator so as the moderator you want to ask good questions of the participants you don't really want to give them the answers but you want to guide them in the right direction you want to be a really good moderator you have to have the room set up perfectly go through your checklist if you're having multiple guests go through the room then you need to have a checklist so that you can reset it properly every single time you really take the time to know the escape room in and out you're going to want to walk through it once or twice at least on your home so that you know every piece is accounted for every pieces of where it should be and whenever participants have a question you don't just oh here's the answer is XYZ know what you want to do is guide them in the right direction you might want to ask them a question back and a lot of times answering a question with a question puts them on the right track so that they can discover the answer for themselves everybody really does want that moment where they figure out the puzzle and they really feel like they've accomplished something in that point so being a good moderator means not directly giving away the answer is but guiding easily in the right direction really let people take the time to discover the answers on their own and that is the true secret of being a great moderator so I hope you can use all of these things to host your own escape room it is a lot of fun if you haven't done it go ahead and get started really go ahead and try to host you in on a scape room you're going to love it and you'll do it over and over and again thanks everyone for watching the video today make sure to like it make sure to subscribe and turn on the notification bill so that you receive notifications when we do create new content thanks and make sure to check out legacy escape box com for more on how you can host your own escape room we'll see you guys next time [Music]