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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 2017
Escape room: Finding your way out ‘takes a lot of imagination’
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“It’s something I would
have loved to do when I was a
kid,” Miller said. “Nowadays,
how often is it that you’re not
on a phone, that everyone is
engaged?”
One-Eyed Jack
Over the weekend, a group
of family and friends partic-
ipated in the Escape Room’s
soft opening to test the sce-
nario of clues and puzzles
Miller and Lyman developed.
The room is relatively cozy
in size, but dark in nature,
adorned with a variety of
treasure chests, pirate flags
and gold doubloons that all
may (or may not) be a clue to
escaping.
When the group enters, the
door clicks shut and a video
starts to play explaining the
scenario. The story goes that
One-Eyed Jack — the fic-
tional, yet most evil, pirate on
the Pacific Ocean — has kid-
napped your party, and every-
one has one hour to solve the
riddles before “walking the
plank.” According to Lyman
and Miller, there is no real
plank to walk — just disap-
pointment to face.
Once the timer started
counting down, everyone dis-
persed into separate corners
in a sort of chaos, overturning
chairs and flipping over flags
in the hunt for clues.
“We tried to make some
clues more logic-based, others
spatial, and some you just need
to be persistent,” Miller said.
“It takes a lot of imagination.”
Colin Murphey/The Daily Astorian
The Cannon Beach Escape Room got a trial run last weekend as a group of 11 participants solved a variety of puzzles to unlock the room.
Designing the hunt
But designing a scaven-
ger hunt of complex clues
is even harder than solving
them at times. Lyman and
Miller said it took multiple
attempts to workshop and
tweak the game, often doing
run-throughs in their base-
ment or bringing puzzles to
family dinners to ask for input.
The key is to make sure
all of the clues fit together, and
to adjust it to ensure the puz-
zles weren’t too hard or too
easy.
“We wanted our rooms to
be adult- and kid-friendly,”
Miller said. “It’s something to
do on a rainy Friday night, or
a creative way to have a birth-
day party.”
Back in the room, the chaos
slowed and everyone gathered
around one puzzle, fiddling
and fidgeting with the last
of the clues. The team then
busted out the door with cries
of celebration, after finishing
in 31 minutes and 36 seconds
— which is the record, so far.
Serena Cline, one of the
participants, said at first she
was scared to try it but found
the whole experience to be
fun.
“The hardest part is com-
municating all of the clues
to each other. But it was so
rewarding to escape,” Cline
said. “I’m just glad I didn’t
have to walk the plank.”
Miller said the group solved
clues in ways she didn’t antici-
pate, but ultimately being cre-
ative is the point.
“I love seeing people’s
strengths come out, and see-
ing strangers work together,”
she said.
Pickup: Garbage rates vary based on size of bin, pickup frequency
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Residents can currently
drop off both yard debris and
glass at Recology’s trans-
fer station on Williamsport
Road and a couple of other
locations for free. But Mayor
Arline LaMear, who was in
favor of curbside glass pickup
but not convinced yard debris
pickup was necessary, said
it can be difficult for peo-
ple, especially the elderly or
those without reliable trans-
portation, to haul glass down
there.
City Councilor Cindy
Price opposed the increases.
Her concern was, she said,
that “we’re raising fees
everywhere.”
Price championed another
fee increase Monday that
would impose a $3 levy on
residential water customers to
help the Parks and Recreation
Department. But the parks
fee, she said, would bring in
much-needed revenue for
a department that pro-
vides important community
services.
Rates vary
among customers
Garbage rates vary among
customers based on the
size of bin they have and how
often they are scheduled for
garbage pickup. But Recol-
ogy General Manager Fred
Stemmler said there are ways
for people to reduce their indi-
vidual bills, even with the ini-
tial increases introduced by
curbside glass and yard debris
pickup.
These services help reduce
what people throw into their
garbage, he said. Yard debris
includes Type 1 compost
— plants and unprepared
fruit and vegetable scraps
— further eliminating items
that would normally get
thrown in with the rest of
the garbage, Stemmler said.
Someone with a weekly
pickup schedule and a
larger bin could down-
size or go to twice monthly
pickup.
Recology will also begin
picking up garbage at city
parks, alleviating some pres-
sure on city staff.
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