1. Think simple, a well designed escape room won’t be that complicated
2. Search once you enter the room, but search carefully so you don’t mess things up
3. Organize your stuff, make sure you aren’t redoing clues
4. Focus on stops, you can do this, don’t think otherwise (work backwards and pull back your thinking)
5. Team roles, project manager, and certain people for certain clues
6. Lock types, know which lock is which and which codes they need
7. Code types, make sure you know short and long lines are braille
8. Written clues, look for abnormal patterns in writing
9. Look for patterns, this literally explains itself
10. Your guide is your friend, listen to instructions so you don’t royally mess something up

All comments from YouTube:

@diamondinvr

4y↑4.5K

I went to an escape room. Found a key and it broke inside the lock. I sat there for 10 minutes before the staff came in and asked me why I wasn't doing anything. They had to get a lock cutter for me to get through to the next part. It was fun

@user-ov9wg3qs7u

4y↑85

Sad

@AnyaArisohn

4y↑90

Quality!!

@TeddyBear-pj9dt

4y↑26

Lol that’s sad but funny! 😆

@VictorDomonik

4y↑59

Why did you just sit there?

@diamondinvr

4y↑228

@@VictorDomonik im ridiculously shy so i just waited for them to notice me doing nothing instead of doing anything myself

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@videoarchiving

5y↑13.1K

Sitting here in an escape room with my family crouded around my iphone watching this video, thanks.

@richardmillhousenixon

5y↑1.1K

Seems doubtful. Most all escape rooms prohibit the use of phones and therefore outside help

@hersey.

5y↑487

R/woooosh

@m.c8021

5y↑543

I don't think you are telling the truth. You can't have a phone in a escape room it says that. Maybe you are being grounded and you locked in your room.

@user-sl5rs3it8h

5y↑54

mutantfish r/wooosh

@user-sl5rs3it8h

5y↑45

Tribe of the Iron Flame r/wooosh

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@Nikiix95

2y↑646

As someone who works at an escape room, I can confirm that all of these tips are valid and EXTREMELY helpful! I already tell customers some of these, but I'll definitely be telling them the rest now!
Another tip I use is to not be afraid to ask for hints. At my job, we give unlimited, so people are usually more willing to ask for help. But even if you're limited and you're really stuck, some times one clue is all you need to continue the room.

@cccooper472

1y↑2

I really want to go to one. I have a question please. How many people do I go with? Is there a person who works there in the room with us?

@anthropomorphicpeanut6160

1y↑4

@@cccooper472 it depends on the room. Most of the ones I've done were with 4 or 5 people and it was perfect, but I know about one were you need to have between 8 and 10 participants (that is way less common). Also, in all of the ones I've been to you only see the person working there at the beginning to explain the story and at the end when you escape and they offer you a picture

@aeb830

41w

@@cccooper472 💯

@ShaggyRogers1

41w↑3

@@anthropomorphicpeanut6160 You are being monitored at all times when in an escape room. There is a reason why there is always a security camera inside the room(s), and that is so that the employees can monitor and offer assistance if needed.

@Make_it_easy001

8w↑2

As an escape room enthusiast, I can say that most of these tips will keep you in the room forever. They are only suitable for very basic rooms for beginners.
In normal escape rooms, the puzzles can be much more difficult. Keys, codes, passwords, hints can be found in lamps, in sockets, and in the most unpleasant places. Sometimes locks need to be picked using master keys found.

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@echofrost489

1y↑277

@ll77l

1y↑11

Thanks for saving me 10 minutes

@EDhynh0

1y↑27

Number 7, not braille, Morse code

@aeb830

41w↑2

@@EDhynh0 True

@Ms.Tee65

21w↑1

Thanks definitely will implement these when my family of 20 try an escape room

@ryana5435

21w↑2

@@ll77l BRUH you missed a bunch of details

@Mallyx

4y↑56K

i heard that you can escape in less than 1 minute by having a panic attack in the corner.

@jubileeYAVEL

4y↑560

JstnXIII, nice

@rushedmidnight9545

4y↑1.3K

Strategy I use

@pigentertainmentcorp

4y↑593

I was laughing for 20 minutes

@loganbothwell8636

4y↑1.2K

I can indeed confirm this works and you might get a free cookie XD

@therealzombie5381

4y↑412

Guiness world record prepare to break

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@mayaschutz3307

4y↑4.1K

* watches this alone in my room with no escape rooms even remotely near my area*

@alf3071

4y↑149

escape your room

@galaxywolf_hannah8243

4y↑14

Same bro, same

@allegrovivace6806

4y↑7

same :(

@Babycow904

4y↑4

Same

@allegrovivace6806

4y↑3

@@Maelin. alex literally just said that

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@AThingProbably

1y↑35

3:17 actually one time I went to an escape room the staff were explaining the rules and said a rule which was "the pinky rule" if you could move something with your pinky it was a clue and they mentioned that one time people disassembled the air conditioner thinking it was a clue.

@phantomvizgod

3y↑86

Looking back, I'm so glad I came across this video. My escape room record thus far is 2-1, I barely didn't escape my first room even with the tips but I'm sure w/o them we wouldn't have made it far. Using the tips again and knowing more of what to look for, I and my group were able to break out of 2 rooms. This is a great guide for any newbie who wants to start playing escape rooms with their friends and families and makes the experience really fun.

@robin9126

5y↑2.8K

I was doing an escape room and we were trying to find the key for something but then after 20 mins we realised that my dad was holding the key the whole time i was so mad lol 😂

@HighTech636

5y↑112

Escape rooms can get people in fights. Believe me

@Tom19142

5y↑37

One time we were in the Escape Room and we needed to unlock a door through some sort of codes using colours. Someone (could be even me) closed that door after making that code correctly and we were stuck in the first room for....30 minutes?

@robossthinking1056

5y↑1

Robin Gillmore that’s nothing rlly funny

@janda2304

5y↑1

Lol that must be funny

@Escape-topia

5y↑10

@RobinGillmore It happens all the time. Communication is the most important 'key' for escaping.

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@andrewli975

6y↑5.7K

How many of you actually wanted to see them actually escaping out of an escape room?

@meanpoutine7095

5y↑130

Andrew Li
In my experience you’re not allowed to film :)

@entity4990

5y↑9

WHERE’S THE VID😢

@jonstanevich2876

5y↑4

they did

@AL-rs2uu

5y↑3

Andrew Li hey brother

@JonatasMonte

5y↑10

everybody who clicked the video.

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@cmo5173

1y↑27

I was in a room once, that had a home trainer bike in it. Me and my group were convinced something would happen if we would use it, like a light starting to shine or a curtain going up (revealing something). I literally biked for about 15 minutes, but nothing happened. It was just there as a red herring. We did eventually escape the room tho

@kevinpurvis1709

2y↑9

My wife and I did an escape room for our anniversary. I showed her this video before we went in. All these tips came in handy and we escaped with 2 seconds to spare. The room even had a few red herrings. Huge fan of all your videos. Keep up the great work 👍

@savanareherman654

3y↑2.9K

A tip for finding things an “average” person would know instead of going down rabbit holes: If the knowledge you have had to do with your profession, or is something that only certain groups of people would know, then it’s probably not the answer.

@River2384

3y↑86

That makes sense, I did one that had to do with coding ( it was for business retreats) and I was like this doesn't seem like a thing, but all the coding people we're excited because it was. So if it's not for coding, it's probably not.

@imahuman7516

3y↑46

Exactly. I was in a escape room the other day and there was a rubix cube with numbers on certain boxes, when solved it revealed nothing even when put in color order or other kinds of combinations, while other puzzles that could be solved with no experience and with only clues and information found did eventually became a code that had to be translated into numbers which opened a briefcase.

@luciussakura5031

3y↑62

This is usually true. The only exceptions I've found are when you could solve a puzzle without the knowledge, but special knowledge might get you there faster. For example, I went into an Egypt themed room where one of the puzzles was based on the heart weighing ceremony. Not common knowledge, but it helped me know which two things to put on the scales.

@Secretcodrin

3y↑4

So the robber didn't hint at a V because not everybody knows geographic.

@livinglikelarry2491

3y↑27

@@Secretcodrin There was most likely a globe in the room

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@TopGarfieldEnthusiast

4y↑9.6K

casually watches in quarantine with no chance of going to an escape room

@Carma281

4y↑32

Ikr

@jxlly_fish5687

4y↑20

Yes!!!

@andreibaban1447

4y↑21

yes relatable

@ArchitectKnight

4y↑14

So true

@imgoinginside8012

4y↑18

We already are

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@BeeDenver

1y↑358

I had one room that had a difficult (to me) math problem that I couldn’t get. The room master said “PEMDAS!”. I screamed, “I LITERALLY FAILED MATH”

@RonDoncombe

1y↑18

how you fail pemdas it is basic algerba

@MoosjeArt

1y↑7

I am going to an escaperoom today I am gonna rob a bank :)

@filyboy7

1y↑59

@@RonDoncombeit's not algebra it's priority of operations 😂 how you gonna make someone feel bad for not knowing and not even know it yourself

@xavierb.2378

1y↑2

@@filyboy7 that's exactly was I was finna say

@endoverlord423

1y↑11

WTH is pemdas
i have never heard of it before, tho it sounds kinda similar to bedmas

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@MCHuang

2y↑39

Final solve for an escape room I did was a number lock. To get the number, we had to solve a math equation, which we found by turning off the lights to the room and shining two different laser pointers at specific angles from two different spots in the room, and the various mirrors create the said math equation. Finding the laser pointers, where to put them, what angle to put them at, all required separate series of puzzles on their own.

@psychickumquat

1y↑5

Thats sounds really cool, love metapuzzles like that where the answers of the first puzzles feed into a bigger one.

@VivaLaVaca2010

3y↑2.9K

I work at an escape room and can not tell you the number of times people fail and get frustrated buy not following those tips. This video is 100% true, accurate and helpful!

@Venisor21

2y↑17

They could also just ask for a hint though.

@eu6744

2y↑13

buy? by*

@khonwang6263

2y↑16

@@eu6744bruh no need to be rude

@seagullrat4172

2y↑7

is this reverse psychology

@user-di6cn2ne7u

2y↑32

Yes! I was the only person who had ever done an escape room in my group of 6 last week. They were all obsessed with going suuuuuper deep doing math and periodic table things (it was biohazard theme). I had to keep telling them they would never make puzzles that hard requiring writing out math or remberjng a 20 digit code 😂

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@HollyWade97x

5y↑2.2K

I work in an escape room haha. For those of you who get frustrated about the red herrings, the thing is, they might not actually be red herrings. We are trained to make you escape the room so that you are proud of your achievement so sometimes when players take too long to solve some enigmas, we unblock others so that you move along to the end faster so that you are able to finish on time. In the escape room I work at, the rooms are designed not to have any red herrings but if players are not going fast enough, we can skip steps in the game so that they get the satisfaction of having escaped :)

@Joshi3b0i

5y↑100

You should be a story telling youtuber

@honeyponve8982

5y↑60

I second this I’ve work in escape rooms for 5 years now, 3 different companies

@DelphineTheWorstBladeEver

5y↑273

How unsatisfying to know this....

@ShiningDialga

5y↑76

I think red herrings are often unintentional and in the mind of the player. I've done about 20 rooms, and I've often found myself stuck on a prop that had nothing to do with the puzzle. That said, the prop clearly wasn't designed to be part of the puzzle, so I just read too much into things.

@meaghangura4278

5y↑52

The one i work at, we dont let every group escape because we keep true to our escape rates. But our rules for us GM's is to get them 50% through the game and if there is some free time after their game has ended, we give them 15-30 extra minutes to try to escape the room. If they dont, we help explain things for them.

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@BarelyHereTBH

4w↑1

Hi!
I'm interviewing for a job as a Guide, having never done an Escape Room myself. Training is provided, of course, but we are given immediate raises based on how quickly we learn the rooms.

This is an awesome guide, thank you!! I feel much more prepared going in.

@harry_bleakley9955

3y↑3

please do more of these videos!! they’re amazing

@Ray-ln7ut

4y↑3.9K

I lost you at the “friends” part.

@user-su6js9po4l

4y↑89

don't worry man, we're in the same boat

@liamprosser6316

4y↑32

@@user-su6js9po4l
Yeah

@alexandert.6933

4y↑7

@dig3990

4y↑12

Same

@markcuban5915

4y↑7

Same

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@user-vc5rp7nf8f

4y↑1.9K

me: disassembles electrical outlet and dies
friend: the clue is in the dead body

@GriderTornado

4y↑40

I hated people who dissambled anything especially when i told them not to do so or when there were labels stating not to touch it, those who did that I haven t helped them properly so they would not make it in time

@luigin9087

4y↑21

me: fixes wires in electrical
friend: there is one imposter among us

@crr37

up the nose we go

@nairbvel

3y↑3

Technically, you escaped the room... LOL

@thequietkiwi

Obviously gets recorded as a covid death.

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@lindsayannsings428

1y↑12

My boyfriend and I watched this video this morning before we did a 30 minute escape room this afternoon. We made it out with 8 minutes to spare! These tips really helped us divide and conquer

@Tobbelitto622

I would look at my phone wait for timer to end

@pineappleplayzyt4842

2y↑6

Thanks Mark! I'm going to an escape room today, so these tips should definitely help!

@pixel6173

4y↑4K

i honestly wanna see the lockpicking lawyer do an escape room now, and just pick open every single lock and escape within 5 minutes.

@Nic_S.

4y↑85

there are a lot of escape rooms that don't use locks for everything

@savage3659

4y↑189

@@Nic_S. Well he can just lockpick the escape door ahahahahah

@Nic_S.

4y↑71

@@savage3659 The one I work in doesn't lock the people in at all, but if the people just leave, they obviously wont get what they paied for and they won't get on the leaderboard, because they didn't complete the objective (which can't be done by picking a lock, with the exception of one of our older games).

@paulinecullen4951

4y↑5

Siege gang

@angelsxaesthetic9147

4y↑1

pixel me see a key pad

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@unexplainableobjects8981

4y↑8.8K

i once went to an escape room, and on the bottom of a mug it said "made in china" and that was a clue

@luigigaminglp

4y↑468

FFS

@samanthapeters8314

4y↑194

LMAO

@befer

4y↑160

Bruh

@hurricaneheehee2254

4y↑189

BRUTHA WHAT IN THE FRUNCK

@ljgarrison6910

4y↑57

It could have been Porcelain

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@user-cm4yv6xw6z

being a canadian, I love it when he includes a travel montage to Canada. I loved seeing, gretzky something and time hortons the most Canadian thing ever. Seriously!

@The4Tifier

3y↑192

Thanks to these tips, me and my friends were able to do far better than the majority of beginners in their first escape rooms…

By finishing 1 minute over the time limit!

We’re definitely going to pass the next escape room! Thanks for your advice dude!

EDIT: Also, it was just three of us, and the owner was very impressed!

@jenclark777

2y↑9

My friends and I stunk lol... we had one more clue but used 2 clues and time ran out.

@nicecleandough1587

4y↑2.3K

Instructions failed, Current status: Still in prison.

@abhikd1

4y↑50

Hol up

@nicecleandough1587

4y↑20

strzax shhh im in a guard uniform dont pm me!

@anthonyeet1103

3y↑4

I got u in jailed for ruining over a Mark rober hater u?

@abhikd1

3y↑6

@@nicecleandough1587 hey man, it's been two months. you got out yet? once you do, please let me out of the basement

@nicecleandough1587

3y↑3

@@abhikd1 wait how do you have a phone? and yes i broke out

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@Gummientenkillass

6y↑2.7K

Thanks. When I design my escape room I will hide essential clues in ceiling lights and power outlets.

@KevSB07

6y↑157

sounds expensive to have to replace them every time someone finds the clue

@edward3320

6y↑351

Make sure they get electrocuted when opening them

@dalmationblack

6y↑136

Just don't be the one room that uses an electrical outlet as a key hole. I seriously don't know where people get the idea to do that but apparently people seem to think that's a reasonable solution.

@marcusyao6939

6y↑66

An escape room that I've done actually had a clue behind a fake power outlet.

@dalmationblack

6y↑33

Why do people do that? Was it at least hinted at? If not, they are terrible at making rooms

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@Semystic

Im doing an escape room in two days and ive watched this video a few times since it was uploaded, but here I am again!

@whynot7585

24w

Thanks for these tips Mark. It is really important to take a set back from a puzzle sometimes and have someone else look at it especially if you are over complicating things. Yesterday I escaped operation casino at breakout games with just 32 seconds to spare. So fun!

@sidus1312

5y↑10K

That was a 10 second travel montage. You promised 6. You stole 4 seconds I'll never get back. How dare you

@camiscrazy0883

5y↑313

6 seconds of travel but 4 seconds of him there walking around :)

@tupactip

5y↑146

yea, unsubbed

@victoriacavallo5981

5y↑28

Jeez only by 4 seconds.....

@sidus1312

5y↑31

@@victoriacavallo5981 =)

@BigL10000

5y↑43

He got there in 6 seconds

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@jinkstacks4830

5y↑2.1K

I went to an escape room where they went through the rules, one of which was “don’t anything in holes in the wall and don’t pull anything out”

One of the puzzles literally involved putting your hand in a hole in the wall and pulling out a wooden plank, which we were stuck on for like 15 mins because we were told not to.

@roseaverina

5y↑201

i hate this! this happened to me on my first escape room that i ever did and the first thing we had to try and solve was literally a lock behind the book shelf when we were specifically told to "not mess up the place badly and move any objects out of their original place unless its an actual clue". we were stuck on it for 15 minutes and we were all newbies to this but i was the railing compartment thingy for sliding doors connected to the book shelf but nobody allowed me to move it in fear from the instructions but once we call in for a clue, the staff went "have you seen the book shelf?" so annoying!

@neyrrad277

5y↑73

That is the clue. It's just one of the ways to give it to players without saying it out directly (well, they did tell you the clue outright, just worded it as if it's forbidden). They are watching you anyway so if you are doing somethings that you're not suppose to do or will mess up their system, they will tell you.

@ace-kz9id

5y↑201

@@neyrrad277 that's just a poor excuse. Dont give "rules" that are meant to be clues and expect people to not just break more rules because you just told them that the rest of the rules are possible clues

@neyrrad277

5y↑30

@@ace-kz9id Maybe, but we don't know how the clue was given (I meant when in the induction, and in what tone did the keeper deliver them). If it's mixed in the middle of all other real rules, I'd say I agree with you and that's the stupidest clue ever. But if it's given at the very end just before the game started, and was quite out-of-the-blue, then it should ring the bell as it might not be what it seems.

@nova7067

@@neyrrad277 g

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@HalfKort

1y↑1

Ok I just did two of my first escape rooms after all of us watching your video before each one and we escaped both!
What great memories!!!

Thank you for this video and the great tips!

@manastorm5308

2y↑7

I would say that everyone working working on one puzzle can be counter intuitive at times. For example, there may be two different puzzles that have clues scattered around. So if you immediately hone in on one, you may miss clues for the second. In addition, its better to have everyone working on different ones instead of one singular, since then you can come up with solutions for all three in that time instead of one.

@noticedninja1757

3y↑1.5K

I'm a laurier brantford student, Scott is my professor, he's the real deal. He makes us watch this video for the escape rooms class. Im a long time fan of his channel and finding out that you know my prof and have literally been in my classroom is awesome! This literally made my day.

@aidarene8521

3y↑63

THERES AN ESCAPE ROOM CLASS?? If they don't end up having that at UT Austin I'm going to be VERY disappointed

@MayBee15

3y↑12

Whats your program?

@LordBadenRulez

1y↑2

..and that kids, is how you get an A+. 😅

@AceFaz

37w

Escape Room Class??

@noticedninja1757

37w↑4

@@AceFaz yes indeed. We make an escape room and run it to the public. Lots of fun and we get to work with industry professionals and gain lots of experience.

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@kiblord8252

4y↑11.3K

Tip: if there’s a painting, walk through it.

@yodatea8073

4y↑238

RennOrKai Minecraft boiiii

@cilantrolord3328

4y↑84

Only if I was make-believe, JIMMY DONT YOU STOP MAKING ME YOUR IMAGINARY FRIEND.

@anneneitzke8912

4y↑132

Only for true Minecrafters.

Omg thank you for over 100 likes

@qwabbybabby

4y↑17

RennOrKai woah. Technology!

@CrownRock1

4y↑161

I must be getting old, because I thought you were making a Mario 64 reference.

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@bred4eva

28w↑2

These are really great tips! I am going to do an escape room soon and I'm sure they will come in handy.

@captainobvious9233

2y↑3

A friend and I did a cool Escape Room which was 3 separate rooms and Sci-Fi themed.
One of the clues involved a star chart, the other was arranging weapons a certain way on a weapons rack and so fourth. You had time limit to get to the final room which was set up like a bridge of a space ship and you had stop it ship from crashing into a planet.

@billyhammertime

5y↑2.4K

When I did one, they had a clock on the wall that was stopped at 6:10, we later found a watch in a safe, also stopped at that exact time.. we had no idea what it meant and it turns out it didn't mean anything. soo annoying lol

@nyxcal

5y↑55

Billy Hammerton oh my god the same thing was at my escape room...

@nyxcal

5y↑22

Well except it was a code in the clock that said the same time. Did absolutely nothing

@Charlieb796

5y↑72

Anyone else click on his time stamp

@BlueWTF

5y↑13

I did one escape room and they had 3 full shelves of random puzzles and only one meant something

@nestleinc.8487

5y↑4

They tried to direct you to Scott Nicholson

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@ErnestShackleton924

3y↑5.9K

The people in my escape room are still in there a year later. My basement is a tough one I suppose

@Nayaaaaaaaa

3y↑111

@danielsiii4235

3y↑194

R/cursedcomments

@slackoon4625

3y↑269

You’re very considerate for letting them take a long time too figure the puzzle out

@annaelisavettavonnedozza9607

3y↑13

Loooool

@RealPhoenixFlight

3y↑42

thats why you put them in the oven

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@heal.withJenni

15w

So I've done multiple escape rooms, sometimes getting out sometimes not, but after watching this video and applying the tips we did an escape room on NYE 2023 and did better than we ever have!! I made everyone in our group watch this b/c we were doing a harder escape room than last year (NYE tradition) and we made it out with like a minute last time, this room was rated harder and we got out with 15 minutes to spare only using 1 clue. So further proof these are great tips!

@breane

3y↑11

As thriller writer, this is very helpful. Thank you.

@VeNoM0619

3y↑4.9K

Tip 1: Bring LockPickingLawyer
Tip 2: Escape through unlocked door

@grimmpotat6911

3y↑73

Big brain.

@Rainbow-rn1ot

3y↑37

I was literally about to comment something like this

@lucheng1945

3y↑27

Ive been to an escape room that had electromagnetic locks.

@killerboss2346

3y↑30

Click on 1, 2 is binding...

@necaton

3y↑41

@@lucheng1945 then you just need a rfid chip hacking device like flipper zero ;)

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@NIVILI

6y↑3.1K

"dont dissect a lamp searching for a clue" flashbacks to when one of my teammates dissected the radiator resulting in a flooding of the room and the entire room being shut down for weeks YEET

@feitingschatten1

6y↑609

Turning the tide and making the staff escape is a form of winning in my book

@NIVILI

6y↑275

We definitely won, the staff were so ashamed that it had happened so we didn't even have to pay for the room and we got to do any other room for free lmao

@Lucas_Jeffrey

6y↑11

Hahahaha xD

@Adam-bh1lk

6y↑116

On the other hand, I've escaped from a room that had a very realistic but fake power socket...

@TheAmandakev

6y↑7

Lmao!

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@IdealContracting

2y↑7

The last lock box you showed is easily pickable through feel. I used them for work and proved to my boss I could figure out any code he chose. We found a different style lock box lol

@jeannelindsay1314

2y↑2

This video is great! My older brother loves your videos and told me to watch this video before doing the escape room I was going to do later that day. But, I forgot, and totally failed the escape room. I wish I had watched this video before the escape room, but I hope these tips help if I do another one. Also, I know what you mean about red herrings; 58 was written on a box, and we thought it meant something. But, after we lost and a staff member came in, he said the numbers didn't mean anything lol.

@naughtyninja9494

3y↑6.5K

Mark: "you wont find clues by disassemble ceiling lights"

People who make escape rooms after this video: i outsmart your outsmarting.

@yunyun-rg1kg

3y↑50

i'm asking myself if i'm crazy, because i think this is a jojo reference

@p.y.hfanclub4850

3y↑48

@@yunyun-rg1kg I S T H I S A J O J O R E F E R E N C E

@michaelg8841

3y↑42

“You may have outsmarted me, but I outsmarted your outsmarting”

@jasmine5038

3y↑37

I went to a local escape room a couple years back, there was a crank and the ceiling light comes down to reveal the baby you needed to find to win the puzzle lmao

@SleepySquib

2y↑8

I work at my local room, and theyre mixed XD, they make sure you know what to not take apart, but there is at least one room I know of in there so far that does require you to take apart something, which is a dresser XD

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@chicken546

4y↑4.9K

I did an escape room with my cousin who is in the army. Instead of figuring out how to unlock the lock he just picked it and continued lol

@terplederp2821

4y↑292

That’s one way to do it

@brucedillon8358

4y↑395

What a chad

@Xander7292

4y↑163

I will keep that in mind if i ever do a escape room

@a_human8489

4y↑321

I mean they don’t say you can’t pick the locks

@soyeomommy

4y↑55

@@a_human8489 thats true

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@JC-zj2zx

1y↑3

Holy smokes, this video was accurate. I've done a few escape rooms before with blah results. But this time, our group studied this video and crushed our difficult room - 2nd-fastest time on record this year! We felt so darn pleased with ourselves :)

@JamieZero7

1y↑7

Play the zero escape series. It's an amazing story along with great puzzles.

@colinbread

3y↑3.2K

Imagin spending like 20min on opening a chest, and you only find a paper that says “get trolled lol” in the chest

@Ascertivus

3y↑27

PAIN

@notSwiftie

3y↑13

@@Ascertivus you made me a you made me a believerl

@miguelpacheco4723

3y↑61

Me: tries to figure out a clue from ‘get trolled lol’

@lek9293

3y↑5

@@notSwiftie believer

@Vidikron

3y↑2

lol is that a real experience

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@MoonKent

4y↑2.4K

"I can make it there in a 6-second travel montage."

Proceeds to play 13 seconds of video.

Must have been the time zone difference.

@tabbywarrior

4y↑10

69 likes don't ruin it

@renecardoir7553

4y↑65

To his credit, he actually arrived in Canada within 6 seconds, the remaining time spent touristing.

@arekthekingsecondaryaccoun4208

4y↑6

MoonKent he was talking just about the plane

@chinmayshanbhag1567

4y↑1

@@tabbywarrior 609 now

@AlaskaPirates

MoonKent I thought that flight looked a bit long.

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@jasmineertha8351

2y↑10

My family lost an escape room yesterday because we got stuck on a combination lock that the answer to a riddle was the lock code and even clues weren't helping us. Turns out we technically had the correct answer the very first time to the riddle but where we are from a different spelling of the word is used. So we lost all that time trying to figure out that code.

@gottliebheinrich8413

«learning stuff in a playful way»
-this is the best meaning
of games.
This professor is a treasure!

@acecun6202

3y↑1.2K

The keep it simple one is true af. I did an escape room and a newspaper had a phrase on it that said “A murder in the hills! Neighbors say they heard TWO shots in the dead of night!” At this point I had a toy revolver and I was like “Surely it can’t be that simple” I pulled the trigger twice on the revolver and the coffin sitting in the corner of the room with a lock on it swung wide open to reveal a skeleton and three more clues lol.

@pyotrilyichtchaikovsky9507

3y↑105

dudeee thats such a creepy escape room

@carolcadiz8287

3y↑30

That’s awesome

@samseverythingchannel9815

3y↑11

I did that one!

@samseverythingchannel9815

3y↑24

How hard was the chess puzzle for you? We took about half our time on that puzzle

@zavodila9279

3y↑6

Where was this because that room sounds awesome

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@drmontakapronoob

4y↑1.9K

This is good and all, but I prefer threatening the guide to tell me everything.

@someone-my1ug

4y↑25

Neat trick!

@cilantrolord3328

4y↑37

I do believe that will work, just make sure not to murder them or anything”wink-wink”

@TeddyBear-pj9dt

4y↑5

Good trick!!

@samseverythingchannel9815

4y↑2

My family is big brain so my parents beet the hardest one with three clues

@sorenbakkar3236

4y↑4

Sam's Everything Channel didn’t ask

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@lovingreno8650

1y↑4

This should be the first video on any search for escape rooms tutorials.

@starla.

Board Games With Scott!!! I used to love his video reviews. So great to see what he’s doing these days!

@billysilly1092

5y↑13.5K

Just break the rules and they'll kick you out. You escaped!

@cheetolover7473

5y↑116

LOL!!!!!

@Sammy.Olmsted

5y↑394

We once stuck my small hand through a locked drawer and got the key out, they didn’t kick us out

@tylerthecreatorfanpage5582

5y↑38

HAHAHHAHAHA

@meghan9715

5y↑185

you also wasted your money!

@Charlieb796

5y↑170

Once we were in a escape room and the button was is a plastic box and someone slammed their hand on it
And it pressed

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@Sevish

6y↑1.9K

3:14 I only did an escape room once, but they did in fact hide a key inside the housing of a power outlet.

@alexrife2799

5y↑520

As someone who is making an escape room, I hate whoever did that with a passion.

@spilledmilk5542

5y↑46

He did say disassembling, so 🤷‍♂️

@Scientificmethods

5y↑53

@@alexrife2799 Why? What's wrong with that, just don't make any of the ports live. - If you're going to design a proper escape room, everything you don't want anyone to mess with should be indestructible to a hammer etc - Use Rivets etc

@KimboKG14

5y↑167

@@Scientificmethods because people can't know it's not live.

@steveforbes756

5y↑54

You shouldn't need a screwdriver, which is required to remove the cover plate.

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@Hakeem9495

25w↑1

did my first escape room last week (I forget about all these pieces of advice) just remembered watching this video waaaay back and came back.
If any1 is curious we completed it with minimum amount of ppl (apperently it was super hard)

@gracessketches6246

2y↑3

I just went to an escape room with some friends and we went to the hardest difficulty room, i thought we wouldnt make it out because we had been there before on a lower difficulty and barely made it out with a lot of clues.
But we got out of this one with 5mins spare and i followed these tips, thanks for the tips :D

@arastiacreations594

5y↑2.6K

Mark: represents Canada in 3 seconds with Niagara Falls, a Tim Hortons and a Canadian flag

Me, a canadian: "I consider this accurate"

@kylekyle6872

4y↑8

Arastia Creations Niagara Falls has 2 sides

@piggyboi6792

4y↑10

Im Canadian too! 🍁😎🍁

@royal-tea3063

4y↑5

Arastia Creations yeah but (at least the part I live) snow

@SushiiZProductions

4y↑9

Lmao yeah I live in brantford and was like, yeppp that’s exactly how brantford is

@arastiacreations594

4y↑9

@@markdavis7397 Wait until January, this is some of the warm winter temperatures haha

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@MaskedDeath_

6y↑477

A tip I found very important (loosely related to tip 10) - if you suspect something's broken, make sure to ask the guide. For example, if a flashlight gives very little light don't assume that's part of the challenge and instead ask if it's right and if they could replace the batteries. As Mark said, the point is for you to enjoy, so if there's a problem like that - don't hesitate to ask!

@Speed001

6y↑16

Yeah, the only escape room I ever did was messed up to start with. Kinda annoyed.

@MaskedDeath_

6y↑14

Speed My first room had some problems, but we all were new, so we just went with it. That's where the flashlight example is from - we couldn't see anything and the guide had to tell us where to look, we then threw our glowsticks (which were there only so you can find the flashlight and batteries) there thinking it's supposed to be like that. Wasted our time there.

@suspiciouspergola3705

6y↑9

The first room I ever did had this problem. There was a blacklight we found and the batteries were on their last leg , giving us next to no power with it. Since it was our first time, we didn't think to ask about it. Slowed us down substantially.

@Speed001

6y↑7

Also, two of the people were veterans with escape rooms so I don't think I really did much.
In essence, it was a bad match of people for me with a poorly designed room.

@FlorianDeimer

6y↑24

I am a guide for an escape room company and at the beginning I always say to the people, that they can talk with me all the time, if they are not sure if they are allowed to do something. Sometimes a keypad gets stuck, most of them are not intended to open and close 200 times a day, so we have to replace them quite often and usually a group finds a malfunction before we do 😅

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@dethbygaming

1y↑6

I’m surprised you didn’t mention what in my opinion is the biggest piece of advice: don’t go opening random things for no reason or pulling random things off shelves. It gets messy and hard to keep track of what you really need to do. Instead start by focusing on things you can easily see around the room. Most of the time the first clue will be written on a wall, or there will be an open book or a newspaper, or a stopped clock, something that can give you an idea of what you’re looking for.

@CraftyCheshire

Going to one today, here in Louisiana, and I definitely feel better about going in now.

@allen8376

6y↑919

3:14
Remembers me disassembling an innocent table lamp

@samstone1445

6y↑56

I actually read a Reddit post about someone doing an Escape Room where the guide said "you don't need to take anything apart to find any clues."

...And then they failed because one of the clues required them to open up (ie, take apart) a flashlight in the room.

@yakamoose

6y↑9

I took apart an innocent lamp too! My friends and I still laugh about that lol.

@leons.kennedy2747

6y↑31

Yeah, the first escape room I did they said "don't mess around with stuff, it should be obvious if it doesn't come apart easily it's not supposed to."
Also "one of our guests once spent ages digging a brick out of a wall - you can still see it, just don't go and do stuff like that".

The FIRST thing in the room was a solid looking wooden block that needed to be taken apart...
Later on we literally had to take a brick out of a wall to get a key... *facepalm*.

@oynex3610

6y↑10

That lamp had a family ...... ( T T )

@thunderowl8328

6y↑5

I once dissasembled a whole nightstand doing this

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@adamb89

3y↑2.3K

How to escape an escape room: Crash through the nearest wall and shout OH YEAAAAH!

@yes-pc3pt

3y↑7

Lol tf

@ToAllTheVoicelessOnes_

3y↑37

The fastest is to NOT go into an escape room

@Pain-vg6fc

3y↑7

Oh no!

@thequietkiwi

3y↑15

Nawty nawty coolaid guy.

@michaelchamberlain5617

3y↑3

I thought you were supposed to shout "LEROY JENKINS!"

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@BananaGuy2111

Can I just say I love your videos and I love doing escape rooms so this video will be very helpful thank you

@jmvanzalinge5023

5w↑1

I like the quote at the end, "no matter what the package says you'll have more fun at half capacity."

@BennysGamingAttic

6y↑517

I did an escape room once. It was weird though. I didn't know they put live guards in rooms... The money in the vault was actually real though, and the police chase afterwards was so realistic. They even made it look like my buddy actually got shot! It was awesome

@TheBananaDuckGaming

5y↑2

nice....

@littleripper312

5y↑22

I did one where we were in a plane wreckage and it started off with the plane crashing and you are basically trying to get out of the plane alive and then send for help.

@kirakoraawesome

5y↑20

Sounds so cool!!! I love immersive experiences like that. What escape room was it? It sounds like something me and my friends would enjoy.

@lowjet4122

5y↑45

@@kirakoraawesome it's called your local bank XD

@---mp8vy

cool

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@benglaser1345

5y↑786

I have done a few escape rooms and went to one with a couple friends. They decided to take it easy because there was just one room, surely there can't have that many puzzles, right? Well, as I suggested early on, turns out the bookshelf was hiding a second room. We only had 15 minutes left when it opened

@gamesandglory1648

5y↑12

Was it a Sherlock Holmes based one as that happened to me found another room ran out of time before figuring anything out

@JondGames

5y↑54

I'm not even sure I've done an escape room without there being multiple rooms in some way. Hidden in a wardrobe, through a second door, and players starting in separate rooms and work into a center one are ones I remember.

@beargamer155

5y↑3

@@JondGames what are the chances of finding you in a random comment reply section! Damn am I lucky

@trevordoeshalloween5994

5y↑4

I did one and the cork bord slid away revealing a second room

@elizabethankers7005

5y↑1

Same! That has happened to me twice. I wish that they would mention to you that there are two parts to the escape room.

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@dayvudmorin

2y↑2

This is great. I've completed a bit over 100 rooms with a 72% escape rate and these are great tips!

@Don49324

Scott’s YouTube channel got me into modern board gaming. What a legend

@bprandomised4011

3y↑2.4K

I once went to an escape room with my friend on his birthday and we finished in 16 min because we unscrewed the doorknob. The employees weren't happy.

@agyeyuniyal6115

3y↑49

lol

@dinosadecuadabd

3y↑96

Did they try to stop you through the mic?

@agyeyuniyal6115

3y↑22

@@dinosadecuadabdwho nkows

@wonupootie2265

3y↑68

LMAO THIS GOT ME WHEEZING

@jackpop4133

3y↑40

at least you didn't broke their door, i mean u didn't destroy their door.. lol

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@peepock7796

5y↑724

1:28
Ah, the most well known monument of Canada, Tim Hortons.

@Test-Account-

5y↑11

And the best ;)

@melo0611

5y↑1

Was that sarcastic, or..

@Lauren-uv8nc

5y↑4

maybe not the best, but definitely iconic

@dsgefsd6096

5y↑4

What about the Wayne Gretzky Parkway? 1:29

@liamwelsh4665

No Tim Horton’s is our monument. Nothing else at all.

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@chambershawaii

1y↑3

Great tips! We'd love to have you and your team test them out on our rooms one day 😎🤗

@hopekeehn4836

I'm feeling more and more anxious about trying this out tomorrow night as this video continues on😬

@mariusberntsson413

4y↑357

3:17 I found a clue one time by dissasembling a toilet😂

@alolanpikachu7330

4y↑19

Wow they need to make it more simple

@RyosukeTakahashiRX7

4y↑39

@@alolanpikachu7330 No. Depends on the setting and difficulty you're playing on.

@stiflersmomtv4003

4y↑25

@@RyosukeTakahashiRX7 Also disassembling could be anything from taking out 1 lose screw to actually disassembling it in 15 steps.

@cilantrolord3328

4y↑34

StiflersMomTV I’m pretty sure that no one in an escape room wants to spend half the time in a escape room disassembling a toilet, unless the escape room is prison

@bsmith1063

Lmao

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@TheSolongsidekick

5y↑2.5K

"you won't need any special knowledge... just Morse code... and Braille... and ciphers...

@MegaAnimalLover96

5y↑146

SoLongSidekick they’ll give you a key somewhere in the room for Morse and Braille

@Shetasen

5y↑102

Nah. The room always provides you the code key.

@stuffronisays4378

5y↑7

SoLongSidekick

And knowing your types of horses

@lisaspartycakes

Lol

@placeholder1915

5y↑21

In mine you needed football knowledge... f me

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@thenumbersw

This one of the best video that you have done so far. My opinion.

@zachespinosa655

3y↑26

5:02 - The escape room we did the other night we lost a lot of time because I was certain that the giant clock on the wall that was stuck at 1444 had to be a clue. We made it to the very last puzzle when time ran out.

@Death-999

2y↑4

A giant digital clock stuck on a time? A time with 4 numbers (which is a common amount of numbers to unlock something), yeah that's a bit of a mean red herring to put in. You had reason to believe that could have been a clue.

@zachespinosa655

2y↑4

@@Death-999 It was a giant analog clock, and the time on it was 2:44, I just assumed since it wasn't moving that it was a clue, and that 2:44 in military time was 1444 so that had to be a code. Turns out it was just a clock and the battery had died at 2:44

@monsterfurby

6y↑116

I used to watch Scott Nicholson's board game show back in the day. Certainly did not expect to see him pop up here. He seems like a very knowledgable, kind-hearted and soft-spoken guy. Great to know he's still around and doing what he loves!

@jenjud273

3y↑962

I just wanted to say, if you have any Disabilities, do not be afraid to let the attendant know.
There are a few escape rooms I have been to that had a tunnel to crawl through into a second room.
In every case ive just let them know and they have let me walk into the second room via the door, once we discovered it.

@pyotrilyichtchaikovsky9507

3y↑16

yes those crawl in place made me a bit anxious

@Nayaaaaaaaa

3y↑6

What to do with social anxiety disorder 😜 rip

@slackoon4625

3y↑42

@@Nayaaaaaaaa how does social anxiety effect crawling through a tunnel?

@Nayaaaaaaaa

3y↑10

@@slackoon4625 A lot my friend rip

@slackoon4625

3y↑4

@@Nayaaaaaaaa ?

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@brigittegeorg

Hey I loved your video and it's made me want to do one. Thanks for the great tips.

@courtneycole9544

Mark, we love your videos!! Your link to the 8 roles is not found and 2/3 of us are newbies to an Escape Room tomorrow! Thanks for the top ten helps!

@STARPHASE

4y↑213

I did an escape room one time. It was me and my parents, with some other random families. We failed. Because no one communicated anything. We'd be working on a puzzle for a good while before someone finally told us they solved it.

We almost made it, too. But the last puzzle required one person to read instructions to another, on how to unlock a box that had multiple locks that had to be unlocked in a certain order. My dad was trying to give the instructions but the other people kept telling instructions over him, confusing the person trying to unlock the box. Like, guys. Shut up. Only ONE person needs to read the instructions. Let him do it.

Needless to say, it was a more frustrating experience than it needed to be. Definitely do an escape room with people you know.

@karennotAkaren1

4y↑6

Some escape rooms don’t let you have less then a certain number and they put strangers in with you it is SO annoying

@TaiKahar

4y↑2

I had the opposit happening to me and my team from work. We were used to work together and escaped the room with the 2nd best time ever recorded. We all had no clue or experience with escape rooms, but worked to gether for almost 4 years. So it brakes down to your group and how well they can work together without "big" emotional outbreaks ;)

@Victoria-ly9le

Pöpcørn Animations on my local escape room all rooms are private

@jaypaans3471

Sounds like your family has some issues 🤐

@spider-mancantsee5875

Ashley Liu I’ve only done it with 7 and it wasn’t that bad but more then ten would be pretty chaotic.

@cleinsworth8201

4y↑451

"Don't look anywhere where it isn't logical to search"
Me, in a prisonstyle escape room:
Looks in the toilet, and in the back of it to find an important book.

@maxwellbarnhart1375

4y↑28

It's logical to search there. Just not for a book

@dodgyrommer

4y↑10

I know which escape room you're talking about!

@KrinchCraftHD

4y↑15

Prisonstyle makes it logical, imo

@someguy_adam

4y↑2

Same

@CreativiTimothy

Lol wouldn't the book be wet? Or are you talking opening the tank and finding a book inside?

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@frankslife7927

I LOVE ESCAPE ROOMS! I DON’T KNOW WHY IM SO OBSESSED!

@Genshin_impact_obsessed_AH

31w

this is very helpful. i have an escape room to go to on saturday :)

@leoliu6469

3y↑2.7K

“Hello everyone, this is the LockPickingLawyer”

@PUBLICnoose

3y↑35

I was thinking that also lol

@acblaze3116

3y↑11

YES

@8tyman8

3y↑61

Click out of one, two is giving me some difficulty

@jasonchui111

3y↑35

Lol he would like why break the codes on the card when you can just use the card to open the lock..... Duh 😏

@noahpep5389

Ay yo leo are you in the kettering district?

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@btmeph

6y↑1.2K

"No matter what the package says, you'll have a better time at half capacity" but what if the package says that the tent is intended for one person? Sounds painful.

@cookiediangelo8511

Lol

@cuross01

6y↑51

Then you get a tent for two people

@nicktokar2459

6y↑1

Looks like you beat me to that comment.

@filippeo

6y↑23

Then you use two of those tents as one person

@HelgaCavoli

6y↑3

How about a little person using that one? 🤔

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@korbin4487

Thanks for the tips on how to escape escape room because I'm going to an escape room this Saturday

@Clutching.My.Pearls

EXCELLENT, my friend is turning 60 and wants an escape room for his birthday!!! We will now ROCK!!! Thanks so much.

@hossahunter22

4y↑1.2K

"Escape rooms HATE him! One man found these 10 SIMPLE TIPS to break out of any room!"

@allegrovivace6806

4y↑14

wait but he found it with escape room maker

@donttalktome1818

bruh i wanna like but it’s at 666

@invizcharlie9477

4y↑2

*Picture of a man pointing a gun at an employee

@ShiningDialga

5y↑176

I brute force the last digits of locks regularly in escape rooms, it's usually the smartest choice. I recently was in a room where you had to find numbers by weaving a string among some nails. We got three numbers, so I just forced the last one to move on. Game master later told me we were the first team to try that method. I was frankly surprised.

@abigailmano328

5y↑2

ShiningDialga sounds like the casino themed escape room at breakout

@7vndayz924

4y↑3

AbigailMano it sounds like the prehistoric Jurassic one by breakout

@BamBam0141

@@7vndayz924 That's exactly what I was thinking. I enjoyed that one. We finished that one with about 15 - 20min left I think?

@jonthornton8758

2y↑1

You were definitely one of my favorite YouTubers and after the video of your son you're definitely one of my favorite fathers. You may not realize it but sometimes people give up and your videos may have just saved somebody's life. I am forever grateful thank you.

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