QUESTIONS WE GET A LOT

Nope!

5 Wits adventures share a few common elements with escape games, but actually predate the entire escape room industry by several years. (5 Wits opened in 2004; escape rooms did not appear until 2007, and not in the US until much later.) If you’re a fan of escape rooms, you’ll love 5 Wits! However, you should NOT expect an escape room experience. 5 Wits is a live-action adventure game, and there are several major differences that set us apart from escape rooms. For an in-depth breakdown of what makes us different, click here!

Wheelchairs and walkers are welcome! We believe adventures should be accessible to everyone. Some adventures do feature elements of crawling, ducking, or kneeling, all of which can by bypassed without assistance from the staff. You will never be required to do anything beyond your level of physical ability, and all adventures are ADA compliant.

Specific games or activities within your adventure may feature a time limit; however, the adventure itself does not have a set time limit. For example, our Espionage adventure might challenge you to defuse a missile before it can launch, but Espionage does not have a given time limit.

Each adventure is designed to take an average of approximately 35 minutes to complete. That is an average, not a maximum or minimum – your group may take less time or more, depending on how your adventure plays out. Bear in mind that time has little to do with score, so completing an adventure faster will not necessarily mean a better score.

While each of our adventures is designed to be intense, they are intended to thrill and sometimes challenge you, not to scare you.

That said, there are some moments of complete darkness, loud sound effects, thrilling moments, and realistic special effects in each experience, as well as plenty of logic-based tasks. We do NOT advise bringing smaller children, especially those under age seven, as the experience can be too intense and sometimes even frightening for younger guests.

All ages are admitted. However, children under 13 MUST be accompanied by a ticketed adult 18 years or older.

5 Wits adventures are not meant to be insanely difficult, but they are designed to be challenging – failure is a possibility! Each adventure will do its best to adjust the difficulty to match your group’s performance, with the computer responding to your input and making things easier for those who are struggling or harder for returning guests.

Even if you fail a task, you cannot get stuck in the story. The adventure will keep track of your successes and failures, and the ending of the story will change depending on how you did. Put another way: you will always get to the end, but you may not win.

After your adventure, you will be able to see your score and details about your ending. Bear in mind while we keep an eye on things for safety, our Adventure Guides cannot control your experience in any way, so you will not be able to ask them for help or hints from inside the adventure.

You can see availability for any adventure at any time by heading over to the Reservations page and choosing an adventure.

To avoid a wait and guarantee that you can enter at your preferred time, please book your tickets in advance online. Our adventures are extremely high capacity, but depending on when you visit demand may be equally high, so reservations, while not strictly necessary, are highly recommended. Capacity is limited and wait times often exceed 45 – 60 minutes on weekends.

Please note that during exceptionally busy periods such as school vacation weeks or Monday holidays, wait times may be much longer than normal. We cannot guarantee that available times will not sell out during peak demand and strongly advise purchasing tickets ahead of time. Our entire schedule can be viewed and booked at any time on the Reservations page.

If your group is 8 people or more, you may be interested in purchasing one of our group packages and paying per timeslot instead of per person!

Yes. Please click the Reservations tab to get gift cards for your location.

Ticket prices vary by location. Please click on Reservations for your location to see real time pricing and availability for any given day or book a reservation online.

Nope! The minimum group size is just 2 people, and the maximum for one adventure is 12.

If your group is larger, no problem! Our adventures are extremely high capacity, and we can accommodate groups of more than 100 extremely quickly, with very little waiting. To learn more and book a group, head over to the Groups tab.

If something comes up and you need to reschedule your tickets or adjust your reservation, we’re happy to help! Just drop us a line and let us know when you would like to reschedule to. If you aren’t sure when you can make it yet, we’ll be happy to cancel your reservation and hold your tickets for another time. All tickets are non-refundable.

Nope! You may be thinking of escape rooms, which often require a waiver to be signed. 5 Wits is not an escape room and works quite differently – to learn more about what we do, click here.

Yes! All adventures are private at all times.

Admission tokens never expire and are adventure-specific, but not location-specific. In other words, an admission token for Deep Space may NOT be used to visit Tomb, but MAY be used for Deep Space at any 5 Wits location that offers it, without expiration.

Unless that holiday is Thanksgiving, Christmas, or Easter, the answer is always yes!

5 Wits is named for the Five Inward Wits – Common Sense, Imagination, Estimation, Fantasy, and Memory.

The adventures are designed to be modular, and are capable of being changed out, although we do not do so on a specific basis. One of the main reasons for this is that the adventures we have are not the same every time!

It’s easy to visit a 5 Wits adventure and imagine that you’ve now “done” that adventure, but that’s really not the case. Unlike escape rooms, which can be spoiled once you know what to do, adventures are designed to be replayed over and over again. Each adventure has multiple endings (based on performance) and multiple solutions to each puzzle (randomly selected). While an adventure may appear so seamless it would have to be scripted, it is actually a living, responsive environment that will respond to your performance and change the difficulty and story accordingly. Returning guests may find additional layers of challenge that they were not expecting to encounter.

There are also secrets and what we call “easter eggs” hidden in each adventure that you are very unlikely to unlock on your first time through an adventure. Some are hidden references or sly nods, others are extra content or an additional challenge, and most of them are very difficult to figure out!

We do! All of our attractions are designed and built by our sister company, Box Fort.

Box Fort builds museum exhibits, interactive theme park attractions, and theatrical effects that have been enjoyed all over the world. Want to learn more? Visit boxfort.com to find out more!

We offer snacks and drinks, as well as catering menus for corporate groups. If you’re looking for a sit-down meal, there are several great restaurants located steps away from each of our locations!