Room escape attractions growing in US

Published October 6, 2014 2:08pm ET



MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — I like to think of myself as relatively quick-witted, but I started having serious doubts about my cleverness as I stood handcuffed to my new Russian friend, trying get out of a prison cell.

It wasn’t a real prison cell, which is why I wasn’t having a panic attack. But the handcuffs were real, and being chained to another person while searching a small room for keys and clues as a clock ticked down became frustrating pretty quickly.

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