Rooms with a different kind of view

New, challenging escape mania sweeps capital. Zheng Xin reports

Trapped in a dark and locked room with no recourse to anything but some seemingly irrelevant objects - a broken chair, some torn concert tickets and cryptic music - you can either wait for the call of death or crack the clues and get out of this hell. It's a new mania in town, a role-playing game that takes place in a sealed chamber and requires participants to solve every puzzle and clue within a period of time to escape. It is obsessing many young people with its thrills and excitement.

Room Escape evolved from a classic mystery-solving online game that requires players trapped in a sealed room to find clues and get out.