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Best Escape Room Games, Scored

Boxed, at-home escape-room games: cooperative puzzle experiences for 1-6 players where you decode locks, combine clues, and race a story to its solution. EXIT: The Game (Kosmos) and Unlock! (Space Cowboys) lead the category, with Deckscape and Escape Room in a Box rounding out the styles.

Decide how you feel about destruction: EXIT games are brilliant but you fold, write on, and tear components, so they're (mostly) single-use; Unlock! and Deckscape use cards and an app/timer and stay intact to gift onward. Match difficulty to your group — start with a beginner-rated box, since a too-hard escape game stalls and frustrates a first night. Most boxes play once in 60-90 minutes, so think of them as an experience, not a game you'll replay.