What's the Best Age for an Escape Room?

All our rooms are designed to be fun for a wide range of ages, from 10-year-old birthday parties to senior citizen groups. Players never have to do anything requiring physicality. As long as you can enter the room and have a good time, there’s a place on the team for all bodies and shapes. Kids in late elementary school and up have a better ability to understand the puzzles in our rooms, but we allow any age to participate in our escape rooms.

While we allow children of any age to participate in our escape rooms, we’d recommend our rooms mostly for children ages 10 and up. Kids in late elementary school and up have a better ability to understand the puzzles in our rooms.

However, you are the best judge of what is appropriate for your children. We encourage people bringing kids to think about the children’s interests and ability levels to make this decision. Keep in mind that they will need to be able to follow directions and be respectful of the props in the room.

We consider all of our rooms at Breakout to be appropriate for children (even some of the more “creepy” ones like Kidnapping or Hostage. We have plenty of groups of kids who love these rooms!)

The best thing to do is consider your children’s interests. If they love cowboys, maybe they’d love our Wild West escape room. If they love spy movies, maybe they’d have the most fun in our Bomb Squad room.

We encourage parents and caregivers to involve their children in deciding on a room theme. Look at the options together and see what you’d like to do as a family.

We design our escape room puzzles to be challenging for adults, so they will definitely be challenging for children. If your group is mostly children, you as the adult may have to do a lot of the work. But you also might find that your kids are puzzle wizzes and end up solving more than you! It really depends on the group.

In general, kids are often good at finding clues. Encourage them to look around and search high and low in the room to see what they can find. They might not always know what to do with a clue, but they’ll feel good about having found it.

No matter the age makeup of your group, if you’re struggling to solve something, you can always rely on your game master for help. They will be monitoring your entire escape experience and will be ready to give you clues whenever you need them. At Breakout, we don’t limit the number of hints you can use. We encourage you to ask for more hints to nudge you toward answers if you are finding the experience challenging.

Your time as a family is important, and we don’t take it lightly at Breakout that you choose to spend it with us. If you do bring your family to our escape rooms, our game masters will work hard to make it a fantastic experience. We have several posts dedicated to helping parents and kids enjoy our escape rooms: