CAN YOU ESCAPE IN 60 MINUTES?
8 fun/challenging games between 2 locations!
Troubled Puzzles escape rooms are interactive scenario based games, where your group of players use clues and elements of the room to solve puzzles, open locks, and escape within the 60-minute time limit. Escaping from our themed rooms requires keen problem-solving skills as well as teamwork with your family, friends, teammates or colleagues.
Communicate efficiently while working together to find new clues and solve puzzles. Uncovering clues moves you one step closer to achieving the ultimate goal of unlocking the door to freedom!
BOOK A GAME ONLINE
No waiting in lines! All of our games are private.
Choose an available time on the calendar and book a time that works for you. We suggest arriving 5 minutes before your scheduled game.
ENTER THE ADVENTURE
Once you’re locked in our custom-designed rooms, the only way out is solving the clues…or if time’s up!
Our escape rooms feature complete surveillance and you are not physically locked in the room at any time.
PUZZLE YOUR WAY OUT
Utilizing clues and features immersed in the game, you will work with other players in the room to solve various types of puzzles on your way to exiting the room. Remember, you only have 60 minutes.
8 brains are better than 1…work with your team!
EXCLUSIVE ROOMS OF GRAYSLAKE
Sugar’s Sweet Shoppe
You are a group of investigative journalists. Sneak into Sugar’s Sweet Shoppe, find the secret workshop, and cooperate to discover what her new top-secret candy is before she returns!
Test Flight One
The premier flight of the world’s first AI aircraft, Icarus, has crashed on a remote island. Can you and your crewmates escape the cabin and signal for help before it’s too late?
Secrets of the Woods
Your friends, Shane and Amanda set off on their annual camping trip to the great Northwoods of Wisconsin. Days later, you have not heard from either of them. You forge out into the wilderness to find them.
One Dark Night
After learning Shane and Amanda are trapped in an abandoned cabin - you bravely enter to rescue them. You enter the cabin, but door locks behind you. Something isn’t right..
EXCLUSIVE ROOMS OF NAPERVILLE
60 minutes and the clock is ticking.
Museum Heist
As a group of tenacious treasure hunters, you’re on a mission to find a one-of-a-kind prize.
Unfortunately, you’ll have to steal it.
Victorian Room
This Victorian-themed room is based on actual events – a perplexing murder that took place in rural England in the late 1800’s.
The Hideaway
Based on a true story. In 1934, two bank robbers and highly wanted criminals decided to expand their criminal resume in an attempt to score big.
H@CK3R$
As part of an elite hacking group, your mission is to take down the world’s largest corporation, Equos. You’ve been granted access to the main facility, but only for an hour. Can you shut down their servers in time?
WHO CAN PLAY?
Anybody! Below is a sample of clients that enjoy the games.
Friends & Families
Grab your friends, your brother, sister, parents, grandparents, aunt, uncle…you get the point!
Troubled Puzzles makes for a great experience with your friends and family!
Tourists
Visiting the Chicagoland area? We’d love for you to visit our facility. Close to Six Flags Great America, and much more involved!
Add a memorable and fun experience during your visit to our area, visit Troubled Puzzles!
Gamers
Gamers have experienced the escape concept for years, online with point-and-click games. Now you can experience it live and in-person!
Put your gaming skills to the test and see if you can solve all the puzzles and escape within 60 minutes.
Corporate
Troubled Puzzles escape rooms make for a great corporate retreat and/or team building exercises. As our games require everybody immersed in the game to work together in order to succeed, you are able to relate the experience to your company’s daily activities. Additionally, we can provide personality assessments and recorded audio and video of the game play.
GAMES
PUZZLES & LOCKS
PLAYERS
NEW ROOM COMING
IN GRAYSLAKE
MAY 2025
An ancient secret society is plotting to end the world, and their hidden lair lies deep beneath an old church. With no safe way inside, you must venture into a long-abandoned mine and blast your way into the crypt from below. The mine is dark and uncharted, the crypt is filled with secrets long forgotten, and time is running out. Can you make it through and stop the society before it's too late?
FAQ
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An Escape Room is an interactive experience where you are 'locked' in a room with puzzles for your team to solve. You have a limited amount of time to complete the objective and/or escape the room. With teamwork, ingenuity, and a bit of luck, you'll succeed!
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You can either book online, by clicking on your location of choice and hitting book now.
Or if you prefer to call to book contact us.
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Our policy ensures that customers will be eligible for a full refund or credit provided that a cancellation is made with at least 24 hours' notice. Additionally, in the event of operator cancellation due to inclement weather or unforeseen circumstances, customers will receive a full refund or credit. For cancellation inquiries or to initiate the cancellation process, we kindly request customers to contact us via phone. Please note that failure to show up for a booking will result in being charged the full price.
To check our schedule or make a reservation with Troubled Puzzles, click below to book your Escape Room now!
Grayslake: 15 Commerce Dr Unit 110-111, Grayslake, IL 60030
Naperville: 24W500 Maple Ave #108, Naperville, IL 60540
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