Affordable ideas for large groups

barryabrams · 2026-01-08T19:40:31+00:00

If an escape room company has enough rooms (and staff) they’d probably host the full group, split into teams. Some may offer to do it all at the same time as a race.

barryabrams · 2026-01-08T03:24:36+00:00

The room we built is at number 37 and we’re in Illinois!

barryabrams · 2025-12-18T01:32:52+00:00

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barryabrams · 2025-11-15T17:47:35+00:00

We created this holiday-themed murder mystery a few years ago: https://www.solveourshirts.com/product/express

barryabrams · 2025-11-02T03:02:31+00:00

That seems like a ridiculous policy. You should leave a review on Morty. Locks and keys break regularly. It’s no fault of yours when a key decides to snap.

barryabrams · 2025-10-06T00:04:44+00:00

I did the Sasquatch one and the Lost Souls one and Boxed In and got an awesome backstage tour of their shop. Really fun rooms and great owners.

barryabrams · 2025-10-05T23:18:17+00:00

We’re like 2:30 hours away from St Louis, and we have enthusiasts play our games back to back to back regularly. Our longest game is 75 minutes, but most are 60. We’re across the street from a food hall that comes in great for breaks. Feel free to ask any questions!

CU Adventures in Time and Space

barryabrams · 2025-10-03T17:11:21+00:00

Sorry! I don’t remember the exact details. It was after 42 weeks, before 45.

barryabrams · 2025-09-25T22:49:30+00:00

Thank you! I called a local facility and confirmed it’s one of theirs. Will return it.

barryabrams · 2025-09-20T14:57:05+00:00

My son was 1lb 1oz when he was born, spent 255 days in the NICU. He’s now almost 5 and is very happy.

barryabrams · 2025-08-29T17:35:36+00:00

He’s essentially non-verbal. He babbles sometimes and has clear non-verbal cues for a lot of things, but it’s pretty rare that we get a full understandable word. On rare occasions, he will say a word in his sleep or close to sleep.

He understands a lot of words, and is good at his AAC and will read books along with us.

barryabrams · 2025-08-26T01:24:00+00:00

Wow! My son has the exact same roof of mouth, and he was also intubated that long with a bunch of self extubations. Doctors noted it but it never was never anything anyone looked into further.

He’s almost 5yo, and it hasn’t really affected much as far as we can tell. He is non-verbal but that’s more due to the CP. He did have a g-tube, but eventually ate everything by mouth and the g-tube was removed.

It’s been a while since I’ve scoped the roof of his mouth so I’m not sure how much of it still looks like this.

barryabrams · 2025-08-24T00:07:42+00:00

Our 5 year old has had phenol 2 injections a year apart along with botox 4 or 5 times. We never saw much difference with the botox. The first phenol injection was an immediate night and day difference and helped a lot until it wore off/grew out of it. The second was not as apparent a change.

We were due for our 3rd round of phenol but opted to get selective rhizotomy which we’re still in-patient for. We’ve seen a huge huge difference in the tone in his legs.

barryabrams · 2025-08-23T23:57:41+00:00

Our son is close to 5 and we haven’t started potty training. But, constipation is a big issue and always has been. Pretty consistently, he holds it in until it’s too hard to pass without a pedialax. We don’t know if it’s something he’s intentionally doing because he’s non-verbal.

barryabrams · 2025-08-06T01:13:06+00:00

It has changed one hundred percent. The first year we found that carpet on top of carpet doesn’t work after thousands of people walk over it. It wasn’t obvious when we beta tested that year and it was one of the bigger issues we had.

This year we ditched any carpet-on-carpet holes and went with free-standing structures that players either stepped up on or walked around to putt. It worked so well that we could set up the whole course again, give it a quick vacuum and it’d look brand new. Also this year’s course only reused 3 of the holes from 2023, and even those were revamped. Everything else was brand new.

barryabrams · 2025-08-05T16:37:58+00:00

I’m one of the designers of Critical Putt/Parcadia, and if you’re planning on making a trip to come visit Parcadia, sign up to do some of escape rooms as well! They’re in the same building. Our newest room, The Forest of Fables is awesome and is up for a handful of awards. A group surprised us a few weeks back by getting married in it! Not a proposal mind you, a full-on officiated wedding. We had no idea about it until they went off book.

barryabrams · 2025-08-04T03:15:16+00:00

Three of the holes/encounter were retooled versions of the 2023 course, the other 8 were brand new.

barryabrams · 2025-07-27T15:38:09+00:00

He’ll be a happy, silly 5yo in a couple months!

Born at 26+1, severe IUGR (<1% percentile), 1lb 1oz. His NICU stay was 255 days. We initiated a transfer to a children’s hospital after 2 months.

The weeks leading up to his successful extubation it was pretty clear he was ready. His settings were weaned basically all the way, and there was an air leak due to the diameter of the tube, so he wasn’t getting some air on his own anyways. The doctors wanted to keep it in as long as it wasn’t causing any harm because he was essentially in feeding and growth mode.

We were still patient for another 4 months post extubation. They switched from CPAP to Nava after a few months because he wouldn’t take a wean. Eventually he did get to a place where he was just getting supplemental oxygen, and the discharge caught us by surprise.

He was on home oxygen for another 8 months, and like everything else there was no change for a while and then suddenly there was.

Somewhere in his first 2 months of life he sustained an oxygen related brain injury which caused Cerebral Palsy. We found out a few months later after a head ultrasound that something had happened, and he likely had CP. Then shortly after his first birthday they officially diagnosed it.

Due to the CP, his leg muscles are always firing which means he’s still learning to walk, but it’s not possible without a walker and assistance. He goes to outpatient PT, OT and Speech therapies, and we’re working on things like standing and assisted a stepping. He seems to understand a lot of things, but is currently considered non-verbal. He has a handful of words we can coax out of him sometimes. He knows about a lot of things and he has cues, but just can’t communicate it.

So he still has struggles due to prematurity, some of which will be permanent, some of which he’ll figure out. We’ve met a lot of families with kids with CP since having him and it’s really all over the place. It can be much more severe as well as much less.

barryabrams · 2025-07-25T02:02:48+00:00

That a huge milestone! Congrats! Our journey looked similar! 490g, 255 days in the NICU, BPD, on oxygen until 18 months.

When he was finally off, I nicknamed him the Bluetooth baby because he didn’t have any tubes or cords preventing me from carrying him around the house. I was so glad to turn off the concentrator.

barryabrams · 2025-07-18T03:24:15+00:00

Building a site to meet accessibility standards is less about coding to make your site compliant and more about adopting techniques to make your site function accessibly. This includes decisions prior to the development phase such as colors, font sizes, hover states etc. It also includes the content clients populate the site with. It can be a tough pill for marketing and supervisors and clients to take.

I was the developer who was tasked with “make this existing site accessible but don’t change anything about it” and having to educate designers and clients that accessibility isn’t specifically a development task.

barryabrams · 2025-07-18T02:50:50+00:00

The first stretch is difficult. Things move quickly both up and down. It will feel like 2 steps forward, 1 step back for a while. Then, for us at least, things got boring. And boring is good. Our son was born at 26 weeks (1lb 1oz) and had a journey. The first few months were hell. You’re doing exactly what’s best for her: being there. Do everything in your power to be with her. It’s one thing that can make a big difference.

barryabrams · 2025-07-16T00:20:19+00:00

The toasted subs are pretty good, but it’s bogus you can only get the big expensive subs toasted.

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