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6 minute read 6:00 AM CSTEven on an international vacation, Laura Hawkins wanted to escape.
The Winnipeg entrepreneur was travelling through Europe in 2014 with her husband, Allan Hawkins, and their daughter, Shea Silva, and everywhere they went — Dublin, Athens and Paris — the family visited an escape room.
The concept, where players are confined to a themed room and have to discover clues and solve puzzles to find their way out within a set time limit, had yet to take off in Canada. Silva discovered them while researching what she and her parents could do to entertain themselves on their European holiday.
The family has always enjoyed spending time together playing board games, Hawkins says, so the idea of tackling immersive puzzles was right up their alley. By the time they finished their third escape room, they were hooked and talking about starting an escape room facility of their own.
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