Oh my gosh, the girls and I did the funnest activity on Zoom–a digital escape room! We had originally thought that we might split up into two groups each with their own Zoom chats, and race each other solving the room, but then Pollyanna was brain fried from work (at the hospital, we cut her slack) and Klara was just being lazy (whatEVER) and nobody was in for a real competition so we just worked through it together.

There are a couple of different types of online escape rooms. The one we did was text-based where we followed a text story, then got a picture and had to solve the puzzle and type in it. It felt very 1990s. Like Oregon Trail but with better graphics and no dysentery. There are others which are like the video game type and I think we might try that next.

The room we did can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/y753u54a

Some of the puzzles were legit hard. It helped tremendously that Kimpossible is a math professor, since my contribution to the number questions were like “Yeah, well if you add 2342334 and 1 you get…5? And if we switch that number with–oh YES, Kimpossible! That’s EXACTLY what I was going to say!”

After we solved the text one and most people went to bed, Ariel, Veronica, and I went through a video game one Ariel had found. And let me just tell you, even though she was an art major in college, Veronica flew through all of the math/number puzzles like nothing.

Clearly the number problems are challenging for me.