Escape Room: Pandemic Toddler Mom Edition

Choose one of these banal adventures below or suffer through them all in 24 hours!

Lisa Allison Pertoso
Slackjaw

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Photo by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash

The Bathroom

Difficulty level: 6.75/10

# of Players: 1 adult inside the room, 2 outside

Your secret mission is to take a complete shit without being disturbed. The door lock is broken and you must fend off your two-and-a-half-year-old who demands to see “Mommy’s monster poopie,” and your husband who insists he needs his floss for a chia seed incisor emergency. You have 52 seconds before your bowels become a family affair.

The Office

Difficulty level: 3/10

# of Players: 1 in the office, 3–5 on Zoom, 1 toddler sticking her hands underneath the door like the alien from the movie Signs

Crisis during your Friday all-hands meeting! Instead of ending the call at 4:45 pm, your unwoke boss Mr. Hyde is holding the team hostage for a mindfulness torture-building workshop. With Enya playing in the background you must turn off your video and draw your spirit animal while four-count breathing. Only a toddler can save you now! Open the door, hand your wireless keyboard to your offspring and pray she’s nimble enough to disconnect the call before “Orinoco Flow”…

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