Challenges
Read about the tasks to beat to avoid a punishing time in the prison cell
JAILBREAK
The original Solitary Sixty challenge!
The most similar task to a regular escape room, challengers become inmates before the game has even started. The challenge? To break out of jail, of course!
Inmates are not just locked inside the cell, they are also chained at the wrists and ankles.
By solving the puzzles within, they must first free themselves from the chains before removing the padlocks on the door, too.
But the guard is only away for sixty minutes - if the inmate is still inside the cell when he returns, the main cell door will lock and the challenge is failed...
DOING TIME
Judge the passing time to avoid a double sentence!
As with JAILBREAK, challengers become arrested inmates immediately. They are locked in the cell for exactly 60 minutes with nothing but a big orange button on the back of the door.
If the inmate can press the button every 10 minutes, they will be set free at the end of their hour sentence.
The catch? They have no idea how much time is passing! They must guess 3 periods of 10 minutes within 30 seconds and can have up to 5 attempts.
If they fail, the sentence is doubled and another hour behind bars is the penalty they must pay!
QUIZ PRISON
General knowledge is the key to escaping!
Challengers step into the cell freely, but must exit within one hour to avoid arrest and further imprisonment!
To escape, the challenger must work out the correct answers to the quiz questions displayed throughout the hour on a screen outside their cell.
The answers are numbers and will form combinations to release keys suspended in the cell. These keys remove the padlocks on the door. Remove all 4 to win freedom.
Fail, and the challenger is immediately arrested and processed for a punishing additional hour as a new inmate!
ONE MINUTE LIMIT
60 seconds to escape - or 60 minutes to serve...
As with Quiz Prison, challengers step inside the cell as civilians and must remove the 4 locks on the door to succeed.
However, with this challenge they have only a single minute to escape!
The challenge could be memory, logic or skill based but failure is met with instant punishment. The cell door is locked and the challenger becomes an inmate instantly - their sixty minutes of solitary confinement beginning right there and then!
BEAT THE BUZZER
Inmates stand to lose more than an hour of freedom in this brutal challenge...
Arrested and secured in handcuffs and leg irons before being locked in the cell, there's no going back once this challenge begins!
Three attempts to repeat back the sequences of flashing tiles on the touchscreen without making a mistake. To win, the inmate must reach and complete a sequence of 10.
Make a mistake, the buzzer will sound and the inmate must start again. Sound the buzzer three times and it's GAME OVER.
Failing inmates will be locked in the pillory to meet the buzzer - their hair will be shaved off to give them a proper prisoner buzzcut before they serve their punishment hour in the cell!
STRAIT-ESCAPE
Make like Houdini and get out before the door locks!
Challengers are put into the straitjacket at the beginning of the hour.
Positioned inside the cell, their ankles are chained down with the key to release them dangling just behind their head.
Their sixty minute sentence then begins with a brief window of escape...
Get out of the straitjacket and release the locks around the feet within the first two-and-a-half minutes... or the straitjacket will be chained by the collar to the top of the cell and the door will be locked, preventing any chance of an early exit!
LOCK UP THE LOSER
Two challengers do battle to send their opponent to solitary!
Each player is locked in leg irons ready for the battle.
They take turns to catch the randomly released falling batons. The speed increases over the three rounds - whoever drops the most is the loser!
Our loser is arrested and changes into a prisoner uniform. They will then face an hour-long sentence in the cell.
But that might not be the end of their woes... After their sentence has been completed, the winner gets to play an Extra Time challenge in the cell.
If they can escape in time, the loser is thrown straight back behind bars for another hour!
But if the challenge is failed, our winner finds out what it's like to be imprisoned - they are arrested and begin an immediate Solitary Sixty sentence themselves instead.
THE SELECTOR
Take a chance with a random sentence selection!
Nobody knows just what awaits any challengers brave enough to take on The Selector board...
The uniform to be worn, what restraints will be used, even how long the sentence lasts - or even if there's a chance to escape custody - come down to the token's descent down The Selector.
Players can add in better options, such as being allowed to stay in their own clothes, with correct answers to the tricky quiz questions.
Wrong answers add in worse options instead - how does 2 hours without a timer sound?
UNCHAINED
Link together enough correct answers to escape the chains!
Challengers start off wearing our black and white striped uniform. They also wear metal cuffs around their ankles, wrists and a collar around their neck. These are securely chained inside the cell.
They can remove each chain in turn by linking together correct answers. 5 in a row, they're free to escape with £250 as their prize.
But answer wrongly, and any chains released are secured onto them again. They'll need to start a new chain of correct answers from scratch.
If they answer 3 questions wrongly, then they have failed - all the chains are locked back on and the cell door slams shut for the next hour as their punishment!
CLOWNTRAPPED
Curious visitors to an abandoned circus tent soon find themselves in trouble!
Once the clown arrives on the scene, the hapless visitor is locked up in his cage.
Only by completing one of his fiendish games can they escape his clutches.
Take too long and they'll be CLOWNTRAPPED: imprisoned, chained up and left alone...
Will they be set free once the sand has passed through the clown's hourglass?
Or will they be turned into a clown too and trapped forever?
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