Just curious if anyone has ever come across a wam themed escape room? Has anyone from this community ever thought of trying to create something like this? As you try to escape, if you get a wrong answer a pie comes out of nowhere and Blam! Or after completing a certain puzzle, a bucket of slime pours on you. Perhaps the goal is to get out without getting messy, but the game is rigged against you and its inevitable you get covered in something sticky or slimy. Maybe once you complete what you thought was the final puzzle and walk through the door, you step into a puddle of goo.

Interested to hear others takes on this and what if anything may exist out there!

There are some escape companies that have added Splatter Rooms to their offerings.

It's designed as a messy way to paint a canvas.

search for Splatter Room.

I am sure you have ideas of what we could do there...

And then here is one that is both an escape room and a splatter room:
https://roomescapedc.com/escape-rooms/art-attack/

It's not strictly an escape room, but MessyWorld has basically done the essence of the idea with their "Leak in the Office" series;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuToisKnMdM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuWDUNoSqDI

What a Great ideal I'll get out a pen and paper and start designing some saw like traps with substance

PedroCamacho wrote a story set in a messy escape room:
https://umd.net/profile/i/pedrocamacho/section/blogs

I had an idea a while back for an escape room that would be a defunct TV station, with set & props left behind from some kids/game show. One puzzle would have wound up with someone getting gunged in a gunge tank. There might have been some other puzzles with wet/messy solutions, as well. Afterward participants could buy branded coveralls to wear on the way home.

I wouldn't mind designing it & I'd be happy to partner with someone on building it, but I don't think I could spare the time to run it.

The closest that springs to mind is Beat The Bomb of Brooklyn, NY. Teams play four games to build up time with which to play a fifth and final game, where you play a "defuse the bomb" game against a "paint bomb" which will explode over the team if you lose. (SPOILER: you will lose.) You are covered completely as if in a splatter room, but you miiiight be able to negotiate something a little more natural. Reviews are positive, even from specialist blogs, though I suspect the bomb may be a little... watery for people here.

This would make a great WAM fiction story!

An escape room that involves getting utterly trashed would be like a dream come true!

While not technically an escape room, Fort Boyard has had some messy challenges on it. One segment involves a (usually) female contestant having to make her way across a very muddy room to grab on object but she is opposed by a rather intimidating wrestler woman. It always involves the two of them getting covered head to toe in the mud!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI_ylj64QXM

Another segment that seems to be less common involves someone holding a bridge that lets water flow across. The poor girl doing it gets utterly soaked to her pussy (or so I imagine :p). This is something I'd just die to do because I really love getting wet in ordinary situations like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sFttjI10pI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMyUBI9r8HU

Very good call; Fort Boyard has a great deal in common with the escape room tradition.

I have consulted with People Who Know and people are drawing blanks on messy games as we know them. However, if you like regular wetlook, then it's not unknown for some escape games to feature much more water than you might expect.

While I can't point to games that use unexpected drenchings as a factor, look out for games that strongly suggest bringing additional footwear with you. At least one game (a game called Survivor in Athens, Greece, now believed to be closed, but there may well be other examples of a similar technique) had a finale where the game deliberately flooded the floor, apparently to a depth of at least a couple of feet, but it provided sufficient chairs and tables for people to climb upon and continuing to play, on the assumption that they would not want to get wet - an assumption that might not hold around these parts!

I think it would be really fun to have gunge tanks that your friend has to sit in whilst you complete a puzzle. Any incorrect guesses releases the goo.

I'd love to see the look on their face when they see a gunge tank and know what's coming

I often thought this would be a great idea.

As mentioned above some sort of TV show theme would likely make most sense, but I often wondered how popular something like The Crystal Maze Experience but with classic gameshows like Fun House or Double Dare would be too.

The big issue in all of it would ultimately be ensuring that you can get appropriate insurances in place to cover any accidents, and finding a commercial premises that is suitable - you'll be putting ALOT of crap down the sewer and basically operating an industrial scale laundry on the side! The place would also cost a fortune in electricity as you'll be heating loads of water and the rooms will have to be kept warm enough to ensure the experience doesn't turn miserable.

I guess the other concern though would be that a good portion of your target market would be the family crowd, and if folks got wind that you were also serving members of the WAM fetish community shit could get real pretty quick in the PR department.

These obstacles could be overcome though with enough funding, but obviously how likely that is depends on what the expected profit and returns would be.

This is what a lot of people don't really take into account when they wonder why there aren't any mud festivals or other regular messy fun events in the UK - while lots of folk might enjoy things like Tough Mudder, in any temperate climate being wet and muddy will also mean being cold, even on a "hot" summer day - Tough Mudder works because being cold and wet is part of what you "fight through" to complete it.

This was realoly brought home to me in 2018 at Lake Mead in Nevada. As part of UMD 20 a very generous benefactor took a whole bunch of us out to the Hover Dam and then the Lake Mead shoreline, where several of us took a fully clothed dip in the lake, including Maria and I. I was either wearing comnbat trousers or a boilersuit (I forget which) and waded a bit more than waist-deep in the water while taking photos of Maria larking about. In the UK, even on a hot day, that would have meant being chilly on coming back out again. Not there. The steadily blowing wind was noticably warm, even when soaking wet. It felt like standing in front of a hair-dryer. Within an hour I was dry enough to get back in the car without needing to put seat protection down, and by the time we got back to Vegas I was completely dry.

If anyone wanted to organise an event where people are going to spend time soaking wet, that's the sort of climate needed. It could be done in the southern US, it could probably be done in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, or Turkey, and definitely in North Africa. But not anywhere in the temperate zone. Another advantage of a hot country, you can heat water from the sun, so less power needed - I was on holiday on the mediterranean coast a few years ago and every building had solar water heaters and tanks on its roof, to make the most of the free energy that was just radiating down.


That would need to be very prominently front and centre at all times. TBH if anyone with a WAM fetish was doing it, it'd need to be billed and promoted as an adults-only and sexy experience, no kids, no families, and all participants aware that some viewers might find their antics arousing.


Would probably only happen if someone very rich who was also into WAM decided to do it at a loss for the fun of it. It's unlikely such a venture would make money, though it might cover a percentage of its costs.