An adult activity, escape games?
No way !
Children can also do very well, so much so that the sector has expanded its offering for them.
Here is our selection to draw from for these February holidays.
Looking for Oggy
Founder of the Majestic Escape Game and the evaluation site Escapegames.fr, Rémi Prieur takes the small team of the day into Oggy's kitchen.
Behind a machine that could make minced meat, he explains that the big blue cat was swallowed by the grinder, and transformed into cubes, four to be exact, which must be found.
Anaïs, Anta and Lilly, in 6th grade, have one hour.
What if we get stuck?
Don't panic, Olivia, Oggy's lover, will send us clues.
Rémi accompanies the trio.
We enter an Egyptian setting.
You have to dig around to put together a map.
The eyes of the sarcophagus are lit, strange... An amphora here, a kind of oar placed in a corner, a few chests.
The girls are studious, focused on the puzzles.
Some clothing of Egyptian gods.
What if we dressed up as Nefertiti?
Obscure, the next room takes us back to the Viking era.
A longship on the wall, a pool of (real) water on the ground and… a corded wall telephone.
The shield symbols are intriguing.
You have to find matching elements, listen to the telephone message.
The ship comes, the light is bright, it's a matter of decoding modules, matching numbers, lifting white, blue and orange buttons.
We hear music from the animated series.
On the ceiling, the number 06091998 refers to the first broadcast date in the United States.
A wink for the experts!
At each stage, a cube appears, it's fun to see it pop up in a corner or hidden in an object.
The final stage propels us into a setting from “A Thousand and One Nights”.
The tests here combine excavation and games of skill, such as pulling up a ball using two threads.
The three friends loved “the well-decorated rooms, the different worlds of each one”.
“The spaceship one was the hardest, but it was beautiful with its planets and stars on the ceiling, and fun too with all its buttons.
But my favorite was that of Egypt,” comments Anaïs.
Lilly found “games of skill fun.
Like in
Fort Boyard
.”
The team leaves with a smile, satisfied to have accomplished their mission.
“Oggy prisoner of time”
,
at Majestic, 2, rue Française (Paris 2nd).
Every day.
Adult version possible.
From 30 to 36 euros per person.
From the age of 8.
On mission for Anatole Latuile
An old hotel decor with outdated wallpaper and doors.
“These are passages to other dimensions,” breathes the master of the game. Anatole Latuile needs help, we are his agents, it is up to us to find the nine Startruc cards that he has lost, notably his Morvox from gold, the most precious... Fans of Bayard's hero, Agathe and Alice, 10 years old, know her well.
They throw themselves into the adventure with relish.
First stop, school, at night.
Auzaguet, the director, confiscated cards.
Quiet !
Watch out for the lurking guard.
It's a stormy night, it's rumbling and thundering... Excited, feverish and scared, the friends are on the lookout for the slightest noise.
Flashlights in hand, they explore the classroom, searching everywhere.
Character tokens to collect, a number on each... A large cabinet is locked with a combination padlock... The door to the director's office opened.
Tension escalates !
A photocopier, a telephone, a computer… The clues are everywhere.
We have to cross them, and if we get stuck, a voice puts us on the path.
Ah!
A map !
Suddenly, a loud boom.
The girls jump, throw themselves under the desk… “Not here, that way, quickly,” whispers the game master, who has conveniently reappeared.
We run to rush into a closet.
Click, clack, locked up!
Observation and a few manipulations allow you to get out of it.
Behind the door, a corridor.
“We’re at the Bombix’s.
This is Mylène’s and here’s Jason’s,” cries Alice.
Jason, Anatole's best friend, who we enter after having made himself small in front of Mylène's, is a terror.
One thing leads to another, and here we are in Anatole's room, the final stage of an hour-long quest.
The nine cards are combined.
The girls, delighted, can keep them.
" It was so good.
At some points, it was scary, when there was Monsieur Auzaguet,” Agathe smiled as she left.
“In the classroom too,” Alice intervenes.
At first, we didn't really know what to do.
» Decors in bright colors and many details, good setting which allows children to get on board immediately, appropriate support, the experience is very nice.
Kairos also offers a “Tom-Tom and Nana” game.
“Anatole Latuile”
,
at Kairos Escape Game, 42, rue Sedaine (Paris 11th).
Every day.
From 25 to 85 euros per player depending on the number of players (1 to 8).
An adult must accompany children.
From 6 years old.
At the heart of the Resistance
The “Mission Rol-Tanguy” serious game is suitable for children aged 8 to 12 and allows them to learn the history of the liberation of Paris and the resistance.
Paris Museums
Equipped with a tablet, we descend the 100 steps towards the underground headquarters of Colonel Rol-Tanguy, 20 m below the Liberation Museum, in Denfert-Rochereau (Paris 14th).
It was from here that the actions of the Resistance were coordinated during the liberation of Paris in August 1944. Former quarries converted into an air raid shelter before the war, the place is almost empty.
Through the “Mission Rol-Tanguy”, a “serious game”, children aged 8 to 12 can visit it and learn its history.
On the screen, Rol-Tanguy himself welcomes them, and explains to them that he has lost a very precious souvenir in the underground complex.
Guided by objects that come to life, Ventilator, Cagaze or even Sassone, the little agents explore corridors and rooms step by step by solving small puzzles.
It will be a matter of observing the surrounding objects in the few display cases - which are explained - and the inscriptions.
Lasting around twenty minutes, this game with very successful graphics allows young people to enjoy these places full of history.
Entrance to the museum is free and free, the visit to the PC is limited in number, you must register at reception where you can request the tablet (4 to 6 euros).
The museum's collections are also communicated through "Les Grandes Grandes Vacances", an animated series about this period, via a special tab in the institution's app.
During these holidays, guided family tours Mission Rol-Tanguy or Grandes Grandes Vacances are also offered (from 5 euros, to be booked on the site).
The “Mission Rol-Tanguy”
, at the Musée de la Libération, 4, avenue du Colonel-Henri-Rol-Tanguy (Paris 14th).
Tuesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.