It might seem counterintuitive at first, but one of the best ways to escape boredom is to lock yourself in a small room—as long as you're at Steal and Escape. Of course, that's only the beginning. The escape-room professionals set up heart-pounding scenarios to test players' wits and team-work skills. With just 60 minutes to find and solve the clues hidden around the ordinary-looking room, brains will have push their limits to succeed.

Those games run the gamut from treasure-hunting expeditions to cloak-and-dagger spy thrillers. In Mysterious Stranger, players are shaken out of their ordinary lives by a phone call from the government. Somewhere nearby is a device that threatens the safety of the country—and only they can work out what it is, where it is, and how to disarm it.