I’ve decided to do a profile on Challenge Escape Rooms, a small business on Bell Boulevard, Bayside.

Challenge Escape Rooms opened on June 19 of this year. The only articles I’ve found about this business are articles in the Queens Courier and the Times Ledger, and both of them are simply articles about the business’ premise and the fact that it’s opening/open.

Challenge Escape Rooms is a company that provides an interactive game experience. The player, and up to nine companions, will be locked in a themed room for one hour and will have to use clues and work together to solve puzzles in order to escape. Participants can choose between two themes: “The Virus,” in which players have to find the cure for a deadly virus and escape a quarantined lab, and “The Unsolved Case,” in which players have to find documents vital to a criminal court case and escape before being caught. In honor of Halloween, “The Unsolved Case” has been replaced with “Killer Countdown”—in which players must escape a kidnapper—for the month of October.

I chose Challenge Escape Rooms because it’s very unique, as a business and in its location. Bell Boulevard is a commercial hub, but it’s primarily home to restaurants and traditional retail businesses. To my knowledge, Challenge Escape Rooms is the first business of its kind on the street, which I think will make it an interesting business to profile.