MANHATTAN SIGHTSEEING TOUR FIELD GUIDE
Pet Project: A Locked Manhattan Escape into a Professor’s Chained Mystery
A campus-office escape room where teams tend to an otherworldly boxed pet, solve layered puzzles, and race against the clock—this guide distills the scenario, logistics, and what to expect.
Pet Project: A Locked Manhattan Escape into a Professor’s Chained Mystery.
Welcome to the mysterious, foreboding world of Pet Project: Locked Manhattan’s campus‑office escape room that drops your team into a secluded professor’s office to look after an otherworldly ‘pet’ housed in a chained wooden box. What begins as a caretaker task quickly becomes a tense puzzle run as every corner of the office hides secrets and every action can have dire consequences—seconds are of the essence.
Highlights
Outing Highlights
A professor's office hides a boxed, chained pet
The premise places your group of graduate‑student caretakers in a secluded campus office tasked with tending to an unusual creature kept in a wooden box secured with heavy chains—setting for a claustrophobic, narrative‑driven puzzle experience.
Layered enigmas designed by Locked
Puzzles are the core: expertly created challenges spread through the office, the walls, and around the prominent wooden box demand teamwork, logic, and steady nerves to uncover what’s needed to escape.
A timed, high‑stakes atmosphere
This experience is built on mounting suspense—every action could have dire consequences, and the narrative emphasizes immediacy as you race to solve the room’s secrets before time runs out.
What the day feels like
What it feels like
You enter a secluded office on campus that at first seems ordinary, but soon reveals a catalogue of secrets. Working as a small team, you must interrogate the space—desk, walls, and the heavy‑chained wooden box that houses the professor’s ‘pet’—linking clues and disarming puzzles while the narrative pressure mounts and the clock ticks.
Suitability
Who it's for
Who this experience suits—and who should reconsider.
Practical planner
Details to review before reserving
Rates are tiered by group size: 2 people $69; 3 people $69; 4 people $92; 5 people $115; 6 people $138. Per‑person costs vary with group size as listed.
No special equipment is specified; success depends on observation, reasoning, and teamwork—come ready to collaborate and think under time pressure.
Operated by Locked Manhattan and set in a secluded office on a campus in Manhattan, Kansas; the scenario centers on the professor’s office and its boxed pet.
Review cancellation policies before reserving.
Frequently asked questions
Planning Your Outing
How much does Pet Project cost?
Pricing is listed by group size: 2 people $69; 3 people $69; 4 people $92; 5 people $115; 6 people $138.
Who operates Pet Project?
The experience is operated by Locked Manhattan.
Where is the experience set?
The game is set in a secluded professor’s office on a campus in Manhattan, Kansas.
How many people can play?
Listed group sizes range from 2 up to 6 players, with corresponding rates for each group size.
What is the premise of the game?
You are tasked with caring for an unusual office ‘pet’ kept in a wooden box bound with heavy chains; puzzles hidden throughout the office reveal how to escape before time runs out.