[3] The escape room themed series, hosted by comedian Jimmy Pardo, sees two teams of three competitors compete against each other, attempting to solve a series of psychological clues or puzzles in an attempt to escape a themed room.
The first puzzle requires the players to figure out how to free themselves from their locks and then to find the solution code associated with that escape.
If it is right, they move onto the next puzzle (or escape), while the other team is made aware of this by their room's lights going out briefly.
A team can enter up to 3 guesses for any puzzle without penalty, but after the 3rd entry, wrong answers will lock out this panel for two minutes.
[14] Daily News journalist David Hinckley gave the program three out of five stars, describing it as "not the best competition game show ever, [but] it's decent summer fun.