Escape the Enclosure

It’s like an escape room — if the room were angry, alive, and judging your communication style.

Welcome to Escape the Enclosure™, our most realistic simulation of workplace disaster and interdepartmental collapse — except here, your coworkers aren’t just difficult… they’re also trapped with you inside a live gator habitat.

Your team is sealed inside the Gator Synergy Containment Zone™, an immersive hellscape designed to replicate everyday corporate stressors like unclear priorities, shifting expectations, and being slowly circled by Gary, our least stable alligator.

The catch? There are no instructions. The lights flicker when someone lies. And the room gets smaller every time someone says “alignment.” You also have:

  • Live reptiles

  • One key, zip-tied to Gary’s tail like a middle finger to logic

You’ll be tasked with solving incoherent puzzles written by someone in Legal, interpreting a series of passive-aggressive post-its left by former teams (RIP), and negotiating with Gary, whose trust must be earned through eye contact, emotional honesty, and sacrificial offerings (we recommend someone from Procurement).

Every moment inside the enclosure feels like a metaphor you don’t understand.
Every wrong move is punished with gator proximity and escalating music.

There is no time limit. Only Gary.

Why Managers Love It:

  • Encourages innovation through desperation, confusion, and blind swamp fear

  • Cheaper than a consultant and way more entertaining

  • Rapidly reveals who’s a problem-solver and who’s just really good at looking busy

  • Creates unforgettable bonding through shared crisis, fear sweat, and betrayal

  • Makes it very clear who should not be in charge of anything, ever again

  • Turns performance anxiety into performance terror

  • And let’s be honest: watching Chad beg a gator for a do-over is just fun

What It Teaches:

  • You don’t know your coworkers until you’ve seen them weep into a fern

  • Delegation becomes pointing at someone and saying “They’re expendable”

  • Not all riddles have answers — especially the ones written by Gary

⚠️ Warning:
Teams most likely to implode include:

  • Groups that rely on a shared Google Doc for decision-making

  • Anyone who says “Let’s pivot” while being actively stalked

  • Leaders who introduce themselves with “I’m just a big-picture person”

  • Chad, who keeps referring to Gary as “bro” and offering fist bumps

Meet the Gator

Gary

Gary is 17 years old, originally from a retirement swamp outside Baton Rouge. He enjoys puzzles, intimidation, and eating things slowly while maintaining eye contact. Former therapy gator, now considered too intense for schools. His key is zip-tied to his tail because he demanded job security. Gary also meditates regularly and only attacks when someone uses passive voice. He once hissed when someone said "touch base."

Tripadvisor Reviews

  • ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Gary is an icon. Cheryl from Legal wouldn't stop quoting compliance policy. Cheryl is gone. She now lives here with Gary. I’m emotionally reborn.”

    Christina, Minneapolis

  • ⭐️⭐️⭐️☆☆ “The moment Gary locked eyes with me, I forgot how doors worked.”

    Jamie, Madison

  • ⭐️⭐️⭐️ “We escaped. Barely. Dave didn't. But that’s fine — Dave was a contractor.”

    Adam, St. Paul