🔐 The Great Joke Vault Escapehow an evening runs, door by door
A virtual escape room played inside your own video call (Zoom, Google Meet, Teams…). AIC — AI-assisted Comedy — hosts with his voice on the page the organizer shares in the call; every participant plays from a private console on their phone or computer. Every door opens for a laugh. A plain room is 7 doors in 45 minutes; with the brain teasers on, 11 doors in 65 minutes.
AIC speaks there: the rules, the story, each door, the hints, the countdown. It shows the door strip, the challenge card, the wall of shame, the vote tallies. The organizer's controls live in ⚙️ Settings and the HUD (⏭ Skip room · ⏹ End Experience). The organizer plays too — from their own private console, opened in its own window from the 🔐 button.
Nobody logs in twice: the room link (or CODE.myjokes.ai) plus your e-mail is your seat. Your half of the clues, your answers, your microphone and camera live there. AIC does not speak on consoles — his words are written, and the 🔁 under his face asks the stage to repeat.
Game options → 📺 The stage in the call → 🤖 AIC joins the call. The organizer presses 📞 Call AIC on the entrance page: a participant named AIC · myjokes.ai knocks within a minute (Zoom or Google Meet), the organizer admits him and spotlights his tile. His camera is the stage, his microphone is his voice and the music — so sound sharing is never a problem. The organizer's own tab becomes a silent monitor, and everything is driven from their private console.
The organizer's console carries an Organizer controls panel: the doors as small icons (the current one lit, opened ones ticked), every button the stage is showing (⏭ Skip, unlock, seal the votes, reveal, stand-up order — pressed on the stage within ~3 s), ⚙️ Settings, the hint button, Close my console and End the room for all. In bot mode this is the only place they exist.
| 👥 Team | 🙋 Individual | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | One laugh score for the whole room; the podium and the wall of fame list the team (or company) name. | Everyone escapes together, but AIC keeps a score per person: padlocks, doors, brain teasers and the goofiest face earn points, hints cost some; the leaderboard is on the stage. |
| Brain teasers | One sudoku and one quiz, filled together — every keystroke is shared across the consoles. | Everyone solves their own grid and quiz; the first to finish opens the lock, every finisher scores. |
| Hints | Any participant can ask; by default the organizer is notified and confirms (or set hints to automatic / off). Who asked, and whether it was granted, is shown to the room. | |
| Stand-up final | Sitting the stage out costs the team nothing. | Sitting the stage out counts 0 for that set; the other points stay. |
| 🙂 Easy | 🔥 Hard | |
| Hints | 5 for the whole escape. | 3. |
| Anagram lock (brain teasers on) | Everyday comedy words. | Long words. |
| Sudoku (brain teasers on) | 8 blanks. | 11 blanks, single solution. |
| Stand-up final | Draw another theme up to 3 times; the hint offers a classic and ♻️ swaps it for another comedian's, 3 times. | One theme, one classic — no redraws. |
| Rankings | The last-30-days podium and the wall of fame compare only rooms with the same level and the same door set. | |
| 🧩 Brain teasers off | 🧩 Brain teasers on | |
| Doors · time | 7 doors, 45 minutes: coat check, punchline duel, caption this, goofy face, guess who, stand-up, the key. | 11 doors, 65 minutes: the anagram lock, the writers' room (sudoku + quiz), the mirror and the echo room are added. |
The numbers below are the brain-teaser room's, 1–11. A plain room plays doors 1 · 2 · 4 · 5 · 8 · 10 and the key, in the same order, renumbered 1–7; the teasers add 3, 6, 7 and 9. (⏱ ≈ suggested minutes; points go to the team laugh score, or to each player in individual mode.)
Three riddles, each answer a padlock. The clue halves are split across the consoles: read yours out loud to each other, then type the words. Warm/cold feedback in easy mode.
Console: your half of each clue next to the padlock, three inputs. Stage: the padlocks opening, AIC celebrating each one.
AIC reads tonight's set-up on the stage; everyone writes the punchline on their console (three tries each) and the AIC judges score it against the AI's own line. The judges' bar drops as the clock runs; the team's best line opens the door. Then the room votes for the crowd favourite (numbered lines, one vote each, never your own).
Console: the punchline box (opens once AIC has read the set-up), scores, the team list, the vote. Stage: the set-up, the tally, 🗳 Punchlines & vote.
Five comedy words, letters shuffled, on every console; what one of you types appears on all screens. All five open the door. Hard mode: long words, no letter count.
A picture with no caption is on the stage. Everyone writes the one line that makes it funnier (three tries); the judges score against the AI's caption, the best one opens the door, then the room votes.
Pull your goofiest face: snap it on your console (the button wakes up when a face is in the picture), or e-mail a selfie to the room's address. Everyone votes on the wall (not for themselves); the organizer seals the votes from the stage; the result stays sealed until later in the night. Consent is explicit; declining is a button.
A mini-sudoku and a five-question comics & movies quiz. Team mode: everyone fills the SAME grid and quiz, every keystroke shared. Individual mode: everyone solves their own, the first finisher opens the lock, every finisher scores. Hard mode: fewer givens (always one solution).
Three comics you know, drawn as caricatures and warped out of shape, side by side on the stage. Name them. Any of you can take any of the three, in any order, so split them between you — in individual mode everyone works their own three and every finisher scores. Easy mode gives you the country and the first letter; hard gives you the face and nothing else. No camera, nothing to photograph — that is the goofy-face door.
Console: the three faces and a box under each. Stage: the same three, ticking off with the name of whoever got it.
Each face from the wall is re-rendered 35 years older or 25 years younger. One at a time on the stage: on your console, pick the name you think it is. Auto-reveal when everyone has answered, or the organizer's 👁 Reveal. Fewer than two faces on the wall → the door skips itself.
AIC says three lines with the words back to front. The stage sequences them and the consoles' Play buttons blink in step (or play a line on your own device, headphones recommended); type what he said. All three open the door.
AIC draws the order and a theme for each performer; 45 seconds each, one joke — your own, or a classic AIC hands you (a hint). Record or type it, send it; at the end everyone rates every set (1–5 stars, never your own), the AI judge scores the transcript, and AIC can watch the call for smiles and laughter (opt-in, nothing recorded). Anyone may sit the stage out; easy mode allows three other themes.
The last door opens by itself after the stand-up ranking; the results page follows.
| Results page | Doors concluded, the laugh score (or each player's tally with a leaderboard), the wall of shame with the final votes (closed at the seal; the crown scores nothing), the stand-up ranking, the podium of the last 30 days for rooms of the same level and door set. |
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| ⭐ How was it? | Every participant rates the night (1–5 stars) and may leave a message on the results page; the average shows on the page, the messages reach the myjokes.ai team. |
| 🤖 AIC voted too | When the votes are sealed, AIC looks at the wall and casts one vote with a one-liner — read at the reveal and shown on the results under the prize. |
| Goodies | The winning face is drawn as a caricature on a tee, a cap and a tote right on the results page; the shop (a one-week pass for whoever paid) prints and ships a mug, a tee, a cap, a Hawaiian shirt and more — Make it yours accepts the room's faces or any photo. |
| Mails | Every participant receives a thank-you mail with the results link (CODE.myjokes.ai), the shop pass and a tell-a-friend code (20% for them, 20% for you). |
| Privacy | Rooms and photos are kept up to 60 days (photos for the vote and the goodies: 7 days), nothing from the call is recorded, faces are shown only with the person's consent and can be deleted on request at support@myjokes.ai. |
Prototype — whitelist only while we refine it. Feedback: support@myjokes.ai.
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