Need help finding your way around Escape-Gift? Here are our frequently asked questions (FAQ to its friends)!

Go to https://game.escape-gift.com/en/ and click the occasion you’re interested in:

Next, you have two options:

1. Start from a template that comes with a ready-made scenario, and personalize it.

2. Create your own game from scratch.

1. If you start from a template, you land on a page showing all the existing scenarios. To see an example of a game, click “Test”; to personalize it, click “Select”:

When you click “Select”, the template is copied into your creation area and you can start personalizing it:

2. If you create your own game, you first need to select the style you like. You can always change your mind later:

Once you confirm your choice of style, a blank Escape-Gift is created in your personal space and you can start personalizing it:

Perfect! Now we’re getting down to business: you can add riddles, rewards and clues to help the players.

To sign up, go to https://game.escape-gift.com/en/

1. Choose an occasion (birth, wedding, birthday, etc.)

2. Choose a creation mode (start from a template or create a game from scratch)

3. Fill in the form below when prompted:

And that’s it! You can access your profile by clicking the menu at the top right.

For an Escape-Gift to work, it must contain at least:

• An intro message
• A riddle
• A reward

Once these conditions are met, you can test your game and admire your fine creation!

If you create a blank Escape-Gift, you land on the following page.

As soon as a first riddle is added, a “final reward” block appears below the riddle block:

You’ll notice that the intro message and the reward are pre-filled, but we encourage you to personalize these fields: your players will love it!

If you start from a game template (a scenario to personalize), it works the same way, but the riddles are already pre-filled. Some are “one size fits all”, others need to be adapted to your situation. We flag those with a red “To customize!” label:

There you go, now you know what the “Scenario” tab is for! Here’s a summary:

To add a riddle, go to the “Scenario” tab of your Escape-Gift and click “Add a riddle”:

You land on the following page. If you’re looking for inspiration, start from one of our suggestions; if you know what you want, create your own riddle:

Then write the wording of your riddle and the right answer that will unlock your reward:

Optionally, you can choose to reveal a reward that the player unlocks once they find the right answer. Careful, this is not the final reward of your treasure hunt!

You can also add a specific avatar to this riddle; this is a Premium option 😎

We recommend adding clues to guide the players toward the right answer!

To do so, expand your riddle and click “Add a clue”:

Clues appear after the number of failed attempts you enter in the first field.

Besides text, you can add a photo, a web link or a map to bring variety to your clues.

As for maps, you can guide the person to a place or send them to a point of interest in Google Maps or Google Street View mode (360° point of interest):

Here’s an example of a clue in Street View mode:

You can add several clues, so go for it!

If you’re short on inspiration or time to add clues, we also offer automatic help, which is on by default but can be turned off.

This help gives the player a clue after each wrong answer, and works like this:

• Text riddles: the help reveals one letter of the right answer and the total number of letters (a bit like hangman)
• Number, date and time riddles: the help tells you whether the wrong answer is too low or too high.

It’s really useful to be able to test the game before sending it, to make sure everything goes as planned.

To do so, use the test button at the bottom of the “Scenario” tab. You can test the game as many times as you like; each test automatically creates a new “Test” player in the player list. This Test player won’t appear in the final ranking.

It depends!

We have a free offer and a Premium offer. Here are our different plans:

In short, the Premium offer removes the ads and lets you take the personalization of your game further:

And why are we talking about this now? Because if you have a cart to pay for, it has to be done now, just before the “Launch” step, which lets you share your Escape-Gift!

If you’ve chosen a Premium plan, the “Launch” tab turns into a cart: follow the instructions to pay securely (with PayPal or a card):

Once the payment is confirmed, you’ll land on the page shown in step 8 below!

In Escape-Gift, each player has a personal web link (URL) to play. You have 2 ways to send them this link:

1. The quick option: ask the players to enter their name and email themselves by sending them a self-registration link:

The players sign up as shown below, then receive a personal game link by email:

2. The manual option: enter their name and email yourself:

Once your player is registered, they appear in the list of registered players:

Now that you have your riddles, your clues and your players, you’re ready to start the game!

To do so, each player will receive the email below:

There are two ways to send this email:

1. If you added the players yourself, you now have access to the page below, which lets you send the game invitation emails in one click or schedule them:

2. If you chose the self-registration link, share it with the players using the tool of your choice: group email, messaging app, or carrier pigeon if you like!

The game link takes the players to the page below. Once they’ve filled in the form, they’ll receive an email with their personal game link.

You can see at a glance who has signed up and how the players are progressing in the “Results” tab of your Escape-Gift:

You can also choose the ranking mode that suits your needs; players can see the current scores once they’ve answered all the riddles.

Where to start? Blank-page syndrome can strike even the most creative among us when you don’t know where you’re heading. Here are a few tips to avoid that trap:

1. Think of the gift before wrapping it

If you first decide on the surprise you want to reveal, ideas for getting people to guess it will come naturally. For example, to reveal a funny video, I can have them guess the word “humor”:

“Which sense is so highly developed in you?”

2. Check out our suggestions

When you create a riddle, you can start from one of our suggestions. Click on them to get suggestions suited to your occasion!

A well-crafted Escape-Gift builds suspense, with a guaranteed effect on the player.

To get there, don’t play your best cards right from the start!

For example, for a birthday, create 2 or 3 riddles with a fun or symbolic reward before revealing a bigger surprise.

A shared memory, an old photo, a memorable anecdote… Words always hit harder when they come with proof, so use the toolkit Escape-Gift gives you to move your players!

For example, if the question is “What’s my favorite color?”, which answer would touch you most?

This one?

or this one?

You decide 😋

The secret of a great game is striking the right balance between suspense and difficulty. If it’s too hard, players will get discouraged. If it’s too easy, it loses its appeal.

That’s exactly what clues are for: they help you find that balance. Don’t hesitate to test your game and to have someone else test it, to check that your clues are in the right place.

As a rule of thumb, keep in mind that after more than 3 wrong answers without any extra help, players will start to get bored.

ESCAPE = as in escape game

GIFT = as in a present

ESCAPE-GIFT is a concept that combines escape games and gifts.

Players have to solve one or more riddles to reach a final surprise.

The ultimate goal? To reveal a message, an announcement or a gift in an original and memorable way.

It depends!

We have a free offer and a Premium offer. Here are our different plans:

In short, the Premium offer removes the ads and lets you take the personalization of your game further:

If you’ve chosen a Premium plan, the “Launch” tab turns into a cart: follow the instructions to pay securely (with PayPal or a card):

Once the payment is confirmed, you’ll land on the “Launch” page, which lets you share your game!

Yes, my dear!

We need it to set up the personal space where you create your riddles and where your media and the players’ names are stored.

But rest assured, we never disclose any personal information to third parties.

And I promise, it’s super quick and nearly painless: a few fields, a password and off you go!

It all happens here: https://game.escape-gift.com/en/

No, none of that!

First, there’s no app: everything happens on a website designed for both mobile and desktop.

As for the players, we only need their email address, to make sure each player only plays once. There are smart alecks everywhere!

For now, as many as you like, so make the most of it!

For now, as many as you like, so make the most of it!

The riddles appear one at a time.

By default, they are listed in the order you created them.

You can easily reorder the riddles with the arrows at the bottom of their block.

To add variety, we offer 4 types of riddles:

1. Text type:

The answer to find is a word or a series of words. When you create the riddle, you can enter several right answers, for example:

• Riddle: “What do I love most about you?”
• Right answers: “Eyes” or “The eyes” or “your eyes” or “my eyes”.

2. Number type:

The answer to find is a digit or a number. In this case, there’s only one right answer. After each wrong answer, the player automatically gets a “Too low!” or “Too high!” hint, so this type of riddle can be solved without any clues.

3. Date type:

The answer to find is a date. In this case, there’s only one right answer. After each wrong answer, the player automatically gets a “Too low!” or “Too high!” hint, so this type of riddle can be solved without any clues.

4. Infinite hangman type:

The answer to find is a word or a series of words. In this case, there’s only one right answer. The player can try:

• A letter: if it’s in the right answer, it will appear in the words to find.
• A full answer: if it’s right, they get the reward; if not, they try again, but get no indication of which letters are right or wrong.

As you read in the previous section, there are 4 types of riddles, each with its own mechanics:

1. Text type

2. Number type

3. Date type

4. Infinite hangman type

For now, for technical reasons, you can’t change the type of a riddle once it has been created. For example, you can’t turn a “Text” riddle into a “Number” riddle.

However, you can reorder, delete and create as many riddles as you like!

We’ve chosen not to host videos for now.

But we have a simple solution for you:

1. Upload your personal video to YouTube as private or unlisted.

2. Add your YouTube link to the reward, like any other online YouTube video.

Careful: if you choose private mode, don’t forget to add the players’ email addresses in YouTube! The privacy settings are summed up nicely here: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/157177

Only the players who access the game can see the content of an Escape-Gift. It isn’t available anywhere else on the internet.

To access the riddles and rewards, a player needs a personal game link. There are 2 ways to generate & share this link:

1. By adding the players yourself in your member area. The player list is closed and under your control.

2. By sharing a self-registration link: the players enter their nickname and/or email address themselves. In this case the player list is open, and even if you control who you send the self-registration link to, a leak can always happen, so keep that in mind!

Unfortunately not, we’ve tried several times without success.

However, you can create an Escape-Will so that only the most deserving get their hands on your fortune.

No, no, no, no miracles: we haven’t cracked the right computer code yet…

But you can light the spark, take the plunge, touch a heart that was waiting just for you!