The first student-built, student-operated escape room — Chapel Thrill Escapes — is relaunching this week with a new room, “Rameses in Wonderland,” in Cobb Residence Hall.
Sameer Rao, a senior and the CEO of Chapel Thrill Escapes, said the nonprofit was founded in 2019 by four UNC seniors who had a dream to build an escape room and leave something at UNC that could persist over time. The original team ran the first room, “The Belltower Escape Room,” until March 2020.
When the pandemic made it challenging to manage an escape room in-person, and students were asked to leave campus, the original team moved the escape room online.
After two changes in leadership,…
