A free 15-minute warm-up for your team.

A virtual escape room before your next meeting.

Give remote colleagues a focused shared challenge without planning a long event. The Intake Room is a fictional online escape room in a records annex: inspect evidence, compare observations and solve three sequential objectives together. It is original fiction, not a real criminal investigation.

A browser is all each detective needs. There is no download, account or card. The non-3D Evidence view provides another way to inspect the same clues on a phone or laptop. Allow a few minutes to share a code and assemble everyone before starting.

For up to five colleagues, play free here.

Choose one organizer to create a room and share its private code. Up to four colleagues join with nicknames. Every joined detective should be ready and online; guests are optional. The organizer starts the continuous 15-minute countdown once the team is assembled.

Talk through the evidence in chat and add clues to the shared notebook. Some clues belong to different detectives, so asking the right teammate matters. Afterward, compare which details each person noticed. The spoiler-free playing guide helps everyone get oriented.

For larger groups, take the event to Party.

ColdCase Party Teams offers self-guided, one-time event packages: Squad: $199 for up to 25 people (up to 4 squads), Precinct: $299 for 26 to 50 people (up to 8 squads), or Task Force: $399 for 51 to 75 people (up to 12 squads).

Each squad plays in a separate room. Plan about 75 minutes including introductions and a regroup; your organizer runs the event, with email setup support. For more than 75 people or invoice requests, use Party’s custom inquiry.

The Intake Room is your free warm-up. Review the current event options before inviting the wider group.

One short case, on your schedule.

The full Intake Room is free for everyone: all three objectives, the evidence, hints, team chat and shared notebook. You do not need an account, email address or card. Guests need only a room code and a nickname.

A room stays open for 24 hours from creation, including time in the lobby. The 15-minute investigation countdown begins only when the organizer starts. Replaying within a room does not extend its access window. Keep the same browser tab to return to your saved seat.

The 15:00 countdown runs continuously through all three objectives. There is no pause between them. If time runs out, the organizer can choose “Keep investigating (unranked)” so everyone can finish with the timer showing overtime, or “Start over” to move the same team and nicknames to a fresh room.

Each hint adds a 30-second penalty to your recorded completion time. The countdown itself is not shortened by asking for a hint.