This came from the Goodwill Benz. I saw this and I knew that it would sell. Hey, fellow buddies, thanks for watching. Amazing, right? All right, let's get started. Hey, fellow buddies, thanks for watching. In this video, I'm going to talk to you about my bread and butter bolos. Those are items that I sold on eBay for $35 or less. I'm going to tell you where I got it, what I paid for it and what I sold it for. What you are going to notice is that I source really cheap. I pick things up at the state sales, garage sales, thrift stores, the Goodwill Benz. I am a cheapy, cheapy. I like to buy low and sell high. So I will pick up things and I will sell them for $10 or less because I don't have much in them. But most of these items sold for $35 or less and let's get started. So the first item here I sold is this puppet. And most of you probably would have walked right by it. But I'm like, somebody needs this puppet. Somebody's looking for it. It's so old and cute.  It's unbranded. It's brown. I got it at a garage sale and I actually paid $1.50 for it, which is kind of high for me. And I sold it for $12.99 plus shipping. These came out of a mystery toy box from a YouTube channel, Auctions for You. And I have the full unboxing on my channel. If you want to check it out, I had never heard of these. They are called Fixit and they're little transformers, teeny, tiny, like Titans robots, robots in disguise toys. I don't know, but they sold for $9.75 plus shipping. If you're looking to buy online, definitely check out Auctions for You and Donna Telebotilino. I will link them down in the description. I have been buying from them for about three years. The Wendell August Switch Cover Plates. Oh my goodness, the Switch Cover Plates and the Outlet Plates. I had bronze and I had aluminum. And I will tell you, these have been selling like hotcakes. I did a video on them. I found them at a garage sale. Cost of Goods was about a dollar a piece by the time I took my total that I paid for them and divided it out. So super great find and I'm selling them individually and they are doing really, really well. The same person bought four of these and they were all in for $98 plus shipping. So they got this one, this one, this one and this one for $98. So they were all in for $115.30 and my cost of goods was $4 from a garage sale. I pulled these out of the Goodwill bins and they are Beauty and the Beast birthday invitations. They are vintage and I have to save the vintage. They're new old stock, which means NOS is another good thing you can put in the title. I didn't do that. I ran out of space, but new old stock is NOS and people do look for that. These sold for $9.75 plus shipping. The next item came from my I went to a new Goodwill bins. It's the first time I had ever been there and I really wasn't feeling it. You know, you have days where you go and you're just kind of like, eh, I don't really feel like doing this today. I don't know. I kind of felt like it and I left a lot of stuff behind and I have a video and I think it says I should have grabbed them all or something like that in the title, but I found a big money Bolo and I ended up doing pretty well, but I listed this item and it was just a bread and butter. And I knew it, but it's sold like within a day for $6.50 plus shipping. It flew out of my store, but I did price it competitively, but I don't know. I was really shocked by how quickly this sold. This guy right here is a vintage Santa Claus ready to paint. I talked about this in another video. These sell better after Christmas. All of a sudden these started selling after Christmas and I started thinking about it and I'm like, it's probably because people buy them after Christmas to start painting them for next Christmas. Anyway, got this out of a thrift store mystery box. Took a best offer of $15 plus shipping. This is the pizza hat. And I talked about this in one of my reseller vlogs. I was doing an unboxing and this came from the free plush from a viewer. She messaged me on Facebook and said, Hey, I need these items out of my house tomorrow, all of this plush. Will you come get it? And I'm like, okay. So I figured it out and I went and picked it up and I got a ton of amazing plush. If you're watching, thank you so much. This was one of the items I sold this pizza hat for $9.75 plus shipping and my cost of goods was free. This is a Disney frozen Olaf. It's a flashlight doll. And I actually have a video down below that shows how it works. And this video actually has gotten quite a few views. People really want to know how it works, but it took a long time to sell, but I did sell it. This came off of Facebook marketplace. I bought a bundle from some mom that was cleaning out her basement and just wanted to get rid of stuff and was selling it all for one price. So I got a really good deal on it, $29.25. And I did do local pickup on that because somebody needed it for a birthday party that weekend. So I did go ahead and do that. This came from the Goodwill Benz. I saw this and I knew that it would sell. These are fashion plates. So you run like a crayon over it and you can make like different designs. The packaging is in horrible shape, but I just felt like it was going to sell. And it sold really fast for a best offer of $35 plus shipping. And again, that came from the Goodwill Benz. This also came from the Goodwill Benz. And a lot of you guys say, Boyd's Bears, no, I'm not picking them up. I'm the opposite. If I can get a Boyd's Bear for a dollar or less, they will sell. Now, do they sell for big money? No, but if you can find the Boyd's Bear minis with the little sweaters, some of those go for over $100. So definitely be on the lookout for those. This one, I figured I could get 10 to 15 bucks for it. So I ended up selling it for $13 plus shipping and I got it at the Goodwill Benz. The person also bought this one from me for $9.75. So this buyer, I think likes cheetah stuff. The little brownie brand, I think it's from like Girl Scouts or something. I don't the comps weren't great. It's like the sell-through rate, the comps. This was another one from the free plush that I got, but I listed it. And I ended up selling it for $9.75 plus shipping. And it actually sold pretty quickly. But the reason it sold is because of the cheetah. Somebody wanted a cheetah, not because it was the little brownie brand. So definitely look up that brand. These came from a viewer. This was a viewer sale and she sent me a message with the offer saying that she was looking for these these items and she did not know she needed shoe horns, but she didn't know Tupperware made them. And she saw them in my video and these came out of my mystery box from T auctions for you. It was in my t-ball and a viewer bottom. So thank you if you're watching, I appreciate your purchase. And she bought these for $15 and 50 cents plus shipping. The next item are these two creative memories, tape runners. One is a refill and creative memories. I just it's a bolo, you guys, if you see it, pick it up. It sells really good. This came from a garage sale. Cost of goods for all of these was probably about a dollar. And I sold these for $21 and 70 cents plus shipping. Lego friends, I got this at a garage sale. I want to say that I paid four dollars for it. Probably overpaid for this one, but it was new old stock. And I was like, eh, it didn't comp out as high as I had hoped. But I sold it for $15 and 50 cents plus shipping. So still made a profit. I always pick up Legos, especially if they're in the original box. I probably could have held on to it and the value probably would have went up. But I always choose to move things quickly. I don't really hang on to stuff for reasons of increasing in value. I do hang on to stuff in my money pile because I just can't get to it. But anyway, this is a vintage Turino Peacock jewelry stand. And you put earrings in it. And I sold this for a best offer of $25 plus shipping. And I believe this came from a garage sale for a buck. This guy right here, you would think what on earth, right?  It's like missing part of his head. And I actually sold one of these. And then I saw another one at the Goodwill Benz and I'm like, hey, I sold it once. I can sell it again. I can hit sell similar. It sold super fast again. It's a Treasure X monster and got it out of the Goodwill Benz. And it sold for $9.30 plus shipping. The buyer was all in for $15.58 for this little guy. Is that crazy or what? This is a true silver garland decor. It's by Noel and it's two feet wide by 16 feet long. And it is new old stock. I got this out of a thrift store mystery box. Almost didn't list it because it was so long, decided to just fold it in half and disclose that. And I sold this for a best offer of $14 plus shipping. And that was a thrift store Christmas box. This also came out of my Teeble box from Auctions for You. And again, she'll be linked down below if you guys are looking to source online. And I sold this little fireplace for $13 plus shipping. I did put Dollhouse in the title because I think this would be a great size for a dollhouse. This was also from The Free Plush. It's a Wish Pets plush teddy angel wings Brianna stuffed animal. And I sold this for $16.25 plus shipping. This mouse right here is a Longitech marble trackball mouse. And when I saw this, I was like, oh, I thought I had a big money bowl. I thought I was going to sell it for like 100 bucks. And for some reason, this model does not sell for as much. Some of these go for big money, at least a long time ago. I remember doing a video on it. So maybe the market's down on them or it's the model that I had. So I was kind of bummed out, but I paid a buck for it. Sold it for $30 plus shipping. This is a mermaid tail flip sequin unbranded. I knew it would sell just because it was a mermaid tail and it was flip sequins and it sold really quickly. This was also from The Free Plush, and I sold this for $16.25 plus shipping. These are the Hallmark Mini Kiss Kiss Puppies. They're magnetic and they kiss and they come apart and they're super cute. This also came from The Free Plush. I sold it for $13 plus shipping. This is a Sarah Coventry Silver Seagull brooch. It is just silver tone. It's not actually $9.25 and my husband got this from an estate jewelry buyout. So he probably has like a dollar or less and it is sold for $9.75 plus shipping. These are erasers. They're by Awako, IWA, KO, Made in Japan. I don't know. I think these came, let me see, out of a thrift store toy box. And I was like, I'm going to try it. And I sold these for a best offer of $9 plus shipping. This one right here is a 1981 Teala action figure from Masters of the Universe He-Man. And M-O-T-U, I was like, what on earth is that? What is MOTU or MOTU? I was trying to figure it out in a video and I finally figured it out. It's Masters of the Universe. So those are great, it's a great way to put it in your title if you have to use less words, OK? This came from The Goodwill Bins. I sold her for $10 best offer plus shipping. This is a vintage Kirk Pewter stick pin and I got this out of a bulk buy. I bought it on eBay to sell on eBay. It was over 300 pounds of jewelry. I still have so much of it left, but I have videos. If you go way back to the beginning of my channel, I have when I picked it up because we met and I actually had her record a video of me unloading her car and she is the sweetest person. I actually need to text her and just say hello because I haven't talked to her forever. If you're watching, you're the best. Still selling these items and still have a ton to list. I think I might bring some of them to what not. If you guys aren't following me over on what not, definitely. Check me out there. I've been selling on there since December, so it's a newer platform for me. If you use my link to join what not, you can get $15 to shop it is live, so you get to hang out and talk in the chat and buy. It's super fun. So I would love to see you guys over on my what not. Again, that link's in the description. All right, I sold this little Imaginex Robin action figure. It's by Fisher Price, and I got this from the Goodwill Bins and he sold for $9.75 plus shipping. Probably had 25 cents or less in him.   They're easy to list and they are easy to ship. And I white out my background with photo room. I just like the crisp white background. And I do have a referral link down below. You can get 10 percent off of photo room if you use that link if you're interested in making your pictures have a white background. You can also put like a purple background or a blue background. There's so many things you can do with photo room. It is really awesome. And that's for the 10 percent off your annual subscription. And it's either I think it's sixty nine ninety nine for the year. Totally worth it. This little spoon came from the Goodwill Bins. I probably have 10 cents in it. This one was just ridiculous. I can't even believe I listed it, but I can't even believe I bought it really. But I got it at the Ben's. So it's probably 10 cents and I listed it competitively. And you guys, it sold so fast. I only sold it for three dollars and ninety cents plus shipping, but the buyer was all in for ten dollars and one cent for this. I may have sold it too cheap. So it's made in Japan. It's mid-century modern. It's a cool little spoon. This right here is a friends to be plush stuff doll. And I think I messed up on this one because I think it was worth about 30 bucks. And I sold it for 20. And I'm going to tell you why, because the person messaged me and they're like, is the belly button missing? And I'm like, oh, it kind of looks like it. And I never went and checked the item. I just looked at the picture. You guys, this is the back. This is where they sewed it up at Build-A-Bear. I have never heard of friends to be made. They apparently have Build-A-Bear dolls. But when I got her out, I was like, I'm just going to see if she has a belly button. And I looked and her belly button was just fine. And I had told the person that I thought the belly button was missing. So they offered me 20 bucks. I think this one was going to Canada. And I took a $20 offer, but that's OK. They had to pay their customs fees and stuff like that. So if you see one of these, definitely pick it up. Usually in the $30 range is what you're going to get for it. So definitely a nice little bolo that I undersold. The next item is this creepy vintage plastic sleepy eye craft doll. I went ahead and went with this as my main photo just to draw attention to the item because it's kind of a weird item. I don't even know why I picked it up. But. Yeah, that's her eyes open. And I shut she's made in Hong Kong. That's really all I had to go with. And she had this little outfit on. And I got her at a garage sale for a quarter and I sold her for seven dollars and forty four cents. And the buyer was all in for thirteen dollars and eighty nine cents. And I have info on one more, but I don't have a pop up. So I must not have done the last bolo. So you only got 30. Sorry about that. Hopefully I'll have it in my next video. Thank you guys so much for being here. Thank you for watching. Let me know which bolo was your favorite. There's going to be some videos popping up here and here. A subscribe here and another video here. Check out one of those videos. And if you're not subscribed, I'd love for you to subscribe. Thanks so much. And I'll see you at the next one. Thanks for watching.


The ITU's Global Symposium for Regulators, GSR, is a unique event that gives you the opportunity to meet with colleagues around the world and exchange experiences and best practices. At the time when we are deploying first generation networks, we definitely need a first generation regulation to facilitate convergence of infrastructure, services and service providers and streamline the usage of scarce resources such as frequency spectrum. GSR is an initiative which we, I am thinking all regulators from around the world, need it because it is the place when we can meet together and share our experience. For not just the policy makers from around the world but industry to come together and not just come together but even to be mixed together sitting at the same tables on the same panels, truly having a dialogue about the important issues of the day and sharing experiences in a format where we're not trying to reach conclusions, we're recognizing that everybody's particular situation might be a little different but we learn what has worked and what has not worked in the common goal to try to improve our development goals. You have to find PPP solutions, public-private partnership solutions and since everything is integrated more or less in the future, this is even more important and this is one of the opportunities. In my mind GSR is one of the most important meetings of the year, it's the only meeting in the world that gathers all of the regulators in one place at one time and if you look at over the years back to 2000 there were what fewer than 20 regulators here and this year we have over 350 people from 120 plus countries, it's unique and it's the only place that all the regulators come together and the capacity building, the information sharing, the sharing of best practices, it doesn't happen anyplace else. It's always exciting, it's always good to meet our friends and new faces, the world of telecommunications is constantly changing and I think it just gives us opportunity to do some checks and balances and learn from other people's experiences. It has the regulatory as well as the real life business situation merged into one so I think that's a great opportunity for all the stakeholders to come together. Well I think as much goes on out of the room, as goes on in the room and that is fascinating. I think regulators are comparing notes on how they want to go forward, I think it's very much like the cafeteria at the UN. It's very important to hear opinions from the rest of the world and also to apply a certain experience from those countries which are applicable for the small European countries like Croatia is. This is one forum to discuss the regulators, other industry people sharing the resources, sharing the knowledge, this is a wonderful place to share everything. Next GSR will be in Poland in Warsaw, it is our capital, it will be from 3rd to 5th July. I think that we will have a very good agenda, we will talk about for example second dividend I hope. Poland is in the centre of Europe so I think that the connection are very good so I invite everyone to Warsaw in the next summer. Please join me in Warsaw Poland from 3rd to 5th July 2013 for GSR 13.


What's up everybody, Jason here for JaspysCaseBricks.com. We just sold out 2022 Panini National Treasures Collegiate Football. One box break. Random teams number one. And again guys, this is a fresh case. And of course, this is national treasures. And of course, everybody gets a random team in the NFL. We go by group break checklist. I dropped the doc in there. And of course, that's official as of October. So they just go by this guy. So again, we go by group break checklist as a website. So everybody's around the team. There's the customer names. There's the teams. Click dice roll. It's a one and a three, four times. Good luck. One, two, three, four. Boom. Nathan, down to Scott. Boom. Three, four. Four times. One, two, three, four. Four times. Cardinals down to the Buccaneers. Four times. Nathan, the other Cardinals. Scott with the commanders. Tim with the Steelers. Kenneth B with the Giants, as well as the Cowboys. David with the Lions. Michael D with the Texans. Dolphins. Kenneth with the Ravens. Michael with the Bengals. Scott with the Ramsains. Kenneth with the Packers. Rig with the Falcons. Scott with the Bears. Raiders and Jax. Michael with the Eagles. Kenneth with the Titans. Kaden with the Bills. Kev M with the Coles. Jason K with the Patriots. Kenneth with the Browns. With the Coles. Jason K with the Patriots. Kenneth with the Browns and Jets. Scott with the 49ers. Panthers. Chargers. Kenneth with the Vikings. Jason K with the Chiefs. Scott with the Browns with the Seahawks and Buccaneers. Now, if anybody does want to make a trade, I'll give you guys a quick little trade window. Oh, it looks like Optic UFC hobby also sold out. Three bucks divisional. That's a schedule. All right, I'm assuming no trades in it, guys. So stick to what you got. And quickly, too, I'll post up another one of these, too, guys. And just a quick little... Is Brock Purdy in this? Yeah, he is, actually. Brock Purdy is in this antique collegiate. You got team logos. You got signature materials. You got team slogans, dual player. Oh, sorry, that's actually an eight-ball. So team slogans, signatures, silhouettes, materials, and team logos. So Purdy could be a good chaser here. International Treasures, collegiate football. One, two, three, four boxes stacked up. One of the top down to the four. Let's see which box we can generate here. If I roll anything, but a five or six, we'll just reroll again. And it's a one. So we're going to go to the top box here at the top. Boom. The next ones will be for the next breaks. We can run this back at least three more times. All right, first one here we have a little Dak press cut of 75. That's going to go to the Cowboys. And whoa, look at that. Right off in the first box. Kenny Pickett, dual autograph with Malik Willis. 28 out of 49. And all right, I'm going to have to break someone's heart today. First break. Kenneth B. with the Titans Steelers is Tim. That'll be a randomizer between one of you two at the end of the break. Jack Cohen, RPA to 49. Let me quickly look up Jack Cohen. And that is a none. So that means everybody has an opportunity for this part at the end. He actually might still be in college too. That's probably why. All right, we got Isaiah Spiller to 99. A little booklet auto, Aggies. We do have booklet holders here now. And of course, Isaiah Spiller I believe was a charger. And yes, chargers on the board. I love that one. Next one here is a little jumbo patch. Sam Held to 25. And that's going to the Washington Commanders and Scott. We got three color packs there. That is National Treasures. George Pickens, number to 25. That's Pittsburgh Steelers last bomb mojo. That's going to go to Tim. And we have a Matt Correll RPA. What a great box to 99. That is going to go to the Carolina Panthers. A little napkin patch auto, but still. And last hit is a Johan Dotson. A little RPA is, well, 19 out of 39. And Johan Dotson is another one for the Commanders. And that is also going to Scott. All righty, guys. And just like that, first box in the book. So of course, we got these hits here. Spiller, Dak, Sam Held, Pickens, Correll, and Johan Dotson. Everybody gets a shot at this at the end. So I'll randomize the customer names. And then of course, this is going to be a randomizer between the Steelers and the Tennessee Titans. So good luck to the both of you guys there. So let's get a new dice roll. It'll be for the duel and then the extra card. So Steelers, Titans. And then everybody gets a shot at this. All right, roll the dice. Two and a five, seven times. Good luck, duel first. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Stays with the Tennessee Titans. Two and a five, seven times. Malik Willis wins that battle. And in Tennessee Titans, that is going to go to Ken. Now seven times here on the extra free card here, one, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Tim. And there you go, guys. So next one's in the store. If you guys want to run it back, josephyscasebrakes.com.


We have a new speaker here.  He would be talking about that But no, he will talk about something else entirely He will talk about the art of creating an escape room So maybe there's some similarity to you know packing and stuff. Maybe not. We'll see I'm excited to hear what he has to say. So please give a warm welcoming applause to him now. Thank you Thank you. I must say I'm quite overwhelmed with the amount of people in the room I've been walking past quite some talks and I was really afraid it would be quite empty here So thank you for coming and I hope I can entertain you a bit for the next hour I can talk about escape rooms for hours on end. So I'll try to squeeze it in an hour And I'll just kick me off the stage and my presenter. Just stop working. It's technology. I can only go backwards It's gonna be a very short presentation. No, so I'll quickly introduce myself for the people who don't know me I'm Thijs Bossert. I'm a security professional. I freelance at the moment I've been active in the security industry for around 15 years and be hobbying for around 20 years I've done a lot of different security things, but I'm not here for the security part I'm more for one of my hobbies which turned into a profession as well, and that's the escape room design Besides that, I'm also a CTF player, which I do together with a couple of teams One of them being the Eindbaser, which Gladim and half are sitting here. Thank you guys So with the Eindbaser team, we are actually next door on this field in this CTF tent and We organized the CTF during SHA 2017 So people have been battling and taking each other to solve all kind of challenges trying to get the first spot and We have a lounge where they can play in. We have some tables they can play on and I actually I submitted a proposal for a talk about CTFs but that got rejected So sadly enough I had to Skip that so I cannot talk about the CTF and the statistics that we had more than thousand teams Joining us that we had 462 teams were actually were involved with 114 teams playing from onsite on SHA And the team that won was each sleep on repeat Which were onsite and they have been number one from the start. They did a pretty great job We did a junior CTF as well, which had a lot of low-level challenges So people could get introduced with CTFing and enjoy it while not be While not be scared about the way too hard challenges in a normal CTF a lot of people play that as well And we really enjoyed hosting it. It's still open till the end of SHA. So if you're interested, we're next door But I had another talk While talking about SHA online one of the Eindbaser team members asked me Why don't you give a talk about escape rooms? Because he thought it would be awesome and I thought about it. It was like why not? So I submitted it and that talk got accepted So the first question is what is an escape room? Well, you can read it yourself and Thank you Google So an escape room is a room where you go in and solve puzzles and escape room is not a panic room Quite often when I'm talking about escape rooms people have an idea.  So I built a couple of escape rooms I built a created two which are currently being deployed But I designed and partly created four and I will be talking about the designing the building some technology behind it the designing of the puzzles the puzzle flows and a lot of things that went wrong Why did I want to build an escape room? It all started somewhere around 2014 together with the Eindbaser part of the Eindbaser team we decided to play an escape room and Basically after playing the first escape room it got me hooked It for me. It was some kind of real life hacking and I really like to solve puzzles we managed to actually escape from the room so it gave me a nice feeling about escape rooms and Some statistics at that time in the Netherlands there were around 48 rooms in 28 locations so it was already growing in the Netherlands and Where are the rooms in the Netherlands? everywhere Giving a big forward to March 2015. I took a sabbatical. I was still working in security as I am now But I took a sabbatical for six months and four months in I decided to quit my job Take the two months notice went on a trip to Australia went to on to New Zealand and I had a lot of walks and I said on a lot of mountains I was carrying a small notebook and during the all the walking I did and the sitting on top of mountains I thought about my future. I thought about my career. I thought about what do I want to do in my life? So I came back and I still didn't know what I wanted to do in my life But in that small booklet I scribbled a lot of different things and one of those things were all kind of puzzles I came up with and I made some flows of puzzles I find some teams I wrote some scenarios and I was like, yeah, I still think escape rooms are awesome And I want to build one Then I came back I started as a freelancer doing security stuff and that ID was still there But I didn't do anything with it at that time There were one of the safety rooms in the Netherlands on 73 locations So they were on the rise Then a month later I saw a local newspaper which had an item about one of the local companies claiming they would open a escape room in a couple of months And then I thought, shit, I wanted to do that So I thought about it and I decided why not contact them So I contacted them, asked about them, asked them about the escape rooms And they told me we basically said that so nobody else would build one Boy, we have no idea how to build it, we have no one to do it So that worked out pretty well I showed up with a lot of notes, a lot of designs I made in the meantime And they initially thought I was a professional escape room builder So they hired me and I created my first escape room We joined in a partnership so I would partly be owner of the whole system And they would take a license Now I actually had to create an escape room And it actually had to be built instead of scribbling something on paper And I found out building an escape room is hard There's an insane amount of things you need to take into account Or you just can't disregard all that Throw 500 euros at it, buy a couple of locks, make a shitty experience Nobody is going to play again And that's what a lot of companies do So how did I go on about to build an escape room? First part was to choose a team And that's quite hard because we already saw there were quite some rooms in the Netherlands back then And of course every room has a team And you have to find a team that inspires you But it doesn't already have 20 rooms in the Netherlands with the same team Because then people simply won't play your room, even if it's awesome In case I think of something unique Well, with the amount of rooms in the Netherlands in the end, no But you might give it a twist The next part with coming up with a team is building mood boards So just Google a lot And you just throw a lot of stuff on a page Small parts, large parts Getting an idea about colors, about items, about what you might want to put in a room Some things that might be way too far fetched but look really cool And with creating a couple of mood boards you get a better idea about a team And after you find your team, you choose a team And then the next part comes, write a scenario You don't have to do this, but it helps a lot So after you find your team, you write some kind of scenario How you think the room should be built How the puzzle should be influenced How the whole story unfolds during that hour you're in that room You want to entertain the people for an hour long I wrote a lot of different things And then changed it and changed it and changed it And during the rest of the building of the room I completely changed it again But it gives you an idea where you want to go After that I started with some physical location concepts To have an idea how big a room needs to be How you will connect everything What kind of size you need Another thing is location For me it's already fixed because I partnered up with a different company But I saw escape rooms are basically in three different kind of locations In the middle of nowhere In a city or part of something bigger And part of something bigger I mean a location where you can play laser tag Or where you can play, or where you can go karting Or that kind of things Might have a bar So there's quite a bit of difference between these three locations Because if you're playing an escape room It's the same when you play an escape room If you choose a location to play one You probably do not want to choose the one in the middle of nowhere Because you finish your escape room, you had an awesome time And then you get kicked out because the next team comes along And you're standing in a parking lot And I had that a couple of times and it's quite an anticlimax of your experience So in a city you can just walk next door to the next pub Enjoy a couple of beers and talk about your experience Or being part of a bigger complex if you have a bar inside You go there, you talk with your friends and you still have a great time I will come back to why I explained this part And I'm now going back to my physical location I started making some building plans So I knew what kind of size I had to work with So I decided how many rooms I would use And the whole layout At that time I joined up with a partner Which joined me in building escape rooms And he took over part of the job so we built it together Then we changed it all around Till we got some nice floor plans of what we wanted to build Because we only played a couple of rooms And we never played a room together We decided to play a room together somewhere else To see what our thinking process would be So I was there together with a partner who joined me And we decided to play a couple of rooms During that we actually found out We thought completely different about escape rooms And what we had to do about it So it's really useful This was August 2015 Around that time there were 192 rooms in the Netherlands In 113 locations They got more and more popular So I already was wondering Does it actually make sense to keep building these rooms? But we kept going because we wanted to build those rooms We went on and we made some digital designs Of the rooms we wanted to build We placed some objects in there Played around with the space What would fit How do we want to build it And we decided on the two teams And what we wanted to do with it And the scenarios we wanted to do We started designing the control room Because an escape room is basically where you are playing And the guys who are watching you need to be somewhere as well Which I will touch on a bit later as well The next part is Now we have a digital idea of what we want Now we have to find the items And we have to put a lot of stuff in that room And we want to make it all look natural That means I've been visiting thrift shops for years And a couple of times a week So they basically know me when I walk inside And you just look around And every now and then it's like Yes, this is my item You take it with you, you store it somewhere And the next day you basically do the same And you really want to have stuff that fits together Because you want to have a nice immersion For the people playing the room The immersion is part of the real experience And one of the things I really don't like If I'm in an escape room And it has all kinds of IKEA furniture And claims to be from the 80s That way you're not really in the story Sometimes you have some big stuff in the room Or maybe the location you use has something like this So how do you hide that? You might build something around it One of the things we had to do is Finding a way to hide the subwoofers in the room Which I will show in one of the other pictures later on What we did with that Also the natural part If you have a cupboard And if you want to lock that You probably want to use the real lock inside of it Around 50% of the escape rooms just put a padlock on that And it feels really artificial It works, but it's simply not the natural look you want Sorry There we go Once again we decided to play in an escape room While designing everything, while building everything And we still finished the room And this was in December 2015 At that time there were 260 rooms in the Netherlands On 151 locations And every time I looked at the stats I was like, yeah, I'm not sure this is actually a great idea To keep doing this But we were already quite far away So far along the way, so we just continued And in the meantime we were designing the puzzles There are a lot of different kind of puzzles You can use in the escape room The whole idea is 60 minutes Of solving different puzzles that you get out of the room So you do not want to have 60 minutes of finding a key Using it in a lock, finding a new key Using it in a lock, finding a new key Using it in a lock And then probably find a new key and use it in a lock There are rooms out there who exactly do that And they are completely linear And afterwards you probably have an idea I had no idea what we have done But I tried keys on all kind of locks And in the end we solved it So you want to have different kind of puzzles It does not matter if you every now and then find a key And try it in a lock You have some combination locks It does not mean that if you throw 20 combination locks After each other that you have a better room You also want to have some other kind of puzzles You want to have people think about puzzles You might want to have them something to do They might have to join forces together to be able to solve something From my experience I can tell you You do not want to use too much technology It is really awesome to throw a lot of technology in your puzzles Technology breaks And it is pretty hard when the technology breaks Which we will see some examples later on To cover for that You cannot say to the next group Yes sorry the whole room is gone because one of the puzzles broke And the last part is logic I have played quite a bit of rooms And afterwards I was like I had no idea why I had to replace this here And then that door opened There is nothing explaining that But I had to do it, it worked But please make sure there is some logic in there And then going on, building the puzzles You create a concept, you create a prototype You test your prototype, you go back You adjust and then you discard I created quite some puzzles And in the end I was like yeah this is not going to work Some puzzles are not feasible And some puzzles might make sense in your own head And not in one's else And it is hard to do to discard stuff Especially if you use a lot of time to create it After that you create a first version You have a test run So you throw the puzzle at someone else And try it If they like it You might say okay we are going to use this one Then you have to create a version Which actually works in real time And stays working more than two times I spent a lot of time at home Placing stuff on sensors So for hours and hours Just making sure that it works And if it doesn't work you have to adjust the sensors Buy new sensors I made some puzzles with magnets And I found out it is really hard to get A strong reading with a magnet Make sure every time the sensor gets triggered If I put this here it needs to be triggered If I put it here it doesn't need to be triggered It should not trigger But if I use it here slightly to the left And it doesn't work anymore It makes it really hard to get a stable room So if people are playing in a room And they have to put this thing here And it needs to trigger something It's really bad if you have to tell them after the moment Please move it a little bit to the left Then it might trigger the sensor A little bit more to the right Yeah that should do it That took me a lot of time building that kind of stuff And that brings me back to the thing I said before Don't use too much technology Making it robust is quite hard Which we will see some examples of You'll have a lot of wear and tear And you have to replace your stuff Once you build the escape room You'll have to build basically the whole room again after a year If you want to work with locks There are quite a bit of different kind of locks The normal one, the pin tumblers, the wafers, padlocks That kind of things Combination locks, electronic locks with Bluetooth, RFID Magnetic stuff You can use a lot of microcontrolls Artinos, raspberry pies You might use some Bluetooth stuff It doesn't really matter what you have It's a nice combination of these kind of things With the microcontrollers One of the things we had a lot of different issues with If you buy cheap knock-off Artinos They might want to reset them every hour Because they get pretty unstable Some of the concepts we used We would design stuff digitally first And then you can do whatever you want And have the wildest IDs And then you have to build it And you have to make sure that it actually can be built In your budget So this one actually turned out to be that one And it's before it's painted And during the building of this I figured something out My partner and I did not agree On the way you should create a network cable And we were using power over Ethernet So basically he was using the A version I was using the B version And we threw power over Ethernet on it And while measuring some of the cables I blew a couple of cable testers We actually there's still In one of the rooms I've built There's still some cabling inside of that Which you first have to look at the cable Before you do anything with it Because it was really hard to fix that all After building it So make sure you communicate And make standards together If you're working together Some other examples of puzzle designs This is a chess piece, a chess board Which would have some kind of electronics behind it And this is one of the things Where the sensors really come into account Because it only needs to work When this chess piece is on this spot And you want to make sure that if it's 2mm to the right It's still okay But if it's halfway one of the others You shouldn't And it took way more time than it should And I built it in some old chess board So it looked natural Which made it way harder to build I was pretty happy with it in the end And then it broke And that brings me to the puzzle failures Sometimes you need to accept defeat Not everything works Some puzzles are not feasible I had some wild ideas Building an Omicron controller in an old Nokia phone And make it look like a normal phone Where you could check a text message And I built it all And then I dropped it and it was completely gone And you will know anyone in your room Will drop that within a week So I could not get it stable enough And I had to drop the whole idea Like I said, sometimes it just breaks during the creation So you have a lot of puzzles Then it brings me to the next part, the puzzle flow Like I said, some of the rooms are finding a key Using a lock, finding a key, using a lock And that's a linear approach And even if it's not a key A key can be a word Can be placed on this location Anything like that But still you don't want to have a room It is puzzle, key, puzzle, key Because that means only one person is actually playing in the room And if you are going into the room with eight people That means eight people are walking around each other Through the room And then you have seven people who are bored And one person who has a great time So you want to have something partly linear Partly parallel You cannot have it completely parallel I played one room which was like eight parallel puzzles Which would all give one number And that was the end Which didn't make sense at all So this is what we kept in mind while building this And this is one of the flows of one of the rooms And even building this for myself to quite well And then you are adjusting it But you make sure multiple people are in the room Enjoying themselves Solving some of the puzzles It comes back together Goes on to the next part of the room And this is one hour of entertainment And if you are really good you might be able to solve it in 45 minutes This is one of the flows of one of the other rooms Which is quite a bit different But there is a lot of parallel work A lot of parallel things to make sure everybody enjoys their time Having the puzzles, having the puzzle flows Brings me partly to the rest of the room You need some furniture in there And then it's going back to the thrift shop Looking around And sometimes you find something in the thrift shop Which haunts you So I walked past this display through the thrift shop And it was in my mind And I kept walking and I was like Those are disturbing There was a couple of paintings Why would anybody make that So I bought them and I put them in the room So everybody, I actually bought two more in the end So from all sides in one of the rooms These children are looking at you That gives you a great funny feeling while you are playing the room Sometimes you really think you will find the right item And then you will find an even better one the next week I wanted to have an old phone And I really loved it when I finally found it And then I found a red one And this was for a bunker team An old military bunker And I really like to have the red phone And we already built the one on the left So we had to discard that and use the red one Besides all the puzzles, there are a lot of other technology in the room Part of it being the light With the light you can really control the immersion of the players You can make it dark, of course You can influence the moods we used In the end we used a lot of LED lighting So LED spots, LED strips or LED panels Which we wanted to make sure to be able to trigger them So we wanted to control the light anytime we wanted In any color we wanted And we wanted to do it manually as well as automatically So I bought a lot of light panels And a lot of hardware from China And I spent quite some days trying to get everything working This is all controlled over DMX And people who have worked with DMX before Actually we had some people in the room next to this tent Who wasted a day on trying to get DMX working It's quite a pain In the end we could control every panel in any color we want And then these panels we used in the ceiling And we built some frames around it And they look like ceiling windows They were pretty good, I was really happy with that And it actually fooled me I installed them myself And while I was building the rest of the room We had them on a kind of light It really felt like it was light outside And then at 12 at night I walked outside It was completely pitch dark And it completely screwed up my beer rhythm And that way, by working it into the room This way you can really control the immersion of the players Some other technology we used, the cameras You want to make sure you can see every spot in the room And you want to do that in an affordable way Cameras can be really expensive And we decided to go with Foscom cameras And some other software And also this was quite a lot of work to set up In the end, with the lighting, with all the puzzles With the networking, with the cameras We ended up with a lot of cables coming into one location Which we did not label at that moment That was one of the things we found out Was not a very good idea And these are actually cables from two different rooms And they're not even sorted per room So we definitely could improve here In this picture we started with labeling all the different wires So these are lighting This is part of all the puzzles being connected over power Over ethernet These are sound Because we had sound on every part in the room The paintings I just showed you We put those in front of the audio outputs So you couldn't see them and they would not block the sound So you had no idea where the sound would come from And we could actually let the paintings talk to you Which make them even more haunting So all the cables should throw them all together And connect them to all the stuff we had We made some custom power over ethernet injectors Which we could remotely switch with a USB relay System And also with that one we ran a lot of problems If you buy a cheap USB relay from China Then you're completely on your own Of how to actually switch something with that And we found out if you reboot the machine And the USB is connected to that Then it basically during bootings tries to Reset all the relays 20 times And that's great for your Ardino's to do that One of the other things we built in Which if you want to have a nice experience You actually want to have some kind of hint system And we wanted to have a hint system Which really fitted the room So we built a mirror If you look at the mirror you see yourself But if we actually send something to it You get text in the mirror There's some technology behind it So basically it's an old monitor There's a Raspberry Pi in there And we're working together in one frame And in the end it looked pretty natural How we built it The frame is from some old painting I bought at a thrift store Throw away the painting, use the frame And this way we can communicate With the players in the room In one of the other rooms we used A small printer Which you normally get a receipt from And we built that in an old device And this is now a TELIX machine Which sends you TELIX messages as a hint system And that way you're still immersed In the whole room What I don't like, what quite a lot of rooms do As soon as you get a hint Somebody is using some kind of way To talk of the audio system And completely gets you out of the game Or somebody walks inside of the room To tell you But that's why we really wanted To have some kind of hint system Back to that digital design This was the digital design we came up with And this is the actual room And when I first walked inside my own room Which I designed I really felt like I'm not in that complex anymore I'm actually standing inside a wood cabin And it really felt natural So I was really happy how it worked out And at that time it became time to Have people test the room Because I built something together with the partner And it made sense to us So how much sense would it make to others And I was really happy the first players ever in my room Were my brother and my parents And they sadly did not make the room They did not manage to escape Partly because there was some stuff Where it simply didn't work But they still enjoyed doing this And after that I started making adjustments to make sure That it would be ready for the next test persons And of course I enjoyed a beer While watching them playing the room At that time There were 200 There were 274 rooms in the Netherlands On 156 locations And once again I was like I'm not sure this will keep up this way After I designed the room And built it and in the beginning I would be the game master of the games It was time to hand it over To the employees of the complex I could build it together with And those game masters They can make or break your experience And they will be in a control room Sometimes the control room is One screen in a hallway But if they have a decent control room They'll be sitting there for a lot of monitors Watching you play the game They can make and break your experience Which brings me to a story Of those guys and me Playing one of the escape rooms in Atlanta So we're playing that room It goes pretty well And after a while we get stuck There's something inside a cupboard And we cannot get it out And we tried to find anything In the room to do that There was a small hole in the top In the end we almost tried to push Everything we could find through the hole In the room And still no way to solve that So then the time ran out The game master comes in And we were like, yeah How does this puzzle work?  Yeah, you probably lost them No, pretty sure we never found those hooks And it should have been in this belt They were not in this belt And we were like We're pretty sure it was never here So we couldn't have solved the room So she goes back She returns and she tells us I give you the benefit of the doubt Which did not really work well with us And she brought the hooks Yeah, these are the kind of hooks And we were like, well, just reset the clock 15 minutes, give us the hooks And we'll continue playing And that was actually an option So we finished the game in the next 15 minutes And we played the room But that whole experience shows Game masters make or break your experience They have to reset the room They have to make sure everything is in the room Everything needs to be replaced And this was a really bad experience Yeah Yeah So I wanted to make sure That my employees would know How an escape room works So I played an escape room together with my employees This was around April 2016 At that time 326 rooms in the Netherlands On 181 locations And that line just keeps going up I actually played another room with them In August, just to make sure They know how to Actually have the best game experience For the players And in August 2016 386 rooms, more than 200 locations And that line just goes on My employees actually Came up with a fun game To make sure they would pay attention To everything that happens in the room They made escape room bingo Every time somebody would do something stupid In the room, they would cross something off Every time someone would Mispronounce something in the room One of the challenges was Some kind of riddle Which said something about I have to translate it in my head It doesn't really make sense in English I'm sorry, it doesn't work that way But every time somebody would And sometimes people read a sign And they just read it wrong And then the whole group is trying to find The wrong solution And that was one of those as well If somebody would find something in the room You don't need for anything But they kept walking with it for 15 minutes Because they were pretty sure It had something to do with the game All those kind of things I was pretty happy with them doing this Because it would make sure they would pay attention I had some of the employees who were playing With their phone all the time And then something happened One of the players in the room He pulled something open Which was locked with a magnet With an electronic magnet And you needed quite some power to do that And the guy told me He didn't need to fix that Because they just touched it lightly And it jumped open So I watched the cameras back And I actually see someone in the room Walking to that feeling There might be something here Then she walks over to someone else And tells the guy Yeah, I think that can be opened But we're not allowed to use any force Because the employee told us We don't need any force And the guy said We did the judge of that And he just walked over there And he was like But in the mind of the employee It was because it was not built well enough Because he probably was on his phone So came masters Make a breaker experience And that's one of the weak things in escape rooms Even the room Can be really awesome But if they don't Control the game Then it can be a shitty experience About shitty experiences Things break This is a panel We built in Which was 3D printed And it broke In the middle of a game And all those letters fell out And this was the solution By one of the employees Which made it look even shittier And we built a new system A room will have a lot of wear and tear If you put any book in there It's It's pretty badly to see But here you can see text Here it's completely gone By people just touching it Any kind of cable Will break because people will try to Twist and turn anything they come along Sometimes I have no idea Why people would get something From the room and they think I probably have to bend this metal To put the puzzle So there's an old Radio in the room I probably have to To find something in there I thought when I was 3D printed a inside Of one of those lock boxes To make sure they cannot twist it They managed to get something under it And try to use one of the other keys To open it This broke the key and the lock If you use combination locks People twisted around, put it in And set a new combination Come up with something which are 3D printed To make sure they cannot do that anymore It's pretty hard to reset the room When you don't know the combination So for that I actually Learned all my employees how to pick One of those number locks So they could quickly find a new combination Reset it and reset the room I'll skip over that We had some emergency buttons And one of the players Thought well we probably have to Rip that out of the wall Then we put in some Emergency breaking glass And we had some people playing the room Who thought they need to break the glass And then the game ended Because we had a whole system Which failsafe would be If somebody does that or powerful Everything, the game stops And they were really upset about Not being able to finish the game It's pretty clear it's an emergency door release We even explained that in the beginning People also write On stuff I've saw This actually luckily enough Was a raceable marker Never put a normal marker in your room Because people write on the floors You're resetting a room like Okay there's a solution on this floor And how do I get this off And this is what makes it really hard To keep enjoying building a escape room I'm going to show some more numbers While I submitted this talk I actually said at this moment There were 500 escape rooms And I loosely estimated Well, there might be over 600 At this moment Most of the statistics come from One escape room collection sites Which actually shows everyday How many escape rooms there are This was This is now, it didn't reach the 600 But the line is still going on At this moment There are 536 rooms in the Netherlands On 274 locations I like to play in escape room But I only play it every now and then Why? Because it's really expensive And even though I enjoy it It's not something you do every week So there's no way this marker Can keep up New rooms pop up every now Every couple of weeks And I don't think there will be Players enough Especially if I look at the reservations Of other escape rooms They basically are only blocked on Saturday And Friday evening The rest of the week completely empty Which brings me to My idea of the future I think In the next year we'll probably see this There's no way to keep up With the amount of escape rooms in the Netherlands That marker needs to collapse Then again, this is what I already Expected around here But for now It still keeps going on What I do see in the future Is Virtual escape rooms So instead of having a physical escape room You're just going to do some VR stuff You have an empty room With some small stuff in there And what you can do with a virtual room This room is 4x4 5x5 And there's some technology I'm currently working on And the technology Enables us To turn a room 4x4 In an area like this So this is the room you're playing with You're physically stuck in that room But with the VR classes You can see miles and miles Around you And all of a sudden you're in a huge area You just have to find a way The people stay in that room And that's why We have these walls in here So they can walk up there Instead of directly into the wall And this way they can interact With everything around that These are some more shots This is a demo we use We are currently building to show The possibilities of virtual reality In gaming Especially multiplayer gaming Walking around in the same room Untethered With a backpack or wireless HDMI We're working on different things And at that moment enjoying a game together Another place There's a short video about this Which I will try to start This is just a shooter we created But you can see You can see miles in front of you But actually if somebody looks at you In the room It just sees you looking at the wall And you interact with stuff far away This Shooter of course is not an escape room But we create a platform where you can use that And we're going to do this prototyping To get what we're going to do with it It's just some next level thing We think it's going to be the future for gaming Don't you? I actually have some stuff with me Which I might set up tonight Next to the CTF tent To show this demo For people to have never experienced virtual reality To quickly look through it And see what the possibilities are And it actually brings me To the end of my talk Because I rushed over some stuff And that brings me to the questions So yeah, that was a great talk Thank you You could hear everybody enjoyed it So, do we have questions? Please line up at the microphone And I think there will be lots of questions So keep it short, only one person Okay, so what's the business case? Let's say what's the price of a session In the escape room You need to pay for the game masters Then you have the rent of your room And stuff like that Make a break zero That's actually one of the biggest issues With escape rooms And I see a lot of escape rooms Don't have any business plan at all So that's why I see the market collapse as well But basically people pay 25 euros To play the escape room And you make sure you don't pay The game masters anything at all Just some cheap labor And that way people actually manage to make money So this part of the business case That's why I partnered up with someone Who pays the employees and who pays for the building Okay What about rotten places that are cheaper than city places? Three again Rotten places that say Abundant buildings somewhere and nowhere So that's why some of the escape rooms Are in the middle of nowhere Because it's cheap to be there And they probably run it themselves But in the end If we have like 300 escape rooms In the Netherlands People won't go to those locations anymore So it's cheaper to run But you probably don't get enough People playing it to make it worthwhile So 25 euros per person Okay Well actually my room is around 20 So After looking at your talk I realized that I've been to a lot of shitty Escape rooms Thank you It also seems to me that Shitty escape rooms are just Cheaper to build and cheaper to maintain So when the market collapses How do you see that going? Will it be the quality escape rooms that survive Or will it be the shitty ones? I'm quite happy you brought it up Because that's some of the things I wanted to explain With this slide There are still rooms left in my estimation And those will probably Be the better rooms Because there are so many people who want to play In an escape room and they have to choose which room to play And they will in the end go for the best rooms Before I now play an escape room I go online and read the reviews I never read the reviews of the people who played In one escape room Always read the reviews of people who played At least five escape rooms And then sorted with the best reviews first Because then you know Because they had a bad experience Was that because something went wrong That has nothing to do with the room Or is the room just shitty And that's why you find the best rooms And they will keep running We have scheduled an escape room With the family Where can I find yours? So the mines are In North Holland Quite high up In the middle of nowhere But they're part of a bigger complex I will tell you afterwards Thank you One more question So I was wondering with the sensors Have you experimented with a failsafe So that the Game Master could trigger The key lock You really have to build it in Even if something goes wrong in the room The Game Master should always be able to flip a switch So the game goes on And the people playing the room have no idea What went wrong Good point Have you played any other VR Escape rooms yourself? Actually I have played some VR gaming There's a VR Gaming in the Netherlands Called VR Arcade And that's probably what you wanted to hear Yes Are you from VR Arcade? No I have to be careful now I wanted to go there Do that It's a nice experience But you can see the technology is new So there are quite some things that really can be better But it's really cool to have a first Virtual reality gaming experience Walking around freely And seeing each other in the first world I can recommend that We do have time for more If there are any more questions Yes Not really a real question But we just built an escape room Four hours ago in the prison bus Would you like to have a look? For sure And if anybody wants to play Possibly we can take two or three players At 10pm today After the next talk which I want to see How many people can I bring? It's currently for one or two persons Because it's in the prison bus there's not much space Okay But it's only like a 10 to 15 minute thing Just for fun Thanks So I had one question I noticed you didn't mention anything About zoning in the Netherlands About zoning The locations where they are Yeah and permissions and stuff like that Did you leave that out on purpose Because it's hell or? What do you mean permissions? Of gunning There's basically nothing That stops you to build an escape room somewhere And even with safety You would expect safety rules There's not a lot of Controlling that So even there are a lot of rooms Which actually lock you up Physically While the employee is sitting somewhere else In the building The kind of stuff you don't want Those rooms you don't want to play You want to make sure that if something happens You can actually get outside But there is not a lot of control Of where people are building an escape room They pop up everywhere Probably a couple of them will have to close Because of that I built some rooms in Munich And I just can Say Make things unbreakable That's the basic rule And hide it well And that's The biggest issue with escape rooms People will break everything I actually had people Break a metal bar this big I have no idea how By the men is it Do you see a lot of Collaboration going on Between escape rooms? No, not at all Especially in the Netherlands No escape rooms want to work together Because they all want to have the Share of the market Like we can see there's a lot of them And all of them Are really scared about competition And there's a lot of competition So no Every now and then I visit an escape room And the guys are really nice And then I tell them I built escape rooms Usually I don't even bother Except for your own escape rooms What do you think are the best escape rooms In the Netherlands? I would say Decide for yourself And read the reviews I've played quite a bit of them But I haven't played all of them So I cannot really say which is the best Because I haven't played all 500 of them But There are some pretty good ones Thanks There was the last one I guess There's more You know Right You mentioned the reviews I always look at those as well But I'm a bit worried that With the amount of competition That other escape rooms May leave bad reviews That happens But at the same time It happens that those escape rooms Faker refuse them for themselves As well So that's why you have to rule out Refuse from a person who only leaves one review Or one great review And a lot of very bad reviews Yeah And that's why you need to read multiple reviews So one bad review doesn't mean Room is bad But you don't know a specific Refuse site because there are several Which you know This one where I took a lot of these numbers from All escape rooms It's a pretty good one And they actually control If one IP leaves 20 bad reviews in one day Then they probably block it Cool Thanks Still more That was not a question Anyone else Or have we answered all? Even if you have any questions After this I'm not very far away For example if you have an escape room And others also have escape rooms It could be really evil to put the solution Of another escape room you played Into your escape room So you spoiled the other escape room Actually I've seen quite some escape rooms Stealing puzzles of each other So then you join another escape room Like I've seen this before I know exactly how this works Because you can only come up with that many Amount of puzzles and new things People at least steal from each other How much stealing is there To make an escape room You visit maybe five and you get inspired By them and then you make Some stories from them or something like that The only thing I do Is when I visit a different escape room I try to analyse What works or what doesn't work So if I find A certain kind of puzzle Like a puzzle with water I will never make a puzzle with water Because that doesn't work And that's the kind of things you see In an escape room But I will probably never steal a puzzle Because it's so much fun to create your own puzzles And see people solving that And you want to have a unique experience For the people Alright We could maybe fit them one more question But we can also Finish now, nice and on time Anything really important So then, let's have a really big applause Again Thank you


Bates falls to Saint Lawrence here at the Mustang Classic Glen Clark with Bobcat's coach Dan and you know coach I know you'd rather be talking about a win Can you take something from the fight that your guys gave this top 10 team for two and a half quarters here today? Yeah, I think you you hit the nail on the head, you know, I think we proved a lot to ourselves You know we can play With the team that's everything that a top 10 team is I think Saint Lawrence is one of the best teams We've seen on film so far this year and I think we proved that we can play with a group like that We just got to find some consistency, especially down the stretch and learn how to win those games Dan would stood out today. Obviously was the player your goalie I know it's tough when you face a lot of shots in a season Sometimes guys can be rattled by that and it can be daunting for them How has he stood through all of that and continue to play at a high level for you? Yeah I mean Garrett, you know couldn't say enough about him as Certainly a really good goaltender, but he's a leader for us. He's a captain for us You know, and I think his leadership shines through as much as anything You know, he's a kid who loves lacrosse and as goalies tend to do He's a guy who kind of relishes seeing a lot of rubber at times And you know, we got to do a better job of helping him out But you know, I think all that his character brings Showed through today and and his leadership is as valuable as anything. What's your message to your guys I know it's got to be, you know, dejecting to be at this point this season and still not have picked up a win yet But you know to take the good in order to be able to build off of that as you move towards conference play Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I think one we got to certainly recognize the challenge that we faced, you know, five games and Four top 12 opponents, you know, we certainly didn't make lives easy on ourselves and scheduling But we want to be challenged and we want to we want to play against the best So I think we learned a whole lot about ourselves. I think we've gotten better in every game And and like I said earlier, we just got to find ways to get consistency on all sides of the ball for 60 minutes For you this first time here as a head coach at the Mustang classic Just, you know, what this means to not just, you know, Division 3 lacrosse but lacrosse in general to have been here this weekend Yeah, I mean, it's it's such a great event You know, it truly is a showcase of you know, the premier lacrosse in the Division 3 world And you know, I think it gives guys an opportunity to play on a big stage And you know, I think you see what the lacrosse has been played here so far this weekend Like it's it's a level of lacrosse that deserves to be on a big stage and we're just we feel really lucky I feel really fortunate to be able to to be a part of this It is such a special event for for the lacrosse world coach I'm sure there will be wins here in future years for you. I appreciate it We're happy to have you here at Stevens and thank you for joining us and best of luck moving forward this season Thanks so much. He's Dan and you know, I'm Glenn Clark. This is the Mustang classic


Welcome to depression two expression today. We're going to talk about How to not give a f***ing be yourself Mmm, I love it.  There was this beautiful bird in the tree and Every single morning this bird would chirp 5 a.m 5 a.m singing his song Waking everybody up and he's chirping a Man walks by the tree and it's 5 a.m.  I'm just singing my song. This is what I do I'm a bird. I chirp no matter what time of day no matter what the weather If I'm horny or not, I'm chirping and The man says okay screw you. I'm going back to bed.  What's he doing? Of course. He's chirping again. He's a bird.  I'm a bird. I'm just singing my song. I'm a bird. This is what I do I don't care enjoy it hate it. I'm doing me baby. Oh, I love this little story because Hmm, I don't know.  They may say screw you. Well, they'll part ways.   No matter what I do on these videos No matter how true I am to myself There's always going to be shitty comments.  Cool. I'm just Scott. I just make videos. I like making videos. This is what I do.


Before we even start to consider how information flows from one step to the next step, we might need to think how is the information maintained? Well, maintaining information or spreading it this when I have cell division. And when I have cell division, I'm going to need to turn one copy of DNA into two identical copies of DNA. That happens in two steps. First, I have a DNA spiral and we have a small protein called a helicase, which is literally a small scissor. Untying this double helix into single strands. And these single strands, on each of them, we then have a protein called DNA polymerase that ties up bases to complete the strands so that we then have two double helices. This process is called replication. I'll draw it up here. Then we're staying in sequence space, but we're replicating the structure, sorry for being brief there. You're going to see lots of names like this. So this is a protein related to DNA, right? And then I would think it's polymerase something. So it has to do the ace there at the end. That is an indication that this is an enzyme. It's a catalyst. It's something helping something. A polymerase, it's something that's helping creating many other things. Or in this case, a multimer. So that a polymerase is something that helps create a chain. So it's this small protein, the enzyme sitting there and helping completing one nucleotide bind to the next nucleotide. So we get the two full copies. And that is how we take DNA and turn it into more DNA.


What is going on guys, welcome back to the channel and I appreciate you being here. Now the faction rally started again this morning and today I bring you guys the fastest possible token farming exploit. Now if you guys have read the bungee weekly update you know they have nerfed a lot of the ways you can actually farm these tokens.  But yes I have found a way to still farm these tokens which is actually quite efficient but before we get into that before I show you that guys do you want to win some epic loot? If so I have exclusive emblem and sparrow codes, gift cards and much much more. To win some simply press that like button on this video, leave a comment down below and join my discord server linked within the video description. So you can actually do strikes, you can do public events, you can do night falls, you can play crucible and you will get these faction tokens but that just takes up too much of your time. This way what I'm going to show you guys is much much quicker and much much faster and it is farming the last sectors. Now we know last sectors now, like I said you've got nothing for shooting the things within the last sectors but if you open up the chest so if you take out the bust open up the chest you'll get three per chest. What I'm going to show you guys in today's video is the fastest and most efficient way of doing this. So basically you want to go to Titan and you want to load into the rig area right here. Now I would suggest you're using a rocket launcher and I would suggest you're using a scare rifle like my baby right here which has this perk on it right there explosive payload. So yeah once you spawn into here you want to load into that classic faction rally event first last sector farming spot.


All praise is due to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Lord of the world's master of the day of judgment. We thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for allowing us to be here today on this blessed day of Juma, Alhamdulillah. All praise is due to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Juma is a very special day. It's a very blessed day and we're very blessed to be here. We're very blessed to be here in Juma, sitting in the masjid remembering Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, taking some time out of our day to remember Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Alhamdulillah. Brothers and sisters, in the few moments that we have together today, I would like to discuss Yom ul Ashura. The day of Ashura just passed us. It was yesterday, Alhamdulillah. And many of you may have been fasting. Some of you may even be fasting today. And we pray that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala accepts your fasting and your Ibadah. What is the significance of Yom ul Ashura? Why is it so special? We know for a fact that Yom ul Ashura is the day that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala saved Musa, alaihi salam and Bani Israel from the wrath of Pharaoh. He saved Musa, alaihi salam and Bani Israel from the wrath of Pharaoh. This was the day that they escaped their oppression. This was the day that Musa, alaihi salam struck the ocean with his staff and it split. And he was able to go through with his people. There's difference of opinion, but some of the scholars say that this is also the day that Yusuf, alaihi salam was freed, was discovered from the well after his brothers threw him in the well. Some of the scholars say this is the day that Yunus, alaihi salam was saved from the whale. Some of the scholars say that this was the day that Daniela, alaihi salam was saved from the lion's den. Allahu alam, we don't know, but this is what some of the scholars say. The main point and the main lesson to take away is that this is a day where Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala took, takes people from constriction into expansion. That this is a day that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala takes people from darkness into light. Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. And this is why we fast on this day because of Musa, alaihi salam and his people being freed from ferron. Alhamdulillah. So this is a day where people are taken from constriction. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala takes people from constriction and he puts them into expansion. And brothers and sisters, that's what this dunya is all about. This dunya is moments of constriction and moments of expansion. And in moments of constriction, the response is sabar, is patience, to be from the sabirin, to be from the people who are patient. And in moments of expansion, the proper response is to be from the shakirin, the people who are thankful, who thank Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Brothers and sisters, right now, many of us feel like we are in a time of constriction. Many of us feel that we are in a time of constriction, the ummah of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam feels like we are in a time of constriction. The Taliban have taken over Afghanistan. There's smoke in the sky. There's a terrible drought here. There's a pandemic raging on. The problems in Syria and Palestine continue. The list can go on and on. And many of us feel constricted. Many of us feel we're feeling this agitation because of the situation around us. And so I wanted to discuss today, briefly, how we should be in this time of constriction. What we can do, insha'Allah. How we can get through this time, insha'Allah. So we know that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala tells us in the Quran that verily in the remembrance of Allah, do the hearts find rest. So in times of constriction, we need to turn to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We need to turn to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We need to be some of the, we need to be of the towabin, the people who are turning back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. Some of our shayyukh talk about how many people, tawbah, when you hear the word tawbah, automatically you think repentance. And that is very true. That is what tawbah is. It's repenting.  So in every state, we need to turn back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. In everything we do, we need to turn back to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, not just when you need to repent. If you have a job and you're trying to get a job, you turn to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to help you find your job. If you're trying to buy a job, to help you find your job. If you're trying to buy a house, you turn to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala and ask Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala to help you buy your house. And all of your daily, if you're trying to get married, you turn to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala asking him to help you find a righteous spouse.  And this is the main lesson is that we have to stop being so impressed with ourselves. We have to stop being so impressed with ourselves. Humankind has become so impressed with themselves. We're the ones, we have all the answers. Our science is going to get us through this. Our technology is going to get us through this. Our minds are going to get us through this. But we realize as Muslims that know really what's going to get us through whatever difficulty we're having is turning back to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala. It's turning back to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala. We have to realize this and we have to realize that turning back to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala is the answer. So the question then becomes how do we turn back to Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala? One of the many people right, there's many things going on right now in the world and many of us are trying to bring about change and that's good. That's a very great thing. We should be bringing about change. If you're on social media there's a lot of people posting about the situation in Taliban, posting about the climate, posting about all of these things and that's very, very good. And we should be trying to actively make change in the world that we're in. But we need to first look at ourselves and see are we the change that we want to see in the world? We have to look inwardly. One of the Pakistani poets says, I can't say it in Urdu, but the English translation is one of the Urdu poets writes that I was trying to clean the mirror. I was trying to clean the mirror and then I realized it wasn't the mirror that was dusty, but rather it was my face that was dusty.  And the scholars talk about how this poem is about inward reflection, looking at yourself first. It's not the mirror's fault that this particular poet was dirty, it was his own fault and he needed to first fix himself before he could see the change that he wanted to see in the mirror. And that's what we need to do. We need to look inwardly, we need to see how are we being with our Muslim brothers and sisters? How are we being not just with our Muslim brothers and sisters with everybody? Everyone we share this earth with and that includes the animals and the climate. When we do business with Muslims, are we cheating them? When we're doing business with people, are we cheating them? When people leave our company, are they in danger of us talking bad about them behind their back? The little things, it's the little things. So the question then becomes, how can we turn back to Allah's upon what? How do we know what's our benchmark? And it's very simple. We don't need to make it complicated. We know that this religion is made up of five pillars, five pillars. And if you're doing these five pillars, insha'Allah you are in a good place. What are the five pillars? Number one, declaring that there is no God but God and that Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is his last and final prophet. That's number one. Number two, that you're giving 2.5% of your wealth and charity every year to the poor and those less fortunate than you. Number three, that you're fasting 30 days in Ramadan. Number four, that you're praying five times a day. That you're praying five times a day. And number five, that you plan if you can to go and hudge the pilgrimage at least once in your life. If you're doing these five things, you're in a good spot. You're in a good position. If you want to fast more than 30 days, that's better for you.  If you want to give more than 2.5% of your wealth, that's better for you. If you want to go on Hajj and 10 Umaraz, that's better for you, Alhamdulillah. But if you're doing the five pillars of Islam, you're in a good position, Alhamdulillah. And the believer also has to be aware of his or her four enemies in this life. Every believer, every Muslim has four enemies. And we should be aware of these four enemies. What are the four enemies? Number one, your ego.  Your pride. The thing in you that makes you feel like you're better than other people. I didn't get invited to that event. Oh my gosh, how dare they? He didn't speak to me. She didn't speak to me. How dare they? Whatever it is in our lives, the ego, pride, your nafs, that's the first enemy. Number two, Hawa, your desires, your lowly desires. We all have natural desires as human beings, but it's when we get them out of control. It's when we get them out of control that it becomes a problem. It's controlling the lowly desires, making sure that we have a hold on them. And Ramadan is an amazing time to get that fixed because you leave food and you leave intimate relations with your spouse and it's a good time, Alhamdulillah. We should be striving throughout the entire year to get our Hawa, our desires under control. That's number two. Number three is Shaitan, the devil. He is real. His minions are real. And he is trying to speak to you every single day to try to get you to go astray, to plant those dirty, bad thoughts in your mind. We need to know that he is there and that he is real. To be aware of Shaitan and his minions. That's the third enemy. And the fourth enemy is the dunya. The dunya, being deluded by the dunya. Thinking that this dunya is it. Not having our eye on the larger goal. Not having our eye on the bigger picture. You can have the dunya, you can have the dunya. No one's saying you can't have the dunya. Muslim should be successful, but it's putting the dunya in its proper place. Realizing that it's not the most important thing. That our dunya is a means to serve our family, to get closer to Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. Putting the dunya in the proper place. There was one of the scholars of Syria. He knew all 10 versions of how to recite the Quran. There's 10 different ways you recite the Quran. He was one of, there's only a handful of people who know how to do this. And he was one of the people who knew how to do this. So the Syrian council of scholars decided, you know what we're gonna give, to honor these people, we're gonna give them bags of gold, to honor them. Because there's so few of them, this is what we're going to do, to honor them. And so they gave the sheikh a bag of gold. And he took the bag of gold and he held it, and then he gave it to his student, and he said, go give this to the poor. Go give this to the poor. Wallahi, when I look at it, all I see is onion peels. All I see is onion peels, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala. What a beautiful story. Making sure that the dunya is in the right place. So these are our four enemies.    Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen wa s-salatu wa s-salam wa ala assidina Muhammad wa ala ala alihi wa sahbihi wa s-salam Ajma'een. Imam Rumi writes in his poetry. He says, ours is not a caravan of despair. And he's talking to the Muslims. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Brothers and sisters, no matter how tough it gets, no matter how bleak it looks out there, ours is not a caravan of despair. We do not despair. We don't believe that it's too much. We don't give up. We don't throw in the towel. That's not who the Muslim is. When the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and the companions were surrounded, they had to build a trench to defend Medina and they were surrounded by their enemies, they didn't throw in the towel. They didn't throw in the towel because they knew that Allah was on their side. Over and over again, we see the stories in the Sida of the Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam when it could have been easy. The easy thing to do would have been to throw in the towel. The easy thing to do would have been to throw in the towel and to call it quits and to be done and to give up. But that's not our way. That's not our way. Ours is not a caravan of despair. We're others and sisters. We have to be united as a Muslim Ummah. We have to be united as a Muslim Ummah. We need to love each other, be there for each other, support each other. We are all one. The Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam described in the Muslim Ummah as one body. When one part of it hurts, we all hurt. Now is not the time for us to be divided over political lines, to be attacking each other on social media, to be calling out each other's countries. No, this is not what we're supposed to be doing. What we're supposed to be doing is to be loving each other, being there for each other, feeding each other, following the sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, studying his way, studying his sida, going back to the basics. Going back to the basics, someone came to one of the scholars and said, your talks are always about the basics. Why are you gonna talk about something more complicated? He said, if you don't have the basics down, you're not going to be great. It's all about the basics. Whenever an athlete is having a hard time, the coach goes to him and says, back to basics, back to basics, we need to go back to the basics. We can't make it so complicated. The Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said in authentic Hadith, in Sahih Muslim. Narrated by Junaab bin Abdullah, the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said, whoever is killed, fighting for no real cause, calling for tribalism or supporting tribalism, his death is the death of Jaheliyah. Brothers and sisters, our tribalism today is nationalism. It's thinking we're better than each other. Thinking Pakistanis are better than Bangladeshis, Afghans are better than whatever da, da, da, da, da, that goes on, goes on. This is not our way. We need to be united, we need to be, we need to go back to the concept of the ummah of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, looking out at this gathering right now.  Africans, South Africans, Ugandans, Kenyans, the list goes on, the list goes on. This is the ummah of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. This is the beauty of Islam. This is the beauty of Islam. Inshallah we can go back to basics, we can go back to understanding the way of Allah Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and his Prophet Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. We ask Allah Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to bring unity to the ummah of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. We ask Allah Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam to bring unity to the ummah of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. Ya Allah, the ummah of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, is hurting. Ya Allah, your ummah is hurting. Ya Allah, your ummah is hurting. Be gentle with us, Ya Allah, be gentle with us. Ya Allah, be gentle with us. We call upon your name Latif, the gentle one. Ya Allah, be gentle with us. We don't deserve your mercy.  And we call upon you to be gentle with us, to be kind with us, Ya Allah, to be kind with the people of Palestine, in Afghanistan, in Pakistan, in Syria, in Yemen, and wherever there is pain and suffering, Ya Allah, wherever there is chaos, we ask you to bring peace, Ya Allah, wherever there is chaos, we ask you to bring peace, Ya Allah, we want you, we love you, we need you, Ya Allah, be gentle with us, Ya Allah.


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Freedom. Today I wanted to catch you up on sponsorships. I've been writing some documentation lately on sponsorships, and I figured I might want to share some of that with you. So this is gonna be in sort of a question and answer format, so try to give me a little bit of a pass because there aren't a lot of really great ways to do that because that kind of involves me talking to myself. Not like it's the first time there. And that's the kind of joke I was looking to avoid. Some of these questions have been passed through support, which means that they are questions that partners just like you have asked. First things first, what is a sponsorship? Well, according to Miriam Webster... Uh, yeah, I'm gonna be that guy. A sponsor is a person or organization that pays for or plans and carries out a project or activity, especially one that pays the cost of a radio or television program, usually in return for advertising time during its course. That means that a sponsor has to see value on both sides, which is often what separates a sponsorship from a giveaway. So you have to ask yourself, any time you start doing something, are you asking for a sponsorship or are you asking for a giveaway? Can you, as a partner or as a sponsor, if you will... Sponsor? Sponsor. Actually return value equal to what it is you've taken out of the system. Question number two. Why does freedom have revenue streams, such as spread shirt, lumped in with sponsorships? This is for two reasons. See, freedom usually negotiates some way to make this better for all parties, such as making monthly payments possible or increasing percentages for our partners when possible. When that's not possible, we try to make things as convenient as possible for the partner. Some of these convenience measures aren't things that are easily spoken about in a way that makes things sort of forthright and obvious, but some things I can sort of mention and raise over. Sometimes, freedom will leverage its international status to allow you to not have to pay upfront taxes on this in the US. Now, this doesn't necessarily mean that you don't have to pay taxes on it, but it does mean it gives you more operating capital while you're getting everything worked out throughout the year. Other convenience measures could be things as easy as simply making it super simple and easy to sign up and or taking care of some management things behind the scenes. Of course, with every deal, it's slightly different, but these are some of the things that we do. Are them freedom music libraries a part of their mayor sponsorships? This is one of those weird times where the word sponsorship might be splitting hairs a little bit. Of course, freedom does shoulder the brunt of licensing fees and other things that would be normally needed to license this music to you. However, going back to what we spoke about earlier about sponsorships versus giveaways, a good number of channels may never make back their percentage or their share of what it costs to license that music. So in that case, it is a little bit of sort of taking from this column to round things out for this column. So there you go. Freedom has a deal with insert company name here, but I can get that on my own. Why do I need freedom? You know, I'm kind of glad you asked. Each deal we strike with a company, we try to bring something new to the table. Some of these things we can talk about, such as removing minimum payment thresholds or negotiating more frequent offer codes such as like sales, promotions, seasonal discounts. The other stuff usually goes into a harder to talk about category for competitive reasons and from time to time there are even legal things preventing us from talking about specifics. With that said, we can say here in the past we've negotiated some of the following terms with some otherwise public companies. Let's see here. A $2 higher CPM than average in certain markets. With some companies we've done no maintenance or transaction fees, higher affiliate percentages, monthly payments, extra layers of support, management resources for the sponsor, educational resources to the sponsor and or sponsored person, and easy payment through revenue share rather than fixed monthly amounts. So that's it. That's our sponsorship update. Let us know in the comment section down below what you would like to talk about next or what questions you have and I'll see if I can put together either an article or a video talking about that. Till next time, don't forget to like, subscribe and do all those things and make us love our jobs. Also, be awesome to yourself and amazing to each other. Bye.