TBWA Is Turning a Speeding Train Into an Escape Room for Murder on the Orient Express

Will you make it out of a 13-hour ordeal alive?

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Escape rooms have become old hat, but once in a while you see a spin on the approach that makes them worth mentioning again.

This is one. Inspired by the 20th Century Fox film Murder on the Orient Express, based on Agatha Christie’s classic novel, Finnish Railways tapped TBWA Helsinki to produce the longest escape room in the world.

Also … it moves.

The “Escape Train” will travel 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) over 13 hours. The plot follows thus: A mysterious death has occurred aboard the train.

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