Every room at once
One card per room, all clocks running side by side. Start the next team the moment the last one walks out.
FOR ESCAPE ROOM GAME MASTERS
Every second. Every hint. On the record.
Hintline runs a clock for every room at once, logs each hint with its time penalty, and puts the fastest teams on the lobby screen. It runs in your browser, with no sign-up and nothing to install.
No account · No server · Saved in your browser
Three rooms live: The Vault with 42:17 left, Pharaoh's Tomb with 04:12 left, and Lab 42 two and a half minutes over time.
Phone stopwatches. A hint sheet in biro. A whiteboard leaderboard nobody updated since March.
One browser tab that knows every room's time, every hint, and every escape.
One game, start to finish
Follow Team Nova through The Vault. Sixty minutes, two minutes per hint.
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Start the clock
Type the team name and how many players. Press Start and the countdown begins that second.
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Log a hint in one press
Press Add hint and it is stamped with the game time and the room's penalty. Add a note if you like, or change the penalty for a small nudge.
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Pause when life happens
Fire drill, lost earring, bathroom break. Pause the room and the paused time never counts. Reload the page and the clock is still right.
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See the last five minutes
With five minutes left the card turns amber, so you notice it from across the booth.
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Escaped
Press Escaped. Final time is the clock plus every hint penalty, recorded on the spot.
The clock never lies
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Every hint costs time. Each room has its own default penalty, from 0 to 30 minutes, and you can change it per hint.
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Equal final times are broken by fewer hints. Still equal? They share the rank.
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Pressed Escaped after the limit? It counts as out of time. The board only shows real escapes.
Built for a busy Friday night
Survives a reload
The clock is saved as timestamps, not a ticking number. Close the tab, open it again, and the time is still exact.
Your data stays here
No account and no server. Rooms, games and history are saved in this browser.
A history you can trust
Every finished game, newest first: team, players, outcome, elapsed, penalty, final time and hints. Filter by room.
Monthly boards
Each room gets its own leaderboard for this month, any past month, or all time. A new month gives every team a fresh chance.
Light or dark
The desk view follows your system setting. The lobby screen is always dark.
Glance from your phone
The control room works at phone width, so you can check the clocks away from the desk.
No sounds, no surprises
Hintline never beeps at players. Colour tells you what you need to know.
Put the fastest teams on the wall
Open the leaderboard on the lobby TV and press Fullscreen. It updates the moment a game ends, cycles through your rooms every 15 seconds, and remembers its settings in a link you can bookmark.
Open the lobby screen →LEADERBOARD
The Vault
October 2026 · Top 10
| Rank | Team | Players | Final time | Hints | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Night Owls | 4 | 47:12 | 0 | Oct 18 |
| 2 | The Lockpicks | 3 | 51:40 | 1 | Oct 09 |
| 2 | Team Nova | 4 | 51:40 | 1 | Oct 22 |
| 4 | Gearheads | 5 | 53:05 | 2 | Oct 11 |
| 5 | Brain Trust | 6 | 55:30 | 1 | Oct 03 |
| 6 | Late Again | 2 | 58:58 | 3 | Oct 20 |
This is the real thing
The control room below is Hintline itself, running in this page. It starts empty: add your first room, start a game, and log a hint. Anything you add is saved in this browser, and is there when you open the app.
Your next team is in the waiting room.
Add your rooms once. Then every game is one press to start, one press per hint, and one press to finish.
Open Hintline Or put the leaderboard on the lobby TV →