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Be it for an office bonding trip, a birthday or bachelor/bachelorette party, or just a fun outing with friends, it's hard to beat a good escape room.

Searching your themed room inside out for clues, hoping you'll make it out before the timer goes off.

Of course, there is little more frustrating than being told you've run out of time.

No matter if you were one or twelve clues away.

As a result, super competitive players might go to desperate lengths to find a way out.

More often than not, only finding themselves getting even further off track from the clues in front of them.

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Overthinkers Describe The Worst-Case Scenarios They Were Totally Prepared For
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How many people out there overthink things? Quite a few. One study found that 73 percent of adults between the ages of 25 and 35 overthink, as do 52 percent of 45 to 55-year-olds.

Wild, huh?

Well, if you overthink, then you're not alone. Oh, and you're probably well-prepared for some situations that others are not.

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People Explain Which Ideas Seem Complicated But Are Actually Dead Simple
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We tend to overthink things when we are presented with a problem.

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People Who Always Overthink Everything Break Down The Time That Actually Worked In Their Favor
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Sometimes what might appear as too much to others is just right for you.

And more often than not those of us who overplan, overthink, and can be perceived as "over the top and too much" end up being vindicated in the end. Even to our own shock.

Planning and plotting and being overprepared is a the scout's motto. It should be a life motto, because another important life truth is... you just never know.

Redditor u/lawofdox18wanted to hear about the times life has turned out for the best by surprise by asking:

Overthinkers of Reddit, what unlikely scenario actually came true that you were completely prepared for because you are an overthinker?
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