Four keys and a wardrobe await players in IKEA Malaysia’s Sorting Escape

Tidying up earns teams a key at IKEA Malaysia. Complete four home organisation challenges and they can attempt a final wardrobe unlock. The Sorting Escape gives everyday household tasks a deadline, a shared mission and a place on a leaderboard.

The escape-room experience is the centrepiece of Sorted Lah! Open House, running every weekend from 10 October to 1 November 2026. It takes place at IKEA’s Damansara, Cheras, Tebrau and Batu Kawan stores.

The invitation connects directly to IKEA’s “A place for everything and everyone” message. Visitors work through the kinds of problems they might recognise from their own homes, using organisation and storage ideas to move through the game.

Finding, sorting and packing become the mission

The Sorting Escape asks teams of two to six people to complete four challenges. Participants find misplaced items, organise kitchen essentials, fit belongings into storage and tackle a messy bedroom.

These tasks give the escape-room format a domestic setting. Progress depends on getting the house sorted, with each completed challenge earning a key. Once teams have collected all four, they reach the final unlock.

IKEA asks participants to allow up to 30 minutes for the full experience. Sessions run on Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 6 pm, with slots available through a dedicated booking site.

A live scoreboard adds a competitive element. The highest-scoring teams are invited back for the final weekend to compete for the title of King of Storage.

The practical tasks keep IKEA’s products close to the action. Visitors have to make decisions about where objects belong and how space can be used. Storage becomes something they work with as they try to finish a challenge together.

Sorted Lah! leaves room for music, books and design

The wider Open House programme gives visitors several ways to spend time in the store after the game.

The Listening Lounge offers vinyl records in an IKEA living-room setting. Sound Check adds live performances by local artists on selected Saturdays. The Great Book Club brings books and reading communities into the programme.

At The Design Table, visitors can bring a photograph of a difficult corner at home and discuss ideas with local interior designers and IKEA experts. Little Designers gives children space to draw and imagine their own rooms, while Say Hej! adds family meet-and-greet sessions.

Together, the activities connect organisation to what people want to do with their homes. Finding a place for belongings creates room to read, listen, make things or spend time with others.

The Sorting Escape gives that message a clear task. Before teams can open the final wardrobe, they have to work out where everything goes.

Credits

Sorted Lah! Open House / The Sorting Escape (2026). Brand IKEA Malaysia. Locations IKEA Damansara, Cheras, Tebrau and Batu Kawan. Running every weekend from 10 October to 1 November 2026.