Room Escape Artist

TERPECA (Top Escape Rooms Project Enthusiasts’ Choice Award) is an attempt to find the very best escape rooms in the world by leveraging the experience of the most experienced escape room enthusiasts in the world. 

If you’ve played 100 or more escape rooms, we’d love for you to join TERPECA.

Why It Matters

When you nominate and rank the games you love, you help great rooms get noticed… and you help other players find them. Plenty of us use the TERPECA list when planning escape room trips.

Applying only takes a few minutes, and this video walks you through it:

Mark Your Calendar

• Applications are open all year.
• Nominations run from early October through October 31 at 11:59 PM Pacific.
• Rankings run from early November through November 30 at 11:59 PM Pacific.
• The 2026 TERPECA Awards will be announced live on Saturday, December 19 at 1:00 PM Pacific.

REPOD

David and Peih-Gee sat down with TERPECA creator Rich Bragg on REPOD to talk about how it all works.

A Quick Note

TERPECA isn’t a Room Escape Artist project. David and Lisa share a single vote on the TERPECA board and help guide it where they can. They also nominate and rank every year… as do many other people on the REA team. We hope you will too!

Learn More

See past results and more at the official TERPECA website.