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This is our 9th report on the US escape room industry… which (spoiler!) is in a good place.
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Thwarting evil in the sewers! David’s childhood Ninja Turtles fantasy comes to life! Location: New York, NY Date played: January 14, 2016 Team size: 2-8; we recommend 4 Price: $33 per ticket weekday; $38 per ticket weekend Theme & story Deep in the city’s sewer system, there is a lab developing bad things. You need to enter the…
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“La Cosa Nostra” is the Sicilian Mafia. Who knew? Location: Washintongton, DC Date played: January 10, 2016 Team size: 2-7; we recommend 2-4 Price: It’s complicated. Theme & story Cosa Nostra was your standard Prohibition escape room setup: It’s 1933 and we were a team of federal agents entering a speakeasy to find documents linking a politician to the…
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Hints? Where we’re going, we don’t need hints (unless something breaks). Location: Washington, DC Date played: January 8, 2016 Team size: 8-12; we recommend 6-8 Price: $28 Theme & story Back to the 80s! is like totally 80s! We were sent back in time to find the greatest mix tape ever made. Every prop was…
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A new reviewer tackles an old favorite. Location: New York, New York Date played: January 10, 2016 Team size: 2-6; we recommend 3-5 Price: $30 per ticket Guest review! Intro by David Spira Jessica Felleman is a writer and an integral part of Team Room Escape Artist. She accompanies us on most of our NYC…
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Dear Room Escape Operators, Y’all know I love you, so you know this is coming from the heart. You cannot have my cell phone while I play your game. It’s not happening. I’m not giving it to you. I have a life and a career, and whether I like it or not, my iPhone is…
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Excellence overshadowed. Location: New York, New York Date played: January 2, 2016 Team size: 4-10; we recommend 8-10 Price: $24 per ticket Theme & story Set in 1963, at the height of the Cold War, The Lost Spy takes place in a room that is truly of the era. The furniture, fixtures, props, and puzzles…
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The Room Escape Artist sent Noam and Clara to Komnata Quest’s Saint Angelo’s Castle and they wanted everyone to know. Noam and Clara are from the Brooklyn-based Mega Game Society, whose version of Watch The Skies blew us away last year. Now they’ve blown us away again by sending us this surprise post-game photo. As you can see…
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A group known as The Key Armory has crushed its Kickstarter funding goals for key shapes inspired by Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Zelda, Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, World of Warcraft, and Thunder Cats. Basically they are house-key blanks shaped like famous swords. I’m confident that there are more than a few room escapes on-theme to match…
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A game designed specifically to introduce new players to escape games. Location: New York, New York Date played: December 29, 2015 Team size: 2-6; we recommend 3-5 Price: $28 per ticket Deliberately basic Basic, introductory rooms are usually created by accident. A new game designer doesn’t really have a strong grasp on the art and…
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Speedrun \spēd-ˈrən\ – To attempt an activity with deliberate intent to complete the endeavor’s goals as quickly as possible. Why speedrun? Over the past year, we’ve met an ever-increasing volume of folks who love room escapes as much as we do. (If you’re one of them and haven’t said “hi” please do! [Contact, Twitter, Facebook])…
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There’s no place like the home keys. There’s no place like the home keys. There’s no place like the home keys. Location: New Brunswick, New Jersey Date played: December 20, 2015 Team size: up to 10; we recommend 3-6 Price: adults $28.99 per ticket, students $24.99 per ticket Theme & story Our money was stolen. We are…
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As room escape games make their way into mainstream culture, news publications are noticing… And we’ve been responding to an increasing volume of press inquiries. Megan Dolan published two pieces in different Texas publications. The piece she wrote for Reporting Texas is one of the best researched articles I’ve seen from the press. No escaping…
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Chaotic and kooky, yet curiously captivating. Location: Hackensack, New Jersey Date played: December 14, 2015 Team size: 2 – 16; we recommend 6-8 Price: $30 per ticket Horror or Detective mode The Other Side has two slightly different modes of play for the same game. The horror mode adds a few small, but significant, features…
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Twice in one week, readers requested that we post information about the location of a game early in our review. It is a great request and we’re always looking to improve our work. Now every review will include the basic information that we feel will help our readers decide whether or not to play a specific…
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Cafe Belim is an adorable Midtown Manhattan lunch spot with a diverse menu of inedible food and a curious selection of puzzles. Location: New York, New York Date played: November 29, 2015 Team size: up to 10; we recommend 6-8 Price: $28 per ticket Theme & story Mystery Room NYC Chapter 2 had us chasing the trail of…
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If you lose, The Architect does something truly villainous. Location: Red Bank, New Jersey Date played: December 6, 2015 Team size: up to 10; we recommend 6-8 Price: $35 per ticket Story & theme As a team of special agents, we were sent into the lair of a criminal who goes by the moniker “The Architect.”…
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An ambitious attempt to advance room escape design through tantalizing technology and design direction. Location: New York, New York Date played: December 3, 2015 Team size: up to 10; we recommend 5-8 Price: $29 per ticket Theme & story You’re on a Russian space craft facing an attack by an alien force. You must initiate some sci-fi-y…
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This past week I played Trapdoor in Red Bank, NJ. After the game, we shot an episode of Trapdoor UNLOCKED, their escape room YouTube series. It was a ton of fun. For your viewing pleasure, you can see me: breaking shit trying to keep a straight face while stripping being a self-important, contemptuous prick being…
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In the spirit of David’s Escape From the Balcony… This is my real life escape story: The semester I studied in France, I spent my fall break visiting a friend in Oviedo, a city in Northern Spain. After 10 hours on a train, I arrived extremely exhausted. When my friend woke up early to get…
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Our last megagame, Contact Light, had our team split into two groups: a Capitol Team running our government and an Exploration Team accomplishing missions throughout the galaxy. When the Exploration Team was flying about (which was most of the game), we could only communicate via written letters dropped into a mailbox. Here’s the best of the…
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It was kind of like Legends of the Hidden Temple… Except I wasn’t screaming at the TV because some kid couldn’t figure out how to assemble the three freakin piece statue in the Shrine of the Silver Monkey. Location: Queens, New York Date played: November 8, 2015 Team size: 4-7; we recommend 4-5 Price: $25 per ticket, must book…
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Update 11/2/23: If you want to hear more about Escape From the Mysterious Room, back us on Patreon at the “Search Win!” level to get access to a Spoilers Club Episode about this game. Reality Escape Pod co-hosts David and Peih-Gee talk all about it, spoilers and all. The Western Hemisphere’s first room escape. Location:…
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The game in which David became “Sophie.” Location: Queens, New York Date played: November 8, 2015 Team size: 4-7; we recommend 4-5 Price: $25 per ticket, must book at least 4 tickets Character play Before we entered the room, David assumed the role of “Sophie” and received an item that would aid us in the room. This was a fun…
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