The New England escape room community is special. There is a camaraderie among the businesses and the players that doesn’t exist in any other escape room market we’ve visited. It’s inspiring.
This spring, the Escape Rooms of New England teamed up to create Everyday Superheroes Always Saving Our Butts. This collaborative puzzle hunt embodies what we love about these escape rooms. They are welcoming, ingenious, and fun!
Everyday Superheroes Always Saving Our Butts
What a title!
While playing this in June, it was strange to reflect on how this puzzle hunt was carbon dated to a specific month of 2020… but then, it’s been a strange year.
This amusing theme really makes the entire thing. Each of the participating companies embedded toilet paper icons on their homepages as beachheads for the hunt. Amazing.
The Collaborators
22 escape room companies and We the Enthusiasts Passports collaborated to pull this off.
That coordination is impressive and inspiring.
The prize is extremely generous. You’ll be entered into a drawing to win 2 free tickets to every participating escape room company.
This community is working together to build awareness for one another at a time when all their businesses are struggling.
The Puzzles
We enjoyed the variety of the puzzles. They differed immensely in style, difficulty, and execution.
We loved that we really had no idea what we’d be up against when we found each toilet paper icon.
We especially enjoyed “United We Stand” by Escape New Haven. If you only solve one puzzle from this hunt, let it be that one.
Not all of the puzzles were created equal. Some of these would have benefited greatly from answer verification, or a hint system. We also wished that the solution website had saved our solutions, but luckily, we’d logged them in a Google Sheet, so we didn’t lose all our work when we submitted one answer with a typo.
That said, these flaws weren’t game-breaking. The set up worked well, especially when you think about how many creators were involved, and the simple fact that no one makes any money from this.
Escape Rooms of New England
It’s no coincidence that we’re bringing RECON, the Reality Escape Convention, to the birthplace of Everyday Superheroes Always Saving Our Butts. We chose to host the inaugural in-person RECON in Boston precisely because we knew this New England community – the businesses and the players – have the kind of mindset that we want to shine a spotlight on.
Given the events of 2020, however, we’re waiting another year to host RECON as an in-person event.
But we are still excited to bring you RECON this August. This summer’s RECON will be global. Please join us digitally August 23-24 for inspiring, actionable talks and community conversation.
And we look forward to bringing RECON to New England in August of 2021!
This is the community where we hosted one of our most packed meetups to date in December 2018… and the owners made it a potluck. With homemade French toast!
It’s also the community we picked to highlight with our 2018 April Fool’s Day post.
We love the welcoming, supportive, caring vibe of the New England escape rooms.
Play Now
The contest ends at the end of the month. Solve now to be entered to win. All those free escape room tickets will come in handy when you attend RECON 2021!
