We’ve finished up our Orange County and Los Angeles leg of the trip and are currently in Menifee, California, which is in the beautiful Temecula Valley. While in Orange County and LA we did SO.MANY.ESCAPE.ROOMS! During the eight days we were there, we managed to play 27 games! Some we loved and some we didn’t.

Promotion using an escape room is nothing new. Many big companies have already decided on this kind of promotion before. Noteworthy among them is Marvel Studio, which promoted the Avengers movie in this way. This time the puzzles were used to promote a music album. Can you Escape The Ministry?

Most often, people go to escape rooms in a group of 3-4 people, sometimes more, sometimes less, however, anyone who enjoys going to an escape room knows how difficult it is to gather a larger team of players at a convenient time for everyone. Would you believe if I told you that there are escape rooms for 100, 200 and more people?

Greetings from Oceanside, California!

Worth noticing! The jury has the sum total of experience consisting of more than 9,000 visited escape rooms! This was already the 7th edition, so the competition has been with us since the early stage of the industry.

RECON 2023, also known as Reality Escape Convention, will take place on August 19 - 20. This year the conference for all escape room enthusiasts and their creators will be held online. Ticket sales for the event have just kicked off!

Do you like the world of Harry Potter? In all likelihood, yes. Given the theme of Escape Buzz, you're also a fan of escape rooms, and you're well aware that rooms with the theme of the young Hogwarts adept are plentiful. And what about a free online escape room? Let me tell you about The Hogwarts Escape.

Hi, It’s Tina and Curt again! We’ve been on the road for three weeks now and we’re writing this installment from Albuquerque, NM!

It’s Tina and Curt again! Sorry for the long delay between updates! We were visiting Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas and didn’t have internet access for several days. (No internet?! Time to bust out the escape room board games)

Do you cringe when you encounter a directional lock? Does turning a key or rotary lock dial bore you to your core? Many believe that the industry should begin leaving physical locks behind in favor of more technological options. This, however, may be a bad direction for the industry. Thus, it is good for us to click the lock twice, reset, and rethink.

Have you ever wondered what working in an escape room looks like? Probably a lot of people think - owners build the room, and then sell tickets, let groups in and give hints if necessary. However, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Running an escape room involves many other aspects that players often don't know about.

Hi, it’s Tina and Curt! After a one-day delay, we are officially on the road!

Probably all of us like to go to good escape rooms. However, before a room becomes playable, it requires months of work on various levels: after all, the scenography, puzzles or electronics need to be taken care of. A finished room, however, is not a guarantee of success - checking whether a scenario is suitable for a commercial client is one of the tasks of so-called test groups.

Imagine, you enter an ancient Egyptian tomb. You proceed through the dark passageways and navigate a variety of ancient puzzles while avoiding treacherous booby traps. You finally get to the entrance of the treasure chamber where you must… read some hieroglyphics and translate them into an English word?

Rankings of any kind always stir up a lot of emotion. Especially when they have a big impact on a particular industry. One such popular ranking, which decides which escape rooms are the best in the world, is TERPECA. Today you have the opportunity to meet its creator - Rich Bragg. In the interview with Rich you will learn about the history of TERPECA and how it works from the inside.

Did you know you can invest in your personal and professional development by raiding a tomb, finding the cure for the Zombie virus, conducting a bank heist, disarming a bomb, and looting a pirate ship? While escape room adventures have traditionally been used in professional development as a team-building activity, they can teach you a lot about yourself and how you interact with your world.

Hi, it’s Tina and Curt and we are only a week away from leaving on our epic escape room adventure across the United States! This column is going to be a record of our adventures and rooms played and we hope to entertain and inspire other Enthusiasts. Thank you again to Escape Buzz for allowing us to share our journey with you!

Certain names are so important to the escape room industry and its development that they should be known and mentioned at every appropriate opportunity. That is why today I would like to introduce you to a person that some of you probably know and thus start a series of articles 'Names you should know'.

Every manager, director, and VP I know has taken a team to an escape room at least once. An escape room is the perfect duration for an outing, and it offers teams the chance to cooperate and solve problems in a fun setting. In spite of the popularity of this type of outing, very few managers connect the dots on how the patterns of success within escape rooms match those in the business world.

Modern audience is not interested in ordinariness. Ordinariness for some means boredom today. Being constantly attacked with content from all sides - Internet, traditional media, on the street, in the store - people need to be shocked. They want uncommon content that will stay in memory. They also often want something that will, at least for a moment, add variety to their daily routine.

In recent years, people have increasingly opted for conventional ways of spending Valentine's Day. Dinner by candlelight, cinema and theater are replaced with more modern entertainment - going to a concert, gym, trampoline park or go-karts. And also in the escape room style. Check out the escape room games ideas for this day!

Immersion is not only present in theater - this trend has also moved into other entertainment, including the world of escape rooms. Today there are said to be 3 generations of escape rooms. What are the differences between those generations and what is the future of escape rooms? This is the history of escape rooms.

For the past few years there has been a clearly noticeable trend of moving humans' life to the Internet. Without leaving the house, you can shop, meet with friends, study, meet new people and future partners. You can also create escape rooms and play in them. And streams of going through such escape rooms are eagerly watched! This is how escape rooms entered the metaverse.

This is the second part of the article about escape room introductions - after its types it's time to place their role in the context of the entire experience. In this part, we will focus on the seven biggest mistakes made by creators. You will also learn what are the three pillars of a good escape room introduction.

Lockme has announced the first edition of the Lockme Awards. The awards for the best escape rooms in Poland will be handed out on February 1. Who will be awarded in this year's Lockme poll?

The well-known escape room industry-wide website Room Escape Artist, created by David Spira and his wife Lisa, and other co-founders, is the organizer of the annual escape room event - the RECON international conference. We already know when and in which form RECON 2023 will be held.

TV shows based on escape rooms games with famous people - what does the audience say? A few words about the story when a hobby meets stars and artists in front of a camera.

The current Guinness record for the number of escape rooms visited in 24 hours is 32 rooms and was set by Japanese group in 2020. However, this is not the only such impressive number - less than a month earlier the record was 25 rooms in a day, and in 2018 - 22 rooms in 24 hours.

2022 has just ended! For many people in the industry, it was a return to normality in the post-pandemic world and an opportunity to bounce back from the bottom and financial problems. What events did we record in 2022? What happened and what should be remembered? Here is the Escape Buzz summary of the year!

I just wrote about escape rooms inspired by books and boom - such news! Now anyone can become a hero of Stephen King's famous horror story 'IT'. Who managed to run away from a crazy clown Pennywise?

How was your holidays? Were you polite enough for Santa to bring you presents? If you like books (like me) and think they are a good gift for any occasion, I have a suggestion for you - we will combine escape rooms with books. Yes, it's possible - check it out for yourself!

There are things that each of us once did and there are sentences that each of us once said. Just as we used to build a hidden base out of blankets and pillows when we were kids, during our school days we used to go with a friend to the teachers' room and say "I knock, you ask." This is a common denominator that can also be seen among such a narrow social group as escape room enthusiasts.

December is a month of great excitement every year. We have just learned about the best escape rooms in the world according to TERPECA's ranking. Learn about the history of this ranking and where is the best place to go for an escape room trip next year.

Many parents wonder if escape rooms are appropriate for children. Especially that the Christmas are coming - a family time for many people. Can a family trip to an escape room be successful? Today, we shall provide an answer to this questions and offer some pointers.

Escape room marketplace lock.me is expanding into another country. Right after Slovakia and the Czech Republic - the last country where we have a launch this year is Sweden.

The global boom in escape rooms caused the industry to go from underground to mainstream in just a decade, and once small, innocent entertainments became real investments. However, the race in the area of novelties, advanced technologies, special effects, and movie sets has not changed one thing - the heart, the core of an attractive puzzle room is still engaging puzzles.

Christmas is coming. When it comes to ideas for gifts for our loved ones, a lot depends on us, including our ability to organize time and actions and our creativity. One thing is sure - due to the huge number of orders from couriers, it's worth ordering gifts right now. And if you have no idea - we invite you to familiarize yourself with our proposals for fans of thinking.

Immersive experiences are becoming increasingly popular. People are still fond of classic escape rooms, but they are looking for other, related entertainment, more immersive storylines, engaging actions reminiscent of theater or RPG games. As a result, there are such events echoing around the world.

Going to escape rooms is becoming an increasingly popular form of entertainment. This includes celebrities, who are willingly boasting about their love of solving puzzles. Which celebrities like to spend their time escaping from rooms full of brain teasers?

This is the first part of the article about escape room introductions. In this part, we will focus primarily on their most common types, advantages and disadvantages.

The Top Escape Rooms Project also know as TERPECA runs voting for the best escape rooms and the best escape room companies in 2022!

Some time ago we wrote an article about escape room competitions as a sport for geeks, in which Jakub asked the creators of the REPOD escape room podcast - David Spira and Peih-Gee Law, about their point of views on the subject. Today, let's take a look not at the issue itself, but at the specific championships taking place around the world - both online, offline or mixed formula.

Halloween is already on Monday, but many companies have decided to prepare special events earlier. Therefore, in many escape rooms you can experience moments full of suspense and horror throughout the weekend. Here are the most interesting alternatives to Halloween movie shows and costume parties we found.

There's no need to prove to anybody that escape rooms are a kind of entertainment, in which, along with its development, all boundaries are being crossed - it mainly concerns such aspects as technologies used, attitude to the interior design or ingenuity in puzzle logic. But what does it look like when it comes to crossing the age limits of the users?

A visit to an escape room usually means excitement, discovering new worlds and interesting puzzles to solve. But what happens when a person who has already visited hundreds or thousands of escape rooms comes to them? Is it still possible to have a lot of fun with so much experience?

I notice many bizarre sports competitions and amazing tournaments held around the world while surfing the internet. Most peculiar competitions I've heard about are the World Sleep Championships or The World Worm Charming Championships. No, you don't need glasses - I wrote worm charming. So it should not be surprising that the World Escape Room Championships are also organized.

What is it about escape rooms that has made them a sport, and should escape rooms really go mainstream? Two cool people who really know this industry see it in a really interesting way.

TERPECA (Top Escape Rooms Project Enthusiasts' Choice Award) is an event that has been selecting the best escape rooms from around the world since 2018 in the form of a ranking. The best escape rooms in the world are also about to show up - because the nominations phase has been opened! What do we know about it already?

Every week a new escape room opens in Poland. What does this mean for this industry, which has weakened in recent years? Is there hope for it to return to its best years?

Escape rooms are a pastime so young that if it were human, it wouldn't be able to have a beer in an American bar. Despite this, it is an increasingly popular entertainment that hardly anyone has heard of yet.

Escape room is a fantastic game and incredible adventure for most players. But for some, like Game Masters it’s a job and these people look on Clients’ behavior in totally different ways. This time, as a former escape room worker, I would like to present some stories from the Game Masters points of view from all over the world.

Keeping the world informed about events is our responsibility. It's also an opportunity to encourage new puzzle fans to take part in exciting activities. That is why we are doubly happy, as a patron, to inform you that this year's ER Champ event has been set! What else do we know about the sixth edition? Let’s check it!

Despite the fact that the escape room market is not yet of full age, it can be said that it has already passed the phase of growing up. One of the elements of its development were various attempts at "cataloging". After a few years, we live in a world of a few successful projects and many "zombie" sites, which are scary in their appearance and database.

Tickets sales for an unusual event - Saw: The Experience began last week. The event is shrouded in a mystery, which is extremely tempting and encourages people to buy tickets. Addicted to adrenaline? It's for you!

During our visits to various escape room businesses, we have observed how they promote themselves and how they use the potential of escape rooms for customer acquisition. Here, we have collected good practices for the promotion of escape rooms in one place.

Escape rooms are on a roll. In cities such as Los Angeles or Budapest they are one of the most popular forms of local entertainment according to TripAdvisor. This trend also reaches Poland and is more and more actively used in tourism.

You went with your team to the room and despite best intentions you left unsatisfied? Evening with friends didn't go well? And you do not know what went wrong. Read this article to find out the answer!

Many of us associate going to escape rooms with entertaining time spent with friends or - on the other extreme - integration events at work, being a little break from reality. There are many reasons to choose escape rooms and one of them is certainly meetings in a strictly female group.

The 2019 campaign against the Polish escape room industry has created many untrue, even hurtful myths about it. Nowadays, this entertainment is successfully resurging and coming back on track. It may also be a response to the need for entertainment in an epidemic reality - we go to escape rooms in our own, several-person circle of friends or family - so the risk of infection is low.