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Imagine this. It’s a rainy Saturday night, and you’ve got your pals over for some board game fun. You pull out an escape room in a box, and everyone is intrigued – it’s something different, exciting ...

A few weeks ago we got something interesting in the mail as we were shipped a special Escape Room in a box from Sony, promoting the film Escape Room. The film came out back in January, which you can ...

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Lock a group of people in a room filled with mysterious devices and the police will have more than a number of questions for you. Make them pay money for the experience, however, and you get one of ...

The trick to a fun escape room is layers. For [doktorinjh]’s Spacecase, you start with an enigmatic aluminum briefcase and a NASA drawstring backpack. A gamemaster reads the intro speech to set the ...

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The Escape Room craze has really taken off (especially here in Los Angeles) and I couldn’t be happier about it. Getting a group of my friends together, locking ourselves in a room, and solving a ...

Escape rooms have become hugely popular in recent years, especially attracting millennials looking for unique evenings with friends. But the interactive games, in which people are locked in rooms and ...

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