Escape room blog
The History of the Rubik's Cube
"The Cube" is one of the most popular and difficult puzzles ever invented. There are 43 quintillion wrong moves....and only 1 right answer...
Tips for Horror Escape Rooms
Escape room game businesses are the same as any other business in that they need to be constantly evolving. Since their inception, over sixteen years ago, these game have evolved into a huge number of themes and genres...
Tips For First Time Escape Room Game Players
There’s nothing to compare to an escape room game for sheer fun and comradery. Going with a group of mates is a sure-fire way to bring you all closer together as well as get those brain cells working...
Learning from Kids in an Escape Room
Even with the relatively recent proliferation of escape room games, it appears that very few go out of their way to cater to kids...
Virtual Escape Room Tips and Tricks
In these strange times of the Covid-19 virus, ExitTheRoom has been pioneering a new form of escape game entertainment...
Wanna Be A Game Master?
With escape room businesses now firmly established after several years, it's only natural that people begin to wonder as to how to become a game master...
Top Escape Room Theme Ideas
Here at ExitTheRoom we are obsessed with escape room games. Their design, narratives, puzzles, and clues, along with their successful implementation are the life-blood of our business...
Why Pop-up Escape Rooms Aren't Worth it
Running a proper escape room games business for over fourteen years, here at ExitTheRoom we've certainly seen businesses come and go within this space...
Why an Escape Room is Not A Scavenger Hunt
We’ve come across several customers who were complaining about their escape room game experiences coming from other businesses. Apart from a lack of guidance, which is a biggie in our books, their biggest gripe was that they spent more time looking for clues and puzzles than they did solving them...
Are You Really Locked in an Escape Room?
When you first read about or even visit an escape room game, you might be mistaken in your belief that you're going to be locked in. Using real locks...
Are Escape Rooms Claustrophobic?
When it comes to locating an escape room business, you'll probably notice a trend. Many will be in basements and more often than not, in older buildings...
How to Deal with Escape Room Prop Breakage
It's inevitable that having the public working their way through any number of puzzles and clues, that there are going to be breakage...