Escape Room Tips

04/06/2024

an immersive trifecta weekend in

immersive art
immersive puzzling .rs
immersive theater
+ rocky mountains rafting
+ a lot of delicious food!

Thanks all who hosted us for an amazing weekend trip!

01/03/2024

Thanks for hosting us for 7 games earlier this month! Two closeby venues with plenty of games to fill a whole day and a bit more, and a great reason to make it to Greenville, SC for any first-time visitor!

Also made a stop at “The Grid” at in Charlotte to explore a challenge arcade.

08/01/2024

Updated our Los Angeles recommendations for 2024, now featuring Brain Games Escape Room and Maze Rooms Los Angeles (West LA Location)!

Are you looking for the best Los Angeles escape rooms? Los Angeles is our favorite American city to revisit and try new games, mostly due to the high concentration of quality escape rooms as well as a well-connected community of enthusiasts and owners. We’ve been playing escape rooms in Los Angele...

19/10/2023

Thank you Los Angeles for welcoming us back for another ESCAPE ROOM MARATHON - it was our first trip back since the pandemic and were blown away by all the awesome new games in the market (some of them were quite a drive though).

New blog post up with our recommendations for 19 BEST ESCAPE ROOMS IN LOS ANGELES.

https://escaperoomtips.com/top/los-angeles-escape-rooms

23/04/2023

WOW - we set some personal escape room marathon records this month in Montreal, with 8 escape rooms completed in 1 day, 15 completed in 2 days, and 20 completed in 3 days. Montreal was a blast with an extremely high density of very impressive rooms - definitely a worthy escape room destination for any enthusiast in North America.

Check out our ranking of our top 10 escape rooms in Montreal, including impressive rooms from Escaparium, Immersia, Sauve Qui Peut, and ENIGMA-TIC.

https://escaperoomtips.com/top/montreal-escape-rooms

14/10/2022

Based on the 64 games from Breakout Games, The Escape Game, and PanIQ Escape Rooms, we estimated the average price of a 60-minute in the United States.

We were curious about what the average escape room price was in the United States. While we don’t have the capability to survey every single room available, we realized that there are several large chains of escape rooms in the United States that have wide geographic coverage and a standardized wa...

12/10/2022

We had a chance to go to Seattle this summer and play some of new games that have popped up since we last visited, check out our updated Seattle article with new games from Locurio and Hourglass Escapes!

Looking for a Seattle escape room? We’ve played 24 in Seattle and 375+ worldwide and update this list whenever we’re back in the area. All of these companies had to close for an extended hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but thankfully most of those that had closed have now re-opened. As an a...

20/07/2022

We updated our list of (English-language) continental and regional Escape Room Enthusiast communities. If we're missing any, please let us know!

This post is meant for either people who want to play a particular escape room but need more people in order to 1) reach the hard minimum for that game or 2) make booking the room much more economical. This especially applies to travelling escape room enthusiasts who are looking for a team outside o...

15/07/2022

We made a long-overdue update to our Best Escape Rooms in San Francisco list, featuring new games from Trivium Games, Palace Games, The Escape Game, and EscapeSF.

San Francisco is a tough market (we've seen many of our favorite companies and games leave due to difficulties of running a business here), but it was also our first ever escape room market and also we can confidently say home to some of the best English-language games in the whole world!

Check out our latest top 10: https://escaperoomtips.com/top/san-francisco-escape-rooms

As former San Francisco residents, we’ve done 80+ San Francisco Bay Area escape rooms and will be keeping this list up-to-date with our best escape room recommendations. This list covers San Francisco Escape Rooms primarily, but also includes some nearby cities (Emeryville escape rooms). San Franc...

06/04/2022

28/02/2022

We've updated our very first (and most popular) article, which started this blog almost 7 years ago. Check out our expanded + updated list of !

We’ve compiled our top 29 escape room tips and tricks that we’ve used to achieve greater than 90% escape rate on the over 350 rooms that we’ve played. We’ve updated our guid…

23/10/2020

FREE virtual alert - this one is a Amazon Prime Video promotion for and is also a fully GM’d 45-minute avatar-led virtual escape room by The Escape Game complete with their superb web interface for inventory management. We had lots of fun and it’s a great bonus that it’s free!

Check it out, the bookings are all private: https://truthseekersexperience.com

14/09/2020

Animal Crossing Benry Island Escape Room - MoniRae & Stewie36 | Escape Room Tips

We played a free ESCAPE ROOM via Dream Address in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Check out our review for how to get the dream code, and what you should know before playing!

We played the clever Benry Island Museum Heist by MoniRae & Stewie36. This is a fully automated virtual “escape room” playable for free anytime within the “Dream World” feature of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Send MoniRae a FB message for the dream address, and (optionally) let her know th...

28/08/2020

Animal Crossing Murder Mystery Dream Island - (Review) | Escape Room Tips

We enjoyed this free MURDER MYSTERY dream island within Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Check out our review for the code.

This Animal Crossing Murder Mystery is a cute, inventive “murder mystery” game that gives each villager personality and depth. It’s accessible with Dream Code DA-1127-2770-3920. This is not a “puzzley” game or require any escape room experience. Instead, it’s accessible to anyone who is ...

10/06/2020

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07/06/2020

90-Minute Animal Crossing Escape Room - Jason Yu (Review) | Escape Room Tips

We played a 90-minute ANIMAL CROSSING ESCAPE ROOM completely within Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Check out what we thought and how to book at https://escaperoomtips.com/review/animal-crossing-escape-room-jason-yu

This Animal Crossing escape room was both a clever puzzle experience and an enjoyable island. Highly recommended for those who enjoy both escape rooms and Animal Crossing. The escape room world has changed rapidly in 2020 and this is part of a new “virtual escape room” genre. This game is played...

03/09/2019

Creative Time

For those of you in NYC, don’t miss the extended Creative Time / Risa Puno’s run of their escape room! Free and arguably the best escape room experience open in NYC at the moment.

Back by popular demand! We are proud to announce that Risa Puno’s The Privilege of Escape, will be returning to NYC for an extremely limited time, September 12-29, 2019.
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We are thrilled by the rare opportunity to re-open our inaugural open call project and welcome more people to attend, made possible by our presenting partner, Onassis USA. As always, our tickets are free and open to the public. They will be available on 12PM Friday August 30 so be sure to visit the link in our bio to claim yours.
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How’s that for a back to school special?!
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25/06/2019

10 Best Escape Rooms in Boston (Summer 2019) | Escape Room Tips

We've freshly updated our Boston recommendations for Summer 2019! Check out some of our new recommendations, including

Storyteller's Secret + Conundrum Museum - Boxaroo
Panacea - Room Escapers Boston
Crush Depth - Trapology Boston

Looking for a Boston escape room? We’ve done 13+ escape rooms in Boston itself and update this list whenever we’re back in the area. Here are our top-recommended escape rooms in Boston (and one special mention outside of Boston): Storyteller’s Secret (2-5p, $38-44, private) – Boxaroo Conundr...

30/04/2019

10 Best Escape Rooms in New Orleans (2019) | Escape Room Tips

Check out our post for our recommendations for New Orleans and Baton Rouge! Featuring 13th Gate Escape, Escape My Room, and Clue Carré Metairie.

We’re traveling escape room enthusiasts that have done 300+ escape rooms overall and compile our top recommendations for our readers. This guide is aimed at tourists visiting New Orleans. It covers Southeast Louisiana, including Baton Rouge. Last Updated April 2019 10 Best New Orleans Escape Rooms...

28/02/2019

Escape from the Bay | Metroactive

We have a small feature in this week's issue of Metro (a Silicon Valley magazine). Check it out and read about escape rooms in Silicon Valley, featuring us, Off The Couch Games, Omescape, Real Escape Game, and Dan Egnor!

http://www.metroactive.com/features/Escape-Room-Puzzles-Silicon-Valley.html

23/01/2019

10 Best Escape Rooms in Sacramento (2019) | Escape Room Tips

We have two new recs for Sacramento, check out:

* Vampire's Rise at Escape Key Davis - Escape Room (company now renamed Minervium) for a puzzler's game
* Sweet Revenge at Quandary Escape Rooms for it's fun theme and puzzles

Updated article: https://escaperoomtips.com/top/sacramento-escape-rooms

We’re NorCal-based escape room enthusiasts who’ve done 250+ escape rooms. We’re summarizing our favorite Sacramento area games for our readers. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to leave a comment below or contact us. Let your hosts know that EscapeRoomTips.com sent you! ...

07/01/2019

We've updated our San Jose recommendations list with one room from a new company in Morgan Hill. Check out The Cabin at Mpower Escape Rooms!

Article: https://escaperoomtips.com/top/san-jose-escape-rooms

05/01/2019

Our thoughts on the Escape Room movie (we attended a screening) - enjoyable and worth watching in theaters for escape room enthusiasts!

While the characters are the typical archetypes and the movie follows a somewhat established formula, the “escape room” elements are fun and intense to watch, and this movie has clearly done its research and included a bunch of fun references that escape room enthusiasts will enjoy (and cringe at).

Escape Room Movie

27/12/2018

For our San Francisco-based readers, you can get free first-come-first-serve passes to the ESCAPE ROOM MOVIE screening at the AMC Metreon 16 (downtown SF) on Wednesday 1/2.

Here's the link: http://www.sonyscreenings.com/EscapeRoomTipsSF
Use code: EscapeRoomTipsSF

(note, these passes do NOT guarantee you a seat, unfortunately, you'll have to arrive early to get in line to try to get in.)

26/12/2018

10 Best Escape Rooms in San Francisco (2018) | Escape Room Tips

For our Bay Area readers, we've updated both our Best in San Francisco list (with Paranormal Experiment and Incredible Machine from ClockWise Escape Room) and our NEW escape rooms in the Bay Area list (with a bunch of fresh ones!)

Check out both articles:

https://escaperoomtips.com/top/san-francisco-escape-rooms
https://escaperoomtips.com/san-francisco-bay-area/new

As locals, we’ve done 60+ San Francisco Bay Area escape rooms and will be keeping this list up-to-date with our best escape room recommendations. This list covers San Francisco escape rooms. Check out our San Jose or East Bay lists for more. Of course “best” is subjective, so please check out ...

22/11/2018

Enthusiasts' Choice Awards - Top Escape Rooms Project 2018 | Escape Room Tips

Congrats to all of the winners of the 2018 Enthusiast Choice Awards! It was fun to be a part of this, and huge thanks to Rich and everyone else at Top Escape Rooms Project for making this meta-aggregation a reality.

https://escaperoomtips.com/news/top-escape-rooms-project-2018

We’re happy to reshare the results of the annual Top Escape Rooms Project Enthusiasts’ Choice Award. The project is an effort led by Rich Bragg of Cluekeeper to aggregate ranked favorites of well-traveled enthusiasts into one authoritative, global ranking. Looking through the list and being a pa...

14/11/2018

7 Best Escape Rooms in San Jose (2018) | Escape Room Tips

We’ve updated our San Jose recommendations! Off The Couch Games newest game (Excalibur) just opened to the public last month, and is our new #1 recommendation in San Jose.

https://escaperoomtips.com/top/san-jose-escape-rooms

As Bay Area locals, we’ve done 20+ South Bay / San Jose escape rooms and 70+ in the San Francisco Bay Area, which is most of the available local rooms. We’re ranking our seven choices here for best San Jose escape room along with reviews and recommendations based on why you might like them too. ...

07/11/2018

10 Best Escape Rooms in Las Vegas (2018) | Escape Room Tips

Updated escape room recommendations for LAS VEGAS!

* Zoe (an enthusiast favorite from LA) has appeared on the Vegas Strip at Escaped Las Vegas: ZOE
* Lost Games Escape Rooms Las Vegas has opened up their second chapter: Playtime
* Trapped Escape Room Las Vegas has opened up their Las Vegas location and is currently featuring two games: Lair of the Puzzlemaster and One Eyed Jacked

Link: https://escaperoomtips.com/top/las-vegas-escape-rooms

We are escape room veterans that have done almost 300 escape rooms. We’ve made multiple trips to compile our top Las Vegas escape room recommendations. As always, if you book any of these rooms, let your host know that you heard of them from “EscapeRoomTips.com”! Disclosure: We have received m...

18/10/2018

19 Best Escape Rooms in Los Angeles (2018) | Escape Room Tips

One new addition to our Los Angeles recommendations post, check out 🐶 DOGGY DOG WORLD 🐶 from Escapades L.A. for one of the most delightful escape room themes we've ever seen.

We’ve played 80+ LA escape rooms and almost 300 in total. Here are our recommendations for the “best” Los Angeles escape rooms. LA is our favorite place in the US to play escape rooms, and we make multiple trips every year to check out whatever new games pop up. We dub Los Angeles the “Escap...

17/10/2018

9 Best Escape Rooms in the San Fernando Valley (2018) | Escape Room Tips

We've updated our San Fernando Valley recommendations with two new games: check out 🐶Doggy Dog World🐶 at Escapades L.A. and 👩‍🚀Desolation Spaceship👩‍🚀 at Cypher Escape Experience!

https://escaperoomtips.com/top/san-fernando-valley-escape-rooms

We’re California-based escape room enthusiasts that have played almost 300 games – this San Fernando Valley escape room list is a spin-off list of our larger Best Escape Rooms in Los Angeles list. Last Updated October 2018. If a game you like isn’t on the list, we might not have played it yet ...