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700th Escape Adventure at CU Adventures in Time and Space
I'm going to start off my post on CU Adventures in Time and Space with a bet - Forest of Fables will ...
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Schaumburg, IL: 60 to Escape – Putt Portal
60 to Escape has been a staple of top end Chicagoland escape rooms for some time, but their latest venture ...
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Memento #9: 20th Century Puzzle Books
As part of a new year's resolution, I challenged myself and others to spread the love of puzzles with a ...
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New Year’s Resolution
What was your resolution in 2025? One I'm taking on, and I'd encourage you to consider, too, is to skill ...
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Seven Seasons of Korean Game Shows
I've written previously about how much Netflix's The Devil's Plan rocked my world. Since watching this phenomenal Korean intellectual game ...
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Escape Room Visits
Accidental 600th
I completed my 600th escape room. At the time, I didn't know it was my 600th escape room. C'est la ...
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A Thank You to Paruzal
One of my favorite new developments in 2019-2020 was the advent of the online escape room. While businesses everywhere were ...
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Bethlehem, PA: Escape.exe – Neon Tokyo (Resistance)
The last time I visited Escape.exe, in April 2021, Neon Tokyo was coming soon. After the experience I had in ...
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Congrats on 200 Rooms!
What do you do for someone who reaches an escape room milestone? I periodically went out of my way to ...
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Branson, MO: Escape Code – Secret Passage
March 20, 2022 - I've been lucky to have the opportunity to play some really cool escape rooms on my ...
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Commentary
Customers Always Right?
Every once in a while, I get a reminder about how the overall customer experience is more important than any ...
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Advanced Puzzling: Math Imitates Puzzle
One thing I've seen that seems to be mostly loathed by lovers of escape rooms is the math puzzle, or ...
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Anatomy of a Puzzle Experience: Measuring the “Aha!” Moment
I’ve been putting together a whitepaper on the mathematics behind what makes a puzzle fun to solve. What started as ...
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Exciting Times
The next few weekends are going to be more than a little exciting. Eight escape rooms this Saturday, and a ...
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Next Project. Or two. Or three.
I'm stealthily on track for putting out one puzzle game per month for 2021. March is almost at an end, ...
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Travel
The Best Laid Plans…
I was VERY excited about our next trip. Flying to Charlotte, North Carolina. Driving home over the course of five ...
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A Weekend in Fort Lauderdale
Not gonna lie- my current trip to Fort Lauderdale started out rough. I've had a lot of fun, but there ...
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Carnival Venezia: New York to Bahamas
The start of our nine day cruise to the Bahamas has been a bit of a whirlwind. Three days in, ...
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Alaskan Cruise 2023, Part 3
The cruise is over. It's a bit sad to be finished with the longest vacation I've taken in almost a ...
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Alaskan Cruise 2023, Part 2
I have two more days to report of my Alaskan journey. This time, I'm covering Juneau and Skagway! ...
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Mind Games
A Thank You to Paruzal
One of my favorite new developments in 2019-2020 was the advent of the online escape room. While businesses everywhere were ...
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ERChamp as a Watcher
Being part of the design team for ERChamp this year has been a unique experience- the annual online escape room ...
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Great US Treasure Hunt – Milwaukee Recap
Saturday, September 3rd - There was no guarantee I was going to be able to participate in the Great US ...
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Box One – What Is It?
Out of all the escape room / puzzle home games, I've seen the most hype around Box One. Produced by ...
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Treasure Hunt Roundup
The last few weeks have been full of treasure hunts and puzzle design. Between partcipating in a few new treasure ...
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