Welcome to PuzzleDrifter.com! This site was created to document the journey to complete an escape room in each of the 50 US states in 2018. Over time we’re adding more content related to escape rooms, travel, and other puzzles which can be found around the world.
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Kissimmee, FL: Doldrick’s Escape – Crazy Train: The Ballad of Skeemin’ Plotz
On my recent trip to Florida, I got to play one of the newest TERPECA finalist escape rooms - Crazy ...
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Florida Again!?!?!
My most recent travel post was from Florida in early November. In early December, I have another Florida trip to ...
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Memento #8: Museum of Science and Industry Puzzle Challenge Materials
I wrote recently about the James Bond Escape the Museum Experience at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. I thought ...
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Chicago, IL: Museum of Science and Industry – James Bond Escape
An escape room at the Museum of Science and Industry- I never thought I'd return to that museum under those ...
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Cruising 2024
Cruises are one of my favorite forms of travel for many reasons. The forced disconnect is perhaps the biggest one- ...
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Escape Room Visits
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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Oak Creek, WI: City 13 Escape – Save the City
September 7, 2021- For my 500th escape room, I wanted to do something special. Thankfully, I live less than two ...
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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
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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Alaskan Cruise 2023, Part 1
I'm on day three of my Alaska cruise, and I couldn't be happier. The greatest vacations are the ones on ...
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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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