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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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Enter the Passphrase Conclusion

Today was the grand finale of Enter the Passphrase puzzle hunt! So how did it go? Well… ...
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Puzzler Hunt – Enter the Passphrase

Most of the puzzle hunts I've done recently are for bragging rights only, so it's cool to finally be diving ...
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Upstate New York Recap

Final tally for the trip which started Friday before last - thirteen escape rooms and two Geocaches. I wish I ...
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Exploring Upstate New York

May 18, 2022 - Today, I'm doing a little exploring of upstate New York! It's a bit of a bare ...
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Escape Room Visits

Louisville, CO: Rabbit Hole Recreation Services – Frost Base Z

June 12, 2020 - Every time I visit Rabbit Hole Recreation Services I get a little bolder in proclaiming how ...
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Bellevue, WA (Online): Reality Break – Seattle Freeze

As an avid traveler who loves learning more about the places I visit, I really enjoy when escape rooms tie ...
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Minneapolis, MN (Online): Trapped Puzzle Rooms – Herbert’s Laboratory

When I got an email from Trapped describing their new "audio escape room" adventure, my interest was immediately piqued. In ...
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Online (Japan): Scrap – Escape the Werewolf Village

My escape room solve tally has been stuck just shy of 400 since the lockdowns started. Sure, I’ve played a ...
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Tampa, FL: Rabbit Hole Escape Games – Shadows of the Skunk Ape & Alice’s Tea Time

Christina and I were doubly excited to try out Rabbit Hole Escape Games in Tampa. For one, we had heard ...
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Commentary

Puzzle Addiction

I feel like I'm drowning in puzzles. And I love it ...
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Remarkable Week

This week was a little bit unusual. I took nearly a full week of paid time off from my job ...
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Puzzle Goals (Chess, Rubik’s, and More)

When I created this site, my #1 goal was related to escape rooms, and pound for pound escape rooms are ...
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A Brief Reflection on Escape Room Movies

Over the last few years, quite a few film studios have attempted to capture the magic of solving an escape ...
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Travel

4 States. 9 Escape Rooms. 1 Potential Murder?

Our trip was a success! Starting and ending in Boise, Idaho, Christina and I completed a big circle around the ...
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Western US – Oct 6 through 12!

It's been a little while since we've taken a trip containing both a flight and a road trip. The last ...
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Vanished?

Any time I go two weeks without posting anything here, I feel a little guilty. No matter how busy I ...
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Back from Vegas!

David Copperfield. Cirque Du Soleil. Gordon Ramsay's Pub & Grill. Going to the top of Stratosphere and the Eiffel Tower ...
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Las Vegas Update: Five ERs and a Bunch of Caches

I can't believe I've only been in Las Vegas for just over two full days. Five escape rooms, a bunch ...
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