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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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Oak Brook, IL: Escape the Room – Clock Tower and The Theater

September 1, 2021 - I had been avoiding Escape the Room Oak Brook. I had one prior experience in 2018 ...
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500 down!

500 escape rooms- it's sort of hard to believe. If each room averages one hour, that almost three weeks of ...
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500 Tomorrow!!!

This weekend, I got my ducks in a row to prepare for my 500th escape room. Two rooms Wednesday, one ...
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Coolest Prize Ever

I wont bury the lede on this one- I went to Sixty to Escape Milwaukee this weekend, played three games, ...
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Escape Room Visits

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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Manitowoc, WI: What the Lock – Orvellio’s Reconjured

Orvellio’s: Reconjured left Christina and me wanting more, and thankfully, What the Lock has several more rooms we haven’t played ...
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Keep It Up!

I'm happy to check in and say that I've got the inside track for one of the tickets to Red ...
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Red Bull Mind Gamers Round 2 Voting Open!

To my surprise, I made the cut for the final three in round 2 of the Red Bull Mind Gamers ...
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Commentary

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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Brian Brand Jigsaw Puzzles

I've been a little quiet lately, and it's been largely due to a new project I've been exploring ...
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Travel

Day 1: Illinois, Indiana, Ohio

I'm writing this update from a hotel in Youngstown, Ohio. So far, our trip has been a little bit on ...
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Odyssey to the East

Stamford Connecticut- I've been there once in my life, for about an hour and a half. And now I'm going ...
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4 Days, 6 Escape Rooms

I can't imagine a better way to start the year. By the end of the day on January 4th, I ...
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On the Road: Springfield, MO

Jan 2, 2021 - Christina and I hit the road for the first time in a while to head down ...
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Cancun: Relax & Puzzle

I can't believe we're already on the latter half of our trip to Cancun! This trip has been a little ...
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Puzzling Across the Nation