This week marked a very cool occurrence – City Limits Escape Rooms had a grand opening event in Volo, IL. Tours, snacks, giveaways, and a ribbon cutting… It was a special event in many ways, but escape room enthusiasts have some particularly special reasons to be excited. What are those reasons?
What’s the neatest souvenir you’ve gotten from an experience? Back in 2019, I posted a summary of some of the neatest trophies I’ve gotten, and honestly, the list hasn’t changed that much since then. I’m still a big fan of putting neat stickers on my laptop, but my bookshelf isn’t filling with interesting trophies. There is one newer innovation that gets me excited though- videos from the experience itself!
As you’re probably aware by now, I’m a member of the design team for the Escape Room World Championship, and every year, thousands of solvers from dozens of countries compete to be the best at solving a series of themed puzzles. What you may not know is that the 2026 theme was just released!
I stumbled across a double-faceted delight recently. I’m always excited to see new escape rooms open, and to my surprise and delight, a new business called “City Limits Escape” in Volo, IL showed up on the map. After combing through social media a bit, it seems that there’s a twist to this surprise- City Limits is bringing back the games from City 13 Escape!
The difficulty of an escape room is a tough concept to nail. I had the pleasure this week to visit Ultimate Escape Game Atlanta and encounter an enthusiast’s dream- very difficult, but completely fair, rooms! It was truly a great experience for puzzle lovers.
ER Champ 2025 Finals are completed! The Finals, broadcast live from Sofia, Bulgaria, brought viewers a thrilling competition with only seconds separating first, second, and third place. I wont spoil who was who, so if you’re curious, check out the stream or the results page. Congrats to the winners!
The 2025 ERChamp qualifiers are in the books! Congratulations to the teams that finished the fastest and will be making their way to Sofia, Bulgaria for the in-person final round this fall.
As part of a new year’s resolution, I challenged myself and others to spread the love of puzzles with a new generation, and this week, I found a reminder of why this challenge resonates with me so much. These logic problem magazines were a godsend on long car rides in my childhood, and I always love teasing out the solutions from elaborate puzzles like these.
I wrote recently about the James Bond Escape the Museum Experience at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. I thought I had lost the materials from the event, but as luck would have it, I found them buried in a stack of mail!
An escape room at the Museum of Science and Industry- I never thought I’d return to that museum under those circumstances. The new James Bond exhibit afforded me this unusual and exciting opportunity.
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