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🧾 In Other News

• IGN shares it's list of best escape room board games.
• As reported by the New York Times: Planet Word Museum launches Lexicon Lane, a combination escape room and puzzle hunt to offer 26 unique puzzle “cases” for visitors to solve.
• Society of Curiosities have announced they're working on an escape room BNB concept in La Pérade, QC. Follow their progress on Instagram.
• Save the date! TransWorld’s St. Louis trade shows will take place February 2-5, 2023.
• The San Hose Sharks discuss how they make playing escape rooms a road-trip ritual for the team.
• Celebrating an escape room milestone? Room Escape Artist talk 'es-cake' and other treats.
• VTCSOM, in partnership with REACH (Real Experiences Affecting CHange) are offering a escape room, Escape from Poverty experience.
• Something exciting is happening with immersive experience creators, Future Proof in New York.
• Enigmida shares tips for planning an escape room trip.
• Interested in escape room design? Brett Kuehner's website is a great resource to get started with.
• Tabletop game designer RussBuilds shares his tips for getting started with building escape room artefacts.
• Manda Whitney shares her thoughts on Narrative Dialogue in Escape Rooms in this article.
• Room Escape Divas podcast interviews Lee Ballan, one of the creators of Book of Dreams.
• "Can the world’s first climate change escape room really help us change the ways we act?" City AM reports.
• A new Monkey Island 2 sequel has been announced for launch later this year.
• Inscryption, a card-building escape room style video game has won the BAFTA for game design.
• Malaga Escape Room Comedy ‘You Lie You Die’ Goes to Filmax.

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🔑 Recent Doors Unlocked 

• 417 Escape Artist has opened a new room, Captured at Sea, in Springfield, MO.
• Beyond Reality have opened a site with 6 VR escape rooms in New York, NY.
• Coos Bay Escape Room have opened a new room 'Psycho Murder Cabin' in Pony Village Mall, OR.
• Electric City Escapes has opened in Anderson, SC.
• ESCAPE! Alaska have opened their second escape room, NOIR in Anchorage, AK.
• Escape Rhode Island have opened an outdoor escape room, The Eldritch Expedition in Providence, RI.
• Escape Time has opened a new room, The Quest, in Annapolis, MD.
• Escapology have opened a new room, 7 Deadly Sins in Happy Valley, OR.
• Hidden Escape has opened in Park Falls, WI.
• Planet Word Museum has launched Lexicon Lane in Washington, DC.
• Railroad Escapes has opened in Alexandria, IN.
• The Escape Game has opened a new site with 5 escape rooms in Columbus, OH.
• The Exit Games have opened a new room, Pins and Needles, in Clearwater, FL.
• The Ocala Escape has opened a new dragon themed escape room in Ocala, FL.
• Trap Door Escape have announced several new pirate themed rooms at their new location in Bethlehem, PA.
• USS Lexington Museum has opened a new escape room 'Mission No. 3: Save Our Ship' in Corpus Christi, TX.
• VR Escape LKN has opened in Statesville, NC

• EscapeXchange has opened in Winnipeg, MB.
• Escape Club has reopened in Regina, SK.
• Secret City Adventures has opened a new room, Station M, in Toronto, ON.
• Society of Curiosities have announced they're working on an escape room BNB concept in La Pérade, QC. Follow their progress on Instagram.
• The Real Escape Canada has opened a new room, London 1888 in Winnipeg, MB.

• Black Hawk Laser has opened a new escape room in Oswestry.
• Eeek! Escape Room has opened a new room Stuck in the 90s in Glasgow.
• Escapade HQ has opened a new room, Detained, in Belfast.
• Escape Plan has relaunched Battle for Britain in London.
• Escape Rooms Cheltenham has opened a new room, The Missing Piece, in Cheltenham.
• Escape the Fort have announced plans to open in Fort Perch Rock, New Brighton.
• Escape Time has opened a new room, Zen, in Burton.
• Go Escape has opened a new WW2 themed escape room in Dunfermline.
• GR8escape York will be opening a new room, Return to Wonderland, in York.
• Hereford Cathedral are launching an escape room in Hereford.
• Hourglass Escapes has opened a new room, When in Vegas, in Downham Market.
• Know Escape has opened a new branch in High Wycombe.
• Locked In Edinburgh have announced a new room, Space Academy, in Edinburgh.
• Mission: Breakout has opened a new room, Underground 2099 in London.
• Riddlr has opened a new room, Decade Runner, in Bristol.
• Room Lockdown has opened a new room in Hornchurch.
• The Panic Room has opened a new 18+ room, Riddled, in Gravesend.

• Clue Hunters has opened in Nelson, New Zealand.
• Escape Hunt have opened a new room, Alice in Puzzleland in Brisbane.

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