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ER Champ Returns for 2023... Offline!

In an exciting move, ER Champ has announced that it's grand finale 2023 will take place in person, in Poland. Whilst the date of the finale has yet to be announced, other important dates for your diary include:

The Escape Room Awards Have Announced Nominees

The Escape Room Awards are a Spanish-language escape room award ceremony taking places in person in Auditori Mediapro en la Avda Diagonal 177 de Barcelona, on the 24th April. This year sees a fantastic line-up, with a number of international rooms. Read more directly on their website.

Golden Lock Awards Set a Livestream Date This Month, April 29th 2023

Also in 'awards' news... The annual Golden Lock Awards is a livestream awards ceremony hosted by the Room Escape Artist team calling attention to and celebrating the best escape rooms in the world. This year, they add a new category: Events, to the roster. The Livestream will be available on Saturday 29th April at 9pm Eastern.

🧾 In Other News

• Buzzshot is 1,000 years old this month! No, seriously...
• Looking to hire a puzzle designer for your project? A crowdsourced Puzzle Designer spreadsheet has been created here.
• And if you want more information on some of the routes to becoming a puzzle designer, check out this guide.
• The Black Immersive Creators Grant is still open until April 30th. Apply here.
• Time Run, one of the UK's most popular escape rooms which closed years ago, has teased a reopening.
• Legacy Escape Box has started a new Youtube series interviewing owners and enthusiasts about all things escape room.
• From Escape Buzz, read their latest interview: TERPECA founder and escape room enthusiast - interview with Rich Bragg.
• ICYMI: Fool's Errand, a puzzle fitness challenge, has been cancelled for 2023.
• The April Edition of ERA Mag, an Australian escape room magazine is now live.
• From Blooloop, LCI Productions brings projection mapping to Oxford University’s MRI-themed escape room
• Playing escape rooms while pregnant? Here's some Player Tips from REA.

📆 Upcoming Dates for your Diary

🔑 Recent Doors Unlocked 

• Breakout Lawrence have opened a new room, Room 13, in Lawrence, KS.
• Carnegie Science Centre has opened bookings for Escape USS Requin this summer in PA.
• Clockwise Escape has opened with two rooms in Pleasanton, CA.
• Escape Hatteras has opened a new room, The Crazy Keeper, in Frisco, NC.
• Escape Room South is a new venue open with two rooms in McMurray, PA.
• Escape Studio have opened a new room, Zombie Outbreak, in Tooele, UT.
• Exit 446 has opened a new room, Superheroes of Lucha Libre in Pittsburg, CA.
• Ideal Escape Room has reopened with two rooms in Monticello, IN.
• Jackson Escape Games is a new site that has opened with 4 rooms in Jackson, GA.
• Locked In at the Lake has opened a new room, After Hours, in Cedar Lake, IN.
• Locked In NWI has opened a new room, Asylum, in Crown Point, IN.
• Novel Mysteries has opened a new room, Secrets of the Estate in Tulsa, OK.
• Optimal Escape has opened a new room, Murder Mystery in Evansville, IN.
• Secret Combinations has opened a new room, Lich's Lair in Salt Lake City, UT. 
• Trapology Boston has opened a new room, Hot Dog Heist, in Boston, MA.
• WNDR Museum, whilst not an escape room, is now open in Seattle, WA.

• Question has announced a new room, Abyss, coming soon to Montreal, QC.
• Mystery Mansion Regina has relocated and opened a new room, Collected, in Regina, SK.
• Retro Oasis has opened a new room called The King's Hoard in Okotoks, AB.
• Topp Escape Adventures is a new site with one room that has opened in Regina, SK. Of note, Topp Escape is Regina's 1st Indigenous Women owned escape room.
• Unlocked Adventures has opened a new room, superHEIST in Kanata, ON.

• Aftermath The Game has opened a new room, Operation Global Storm, in London.
• Alderford Escape Islands has reopened with 4 new rooms in Alderford.
• Cryptic Escape Rooms have opened a new room, Estate of Panic in Hull.
• Cryptx has opened a new room, Phantom of the Light Opera, in Cambridge.
• Enigma Escapes s a new venue with one room in South Sheilds.
• Escapable has opened a new room, The Great Loudini in Wakefield.
• Escape Rooms Cheltenham have opened a new room, Pole Position, in Cheltenham.
• Escape3600 have opened a new venue with one room in Slough.
• Eureka Escape has opened a new room, The Bletchley Test, in Truro.
• Get Out Wisbech has opened a new room, Area 51, in Wisbech.
• Housetrap Escape Rooms' has a new game, Tribe, in Bodmin.
• Kettle Chips has a pop-up 40 minute escape room in London.
• Keylock Games has opened a new room, Nobody Loves Robot in Wickford.
• Lakes Escapes has opened a new room, The Lost Dragon, in Workington.
• Lock & Code have opened a new room, Hacking the Box, in Weston.
• Major Mind Games has opened a new room, The Super Pack, in Horsham.
• Paradox Parlours have opened a new room, The Rig, in Woking.
• Project Escape Hexham has opened a new room, Escaping Egypt The Lost Tomb in Hexham.
• Project Mayhem is a new site that has opened in Lincoln.
• Room Lockdown has opened a new room, Vecna Returns, in London.
• The Escape Game Swansea have opened a new room, Vandemic, in Swansea.
• The London Dungeon has opened an escape room in London.
• The Panic Room has opened a new room, The Don's Revenge in Gravesend.
• Wake the Beast has opened a new escape room, Escape from Fort Lagoon, in multiple locations.
• Z-Arts has opened a new room, The Library of Enchantment in Manchester.

• The Cipher Room has opened a new room, La Rebellion in St Peters, NSW, Australia.
• Labyrinth Escape Rooms has opened a new room, Outbreak in Parramatta, NSW, Australia.
• Scram Escape Rooms has opened a new room, Pharaoh's Tomb in Parramatta, NSW, Australia.
• The Mystery Rooms has opened a new room, Puddington's Toy Shop, in Geelong, VIC, Australia.
• U Escape Room has opened a new room, Little Block Nine in Perth, Australia.

🔊 Listen

• Escape Break: Best of Battle Vol. 3 Mar 04
• Escape Break: Money Money Money Mar 22

• Podcast This Escape - Cards on the Table Mar 01
• I Scream, You Scream - ft. Aurelius Whitlock's Murder Museum Mar 08
• Podcast This Escape - I Scream, You Scream Mar 15
• Schooner or Later - ft. Neil Patrick Harris Mar 22
• Podcast This Escape - Schooner or Later Mar 29

• Rhythmically Relaxes with Rytmos! Mar 02
• Trepidatiously Traverses the Road to Innsmouth! Mar 06

• REPOD Season 4 - Key Moments: Editor’s Choice Mar 07
• Nerding Out with David Spira & Riley Stock on The Community Board Game Show Mar 20

• Mood Rings and Trespass in the Merry Monk Mar 05
• Falling Monks and Robotic Beer Tasting Mar 12
• A Q&A with Gord and Liz from Review the Room Mar 19
• Night at the MOOFseum Mar 26

• Legacy Escape Box
  • Escape Room Interview with player Mitchell Prudhomme
  • The Escape Roomer interview! With Escape Room designer Mairi Nolan

• Future of Storytelling - How to Design an Escape Room
  • ​Escape rooms give audiences the opportunity to use their minds and bodies in an exciting, participatory experience. Victor van Doorn and his company Sherlocked are taking that offering to the next level by integrating deep storytelling into their rooms for an altogether more immersive experience. Hear Victor talk about how to design with an eye towards narrative and flow on today’s episode of the FoST podcast.
• Cipherdelic Pod
  • "Have you ever wondered who oils the cogs of the constantly evolving escape room industry? Think no more. In each episode we speak to a guest from the interactive experience industry to offer you, our listener, a peak behind the curtain."
• Enigmailed Puzzlecast
  • Thoughts perspectives and unpacking of ideas from the man behind Enigmailed Puzzles.
• Life is an Escape Room
  • "The Life Is An Escape Room Podcast explores how the skills you gain playing escape rooms with intention will make you more successful in all aspects of your life."

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