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RECON - Reality Escape Convention takes place August 22-23rd, 2021

For the past year, in much of our community, escape rooms have been largely dormant. We see this summer as their rebirth, with RECON ‘21 ushering in change. Together, we’ll cast aside old ways of thinking and embrace new ideas. We present a collection of featured talks guided by where we’re going, not where we’ve been.

"Planning Your Escape" by Laura E. Hall launched August 3rd, 2021

The past year may have been a difficult one for the escape room industry, but just as escape rooms are reopening around the world, Laura E. Hall’s new book Planning Your Escape: Strategy Secrets to Make You an Escape Room Superstar launches to fanfare today on the 3rd of August 2021. After a year of being locked inside the book's launch feels like a huge landmark for the industry, and it couldn’t come soon enough.

🧾 In Other News

• ER Champ returns for 2021 and announces that team sign-ups will be live from now until the competition in November. Which team will take the cup this year?
• nerdist.com publishes a new article "Five Things We're Most Looking Forward to at RECON" - perfect for planning your RECON schedule
• It's been one month since Escape Room: Tournament of Champions launched at cinemas to a middling 45% on Rotten Tomatoes. Armchair Escapist jokingly describes the movie "Beautiful sets let down by shocking health and safety standards​"
• At the UK Games Expo last month, Kosmos unveiled it's EXiT The Game Advent Calendar, and Escape Plan Ltd. showcased it's new board game, Hit The Silk! Both available for pre-order.
• USA Today reveals their 10 best escape rooms for 2021.
• The New York Times Wirecutter Magazine reveals it's 5 favourite Mystery Game subscriptions.

📆 Upcoming Dates for your Diary

🔑 Recent Doors Unlocked 

• Albuquerque Escape Room opens in New Mexico with three escape rooms
• Aunt Spazz opens an escape room in Connecticut
• Clue Chase reopens their physical site in New York
• ENCrypt opens ‘Mystery in District 24’ opens at Elkhorn Valley Museum in Nebraska
• Escape at Hilton Orlando opens from July 2 - October 31 in Florida
• Escape Muncie opens a second location in Muncie, Indiana.
• Escapology opens a new site in Clackamas, Oregon with four escape rooms.
• Mad Genius Escapes reopens with a new room, 'Unicorn Birthday Party'
• Quest Room opens new room 'Project Minotaur' in California.
• PanIQ opens a new site with 5 rooms in Las Vegas, NV
• Puzzlescape opens in Hudson, MA with their room 'The Legend of Pepe'
• Winchester Mystery House opens an escape room, 'Houdini's Spirited Escape'.

• None! Got news? Let us know 👉 [email protected]

• Agent November will be running their Robyn Yew experience in Brighton and at the Edinburgh Fringe this August
• Courtyard Escapes has opened in Stourbridge with two escape rooms
• Divergent Games has reopened in Falkirk with a new room: Mystery & Moonshine
• Enigma Rooms have opened a new branch in Skegness.
• The Lost Crypt have opened an escape room in a real church crypt on the Isle of Wight.
• Outfoxed! has opened in Sudbury with a new game, The Peacock Palace

• None! Got news? Let us know 👉 [email protected]

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