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EnigMarch - A Daily Puzzle Creation Challenge

"EnigMarch" is a daily puzzle creation challenge. Every day in March, the team will share a prompt that can be used as inspiration to create any kind of puzzle, from cryptograms to mazes to chess problems to those fruit-counting ones you see on Facebook. All skill levels are welcome, from expert puzzlesmiths to absolute beginners—you don’t have to create a masterpiece, just something that’s convincingly a puzzle. 

Journey to Middle Earth in upcoming EXIT: The Game at-home escape room

In their recent catalogue announcement, Thames and Kosmos unveiled a new Lord of the Rings title for their EXIT series. 

Fans can help save Middle-earth in EXIT: The Lord of the Rings — Shadows Over Middle-earth. As with all EXIT: The Game titles, Shadows Over Middle-earth will require players to solve riddles and clues as quickly as possible to beat the game.

Ford showcases an escape room game built into the Mustang Mach E
 

Ford has revealed a concept for an in-car escape-room style game, which it says could help drivers familiarise themselves with their car’s controls. A video released by the manufacturer shows a Mustang Mach E presenting its occupants with a ‘spy game’ that takes those inside the car on a ‘secret mission.’ The challenge begins with a word puzzle, after which they’re instructed to drive to a location. Various pieces of equipment in the car such as the speaker system, the electric seats, power tailgate air conditioning and headlights are used as part of the interactive game, though only while the car is static.

🧾 In Other News

• The No Proscenium Audience Awards are now live for voting - containing many escape room style nominees.
• Escape Kent secure investment for their new escape room venture after appearing on Dragon's Den.
• Escape Room, the book by Christopher Ledge has launched to positive reviews.
• Ubisoft is developing a new VR escape room based on the 2019 fires in Notre-Dame.
• Mr. Beast's "world's most dangerous escape room" has reached 50,000,000 views on his Youtube channel.
• The Infinite Escape Room podcast have a new snack sponsor: Enigmailed's Chocolateral
• Bond's Escape Room puts on an escape room at a high school.
• Armchair Escapist announce their top five at-home puzzle games.
• Spectre & Vox announce an additional 500 copies of their game will go on sale.
• Solve Escape Rooms pays each successful win forward to charity, as reported by the Shepherd Express.
• Hourglass Escapes in Seattle partners with Aftermath Islands to create unique escape rooms in the 'metaverse'.
• Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson rent out 60Out Escape Room for a date night.
• Grim Life Collective go behind the scenes at the official SAW Escape Room in Las Vegas.
• Crawlspaces versus Low Doorways in Escape Rooms, a new article by Room Escape Artist.
• Escape Revolution featured in The World According to Jeff Goldblum.
• CBR ranks their 10 favourite escape room games

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🔑 Recent Doors Unlocked 

• Alecatraz Escape Rooms is opening a new room, Dr. Picaloo's Laboratory, in Traverse City, MI.
• Boda Borg Boston has opened a new quest, Eye of the Storm, in Boston.
• Boxaroo has reopened their room, The Storyteller's Secret in Boston, MA.
• Codeword Escape has launched a new room, Gangster Gnomes 2, in Rocky Hill, CT.
• Entangled Marysville has opened a new room, Dead Man's Cove, in Marysville, WA.
• NEO Escape Rooms will be opening a new room, The Haunted Train in Sacramento, CA.
• Mystified Escape Rooms has launched a new room, Lair of the Mystic Witch, in Mystic, CT.
• Newport Escape Room has opened in Newport, RI.
• PanIQ has opened a new game, Atlantis Rising, in Boston, MA.
• The Escape Game has a new experience, the Timeliner launching this spring in Nashville, TN.
• The Escape Room has launched a new room, The Blind Tiger Speakeasy in Portland, ME.
• The Great Escape Room has opened a new site in Burlington, VT.
• Stillwater Escape Co has opened with three rooms in Stillwater, MN.
• Wild Heart Ranch is an airbnb with an immersive puzzle to solve, just opened in Joshua Tree, CA.

• Aquatarium has launched a new escape room in Brockville, ON.
• Captured Escape Rooms is opening a new room, The Study, in Halifax, NS.

• Beverley Breakout have opened a new room, The Goblins of Toadsmead in Beverley.
• Breakout Chester is opening a new zombie themed room, Dead End, in Chester.
• City Mazes Cardiff has opened a new room, The Runner, in Cardiff.
• Escape Hunt Milton Keynes has opened a new room, Aladdin, in Milton Keynes.
• Escape in Time will be launching Escape from the Golden Hinde soon in London.
• Escape Plan is reopening their escape room Battle for Britain, in London.
• Houdini's has opened a new branch in Nottingham.
• Hourglass Escapes has reopened The Castle's Secret in Peterborough.
• Keylock Games has opened with two rooms in Wickford.
• Locked Escape St. Albans is opening a new room, The Dig, in St. Albans.
• Royal Museums Greenwich announces a virtual escape room, The Cursed Collector.
• Salisbury Escape Rooms is opening a second room in Salisbury.
• Scuba Escape has opened with three rooms in Liverpool.
• Sudbury Escape Rooms has opened a site in Sudbury.
• The Engine has opened a new room, The Heist, in Dursley.
• The Great Escape Sheffield has opened a new room, Wizards of Time, in Sheffield.
• The Panic Room has opening a new room, Castle of Memories in Gravesend.
• Ware Escape Rooms has opened a new room, Deadly Sins, in Ware.

• Escape HQ has updated it's room, The Dark Side of the Room in Hamilton, NZ.
• Padlockd Escape has opened a new room, The Dollhouse, in Surfer's Paradise, Australia.
• Project Immersive is opening a new room, Nuclear Enrichment, in Yeronga, Australia.
• Strike Escape Rooms has opened in Forrest Chase, Perth, Australia.
• Time's Up has opened a new room, Ruins, in Perth, Australia.
• Time's Up has opened a new site in Bunbury, Australia.

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