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We've Escaped 2021! An Industry Round-Up Post by Buzzshot 

Buzzshot takes a look at some of the biggest developments in the escape room industry in 2021 and some predictions for 2022. From digital conferences, to the launch of Escape Industry News. Read more:

TERPECA Top Rooms for 2021 Announced in Livestream

Last month the TERPECA's concluded after another successful year. 868 rooms were nominated and 50 were crowned the best in the world. Taking the top spots were Mayto Kingdom in Spain, and Mama Bazooka and Down the Hatch in the Netherlands.

Escape the Review's 50 Best UK Escape Rooms List

To celebrate the end of 2021, Escape the Review have compiled a list of the UK's favourite escape rooms, based on the combined data of thousands of ratings of players from all experience level.
 

2021 Bullseye Awards Ceremony Livestreamed

And rounding off the year in style saw the 2021 Bullseye Awards Ceremony livestreamed featuring special guests and a host of different awards to different escape room companies around the world.

🧾 In Other News

• EscapeTalk.nl publishes their Crowd Favorite List for 2021.
• Enthusiasts in New England (USA) now have a handy database of all rooms and new openings thanks to Escape Room Database...
• ...And those in Perth, Australia have a recent-openings list updated monthly thanks to Mystery Unfolds.
• On Your Marks... Get Set! Early bird tickets for Enigmailed's Fool's Errand: a virtual fitness & puzzle race now on sale.
• How to find the best escape rooms, a guide by Lisa Spira on REA.
• Samantha Bee and Busy Philipps take on a reproductive-rights themed escape room in a new segment for Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.
• The 2021 escape game Secret Santa may be over, but the Puzzling Company Podcast caught up with some of the participants.
• Smart & Mystery Manila have launched an official Money Heist themed digital escape game experience.
• P&O Cruises will now have a submarine themed escape room.
• Unlock search skills with a Slack escape room.
• South Kentish Town station is now home to an escape room, but why was it abandoned in the first place?
• Hareesh Mothi, CEO of Breakout, discussed the VR and escape room gaming landscape in India.
• School Turns Empty Computer Lab into Escape Room for Students in Alexandria, VA with the help of Andrew Nicholson, the Lead Puzzle Designer with Bond’s Escape Room.
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign students create an escape room called “The Haunting of Krannert Manor.”

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🔑 Recent Doors Unlocked 

• Big Escape Rooms has opened a new branch in Birmingham, AL.
• Boxaroo has opened a new room, The Storyteller's Secret in Boston, MA.
• Escape Room Somerset will unveil a pop-up escape room at the Fire and Ice Festival, in Somerset, PA.
• Escape Studio has opened a new room, Pirate Hunter, in Tooele, UT.
• Deadlock Escape has opened a new room, The Prison, in St. Charles, MO.
• Dreamscape has opened a new site in Paramus, NJ.
• Outta Time Excape Rooms has reopened in Charleston, WV.
• PanIQ has opened a new site in Boston, MA.
• Red Door Escape will be opening a new site next month in Riverton, UT.
• Reveler Immersive Experiences will be opening in Richmond, VA.
• St. Louis Escape is opening a Jurassic Park themed escape room in St. Louis.
• The Bureau has opened a new room, UFO: Go for Launch in Orlando, FL.
• The Great Escape Room opens a new site in St. Petersburg, FL.
• The Historic Rice County Jail has opened an escape room, The Slammer, in Lyons, KS.

• Exit Escape Games has opened a new branch in Penticton, BC.
• iSPY Escape Games has opened a new room, Hangover, in Fredericton, NB.

• Bavanshee Escape Games will be opening a new escape room in Aberdeen.
• Cyber Q have opened a new game, The Abandoned Submarine, in Worcester.
• Deadlocked has announced they will be closing their Loughborough site soon.
• Escape Hunt have opened a new branch in Milton Keynes.
• Houdini's Escape has opened a new branch in Bristol.
• Locked Escapes has opened a new branch in St Albans.
• London Escaped have opened a Squid Game themed escape room in London.
• P&O Cruises has unveiled details about it's first escape room on the ship Arvia departing from Southampton.
• Red Herring Escape Rooms has opened a new room, Tomb Raided, in Carlisle.
• Room Escape Southend has opened a new room, Abandoned, in Southend.
• Solaire Games has opened in Bedford.
• The Great Big Escape will be launching next month in Dorchester.
• The Lockup has opened a new game, Mutiny, in Sheffield.
• The Puzzle Room has opened in Cannock.

• Elude Escape Rooms have opened their new room Torquay in Galston, Australia.
• Escape Hunt has opened a new room, The Sword and the Stone, in Fremantle, Australia.
• EscapeThis has opened two new rooms, Pirate Island and The Possession in Northbridge, Australia.
• Padlock'd Escape Rooms is opening a new site in Queensland, Australia.
• Ultimate Roomscape has opened a new room, The Warrens, in Malaga, Australia.

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