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Greetings, Escape Industry Newsletter Readers 👋 It looks like we've "marched" into a brand new month! One filled with new escape room openings around the world (including some unique IPs), as well as plenty of fun puzzley events both for designers and enthusiasts, and of course all the biggest stories from the industry. On a light hearted note, this newsletter has been running for about 3 years now, which made me realise that this is our first 'leap year' as a newsletter. Which means you get a whole extra day's worth of escape room news, haha. In any case, you may be pleased to hear we actually spent the extra day playing escape rooms. As always, if you have any news to share, or know of an escape room opening near you - please let us know by hitting "reply" to this email at any time. Until then, may you solve all your puzzles and find all the keys!
Mairi Editor of Escape Industry News
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That's a Wrap on the Interactive Entertainment Show at TransWorld In St. Louis, MO The nation's largest dedicated conference for the Interactive Entertainment Industry at TransWorld (formerly Room Escape Show) took place this weekend. The conference covers all things "interactive entertainment", including escape rooms. This year Buzzshot again took part again, and we made our own Puzzle Hunt for participants to enjoy! See you all next year! 👋
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Now Available on YouTube: REPOD Season 1 For fans of the escape room podcast REPOD, the Room Escape team are uploading all original episodes to their Youtube channel. As described: "Season 1 was a pandemic project. It launched in February of 2021. We had a lot of wonderful guests that covered a diverse range of immersive and gaming arts. In this season, we gave ourselves the freedom to try out a lot of different things."
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"The Escape Plan", an official Fire Safety themed VR Escape Room has been released In partnership with Meta, FEMA’s Ready Campaign, the Ad Council and the U.S. Fire Administration co-launched a new virtual reality experience promoting fire safety awareness. According to FEMA's website, "In “The Escape Plan,” users must work through various obstacles to make a timely escape from an apartment building fire. The free virtual reality experience lets users practice their fire escape skills on their own time and in a safe, controlled environment and can be used with virtual reality equipment."
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📆 Upcoming Dates for your Diary
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🇺🇸 • Breakout has opened a new room, Kidnapping 2: Afraid of the Dark, in Virginia Beach, VA, Chattanooga, TN and Lexington, KY. • Decode Detroit has opened an outdoor experience, Finding Stella, in Ann Arbor, MI. • Dolus Escape Room has opened a new room, Killer in Cosmo's Cantina, in East Liverpool, OH. • Escape 60 has opened a new room, Ghost Hunters, in Peoria, IL. • Escape 812 has opened a new room, The Cabin, in Columbus, IN. • Extreme Escape has opened two new rooms, Society Zero and Carnevil, in San Antonio, TX. • Game Master Escape Rooms has opened with three rooms in San Rafael, CA. • Hatch Escape has opened a highly anticipated new room, The Ladder, in Los Angeles, CA. • Intense Escape has opened a new room, Clown Town, in Bradenton, FL. • Pecan Lake Entertainment has opened three escape rooms in Queen Creek, AZ • The Order of the Golden Scribe has reopened in New York, NY. • Wonderland Madhouse has opened a new Alice in Wonderland themed room in Tannersville, PA. 🇨🇦 • Finfino Evasion has opened with three rooms, in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC. • La Clef De L'Énigme has announced a new room, Help Jacky the Gingerbread, in Boucherville, QC. • Mayze has opened a new room, Asylum of Sins, in Toronto, ON. • Pris au Piège has opened two new rooms in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, QC. • Skedaddle Escape Rooms has announced a new Jumanji themed escape room in Brockville, ON. 🇬🇧
• Alderford Escape Islands has announced their summer 2024 rooms, in Alderford. • Case Closed is opening a new room, Radio Nowhere, in Edinburgh. • Courtyard Escapes has opened a new room, The Show Must Go On, in Stourbridge. • Escape Blackwood has opened a new room, Debt Collector, in Blackwood. • Escape Rooms Cheltenham are reopening Cheese Robbers, in Cheltenham. • Gwent Escape Rooms has opened a new room, Flat 97, in Abertillery. • High Wycombe Escape Rooms has opened a new room, Edna’s Easter Eggstravaganza, in high Wycombe. • Hourglass Games has opened a new room, Escape the Pirate Ship, in Jinney Ring Craft Centre in Hanbury. • Ipswich Escape Rooms have opened a new room, The Secret of the Tomb, in Ipswich. • LevelUp Escapes has opened a new room, Operation Overload, in Shrewsbury. • Locked In Leeds have opened a new room, The Dragon Throne in Leeds. • Major Mind Games is opening a new room, The Show Must Go On, in Horsham. • Mansion of Mystery is reopening in Carmarthenshire. • Mythologic is opening a new room, Raiders of the Lost Galleon in Gillingham. • Paradox Parlours has opened a new room, Enchanted Relic: Wizard’s Enigma, in Woking. • Room Lockdown has opened a new room, Hillbilly Livin' in Hornchurch. • The Great Big Escape has opened a new room, Nebula Navigators, in Dorchester. • Thunderbowl have opened two new rooms in Kettering. 🇦🇺/🇳🇿 • Mcube has opened with one room and two planned soon in Adelaide, SA. • Strike Bowling Darling Harbour recently opened a pop-up licensed The Walking Dead themed experience in Sydney, NSW. • The Cool Space has opened a new experience, Seance, in Sydney, NSW.
📩 Have we missed an opening near you? Reply to this email and let us know! A shout out to the resources & individuals who were a huge help this month: Escape the Review (UK), Rich Bragg, (USA), Morty App (USA), ERA Mag (Australia)
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Last month in Podcasts, Radio & Live Shows
Cager Express: Escape Break "Escape Break featuring Beth Divel and Tatiyana Abarro: Southern California's premier escape room podcast show. We recap fun rooms, interviews and bizarre topics!" • Escape Break: This is 300! Feb 1 • Escape Break: Escape Room Matchmaker Feb 8 • Escape Break: Is Wild Goose Good? Feb 15 • Escape Break: Would You Rather Feb 22 • Escape Break: Leap Day Feb 29 Escape This Podcast "A show that’s a mix of escape room puzzles and tabletop role-playing." • Podcast This Escape - Realty Fakery Feb 7 • Class Pet Peeves ft. Spencer Beebe Feb 14 • Podcast This Escape - Class Pet Peeves Feb 21 • By Merlin's Beard ft. Tom Scott and David Bodycombe Feb 28 Live from the CodeBar Live from the CodeBar is a twice-monthly podcast about Armchair Treasure Hunts, codes, ciphers, puzzles, Escape Rooms as well as ARG's and puzzle subscription boxes. • "The World's Greatest Treasure Hunt" Part 1 Feb 9 Reality Escape Pod "Your hosts David Spira & Peih-Gee Law explore immersive gaming from all angles. Our guests have made awesome stuff: ARGs, puzzle hunts, tabletop games, and of course, escape rooms." • Season 6 Key Moments Feb 21 • Spoilers Club: Ghost of Mentryville Preview Feb 24 The Infinite Escape Room "The puzzling podcast where a gaggle of geographically diverse chums come together, have a drink - and work together to solve a home made escape room of the ears." • Unter Der Sea Feb 4 • Pubisode - Snowballs and Mead at The Drowning Point Feb 11 • Apples and tentacles Feb 18 • A pint of madness at The Cosmic Horror Feb 25 These podcasts may not have released new episodes this month, but are well worth checking out:
• Locked in a Podcast
”Locked In a Podcast” is an escape room themed podcast from the team at The Panic Room. Alex & co will take listeners on an exciting journey through the world of escape rooms. • 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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March's puzzle comes in honour of this year being a leap year. It's a bit of a 'trick question' but one that fooled (and amused) me. How many seconds are in a leap year? Tweet us your answer at @escapeindustry Or highlight to Reveal: 12! January 2nd... February 2nd... etc.
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