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The 2021 TERPECA season is here

TERPECA (Top Escape Rooms Project Enthusiasts Choice Awards) is a project to find the very best escape rooms in the world, as chosen by enthusiasts and it's back for 2021. Nominations are open through October, and Voting will begin in November. 

🧾 In Other News

• See kids compete to build the most mind blowing escape rooms in Peacock's Create the Escape. The show premieres on October 7th.
• Wrongful Conviction, The Game - The New Yorker | After an exonerated convict participated in a prison-break escape room, he told his girlfriend, “There’s no way to explain it other than it wasn’t realistic.” 
• On BBC Radio 4, writer Anna Freeman spoke with Sheyi Thomas, founder of Fox in a Box London about the pull of escape rooms in the UK.
• "Rapid growth of horror-themed escape rooms in China raises concerns about the impact on minors." Read more at the Global Times.
• ICYMI: More RECON 2021! Watch now on Youtube.
• Escape room designer Laura E. Hall is running a 31 Days of Halloween newsletter for the duration of October. Sign up here.
• Got a Pet Detective who helps solve at-home escape rooms? Check out this competition from ESCAPETHEROOMers.
• Those interested in escape room design may enjoy Manda Whitney's latest in the Escape Room Narrative series: The Teaser, or Richard Burn's article on Untying Your Escape Room Stories.

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🔑 Recent Doors Unlocked 

• The Exit Game opens a new branch in Anaheim, CA 
• Escape Lincoln opens a new haunted escape room in Lincoln, NE.
• Escape Tech opens a new room, Beyond Extinction in Salem, OR.
• Escapology open a new Star Trek themed escape room, Star Trek: Quantum Filament in Las Vegas, NV.
• Indiana Historical Society announces they're adding an escape room to the Madam C.J. Walker exhibit in 
• Locktopia will be opening a new escape room in IN. Houston, TX.
• St. Louis Escape have opened two new Halloween escape rooms, themed around Dracula and Frankenstein, in MO.
• Time Emporium have opened a new branch in Estes Park, CO.

• Diefenbunker Museum have opened their second escape room called Radioactive, in Ottawa.
• Escape the Ghost Ship is a new escape room experience from Secret City Adventures and Pirate Life launching this month in Ottawa.
• The Trick or Treat Trap opens in Aquatarium in Brockville, ON.

• Aviemore Escape Rooms has opened in Aviemore with two rooms.
• Contained Liverpool re-opens their horror escape room, The Exorcist this month in Liverpool.
• Escape Entertainment have opened a new room, Castle Heir, in Cheltenham.
• Escape Rooms Kings Lynn have opened a new room, Shackled, in Kings Lynn.
• Escape Rooms Suffolk have opened a new room, The Church, in Bury St Edmunds.
• The Escapologist launch a new room, Almost Alice in Leeds.
• Go Escape has opened a new room, Prisoner, in Dunfermline.
• Houdini's have opened a new branch with two rooms in Gloucester.
• Leas Lift Lockout have opened a new room, Jurassic Journey in Folkestone.
• The Lost Librarian escape room will be touring Devon libraries this October and November.
• Tricky Escape has opened a new room, The Grand Portobello Heist in Walton.
• Who-Dini will be opening a new site later this month in Essex.

• The Sydney Opera House has launched a new virtual escape room, The Disappearing Act.

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