What is an escape room?

An escape room is a real-life adventure game where you pay to be locked in a room filled with puzzles and given a limited time (usually 60 minutes) to solve the puzzles with your team in order to escape the room. There are also virtual video game escape rooms.

• Real-life room escape on Wikipedia
• Locked In: Behind the Scenes of the Escape Room Craze from Make Magazine
• ‘Escape Rooms’ Challenge Players To Solve Puzzles To Get Out story from NPR
• In Escape Rooms, Video Games Meet Real Life article from the New York Times

Who designs escape rooms?

• Blacklight Attractions
• Game Masters Live Escape Rooms
• The Ha Ha Shop (lots of great ideas for puzzle items)
• Escape Game Design
• Race to Escape TV show on the Science Channel

What are best practices for designing escape rooms?

• How to Design an Escape Room article from Fast Company
• Being a Room Escape Puzzle Master for a Night from the Room Escape Artist blog
• Tips and trends in making escape games from Adam Clare
• Designing a real-life Escape the Room experience from Gamasutra
• What are any puzzle ideas for real escape rooms? from Quora

Where can I find escape rooms?

• Epic Escape Game (Phoenix)
• Escape Adventure AZ (Mesa)
• Escape the Room AZ (Scottsdale)
• Key Quest Escape Room (Phoenix)
• PanIQ Escape Room (Phoenix)
• Phoenix Escape Room (North Phoenix, Gilbert)
• Trapped in a Room With a Zombie (Phoenix)
• Escape Room Directory (Worldwide)
• Escape Games from Addicting Games