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Happy October, escapees! 👋 Escape Room Day aside, October marks the beginning of a great season for the escape room industry. Most notably, it's TERPECA season! Make sure you get your nominations in ahead of voting next month. As for us, we've been busy at Escape Industry News. Just two days ago in Lyon we attended the Salon de L'Escape Game and the French Escape Game Awards (see below)
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and next up we're looking forward to the Immersive Experience Summit later this month - particularly all the exciting talks ERIC (Escape Room Industry Conference) has lined up. Whatever you're up to as an owner or enthusiast this October, we hope it's a thoroughly spooky one. As always, if you have any escape room news you'd like to share for the newsletter please do email it over at any time in the month. Mairi Nolan Editor of Escape Industry News P.S. If a friend has forwarded you this email, please consider subscribing! Â
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TERPECA 2024 Nominations are Now Open If you've played over 200 escape rooms, you're eligible to nominate rooms for TERPECA (Top Escape Rooms Project Enthusiasts Choice Awards). Nominations are due October 31 at 11:59 PM Pacific time.
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RECON Remote 25 has been announced In a recent update, the RECON team announced that next summer, 2025, RECON will once again be a remote event, accessible from anywhere in the world. RECON Remote 25 will take place August 17-18, 2025.
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State of the Escape Room Industry Report 2024 (Owner’s Survey) has been released The State of the Escape Room Industry report by SEO ORB has been published. This report is based on an escape room owners survey, which saw 364 respondents this year from escape rooms all around the world. It features some very interesting findings, which you can read here:
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"Ready, Players" at LEAG Not quite news, but we wanted to share something interesting: Buzzshot, our sponsor also sponsors a German escape room owner podcast called "Ready, Players?". At the LEAG Convention earlier this month, the podcast ran a live episode about how to build a TERPECA-winning escape room. The episode will only be available in German, but if you're able to listen, we think you'll enjoy it!
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• The latest issue of ERA (Escape Rooms Australia) is now live, this covers all the biggest escape room news from Australia for the past few months. • Tickets are now on sale for EGA2024 which takes place later this month (note, this page is in Chinese) • Morty App, the escape room review site, has announced a membership system. Details here. • Room Escape Artist has posted an interesting piece on escape room wear and tear. • Unlocking Curiosity: Transforming the Rijksmuseum with an Escape Room Experience Not quite an escape room but we think you'll be interested in... • Take part in an immersive experience survey, Room Escape Artist has all the details here. • A recent article in the LA Times covers The Morrison Game Factory. • I was recently invited to write another deep-dive on an escape room series for Thinky Games, this month The Room. Separately, you may be interested in their monthly puzzle game round-up.
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📆 Upcoming Dates for your Diary
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🔑 Recent Doors Unlocked
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🇺🇸 Deadlock Escape has opened a new room, The Bank, in St. Charles, MO. Devils' Den Escape has opened a new room, The Other Side, in Mechanicsville, MD. Escape Much has opened a new site with two rooms in Glen Rock, NJ. Escape Room Loco has opened a new room, Into the Upside Down in Leesburg, VA. Escape Rooms Unlocked has opened a new room, The Transylvania Murder Mystery, in Sarasota, FL. Escapology Clackamas has opened a new room, Arizona Shootout in Clackamas, OR. Exithis has opened a new room, Crash Landing, in Ontario, OH. Exodus Escape Room has opened a new room, deFROSTed, in Anaheim, CA. Expedition Escape has opened a new room, Curse of the Hidden Temple in King of Prussia, PA. Fox in a Box Miami has just opened two new rooms in Miami, FL. Game Master Escape Rooms has opened a new room, The Alchemist, in San Rafael CA. Intrepid Escape Rooms has opened a new room, The Haunted Terminal, in Tustin CA. Limitless has reopened two Halloween games in Livermore, CA. MPower Escape has reopened The Haunted Cabin for October in Morgan Hill, CA. Strange Bird Immersive has opened a new room, THE ENDings, in Houston, TX. Tactical Escape 101 has opened a pop-up room, Mystery at Schlegelmilch, in Eau Claire, WI. Unchartered Adventures has opened a new room in Live Oak, TX. 🇨🇦 We couldn't find any this month! Know one? Let us know. 🇬🇧/🇮🇪 Aviemore Escape Rooms has opened a new room, Return to the Bothy, in Aviemore. Ayrshire Mobile Escape Rooms has opened a new room, World of Wizards, in Ayrshire. Caerphilly Escape Rooms has opened a new room, The Witch in the Woods, in Caerphilly. Case Closed has announced a mini-game The Brief Cases in Edinburgh. Clue HQ has opened a new room, Captain Riddle's Forgotten Fortune in Somerton. Cluetopia has opened a new room, Raiders of the Stormy Sea in Ipswich. CTRL ALT ESC has opened a new room, Escaping Neverland, in Margate. Enigma Quest has opened a new experience, Escape Room Arcade, in London. Escapable have opened a new room, Prank Heist, in Wakefield. Escape Basildon has opened a new room, The Brig, in Basildon. Escape From the Room has opened a new room, The Lost Caves of Moon Bay in Wallington Escape Kent has opened a new room, The Bomb, in Faversham. Escape Live has opened a new room, Horrible Histories Mystery Museum in Coventry. Exciting Game has opened a new room, Shelter Z, in Birmingham. Horton's Emporium has opened a new room, The Castle of Memories and taken over Logiclock's rooms in Nottingham. Houdini's has opened a new room, Creepy Carnival, in Gloucester. Locked In - Escape Rooms Cornwall has opened a new room, Puzzle Escape Room 2.0, in Cambourne. Mansion of Mystery has reopened with one room in Carmarthenshire. PanIQ Rooms Wales has opened a new room, Escape the Victory, in Porthmadog. The Panic Room has announced a new room, A Great Escape, in Dartford. Whitley Bay's Pirate Escape has opened a new room, Nightmare Manor, in Whitley Bay. Valley Escape has opened a new room, Brewster's Millions in Swansea. 🇦🇺/🇳🇿 Breakout Bendigo has opened a new room, Buccaneers Bounty, in Bendigo, VIC. Eclipse Escape Rooms has opened a new room, The Flaming Pearl, in Surfer's Paradise, QLD. Escape Academy has opened a new room, The Cursed Carnival, in Townsville, QLD. Escape Hunt has opened a new room, Alice in Puzzleland, in Gold Coast, QLD. Escape This has opened a new room, Sherlock Holmes: Telephone in Perth, WA. Extreme Escape has opened a new room, Red Creek Asylum, in Melbourne, VIC. Icebreak Escape Room has opened a new room, Redemption, in Sydney, NSW. Locked In has opened a new room, Enchanted Forest, in Mornington, VIC. Lost in Melbourne has opened five new rooms in Melbourne, VIC. Lost Locks has opened a new room, Mad Monster, in Surfer's Paradise, QLD. Lost Reality has opened two new escape rooms in Perth, WA. Padlock'd has opened a new room, The Crystal Mine, in Surfer's Paradise, QLD. Ultimate Roomscape has opened a new room, Meltdown, in Perth, WA. Scarborough Fair Escape Rooms has opened a new room, The Great Comic Book Heist in Caringbah, NSW. Social Escape has opened a new room, The First of Them, in Sydney, NSW. The Great Escape has opened a new room, Paranormal Activities, in Melbourne, VIC. Time's Up has opened a new room, Lost Loot, in Perth, WA. TRAPT has opened a new room, Shady Jim's Jewellery, in Melbourne, VIC.
📩 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), ERA Mag (Australia), Morty App (Global)
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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: What Happens in Vegas... Sept 5 • Escape Break: ...Stays in Vegas Sept 20 Escape This Podcast "A show that’s a mix of escape room puzzles and tabletop role-playing." • Podcast This Escape - Exit Exam Sept 4 • Where Heir You? ft. Katherine Quigley Sept 11 • Podcast This Escape - Where Heir You? Sept 18 Escapuzzled Podcast "Your one stop shop for all things escape rooms, immersive experiences, puzzles, virtual and tabletop escapes. In this podcast we'll be delving into all things escape rooms and talking to industry leading owners, creatives and designers to unlock the secrets behind these experiences." • Stephen Lockyer - Enigmailed Sept 12 • David Spira - Room Escape Artist Sept 25 Reality Escape Podcast "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. Our aim is to bring together different segments of the gaming world and share ideas between them." • REPOD Special Release: Escape Room Adventures Bonus Preview Sept 23 • Exploding Onto Netflix: Elan Lee (S8E1) Sept 30
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.​" • The World's Veiniest Pumpkin (Rotary Club Part 2) Sept 8 • The Thursday S*x Club (Rotary Club Part 3) Sept 15 • The Cog and Marrow (Rotary Club Part 4) Sept 22 • Stupid S*xy Ardvarks (Timpson's Prison's Part 1) Sept 29 The Mystery Soup Podcast "Hosts Curt Jackson and Chris Kallal explore the business and design sides of the escape room industry. Guests include escape room owners, designers, game masters, and enthusiasts." • Byron Delmonico of R.I. Riddle Room Sept 2 • Audrey and Katie of Daydream Adventures Sept 10 • Robert and Joe of Giant Dream Productions Sept 17 • Mark Blume with Keystone Escape Games Sept 24 Â
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For this month's puzzle, let's get spooky with another classic riddle: Who makes it, has no need for it. Whoever buys it won’t use it. Who uses it, won’t care. What am I? Tweet us your answer @escapeindustry
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