A report from Up The Game 2017

Tim Horwood, co-proprietor of Derby’s escape game game Make Your Escape was one of several UK owners to visit the Up The Game conference in Amsterdam in the surrounds of the impressive Breda Prison Dome. He kindly wrote about his experience for Exit Games UK. As escape room operators ourselves, last year’s inaugural Up The Game … Continue reading A report from Up The Game 2017

Escape Room Rumours – 30 January 2017

Another week, another rumour round up… This site is always on the look out for new games or venues that are opening, references in the media or anything else that might be of interest to the readers, so please do send an email if you spot anything of interest. That applies to owner too – feel free to send … Continue reading Escape Room Rumours – 30 January 2017

Coming soon to your own home: Escape Room in a Box

A phrase that I once heard and has got stuck in my mind runs “say it best, say it first, say it last or say it worst”. By cute coincidence, the only citation for it that I can quickly find comes from Professor Scott Nicholson of white paper and Escape Enthusiasts fame. Today’s article is … Continue reading Coming soon to your own home: Escape Room in a Box

Looking forward to the Unconference in Leeds next Wednesday

(Posted by Dr. Scott Nicholson from the Ontario Escape Room Unconference 2015.) This site has mentioned the “The Great Escape UK” unconference next Wednesday a few times; tickets are still available with registration open until at least Sunday. That ticketing page confirms the venue (a mile from the coach station, half a mile from the … Continue reading Looking forward to the Unconference in Leeds next Wednesday

The 2015/2016 Survey and some events coming up

This site has just sent out 75 e-mails to exit games in the UK, with representing total of 88 locations, inviting them to take part in a survey. If you see this and didn’t get the survey – either because this site might have used the wrong address, or couldn’t find an address at all … Continue reading The 2015/2016 Survey and some events coming up

Late October news round-up: the Foreign Office

Closer each day… Home and Away. Following on from yesterday’s home news, here’s the remaining news from around the world. Today sees the sold-out Ontario Escape Room Unconference 2015 at Ryerson University in Toronto. It is being chaired by the irrepressible Dr. Scott Nicholson, the foremost academic in the field – but, being an unconference, … Continue reading Late October news round-up: the Foreign Office

Early September news round-up

Let’s dive right in to the latest assortment of links: Episode six of Race to Escape was broadcast on Saturday night and has made its way to illicit video-sharing sites already. This was the final episode of the first series, which this site broadly considers to have been a triumph, with every episode bursting with … Continue reading Early September news round-up

Interview with the Cyberdrome Crystal Maze team

What’s your favourite game of all time? Any sort of game: board game, video game, card game, puzzle game, physical game, computer game, role-playing game, exit game, all sorts of other genres of game, whatever you like; compare your favourites from each medium against each other and pick a favourite. Too hard? You can narrow … Continue reading Interview with the Cyberdrome Crystal Maze team

Late July news

Three quick news stories: 1) The warmest of welcomes to London-focused new exit games weblog The Logic Escapes Me. It’s full of well-written reviews, noting that that is a route that this site has never gone down. It’s not completely clear who the site author is, but this site has a pretty good guess. (Actually, … Continue reading Late July news

News round-up: convention, DASH 7 video and sudoku championships

Lots going on at the moment. Normally this would be three separate posts, but there’s so much else to write about! 1) This site recently mentioned the Escape Games Convention in Stuttgart, Germany on 4th September. Katharina Wulf of co-hosts ExitVentures (who are apparently putting together a printed German-language magazine) wrote on a forum as … Continue reading News round-up: convention, DASH 7 video and sudoku championships