Welcome to your not very weekly fix of UK and Irish escape room news covering everything that this site has discovered in the last couple of weeks!
Exit Games is always on the look-out for new rooms 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 owners too – feel free to send me your news for inclusion here. Don’t be shy!
On to the news
- National
- If a day of puzzles out in the open air sounds good then you might want to consider signing up for DASH 11 – an international puzzle hunt that takes place in many different countries on the same day. If you can get to London on 21 September and pull together a team of 3-5 players then everything I’ve heard about it is positive.
- If puzzles at home are more your thing then the UK Puzzles Championship is set to take place this weekend. Set yourself aside two and a half hours and see how you stack up against the country’s best puzzlers. Think sudoku style of logic but in much more interesting forms.
- Sir Andy Murray was interviewed about his recovery from a hip injury and mentioned escape rooms as one of the things he now enjoys doing.
- Finally, there’s a new escape room book launching tomorrow. I know nothing about it but it strikes me that many of you will be interested!
- West Midlands
- Hatton Escape Rooms is a new venture from Tulleys Escape Room, a venue with a strong reputation amongst UK enthusiasts. They’ll be opening their original two games, Mutiny and The Outfitters before adding brand new games at the venue.
- Grand Escape in Birmingham opened Alice in Wonderland
- Escape Time Burton opened The Basement.
- East Midlands
- Deadlocked Rooms Loughborough is the third venue from the Deadlocked team, joining their Reading and Northampton venues. Two games are in the pipeline but neither has yet been named publicly.
- South East England
- Clue Cracker, the company that opened the first game in Margate are relaunching their original game over in Tunbridge Wells.
- The Locked Room in Eastbourne opened Extraction
- The Panic Room Gravesend (Market) closed Secret of Pocahontas
- Escape For Real in Milton Keynes opened Beyond Zero
- Scramm in Banbury opened Virus
- The Real Escape in Portsmouth opened The Mindset Challenge
- Exciting Escapes Portsmouth opened Millennium Meltdown
- Knockout Escape Rooms in Reading opened The Curious Cabin
- Escape Windsor opened Caved In
- London
- Escape the Jacket has reopened (albeit briefly) at Upper Norwood library. Be quick though – it closes at the weekend.
- HintHunt opened The Golden Share
- Room Lockdown opened Pirate Escape
- Buckingham Palace (The Queen’s Gallery) opened Leonardo Artmergency!
- Spy City isn’t an escape room but if you like immersive gaming then it might be up your alley.
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Escape Doncaster has closed its doors.
- South West England
- M4 Escapes is a new venue opening in Chippenham at a Go Kart centre. The first game is a WWII themed bunker escape.
- Riddlr in Bristol opened The Wizard’s Apprentice
- Excape is a new venue that’s opened in Exmouth with their first game called The Game’s Afoot
- Escape Time in St Ives has launched the outdoor Cluetivity-designed games, Operation Mindfall and Magic Portal
- Blog posts
- Room Escape Artist
- Breaking Out of a Habit
- Escape the Review
- Brit of an Escape Habit
- The Uncontainables – Escape Room Review Blog UK
- Escaping Rooms
- Granny & the Anthropomorphic Panda Avengers…Escape!
- Review the Room
- London Escape Room Guide
- The DARKE side of the room
- Without a Padlock
- (Re)View Two Escape
- Escape Goats
- DISCOMLOGICATED
- Immersophenia
- Unlock & Roll
That’s all I’m aware of. If any of the above is incorrect or if you’re aware of other news, significant discounts or competitions, then let me know via email or in the comments below and I’ll include updates in the next edition.
Thanks for reading!