Room Escape Artist

Founded in 2014 by a skilled designer and a data analysis specialist, Room Escape Artist offers daily insights that include thoughtful and entertaining reviews of escape rooms, tips for designing and playing, and commentary on the industry. Our goal is to spread our passion for tackling large puzzles and to encourage creators to deliver outstanding experiences. We aim to foster a community of enthusiastic individuals who enjoy solving puzzles side by side.

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REPOD S9E10: Untangling Quantum Mechanics - Paul Kwiat of LabEscape

1 week ago | roomescapeartist.com | Peih-Gee Law

If you ask an escape room enthusiast about entanglement puzzles, what likely springs to mind are those intertwined, bent metal nails that you need to separate. However, for Paul Kwiat, an entanglement puzzle is something else completely. Professor Kwiat is an acclaimed physicist, specializing in quantum physics, including quantum entanglement, along with quantum cryptography, dense-coding, quantum teleportation, entanglement distillation, and most recently, optical quantum gates.
Spoilers Club: Miss Jezebel Preview

1 week ago | roomescapeartist.com | Peih-Gee Law

When Miss Jezebel first debuted, no one had really ever seen anything like it before. It incorporated an actor into the gameplay in a way that felt more akin to larp or interactive theater. For those in the right mindset, it was uproariously funny. It was also screamingly vulgar, with adult props that would make a bachelor party blush. It was an instant darling of the Los Angeles escape room scene.
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2 weeks ago | roomescapeartist.com | Peih-Gee Law

The next time you go to toss that plastic container in the recycling bin, you might actually be doing more harm than good. In this episode, David gives us some cold hard facts about recycling correctly. As it turns out, the majority of objects we’re chucking in the recycling bin require more consideration than you’d think. More often than not, we’re just sending items on a trip to the dumpster, the long way.
REPOD S9E9: Ye Olden Days of Escape Rooms with Amanda Harris

2 weeks ago | roomescapeartist.com | Peih-Gee Law

Escape rooms? What are those? Well, it says here that you’re locked in a room, and if you can’t solve the puzzles fast enough, a zombie will get you! According to Trip Advisor, it’s the top rated activity in the city. The year is 2014. Amanda Harris has just discovered her first escape room… and her life was changed forever. Since that fateful day, she has gone on to play well over 1,700 escape rooms. She is currently one of the most experienced escape room players in the country, if not the world.
REPOD S9E8: The Rise of the Golden Idol

3 weeks ago | roomescapeartist.com | Peih-Gee Law

In the dingy dark hallway of an asylum or prison, two men are struggling in a battle of life or death. One man is writhing on the ground while the other has something wrapped around his throat. The art is captivating and gothic, verging on grotesque, and they’re animated in an unsettling way. The movement suggests a moment caught in time. We, as investigators, are tasked with uncovering the sequence of events behind this story.
From the RECON Observer: Who Killed The Directional Lock

3 weeks ago | roomescapeartist.com | David Spira

On a seemingly normal day in June 2022, the news hit the escape room owners groups: the Master Lock 1500iD Speed Lock, known better by its nickname, “the directional lock,” was dead. Initial reactions ranged from disbelief to placing massive orders of the iconic escape room lock. The rumors were true. The 1500iD was dead. In short order, the price of the directional lock soared at online retailers who retained stock. For a time, 1500iD locks sold for nearly $80 per unit.
Best of REA: May 2025

4 weeks ago | roomescapeartist.com | Lisa Spira

The month included 6 Golden-Lock winning reviews and some exceptional editorials. Plus, take a look at the RECON Speaker Sessions that were announced through the RECON newsletter. This summer, we’re hosting RECON – our escape room convention – online, so that it is accessible from anywhere in the world. The event is August 17-18th, 2025.
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1 month ago | roomescapeartist.com | Peih-Gee Law

What’s a peasant to do when you’re in the midst of an uprising and faced with armored knights and lords? Throw them out the windows! Apparently, this was such a popular way to assassinate your rivals that a term was coined to describe such an act: defenestration. David gives us a short lesson on the history of defenestration and why it was such a favored method in political uprisings.
Plebs! Look Upon My Escape Room Pants With Envy!

1 month ago | roomescapeartist.com | David Spira

Europeans are often surprised to learn that in the United States, there isn’t a whole lot of crawling in escape rooms. We have some… but it’s usually not extensive, and more often than not, only one player needs to complete the crawl, and that person can open a bypass door for the rest of the team. This style of bypassing is common in the United States because it keeps a game in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Room Escape Artist

1 month ago | roomescapeartist.com | Peih-Gee Law

Whether you’re making new robot friends, investigating a haunted school, or cooking up some puzzles, the escape rooms at Omescape Sunnyvale are all absolute bangers. Omescape Sunnyvale is a rare gem in the escape room world. Their games are all massive (or feel massive) with gorgeous sets, chock-full of puzzles, and oftentimes with unique mechanics. They’re all telling different stories with different styles of gameplay, and this is all contained under one roof at Omescape’s Sunnyvale location.