What can you do to prevent a bad experience in an Escape Room?  We think its an easy answer, but we discuss this topic as well as how to deal with tech failures! With new games popping up towards the end of the year, Tati and Ky put together some wacky stories about these upcoming adventures. Last but not least, Escape Room Stories from hell to hilarious is back with one of the most cringe worthy experiences ever!

Mindtrap Escape Room is arguably the best escape room company on the west coast of the United States. We had the pleasure of talking with the owners of Mindtrap, Nathan and Emma.  From playing their first escape room to deciding to build their own, the Bekker family has made quite the splash in the Escape Room scene.  Tune in to find out more about their first experiences with rooms, pulling the trigger to build The Arena (The infamous room where you wear a shock collar) and also navigating through the rebuilding of crowd favorite: Oz! Oh yeah, and there is one more room on the way.. You can hear more about it on this episode of Escape Break. 

You can play all the great games at Mindtrap when you're out in California visiting Temecula and Murrieta. 

https://mindtrapescaperoom.com/

At the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco you will find one of the most storied Escape Room Companies in all the country. On this episode Tatiyana and Cager Ky discuss the first 3 games you will find there as well as the logistics of the best way to play these games.  We had a blast solving puzzles and getting a reminder of what Escape Rooms used to be with Houdini and Roosevelt only to be met with a glimpse of the present and future in one of  their newest game: Edison

This month Ky and Tati are up in the Bay Area, and Beth is out in Boston, but that doesn't mean we can't put out a new show. Escape Rooms are often called puzzle rooms, but in this episode we discuss whether Escape Rooms are declining or excelling in their use of actual puzzles. Tati and Ky sort through the various types of puzzles you will see in the Escape Room world. Which ones are fun? Which ones are most difficult? Is it possible to keep puzzles completely in theme? All these questions and more on this episode of Escape Break!

In this Episode of Escape Break, Tatiyana and Ezekiel Cager Ky welcome in anyone who's relatively new to the Escape Room World. They recap several  tips to ensure that your Escape Room experiences are a grand time full of laughs, and victories.  In the middle of the episode several great rooms are highlighted in SoCal to get your addiction pumping and at the end of the show they play Name That Room with some a mystery involved to identify a man by the name of Max Fortune. 

Whether an Escape Room Junkie or Newbie, its always hard to rank the number of rooms you've played. However, Beth is back and up for the challenge with her Top 10 Escape Rooms she's ever played! Tune in as we talk through her list and find out why she's been M.I.A. from the show. 

Welcome back to our Top Ten Escape Room series.  This episode we go through Ezekiel Cager Ky's Top Adventures ever. This list consists of 10 unique companies and includes escape rooms that are all actively open to go play! Out of 233 Rooms who will take the top spot and why? Each room listed Ky dives a little bit into the story and why it outshines some of the other great rooms he's played. We'd love to hear your favorite escape rooms too! 

Have you ever wondered what the best escapes rooms were? It's almost an impossible question, but between the 3 of us we have played almost 700 Escape Rooms so we decided to narrow down the best ones in this multipart series on Top 10 Series.  This episode we start with our newest teammate, Tatiyana!  Her list of 10 can't miss rooms has some classic throwbacks and some rooms that even I haven't played yet. Take your break with us and add these to your list!

A quick interview with Jace Taylor, Actor in the hit escape room experience of Hope End! You can play the Immersive Theater Escape Room in Azusa Pacific at The Ministry of Peculiarities.  Take a small look into the perspective of an in game actor  who must be quick on her feet and wits to guide groups into one of the best new experiences in the Escape Room world. 

In this Episode of Escape Break we recap some of the other rooms in Louisiana including: Escape My Room,  Escape Warehouse and Clue Carre! A small culinary break in the middle of the show to discuss the good and questionable eats we had, as well as some shout outs to our travel friends along the way. The show gets back to California and the traditional format as we sort through some fan questions about Game Masters, tipping and recent events with Escape Rooms changing their names.