Tips on how to pick the best escape room puzzle for your escape room, event, and birthday party. Figuring out which puzzles to add to your escape room can be difficult. Just because a puzzle looks cool or seems like it will be fun does not necessarily mean it will work. There are a few things you should take in to consideration when looking for an escape room puzzle. Does the puzzle fit your escape room's theme? This one is extremely important. If your room is set in the Wild West you want to avoid plastics or any sort of technology that will...

With so many choices out there when it comes to finding the best escape room puzzle or prop finding the perfect fit can be difficult. With that in mind I decided to pick out my 5 favorite puzzles and props for escape rooms.  1. Mirror Maze Escape Room Puzzle This escape room prop requires multiple people in order to solve the maze. Ideally this would go in a wall dividing two rooms. It can also be installed in partition or table. In order to solve this prop one player will have a magnet but on the mirrored side. On the other side is...

It is important to understand each of the props and puzzles in your Escape Room to ensure you can utilize them to their full potential. With this in mind I have created an instructional series to help familiarize yourself with our Cipher Wheels and Encryption Machines. Here we have Step by Step instructions for the Enigma II: Both the Small and Large Sizes work the same way. To encode a message: 1. Define the gear order such as 7 (spokes) - 6 - 5 as shown above2. Create a 3 letter key word and put gears on pins with letters of keyword...

Here are some creative ideas on how you can implement locks in your escape room. Even as escape rooms become more technologically advanced the tried and true lock will likely always have a place. Sure the old numeric/alpha combination may present itself in a more "futuristic" manner, but at the core an X digit lock is still an X digit lock. How Escape Rooms present the code/solution/combination/what have you to such locks can go alone way in differentiating a good escape room from a great escape room. Below I will go over a few ways to use props and puzzles with different locks...

Is the term "escape room" new to you? If so, read on to learn what an escape room is and why should give one a try! As the escape room industry grows more and more people are discovering how enjoyable the experience is. So what is an Escape Room? According to the all knowing resource known as Wikipedia:  "An escape room is a physical adventure game in which players solve a series of puzzles using clues, hints and strategy to complete the objectives at hand. Players are given a set time limit to unveil the secret plot which is hidden within the...

It is important to understand each of the puzzles and props in your escape room to ensure you can utilize their full potential. With this in mind I have created an instructional series to help familiarize yourself with our Cipher Wheels and Encryption Machines to better incorporate them in your room escape game. The Pig Pen Cipher is significantly easier to understand and use than some of our more secure encryption machines (think Enigma II). All you need to start writing coded messages are the images below:   You will want the above image somewhere in your Escape Room. With this...

This seems pretty straight forward right? Just go to Google or Bing and type in "Purchase or Buy Escape Room Props Online" or "Escape Room Puzzles". Escape room suppliers from across the globe will populate on your screen. Nothing else to it! Unfortunately, it isn't quite so simple. Escape Rooms are a relatively new entertainment option. According to the Escape Rooms Wikipedia Page they first became popular stateside 2010 with the first permanent Escape Room debuting in Asia (2008). Given how young this form of entertainment is it should not be all that surprising to find the secondary industry of creating props and...

It is important to understand each of the items in your Escape Room to ensure you can utilize their full potential. With this in mind I have created an instructional series to help familiarize yourself with our Cipher Wheels and Encryption Machines. This is not suggested for any, but the most difficult Escape Room experience. With that said I present you with the Enigma III. To encode a message: 1. Define the gear order such as 70- 60-50 and place these 3 gears on the pins in that order.2. Create a 3 letter key word and position the gears on...

It is important to understand each of the puzzles and props in your Escape Room to ensure you can utilize their full potential. With this in mind I have created an instructional series to help familiarize yourself with our Cipher Wheels and Encryption Machines. For articles on how to use our other Cipher Wheels please see the links below: Confederate Cipher Union Army Cipher Mexican Army Cipher For this installment we have the Alberti Cipher Disc: The Alberti Cipher Disk was invented over five centuries ago by the famous Italian scholar Leon Battista Alberti in 1467. Alberti was an amazingly brilliant Renaissance...