On August, 2023, I was fortunate enough to submit a video again for the Reality Escape Convention put on by Room Escape Artist ..read more

Back in August, 2021, I was fortunate enough to be a speaker at the Reality Escape Convention put on by Room Escape Artist. My topic was, obviously, on puzzle design, and they made the video available on their youtubes! Huzzah ..read more

A survey targeting escape room enthusiasts was open for completion from late October to November, 2020. Lee-Fay Low compiled the raw results into the following summary of selected results. A total of 261 people completed this survey. The current version of this survey is v1.4. Randy Hum of Escape Rumors has made an interactive visual dashboard with this data ..read more

If I’m about to do an escape room, and they ask if I want to raise the difficulty, I refuse. Why? Because I don’t trust the designer! I can’t even expect the industry to produce well-designed escape rooms, let alone one that’s difficult. When escape rooms try to increase the difficulty, more often than not they just raise the tedium. A puzzle doesn’t get harder to solve, it just takes longer to do. Not that I blame designers. Creating a fair and difficult puzzle is challenging! Trust me. I know. I’ve spent months creating difficult puzzles, only to suffer the aftermath of profanity and voodoo ..read more

For this year’s 2019 Escape Room Enthusiast Survey, we have different translations. Thanks to the amazing translators who helped out! (Their names are listed beside the translations). Full results will be made available after the survey completes. English Svenska (Swedish translation: Kristen Clarberg) 中文版 / 簡體中文版(微信適用)  (Chinese translation: Yolanda Chiu and Janet Chan) Nederlands (Dutch translation: Nataša Potočnik, Enigmarium and Pim of escapetalk.nl) Français (French translation: Lise Mortier and Gilles Duchesne) Deutsch (German translation: escaperoom-guide.ch) български (Bulgarian ..read more