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NEWSLETTER

• Enigmida

ARTICLES

• Pilcrow Bar: A Pandemic Puzzle Project

• A Case for Smaller Sets and Deeper Worlds

• Make Failure Fun, But Don’t Hide Fun Behind Failure

• Playtest Your Story

• A Picture-Perfect Guide to Escape Room Team Photos

• Keeping Score: Original Soundtracks in Escape Rooms

• What We’ve Learned from Online Escape Rooms

• Escape Rooms in Pop Culture

• Replayability in Escape Rooms

• Why I Love Enamel Pins As Escape Room Swag

REVIEWS

Netherlands:

• DarkPark - Stay in the Dark and The Orphanage

• Hotel Veloria - Lost and Found and The Concierge

• Down the Hatch - Molly’s Game

• Escape Room Katwijk – Pray

• Escape Cafe - Zoltar Speaks

• OuterGround - Jason’s Legacy

Belgium:

• De Gouden Kooi - Han’s Revenge and The Secret of Saint-Rumoldus

• The Push Mystery Rooms - The Movies Experience

• Escaping Belgium - Le Prince and Erzsébet

• Tales of Torchdale - The Toy Factory

Germany:

• Dream Labs - The Tale of the Heartless Pirate

• The Room Berlin - Ghosthunter Brandon Darkmoor

• Escape Room Dorfen - Johanna and Bavari Sacrilegio

• Miraculum - The Golden Phoenix and Frankenstein

• Finest Escape Bamberg - Tomb Hunter

USA:

• Trivium Games - Ghost Patrol

• Palace Games - The Attraction

• Escape Artist Greenville - The Chimera Corp Saga

• Omescape Sunnyvale - Robotopia, Undercooked, Midnight in Hong Kong, and Haunting at Haruka High

• Steal and Escape - The Neighbor and The Lost Expedition

• Not Another Escape Room - Time Machine and Battleship

• City 13 - Save the City

• Rabbit Hole Recreation Services - Frost Base Z

• Lost Games - The Fortune Teller

• Trapped! Escape Room Las Vegas - Pandora’s Box

• The Escape Ventures - Click ‘N Glitch and Phantom Files

Australia:

• Next Level Escape - Forest of Echoes and The Show Must Go On

• The Cipher Room - Mr Pepper’s Toy Shop and La Rébellion

• Ukiyo - The Crumbling Prince, Deep Space, and Escape or Die

• The Curium Experience - Extraction

• The Cool Space - Seance

• Earthrise - Earthrise One

UK:

• The Key of Dreams

• Phantom Peak: Summer’s Peak

• Deadlocked Escape Rooms - The Reading Witch

• clueQuest - Revenge of the Sheep, Operation Blacksheep, PLAN52, and Glitch Hunters

• Cahoots - Bootlegger Breakout

Israel:

• Escape Center - The Intervention and Kami Temple

• Action Game - Robin Hood

• The Maze - The Sting, Action!, and Cube

• Hype Esc - Hollywood 117, The Six, and Harry Potter and the Trinity of Destiny

• Escape Sign - The Vikings

• Panica - Eurovision Pizza Party

• TLV 2048

Other Experiences:

• What We Can Begin To Learn From Strange Bird Immersive’s THE ENDings

• The Great Gotham Challenge - GGC: MXXIII and Central Park Sprint

• Marriott x Ted - The Curiosity Room

• Planet Word - Lexicon Lane

• The Solano Human Project

• Walking Shadow Theatre Company - Cabal

• Spencer Beebe - Lost in the Shuffle

• Puzzmo Crossword Puzzles: Volume 1

• Dorm Scapes - Code Green

PODCAST APPEARANCES

• Mystery Soup Escape Room Talk: S2-Ep14: Matthew Stein – Wonder Wizard

• Room Escape Divas: 131 - Matthew Stein on Empathy-driven Puzzles

• web3 with a16z: Puzzles (& crypto)