I SHARE IDEAS.

ARTICLES

• The Brilliance of Japanese Puzzle Culture

• 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

• What Escape Rooms Can Learn From Puzzle Hunts

• Choreographing Player Movement in Escape Rooms

• A Picture-Perfect Guide to Escape Room Team Photos

• Keeping Score: Original Soundtracks in Escape Rooms

• What We’ve Learned from Online Escape Rooms

• Why I Love Enamel Pins As Escape Room Swag

REVIEWS

Netherlands:

• DarkPark -Stay in the Dark andThe 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 andThe 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

Spain:

• 1801 Escape Room – Josep Fontcalda House Museum

• Crupont Legacy - NightShift

• Escape Barcelona - K.O.N.G. Protocol and Tomb Hunter: Akasha’s Legacy

• Can Bruna – Cellular Odyssey

• Golden Pop - Júrasico

• Proyecto Omega

• Vortex Escapes - Apophis

Switzerland:

• Trip Trap - Aunt Hilda’s Room, The House of Uncle Cornelius, and The Garden of Madame Suzette

• Time Maze - Kaleidoscope 1963

• Trapgame - Antenna Palace and West City

• Next Level Escape - The Dark Memories of Elisa Doll

USA:

• Trivium Games - Ghost Patrol

• Palace Games - The Attraction

• Escape Artist Greenville - The Chimera Corp Saga

• Appleseed Avenue - Election Day

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

• Steal and Escape - The Neighbor andThe Lost Expedition

• Not Another Escape Room - Time Machine andBattleship

• 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

Japan:

• Studio Escape - Shadow Zen, Madame LeClaire and the Seance of Death, and For Queen & Country

• SCRAP - A Challenge from the Crafting Genius

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

PODCAST APPEARANCES

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

• REPOD Bonus Show: MIT Mystery Hunt (February 2026) - Patreon Exclusive

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