For a fee, you and a handful of friends, or coworkers, can escape from a medieval torture chamber, or a CDC laboratory, or “The 80s.” The question is, why do we look for situations to escape from? In ...

When people enter an escape room, they are usually blindfolded and locked inside, tasked with finding clues and solving puzzles to get out. Room 154 is not your typical escape room — rather than ...

Another mystery needs to be solved at the Arconia — but this time around, there’s no killer involved. Ben Enos, senior director of product design, tells Elite Daily that Escape Game worked with the ...

You're Indiana Jones in the map room, positioning the Staff of Ra to reveal the secret location you've been searching for. You're Harry Potter in the TriWizard Tournament, and you must solve the ...

While real-life escape rooms are always going to be the most immersive experience, when it comes to affordability and accessibility, virtual escape games always take the cake. No matter what console, ...

A San Luis Obispo County adventure park known for its ziplines and nature tours has a new attraction for fun seekers: escape rooms. Escape! at Margarita Adventures recently opened its second escape ...

Perhaps one of the reasons for the genre’s boom in recent years has to do with its accessibility. While escape room board games offer challenging puzzles that tabletop veterans are looking for, these ...

Locked in a room with 60 minutes to escape by solving a series of puzzles, escape rooms are the live-action gaming trend taking over the world. But forget jigsaws and crosswords -- the games have gone ...

There are two big names when it comes to video game escape rooms, and they’re remarkably similar ones. First you have Escape Academy, a wonderfully bonkers college for escape room artists, with a ...

Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com—and let us know what you think. I don’t know CPR. I can’t tie a ...