The Escape Room craze has really taken off (especially here in Los Angeles) and I couldn’t be happier about it. Getting a group of my friends together, locking ourselves in a room, and solving a ...

Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage right here—and let us know what you think. Who knew being locked in a room would become so ...

Escape games are adventure games that require skill, strategy, problem-solving and quick thinking in order to escape from a confined space on time. Each game has a different background story and the ...

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 ...

Imagine this. It’s a rainy Saturday night, and you’ve got your pals over for some board game fun. You pull out an escape room in a box, and everyone is intrigued – it’s something different, exciting ...

Inside the Alchemist 360 Escape Room. With most out-of-home entertainment experiences unraveling during pandemic lockdowns, leisure facilities have been forced to devise alternative experiences to ...

Escape rooms are awesome for people who like to solve puzzles, see how things work, or enjoy a mystery. Everyone reading this falls into at least one of those categories. We enjoy puzzles and ...

Jerrad Wyche is a writer, designer, and producer hailing from Albuquerque, New Mexico. His favorite video games include Mass Effect 2, Inside, Pokémon Soul Silver, Spelunky, and Call of Duty 4: Modern ...

Over the past few years the concept of escape rooms has grown in popularity, causing developers of the games to become more creative in offering players a unique experience. Escape rooms are immersive ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – DECEMBER 10: “The Heist” room at The Escape Game in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019. (Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group) Puzzle-filled escape room games ...

IT WAS undeniably tragic when five teenage girls died in an escape-room fire in the Polish city of Koszalin on January 4th. But many in the industry thought it was an accident waiting to happen. Most ...