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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Amazon's digital assistant Alexa can play lots of games at this point. Most offer some variation on party games and trivia, but a few promise more in-depth experiences. The one that intrigued me most ...

A physicist at the University of Illinois devised an immersive game in which teams solve science puzzles to unlock a mystery — before it’s too late. By Kenneth Chang URBANA, Ill. — It was 10 p.m., and ...

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 ...

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 ...