Resident Evil Escape Room: LA, UK – now 2017 Nationwide USA Tour

The Resident Evil franchise is continuing their 20th anniversary celebrations this year, after its escape room had a successful run in Los Angeles, followed by another stint in London two weeks ago. More exciting news has emerged, with the Resident Evil 7: Escape Experience going on a tour of six US cities in the coming weeks.

– San Francisco, Los Angeles: February 8th – March 5th 2017
– Portland, Oregon: February 8th – March 5th 2017
– Boston, Massachusetts: February 22nd – March 19th 2017
– New York, New York City: February 22nd – March 19th 2017
– Austin, Texas: March 8th – April 2nd 2017
– Chicago, Illinois: March 8th – April 2nd 2017

Tickets are $35 USD per person, except for San Francisco and New York where tickets are $40 USD per person instead.

https://www.eventbrite.com/o/capcom-iam8bit-11982654513

The Immersive London blog has a write up of their recent experience of the Resident Evil escape room when it visited London’s East End. Plenty of spoilers ahead – read it on their blog here.

 

// Other Escape Room News
Jerudong Park Diamond Heist Mystery – Brunei
“The largest escape room event in Brunei” took place from December 16^th – 24^th 2016. More than 800 people took part in an investigation to discover the thief who stole a diamond from Jerudong Park. Escape room company, Escape Square Gadong collaborated with other businesses for the event.

 

Escape Rooms used for leadership and recruitment at Wayfair, an online home interior business
The company have created their own version called Escape the Room and use it to train staff –
“Wayfair originally used it as a team building and problem solving activity on leadership ‘away days’. However, given how much fun it was and the changing nature of the skills and the people they are looking for they decided to introduce it as part of their customer service recruitment process.”
– CustomerThink

– Essa 🙂

 

 

Captain America’s Escape Room Prank in a Boston Comic Book Store

“Escape Rooms are these immersive games where you and your buddies have to solve puzzles and complete a mission before time runs out.”

With the help of Trapology in Boston, Chris Evans aka. Captain America and Omaze recently took over a comic book store and turned it into a Captain America escape room!

Also the Omaze competition where you could win the chance to play an escape room with Chris Evans closes February 2nd! The winner and three friends will get flown out to Boston, USA as well.

Enter here: omaze.com/Chris

+ Keep an eye out for a special link in the above Youtube video which will give you more entries for the Omaze competition!

– Essa 🙂

 

GCHQ’s Fiendish Christmas Puzzle Book for 2016 – A licence to puzzle

Last Christmas, GCHQ – the codebreaking department of the UK government – released a puzzle in the director’s Christmas card. The puzzle was a nonogram, also known as a picross and it received widespread media attention, as it was called “the world’s hardest puzzle”. Read up on it here.

Some of the best codebreakers at GCHQ have been working hard to create this year’s puzzle, as it was released in conjunction with a GCHQ puzzle book.

The first stage of the puzzle starts with the image below – a Sudoku puzzle adapted to contain 9 letters instead of numbers and a grid of famous faces. If you get stuck on the below puzzle, check this
Reddit sub for some clues. Solve the two puzzles to unlock a website address and proceed to the next stage of the competition.

In addition, the GCHQ puzzle book is a necessary companion to the competition and contains “ciphers and substitution codes, tests of numeracy and literacy as well as picture and music challenges.” – GCHQ.

Plus HRH Duchess of Cambridge – Kate Middleton, wrote the foreword to the book and reveals her grandmother worked at Bletchley Park during World War II. Sales of GCHQ’s puzzle book will go to a mental health charity set up by Kate, William and Harry.

Get codebreaking ASAP as this year’s competition closes on February 28^th 2017.

//Other Escape Room News
– Endgame: The third and final book in the Endgame series is being released on December 27^th 2016.
As it stands, no one has yet claimed the prize money for the second novel, Sky Key.

– Captain America (Chris Evans) has released a competition to raise funds for charity. If you are the lucky winner, you and three friends will get flown to Boston in the US to play an escape room with him. It’s $10 USD for 100 competition entries and more information can be found on the omaze website.

Raising money for charity, Superhero-Celebrity and Escape Rooms.. what's not to like about this!https://t.co/uXZh3pRnen

— Escape Games Review (@EscGamesReview) December 2, 2016

– Essa 🙂

DIG Escape The Room: a new tv series and immersive experience in the USA and online #DigDeeper

Dig Escape The Room: Ready to start digging? #DigDeeper

A murdery mystery involving a FBI agent located in Israel who needs to figure out a conspiracy that might change history forever is the storyline for the new tv series DIG, premiering on US television from Thursday March 5th. To promote the series before it airs – USA Network have developed a FREE (yes, FREE!!) room escape experience at select locations across the US from February 26th to March 8th. There are five locations where you can attend the DIG room escape promotion: New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, Universal Studios Hollywood* in California and Universal Orlando Resort* in Florida.

* To attend the DIG room escape experience at the Universal locations, you need to buy a ticket to the relevant theme park to gain entry. It’s also a first come, first serve experience at both Universal locations.

At each location up to ten people will be locked in a room for only 30 minutes, find clues, solve puzzles and get out of the room within the time list. Last time I checked (9am NYC time on Feb 20th) there were roughly 82 tickets left for New York City, 590+ tickets left for Boston and 490+ tickets at the Philadelphia location – with ticket registration only opened on February 19th. Get your free DIG room escape tickets at this link: http://digescapetheroom.com/

If you can’t make it to a US location – there’s an online DIG experience called Dig Decoded available to be played here http://digdecoded.usanetwork.com/. There’s already some parts of the experience online – you can sign up and look through Emma’s journal and crack some codes among the pages. On page three of her journal, there’s a code when deciphered leads participants to this helpful in-game website – http://www.decipherdemon.com/ – which helps explain how to solve some of the other codes scattered throughout the journal.

Starting March 5^th as well, three word puzzles will be released each week for ten weeks on the Dig Decoded website. Solve each puzzle to get a code and enter the code to gain a competition entry. One person can submit up to 32 competition entries (online or via mail) during the whole experience, with the major prize a holiday for up four people to either Israel, Croatia or Norway plus breakfasts, day trips and $500 cash to the winner. Unfortunately the major prize can only be won by US residents.

Leave us a comment below if you visit a DIG room escape experience in New York City, Boston, Philadelphia, California or Florida. Otherwise what do you think of the DIG online experience?

Riddle Me This: It’s a downpour of openings, Escape Hunt offers and Attack on Titan updates

It’s been raining heavily for the past couple of days and there’s so many great room escape offers that have appeared this week on Facebook, so that’s where the reference to a downpour in this week’s blog title comes from. Three brand new room escapes have just opened or are about to – from Escape Hunt Bali in Indonesia, Escape Hunt Brisbane in Australia and Escape the Room Boston in the USA – all with 40% to 50% discounts on offer right now.

Escape the Room NYC appears to be affiliated with the new Boston escape room that’s opening and are hosting a competition, while Escape Hunt Perth and Escape Hunt Sydney both located in Australia have started Christmas competitions. Try your luck and attempt to solve Lockdown Singapore’s recent riddle and in other interesting news, Real Escape Game are bringing their Attack on Titan games from Singapore and are heading to the USA next.

New Special Offers
Bali, Indonesia: Escape Hunt Bali currently have a Facebook offer which is a 50% grand opening discount on all room escape games until January 6th 2015. Book a game on the Escape Hunt Bali website and the discount should already be applied.
https://www.facebook.com/intervirals/posts/318040401735662

Brisbane, Australia: On the 20th of December Escape Hunt Brisbane will open their room escape games to be played and have a 40% pre-booking discount available for a limited time – use the code LAUNCH40.
https://www.facebook.com/intervirals/posts/318038918402477

Boston, MA, USA: There’s quite a few grand opening in this week’s blog – let’s start with Escape The Room Boston. This Saturday is when their doors open for the first time and there’s a 50% discount that’s available – use the code letmein – only available for this weekend.
https://www.facebook.com/intervirals/posts/318035061736196

New York City, NY, USA: Escape the Room NYC are helping spread the word of the opening of their Boston sub-branch by hosting a Facebook competition and giving away a free escape room game. Competition closes 12/13/14.
https://www.facebook.com/intervirals/posts/318036361736066

Perth, Australia: Right now Escape Hunt Perth are having a Christmas competition over at their Facebook page to win a room escape game.
https://www.facebook.com/EscapeHuntPerth/posts/1538057166434685

Singapore: Riddle Time! Guess the answer to Lockdown SG’s most recent riddle to win a $10 redeemable voucher for one of their room escape games. See this week’s riddle below:
https://www.facebook.com/intervirals/posts/318034608402908

Sydney, Australia: Right now Escape Hunt Sydney are having a Christmas competition over at their Facebook page to win a room escape game.
https://www.facebook.com/sydney.escapehunt/photos/a.232564656932350.1073741828.231361727052643/310542442467904/

USA: Real Escape Game are bringing their Attack on Titan game to the USA from February to April 2015 and are stopping at San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York along the way.
http://realescapegame.com/

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Ongoing Special Offers
Brisbane, Australia: The doors are finally opening at Escape Hunt Brisbane and a 30% discount too is on offer until December 9th.
https://www.facebook.com/intervirals/posts/313701058836263

Cancun, Mexico: The Escape Hunt brand keeps expanding globally and are now opening a sub-branch in Mexico with a 30% discount available until December 15th.
https://www.facebook.com/intervirals/posts/315645611975141

Dublin, Ireland: Give XIT Live Escape Adventure Game a Facebook like because when they finally reach 800 likes, the team will conduct a draw and give away a free escape game voucher.
https://www.facebook.com/intervirals/posts/315648488641520

Ipoh, Malaysia: Ask your friends to come along to Break the Code and get a range of discounts 10% to 30% these school holidays in Malaysia which last until the first week of January. Also share their Facebook post to enter the mystery gift competition.
https://www.facebook.com/intervirals/posts/313703088836060

Jakarta, Indonesia: Get up to* a 30% discount on a room escape game at Escape Hunt Jakarta if you have a CIMB Credit or Debit Card. Offer lasts until 15th December.
https://www.facebook.com/intervirals/posts/268301863376183

Melbourne, Australia: Congratulations to Escape Hunt Melbourne team who have just opened their new room escape facility. There’s a 30% opening discount to be claimed on their Facebook page which is now extended until December 15th.
https://www.facebook.com/intervirals/posts/307557352783967

Pattaya, Thailand: There’s a 50% discount on room escape tickets at the moment in The Escape Hunt Experience in Pattaya with tickets for two people costing only 900 THB instead of the usual 1,800 THB. To get the offer just go to the Escape Hunt website and do an online booking for the Pattaya branch as the promotion code is already on the website.
https://www.facebook.com/intervirals/posts/311380929068276

Saarbrücken, Germany: Exit Games Saarland are offering a discount flyer for 5€ but it’s hidden within a shopping center in Germany. The discount flyer lasts until 31st of March 2015. See the Facebook page for more details.
https://www.facebook.com/intervirals/posts/295434157329620

Sydney, Australia: Sydney students there’s a 15% discount available from the Escape Hunt Sydney branch but is only applicable from Mondays to Thursdays only. Use the code STUDENT15 when booking. There’s another discount – 15% off at any game at Escape Hunt Sydney until January 1st 2015 – use the code MID15 which is only valid Mondays to Thursdays.
https://www.facebook.com/intervirals/posts/297477400458629

Toronto, ON, Canada: Does a two storey haunted house escape room sound interesting? Escape Games Canada is bringing to life a new theme called The Haunting of Noriko, that can be played out over two levels of a house and have developed a competition to celebrate.

Play their new escape room theme, fill in the contest form, then like and share the Facebook competition post to have a chance in winning a hand painted head cast, probably with a horror look to it. Draw takes place March 31st 2015.
https://www.facebook.com/intervirals/posts/315650911974611

10,000 page hits on the Intervirals WordPress blog recently! Thanks :)

Intervirals Spotlight
The counter on the Intervirals WordPress blog recently passed by the 10,000 page hits mark. A big thank you to all who have found this blog and read, comment or leave feedback on the Intervirals blog. I really appreciate it and I send plenty of virtual hugs out your way. 🙂

As a bonus, I thought it was about time to update my lists of rooms escapes in places such as Asia, Europe, North America and Canada. I keep a very long list of places that still need to go up on this blog – at least 80+ other room escape places and it’s a good time as ever to do an update over the next week or so.

UPDATE: 15 out of ? new room escape places uploaded to Intervirals.
UPDATE TWO: 30/11/14 – Haven’t forgotten about this – it will get done!
UPDATE THREE: 14/12/14: 21 24 26 30 out of ? new room escapes uploaded to Intervirals.

Any thoughts or comments are welcomed! 🙂 Or check out the forums!

– Essa

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Room Escape Reviews
This week’s reviews of room escape outlets from around the world.

Japantown, CA, USA: Review of Real Escape Game SF –
http://activate.metroactive.com/2014/10/we-went-to-the-real-escape-game-in-japantown/

Lubbock, TX, USA: Review of Look Around Lubbock by a news team –
http://www.myfoxlubbock.com/news/local/story/trapped-escape-the-room-lubbock-one-hour/ohfEQ3P6LEWjjHCTZKjPBg.cspx

Pittsburgh, PA, USA: Review of Escape Room Pittsburgh –
http://triblive.com/opinion/ericheyl/6944122-74/escape-deasy-rooms#axzz3HIwZDQmR

Boston, MA, USA: An amusing article on different places in Boston where you can pretend its an escape room eg. on a crowded train –
http://www.boston.com/travel/boston/2014/10/13/boston-escape-rooms-that-cost-you-nothing-but-your-sanity/UJHkN4erLpf5ZUEIkhV8xJ/story.html