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How Escape Games Help Kids Succeed In The Real World
If you're like most people, you probably think escape room games are just a fun way to spend an hour or two. But what if I told you that escape games could also help kids succeed in the real world? Believe it or not, escape games provide a lot of skills and benefits...
How An Escape Room Game Benefits Your Business
There's no question that escape room games are a blast - but what you may not know is that they offer some amazing business benefits, too. Team bonding events are a great way to bring employees together and help them develop new skills. Puzzle games like escape...
Hourglass Bay and Escape Room: Tournament of Champions
Escape room – The Movie In 2019 the film Escape Room was released in the US and was a huge hit! Like I said in an interview with Patrick Cavanaugh for comicbook.com in 2019 "I thought it was pretty tense, the whole movie. It was really well-paced. All the...
Virtual Escapes: The Safer Staycation
At first, virtual escape rooms can seem a bit counterintuitive. Escape rooms are inherently destinations; clues built into the very walls, designed to draw attention to the fact that your party is very consciously stuck... in a room. They are gathering spaces for...
The Rebus!
Did you know that a REBUS is a great example of today’s code? It is a pictogram word play cipher Escape Rooms have all kinds of ciphers and this is jut one type. Just try any of your local escape rooms near you and you will see all kinds of codes and puzzles. Code of...
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Support Local Businesses During a Pandemic
These are wild times here in Seattle, and around the world. People are understandably fearful. We are worried about our health and the health of our friends and family. And while we here at Hourglass Escapes share in that anxiety, we also have another fear:...
Escape Rooms and Pop Culture
Escaperooms in pop culture Escaperooms were once a strange and unheard-of past time, but then they began to popup in popular culture. The first time most people heard of them was in anepisode of Big Bang Theory, but then it popped up in other shows like Two...
Seattle Escape Room Year in Review
2019 was a banner year, both for Escape Rooms around the globe, and specifically for us here at Hourglass. We are proud to say that this year we achieved many new milestones and continued to push the boundaries for the kind of experience an Escape Room can offer. So...
Five things to do with your family in Seattle over the holidays
So your family is in town for the holidays and it’s great! But after the presents are opened and the eggnog drunk, there’s still a few days to kill before you drop everyone back off at the airport. Not only that, but winter has finally hit and everything lies under a...