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Time for a change aka 70 min Escape Rooms
Standardization is a weird thing. In sports there are clear rules: a baseball game lasts nine innings. Football marches on for four quarters, and soccer ping-pongs up and down the field for ninety minutes. These are long standing standards that we accept without...
Escape the Holidays with your Family
Raise your hand if you’ve ever been in this situation: It’s Thanksgiving and your entire family is in town to celebrate and it’s your task to prepare a meal that everyone can enjoy, including your vegan aunt, her nut allergic kids, and your uncle who just discovered...
United Escapes of Seattle Passport
Announcing the United Escapes of Seattle Passport Program! Hourglass Escapes has recently teamed-up with twelve different Escape Rooms all around the greater Seattle area to create the United Escapes of Seattle passport program. Here’s the idea: Come into...
Halloween at the MoPoP
For those who attended MoPop’s Fashionably Undead Halloween Bash this year, you may have noticed a couple small tables tucked away in the museum’s Scared to Death horror exhibition. That was us! This year, with the support of the amazing staff at MoPop, Hourglass...
What do you give the person that has everything? Experiential Gift Giving Guide 2019 Edition
We have all been stuck trying to find a gift for someone and just have no clue what to give them….Maybe they have everything they want, or you don’t know them, or have a budget for something grand. Recently in a scientific article about benefits of experiential...
How the Evil Dead 2™ Board Game has changed Kickstarter forever!
I love games, all kinds of games – board games, video games, and of course escape rooms. And even more than my love for games, I love the stories that inspire some of my favorites. That’s why I was so passionate in designing and building our Evil Dead 2™ escape room...
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn™ is an Escape Room for Fans, by fans
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn™ has been one of my favorite movies since a much younger and well-coifed me walked through my local movie house doors to see it for the first time in 1987. In it, Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, and everyone involved managed to elevate schlock to...
The Terrible Tribulations of a Tragic Dater or How Escape Rooms are the Perfect First Date
I never know where to bring a date for a fun time. The zoo could be fun! But then you go on a tangent about how zoos are really just a holdover from European imperialism that really have no place in a modern society with internet access and by the time you look up...
A Night in with a Board Game or a Night Out at an Escape Room?
Even if you (and your wallet) haven’t fallen head over heals into the board game craze, chances are you know someone that has. This, after all, is a ‘golden age of board games’; each year, thousands of new board games are launched—and these aren’t your grandparent’s...