About

Hi there! We are William and Yuan. We do a lot of escape rooms together (currently 440+ and counting!), and have been running this blog since July 2016.

We’ve been hooked ever since we played our first two games back in 2013 – Escape the Mysterious Room (first ever escape room in North America) and Escape the Time Travel Lab. Both were by SCRAP in San Francisco.

We are currently based in New York, NY as of 2019. Prior to 2019, we were based on San Francisco, CA. We love traveling in general and try to do rooms on our trips; some trips are primarily focused on escape rooms. You can check out where we’ve covered at http://escaperoomtips.com/top

William runs the blog and writes all of the posts. Yuan does games with William and gives feedback on every post. Besides traveling for escape rooms, we also travel for food.

Our most popular pages are:

• Top 29 Tips & Tricks to Win Escape Room Games
• Top 15 Puzzle Ideas for Escape Rooms

As of 2023, we’ve done 26/100 of the 2023 TERPECA Top 100 Escape Rooms. Here they are sorted by country and TERPECA rank.

• United States (13/19 rooms): Madness: 1917, Cutthroat Cavern, Servants of Sleight, Ghost Patrol, Hope End, The Attraction, Robotopia, The Edison Escape Room, Undercooked, The Storyteller’s Secret, Lab Rat, The Weeping Witch, Project Minotaur
• The Netherlands (9/9 rooms): Molly’s Game, The Dome, The Non Believers, Stay in the Dark, The Alchemist, Lost and Found, The End, Jason’s Legacy, Illusion
• Canada (4/4 rooms): The Forgotten Cathedral, Wardrobe for Sale, The Lost Island of the Voodoo Queen, Project R.E.S.E.T.

As of 2024, we’re hoping to expand our coverage of the (upcoming) 2024 TERPECA “best” list with plays of top rooms in the United States, Greece, and France.

You can contact us via our contact form. You can also find us on Social Media:

• Facebook – @escaperoomtips
• Instagram – @escaperoomtips
• Pinterest – @escaperoomtips

Panel Participation and Media Mentions

• We are regular voters and nominators for the Top Escape Rooms Project, participating every year since its inception in 2018.
• We were part of the “Expert” panels that nominated games for USA Today’s “Best Escape Room” contest in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2024
• We were quoted in the March 2018 issue of the AAA SoCal Westways magazine, in an escape room article entitled “Get Out!”.
• We were quoted in a February-March 2019 issue of Metro (a Silicon Valley magazine), in an article about Silicon Valley escape rooms. Syndicated here.

Advertiser and Affiliate Disclosure

This blog is a passion and an obsession for us, but we do make money on this blog through affiliate links and ads. The revenue is enough to cover the costs of running the website but definitely not enough to cover our escape room habit. We also sometimes get media-discounted or comped tickets to escape rooms. These benefits incentivize us to keep our content up-to-date for our readers. We offer disclosures when we have received media-discounted or comped tickets.

You support our escape room habit via the ads and affiliate links. We appreciate the support!

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More Escape Room Resources

Some other helpful escape room resources on the web:

Reviews

• Room Escape Artist – Based in the NYC area
• Live Escape Room & Haunt Reviews – Based in Los Angeles area
• Escape Rumors – Based in San Francisco Bay area
• EscapeRoomer – Based in Portland area
• Top Escape Rooms Project