In case you've been avoiding the Internet, here's a brief summary of the madness that took place on Monday and Tuesday at Radio 1. Greg James, instead of doing his usual Breakfast show, was whisked ...

Escape Academy is the name of a beautifully atmospheric game built around the "escape the room" style of puzzle. As the name suggests, each puzzle room is graded and given a mark at the end based on ...

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 ...

Rachel Sugar is a writer in New York City. She is a former Vox staff reporter, and her essays and reporting have appeared in the New York Times, New York magazine, the Guardian, and Taste, among ...

The way Tracey Hudson and Jennifer Smith met in Carson City as kids has a touch of fortuity to it. But when they work together, in this case on opening escape rooms in the capital city, their minds ...