Every week people walk out of my escape rooms and use the
same word. Magic. I never correct them. What they experienced
was real. I built it. And I can tell you exactly how every
piece of it works.
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What I Learned Running an Escape Room by Myself for 10 Years
In 2015 I didn’t know what a carpenter’s square was.
Ten years later I’d designed over a dozen escape rooms,
hosted thousands of groups, and built one of the
highest-volume operations in the northeast. Nobody
teaches you how to do this. You just show up and
refuse to stop figuring it out.
The Power of Common Goals: What 10,000 Players Taught Me About Human Connection
Put fifteen strangers in a room with a ticking clock
and a shared problem and something interesting happens.
The job titles stop mattering. The loudest person in
the room stops leading. After ten years and fifty
thousand players, I have a pretty good idea of why.