ESCAPETHEROOMers' 2019 Bullseye award winners!

We are latecomers to the escape room world. We started playing escape rooms towards the end of 2018. Since then it was like an infectious disease (we call it “Escapitis”). In about a year’s time, we’ve played about 350 escape games at 221 different companies. Our mission to find a cure has taken us to 16 different countries, 12 US states and even on a cruise ship! Throughout this journey we realized that thousands of people have been infected with the same disease and we are not alone! We are happy to report that we’re no longer searching for a cure, but have become “carriers” to spread the disease instead.

We were especially excited to cover events such as the 2019 TRANSWORLD ROOM ESCAPE Conference in San Antonio, Texas, 3rd Annual UK Escape Room Industry Conference (ERIC 2019) in London, UK, and PLAYER OMEGA feat. HADO- the world's 1st series (AR) sports in the USA. The most exciting moment for us, was playing with NBC's "CT LIVE" team! Thank you for your support and we just wanted to say that we appreciate each and every one of you!

This list of winners is longer than normal as we did not have an award system for 2018. However, we still included some of them on the list as we felt that they deserved to be mentioned. Please keep in mind that these ratings are based on our opinions only and you may view them differently. It was a very difficult process for us as the industry is evolving every day and so are we. This is why we have discontinued our rating system since Nov 1st, 2019. We simply can not rerate a room that we’ve played a year ago just because there are more amazing ones today. With that said, these rooms are what we felt delivered us a “complete immersive package” from set design to puzzles to added-on special effects. CONGRATULATIONS!!

These are the winners of our “BEST OVERALL" Bullseye Award category (In alphabetical order):

• 13th Hour Escape (NJ, USA) - "The Trophy Room"

• Chambers Escape Games (HI, USA) - "The Temple"

• Encrypted Escape Room WR (PA, USA) - "The Last Vampire"

• Escape Quest DC (MD, USA) - "Expedition Unknown"

• Escape Room Herndon (VA, USA) - "8-Bit Escape"

• Escape The Room LA (CA, USA) - "Cartman's Escape Room"

• Locked in Edinburgh (Edinburgh, UK) - "The Cutting Room"

• Lost Games (NV, USA) - "Chapter 2: Playtime"

• Mission Escape Games (CA, USA) - "The Ultimate Bank Heist"

• Mystique Room (Budapest, Hungary) - "The Time Machine"

• The Escape Game (TX, USA) - "Gold Rush"

• trap't Escape Room Adventures (CT, USA) - "Time Chasers: Race for the Cure"

• Trapped! Escape Room Las Vegas (NV, USA) - "One Eyed Jack"

• Tulleys Escape (London, UK) - "Nethercott Manor"

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We’ve also added 6 "HONORABLE MENTION" categories: “Set Design”, “Puzzle Master”, “Special Effects”, "Unique Storyline", “Mobile Game”, and “Interactive Experience” which we thought these companies did very well in and we see a great potential in them creating more awesome games in the near future!

These are the winners of our “HONORABLE MENTION - SET DESIGN” Bullseye Award category (In alphabetical order):

• Amazing Escape Room (NJ, USA) - "Top Secret Mission"

• AROOM (Budapest, Hungary) - "The Escobar House"

• Big Bear Escape Room (CA, USA) - "Holcomb's Lost Gold"

• BrainXcape Escape Room Game NYC (NY, USA) - "The Haunted Hotel"

• Can U Xscape? (PA, USA) - "Centralia Mineshaft Room"

• Can You Escape? - Malta (Fgura, Malta) - "The Forbidden Castle"

• Clockwise Escape Room (CA, USA) - "The Paranormal Experiment"

• Codeword Escape (CT, USA) - "Movie Theater Mayhem"

• Down the Rabbit Hole (Copenhagen, Denmark) - "Korowai - A Professor's Tale"

• Escape Reality Edinburgh (Edinburgh, UK) - "The Asylum"

• Escape Room L.A. (CA, USA) - "Atlantis"

• Escape Room Live (Washington D.C., USA) - "A Pirate's Curse"

• Escape Room Roma (Rome, Italy) - "The Ring: Samara | Origins"

• Escape Rooms Connecticut (CT, USA) - "Sector-X"

• Escape The Room DC (Washington D.C., USA) - "Jurassic Escape"

• Escapology Garwood (NJ, USA) - "Under Pressure"

• Exit Escape Room NYC (NY, USA) - "High Speed NYC"

• Expedition Escape! (PA, USA) - "Lucky Dice Diner"

• Kauai Escape (HI, USA) - "Quest for the Lost Continent"

• Madame Tussaud's San Francisco (CA, USA) - "Alcatraz: The Breakout"

• Mission Room Escape Sydney (Sydney, Australia) - "The Lost Mine"

• Mission: Breakout (London, UK) - "The Lost Passenger"

• Puzzle Theory (CT, USA) - "The Wizard Realm"

• RI Riddle Room (RI, USA) - "La Cosa Nostra: An Inside Job"

• Xcape Wellington (Wellington, New Zealand) - "Asylum"

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These are the winners of our “HONORABLE MENTION - PUZZLE MASTER” Bullseye Award category (In alphabetical order):

• Clue Chase (NY, USA) - "The Ultimate Heist"

• Electric City Escape (PA, USA) - "Escape the Final Act: The Houdini Experience"

• Escape Haus (TX, USA) - "Forensics Classroom"

• Escape Plan (London, UK) - "Battle for Britain (Kennington)"

• Escape The Puzzle (NJ, USA) - "The Swamp"

• Escapism, LLC (CT, USA) - "Do Not Disturb"

• HintHunt London (London, UK) - "The Golden Share"

• Quandary (CT, USA) - "Son of the Zodiac"

• REAL ESCAPE GAME by SCRAP (Tokyo, Japan) - "Escape from the RED ROOM"

• Think Solve Escape (NJ, USA) - "The Cellar"

• Xscape The Room (PA, USA) - "Motherboard"

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These are the winners of our “HONORABLE MENTION - SPECIAL EFFECTS” Bullseye Award category (In alphabetical order):

• e-exit (Emergency Exit Rooms) (Budapest, Hungary) - "Secret Subway"

• Escape Hour Austin (TX, USA) - "Dead Man's Cove"

• Lock & Clue Escape Rooms (RI, USA) - "The Sorcerer's Curse"

• Maze Rooms Austin (TX, USA) - "The Shed"

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These are the winners of our “HONORABLE MENTION - UNIQUE STORYLINE” Bullseye Award category (In alphabetical order):

• Escapedom (CA, USA) - "The Cranial Carnival"

• Escape Room Arlington (VA, USA) - "Supervillains"

• ESSCAPE ROOM (NY, USA) - "The Real Kitchen Nightmare"

• Scenario Escape Room (CA, USA) - "The Mad Rapper"

• Trap Door Escape Room (NJ, USA) - "F5 Tornado Escape"

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These are the winners of our “HONORABLE MENTION - MOBILE GAMES” Bullseye Award category (In alphabetical order):

• Enigma Escape Games - "Bomb Squad"

• Hero's Engine - "Coming Home"

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These are the winners of our “HONORABLE MENTION - INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCES” Bullseye Award category (In alphabetical order):

• Escape Room Woodbridge (VA, USA) - "Descend"

• REAL ESCAPE GAMES by SCRAP (CA, USA) - "Spellbound Supper"

• The Great Escape Room Challenge (NJ, US) - "The Unknown"

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