The Escape Puzzler (Matt)
@escapepuzzler.bsky.social
Puzzle game news, reviews and creator interviews ✍️ Puzzle Games • Escape Rooms • Murder Mysteries🕵️♂️
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We've just launched 'Incointation,' one of the smallest and most 'candle and wine' solving game we think is in our range!
Please do take a look at the campaign, live now on Kickstarter.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/166...
Please do take a look at the campaign, live now on Kickstarter.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/166...
January 6, 2026 at 3:10 PM
We've just launched 'Incointation,' one of the smallest and most 'candle and wine' solving game we think is in our range!
Please do take a look at the campaign, live now on Kickstarter.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/166...
Please do take a look at the campaign, live now on Kickstarter.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/166...
On a recent trip to Edinburgh I finally got to check out the fantastic games at Case Closed. The unique blend of escape room, murder mystery and immersive storytelling made for a memorable experience!
Case Closed (Edinburgh, UK) // Feature • The Escape Puzzler - Puzzle Game Reviews and More!
Case Closed is an escape room and immersive mystery venue in Edinburgh, UK. Housed within Secret Solstice Games, a board game cafe and prime spot for creatives, it offers four…
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January 5, 2026 at 9:17 AM
On a recent trip to Edinburgh I finally got to check out the fantastic games at Case Closed. The unique blend of escape room, murder mystery and immersive storytelling made for a memorable experience!
Merry Christmas everyone! Wishing you happiness and health over the festive period and behind. Keep on puzzling ❤️
December 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Merry Christmas everyone! Wishing you happiness and health over the festive period and behind. Keep on puzzling ❤️
I enjoyed this game a lot! Fantastic voice acting, great storytelling and a good hit of nostalgia. Well worth checking out!
#murdermystery #mystery #tabletopgame
#murdermystery #mystery #tabletopgame
Mockery Manor: The Murder Mystery Game (Long Cat Media) // Review • The Escape Puzzler - Puzzle Game Reviews and More!
Mockery Manor: The Murder Mystery Game is a new murder mystery game from Long Cat Media. Travel back to the 90s to solve a crime...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I enjoyed this game a lot! Fantastic voice acting, great storytelling and a good hit of nostalgia. Well worth checking out!
#murdermystery #mystery #tabletopgame
#murdermystery #mystery #tabletopgame
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The Advent Calendar Escape is back! 🎁🔒🎄
If you didn't get all the surprises last year, this is your chance. Unlock a container every day of December until Christmas.
Will you unlock them all?
#escapegame #escaperoom #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #roomescapemaker #adventcalendar
If you didn't get all the surprises last year, this is your chance. Unlock a container every day of December until Christmas.
Will you unlock them all?
#escapegame #escaperoom #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #roomescapemaker #adventcalendar
Here's the most improvised advent calendar ever 😅
I hope you like all the surprises 🎁🔒🎄
#escapegame #escaperoom #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #roomescapemaker #adventcalendar
I hope you like all the surprises 🎁🔒🎄
#escapegame #escaperoom #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #roomescapemaker #adventcalendar
Advent Calendar Escape
Welcome to a unique escape game!Unlock 25 containers, each with a challenge and surprise. One new container can be open every day until Christmas.Are you ready to discover them all?
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December 1, 2025 at 11:32 AM
The Advent Calendar Escape is back! 🎁🔒🎄
If you didn't get all the surprises last year, this is your chance. Unlock a container every day of December until Christmas.
Will you unlock them all?
#escapegame #escaperoom #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #roomescapemaker #adventcalendar
If you didn't get all the surprises last year, this is your chance. Unlock a container every day of December until Christmas.
Will you unlock them all?
#escapegame #escaperoom #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #roomescapemaker #adventcalendar
Happy Advent! I’m looking forward to starting my first EXIT Advent Calendar today. Time to see what all the hype’s about…
December 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Happy Advent! I’m looking forward to starting my first EXIT Advent Calendar today. Time to see what all the hype’s about…
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December 1!
The first puzzle in our advent calendar is live!
Can you solve it?
zebraescapes.com/puzzle/advent
The first puzzle in our advent calendar is live!
Can you solve it?
zebraescapes.com/puzzle/advent
Advent Calendar | Zebra Escapes
Join us this December for the Zebra Escapes Advent Calendar 2025! Complete daily puzzles to earn raffle tickets and win an online escape room experience.
zebraescapes.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
December 1!
The first puzzle in our advent calendar is live!
Can you solve it?
zebraescapes.com/puzzle/advent
The first puzzle in our advent calendar is live!
Can you solve it?
zebraescapes.com/puzzle/advent
Now updated with even more offers ☺️
I’ve pulled together a list of puzzle games, murder mysteries, puzzle boxes etc that are on sale this Black Friday. Check them out at the link below, and please let me know if I’ve missed any!
#blackfriday #puzzlegames #murdermystery #puzzlebox
#blackfriday #puzzlegames #murdermystery #puzzlebox
Your Guide to... Black Friday • The Escape Puzzler - Puzzle Game Reviews and More!
Have you been saving up for a new puzzle game and want to buy something in the Black Friday sales? Or do you want to buy a cold case game…
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November 28, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Now updated with even more offers ☺️
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The doors have opened.
Welcome to the Black Market. Where cursed relics find their destined owners through secret bids.
Learn more at blackmarket.mysteriouspackage.com
Link in bio.
Welcome to the Black Market. Where cursed relics find their destined owners through secret bids.
Learn more at blackmarket.mysteriouspackage.com
Link in bio.
November 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The doors have opened.
Welcome to the Black Market. Where cursed relics find their destined owners through secret bids.
Learn more at blackmarket.mysteriouspackage.com
Link in bio.
Welcome to the Black Market. Where cursed relics find their destined owners through secret bids.
Learn more at blackmarket.mysteriouspackage.com
Link in bio.
I’ve pulled together a list of puzzle games, murder mysteries, puzzle boxes etc that are on sale this Black Friday. Check them out at the link below, and please let me know if I’ve missed any!
#blackfriday #puzzlegames #murdermystery #puzzlebox
#blackfriday #puzzlegames #murdermystery #puzzlebox
Your Guide to... Black Friday • The Escape Puzzler - Puzzle Game Reviews and More!
Have you been saving up for a new puzzle game and want to buy something in the Black Friday sales? Or do you want to buy a cold case game…
escapepuzzler.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I’ve pulled together a list of puzzle games, murder mysteries, puzzle boxes etc that are on sale this Black Friday. Check them out at the link below, and please let me know if I’ve missed any!
#blackfriday #puzzlegames #murdermystery #puzzlebox
#blackfriday #puzzlegames #murdermystery #puzzlebox
How many puzzle Advent calendars is too many? I’ve gone a bit OTT this year…
November 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
How many puzzle Advent calendars is too many? I’ve gone a bit OTT this year…
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Packing up copies of The Smugglers’ Secret. It’s a story-based, text-heavy, cold case adventure puzzle in an envelope.
Basically, imagine a whodunit and an escape room had a baby.
So much fun to design! 🎲✂️
Basically, imagine a whodunit and an escape room had a baby.
So much fun to design! 🎲✂️
November 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Packing up copies of The Smugglers’ Secret. It’s a story-based, text-heavy, cold case adventure puzzle in an envelope.
Basically, imagine a whodunit and an escape room had a baby.
So much fun to design! 🎲✂️
Basically, imagine a whodunit and an escape room had a baby.
So much fun to design! 🎲✂️
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I am excited to share that I am collaborating with SCARLET ENVELOPE to offer fabulous free items to those of you who back BOTH our Holiday Market Projects!
Both are live now on Backekit #linkinbio
#BackerKitHolidayMarket #PuzzleLovers #Puzzletime #puzzlebundle #playathome
Both are live now on Backekit #linkinbio
#BackerKitHolidayMarket #PuzzleLovers #Puzzletime #puzzlebundle #playathome
November 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I am excited to share that I am collaborating with SCARLET ENVELOPE to offer fabulous free items to those of you who back BOTH our Holiday Market Projects!
Both are live now on Backekit #linkinbio
#BackerKitHolidayMarket #PuzzleLovers #Puzzletime #puzzlebundle #playathome
Both are live now on Backekit #linkinbio
#BackerKitHolidayMarket #PuzzleLovers #Puzzletime #puzzlebundle #playathome
EXcITed to crack this open on December 1st! It’s my first EXIT Advent Calendar and I’m excited to see what all the fuss is about…
November 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
EXcITed to crack this open on December 1st! It’s my first EXIT Advent Calendar and I’m excited to see what all the fuss is about…
My first escape room advent calendar arrived today! Bring on December 1st (not that I am wishing time away!).
November 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
My first escape room advent calendar arrived today! Bring on December 1st (not that I am wishing time away!).
Pedja Banovic (author of A Compendium of Meta-Puzzles) is the final Meet Your Maker guest this year. He talks about finding inspiration on holiday, how his puzzle book came about and teases his next project.
Check out the interview at the link below!
#puzzles #puzzlebook #interview
Check out the interview at the link below!
#puzzles #puzzlebook #interview
Meet Your Maker: Pedja Banovic // Interview • The Escape Puzzler - Puzzle Game Reviews and More!
Pedja Banovic talks about his hit puzzle book, A Compendium of Meta-Puzzles, as well as his 20+ years of experience in the puzzle space.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Pedja Banovic (author of A Compendium of Meta-Puzzles) is the final Meet Your Maker guest this year. He talks about finding inspiration on holiday, how his puzzle book came about and teases his next project.
Check out the interview at the link below!
#puzzles #puzzlebook #interview
Check out the interview at the link below!
#puzzles #puzzlebook #interview
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Of course, you are welcome to buy a generic Crime Pack for Christmas. There are alternatives...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/166...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/166...
November 12, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Of course, you are welcome to buy a generic Crime Pack for Christmas. There are alternatives...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/166...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/166...
My team and I had a fantastic visit to Exitus Escape Rooms in Cardiff last month. We played three of the rooms on offer, including our first 90 minute TERPECA-nominated room (in this team configuration). Check out the article to see what we thought!
#escaperooms #cardiff
#escaperooms #cardiff
Exitus Escape Rooms (Cardiff, UK) // Feature • The Escape Puzzler - Puzzle Game Reviews and More!
Exitus Escape Rooms in Cardiff has four rooms featuring space horror, Egyptian tombs, a prisoner of war camp and a chocolate factory.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
My team and I had a fantastic visit to Exitus Escape Rooms in Cardiff last month. We played three of the rooms on offer, including our first 90 minute TERPECA-nominated room (in this team configuration). Check out the article to see what we thought!
#escaperooms #cardiff
#escaperooms #cardiff
Who needs an Advent calendar when you can have misADVENT by @mrlockyer.bsky.social? It’s a duo of printable mystery games with new clues and puzzles sent each day throughout Advent. Play along each day or binge them all on Christmas Day and beyond… the choice is yours!
#advent #christmas #mystery
#advent #christmas #mystery
misADVENT
A pair of crime cases to solve, with new digital clues sent daily. One for adults, the other for families, made for the holidays.
www.kickstarter.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Who needs an Advent calendar when you can have misADVENT by @mrlockyer.bsky.social? It’s a duo of printable mystery games with new clues and puzzles sent each day throughout Advent. Play along each day or binge them all on Christmas Day and beyond… the choice is yours!
#advent #christmas #mystery
#advent #christmas #mystery
I’ve been talking so much about escape rooms at work that my colleagues now want to do one. The challenge is finding on locally that I haven’t already done 🤣
November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I’ve been talking so much about escape rooms at work that my colleagues now want to do one. The challenge is finding on locally that I haven’t already done 🤣
Looking for vibrant and colourful Christmas puzzle cards? Look no further! Scarlet Envelope are back with a new card to add to their festive greeting card collection.
#christmas #puzzles #scarletenvelope
#christmas #puzzles #scarletenvelope
Christmas Cards with Puzzles: Santa’s Code Machine
A new cozy Christmas card with a cunning twist: your message is hidden in the puzzles!
www.kickstarter.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Looking for vibrant and colourful Christmas puzzle cards? Look no further! Scarlet Envelope are back with a new card to add to their festive greeting card collection.
#christmas #puzzles #scarletenvelope
#christmas #puzzles #scarletenvelope
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The doors have opened.
Your first trial awaits.
Welcome to the Black Market. Now is the time to earn credits – the Auction draws near.
Learn more at blackmarket.mysteriouspackage.com
Link in bio.
#blackmarket #blackfriday #mystery #unboxing #mysterybox
Your first trial awaits.
Welcome to the Black Market. Now is the time to earn credits – the Auction draws near.
Learn more at blackmarket.mysteriouspackage.com
Link in bio.
#blackmarket #blackfriday #mystery #unboxing #mysterybox
November 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The doors have opened.
Your first trial awaits.
Welcome to the Black Market. Now is the time to earn credits – the Auction draws near.
Learn more at blackmarket.mysteriouspackage.com
Link in bio.
#blackmarket #blackfriday #mystery #unboxing #mysterybox
Your first trial awaits.
Welcome to the Black Market. Now is the time to earn credits – the Auction draws near.
Learn more at blackmarket.mysteriouspackage.com
Link in bio.
#blackmarket #blackfriday #mystery #unboxing #mysterybox
Join me as we go behind-the-scenes with David Starr, Managing Director at The Mysterious Package Company (@mysteriouspackage.bsky.social). He talks about resurrecting the premium crate format, how they create their games and the launch of the Black Market.
#Immersive #PuzzleGames #Mystery
#Immersive #PuzzleGames #Mystery
Meet Your Maker: Dave Starr, The Mysterious Package Company // Interview • The Escape Puzzler - Puzzle Game Reviews and More!
The Mysterious Package Company was founded back in 2013 and has since established itself as the gold standard for tabletop immersive mystery experiences. Dave Starr, Managing Director at MPC, gives…
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October 31, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Join me as we go behind-the-scenes with David Starr, Managing Director at The Mysterious Package Company (@mysteriouspackage.bsky.social). He talks about resurrecting the premium crate format, how they create their games and the launch of the Black Market.
#Immersive #PuzzleGames #Mystery
#Immersive #PuzzleGames #Mystery
Horrors Untold is a fascinating part-fiction, part-fact immersive puzzle experience in book form. Charting the rise of Halloween Horror Nights, it also hints at the events true dark purpose. Dare you delve into this unsettling mystery?
#Halloween #Horror #Immersive
#Halloween #Horror #Immersive
Horrors Untold (LumiNarrative) // Review • The Escape Puzzler - Puzzle Game Reviews and More!
Horrors Untold is an immersive mystery book like no other. Solve the puzzles, manipulate the pages and unravel the books terrifying secrets.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Horrors Untold is a fascinating part-fiction, part-fact immersive puzzle experience in book form. Charting the rise of Halloween Horror Nights, it also hints at the events true dark purpose. Dare you delve into this unsettling mystery?
#Halloween #Horror #Immersive
#Halloween #Horror #Immersive
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Ever dreamed of building your own Crime Board? How about doing it in the lead up to Christmas?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/166...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/166...
October 30, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Ever dreamed of building your own Crime Board? How about doing it in the lead up to Christmas?
www.kickstarter.com/projects/166...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/166...