The concept was born in Japan, spread through Asia, then arrived in the U.S. in 2012. As of Friday, the site Escape Room Directory listed 367 rooms at 138 facilities in the U.S., with more registering on that site every week. Business appears to be booming: At popular locations, tickets sell out weeks in advance.
And it is now making its way into mainstream entertainment: The studios behind Tom Cruise’s coming “Mission: Impossible” film erected escape rooms at AMC Theaters this month for fans to “become IMF agents.” Free tickets for those rooms sold out in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles in less than 24 hours. Later this month on July 25, the Science Channel is debuting an escape-room-themed game show called “Race to Escape.”
- https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-weird-new-world-of-escape-room-businesses-2015-07-20
- Poland escape room fire 1/5/19 https://wiadomosci.wp.pl/koszalin-wstrzasajace-szczegoly-pozaru-w-escape-roomie-ustalono-wstepna-przyczyne-6335195373127809a
- The Polish state news agency PAP said it had learned unofficially that the girls died from carbon monoxide asphyxiation. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/police-5-teenage-girls-killed-in-poland-escape-room-fire_us_5c306ebbe4b0d75a9830ef34
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