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Monday, 10th November 2025
TERPECA 2025 Nominated
Labyrinth: Lord Barrington's Folly retains its status as a TERPECA nominated room for the third successive year!
Saturday, 7th June 2025
Les Pingouins Tenebreux
A whirlwind visit from a world class team, Les Pingouins warmed up with a top 10 time in Blackmail before smashing out 40 tokens in Labyrinth in just over 35 minutes! Surely that will never be beaten?
Tuesday, 1st April 2025
Welcome Neve!
Sadly circumstances have dragged Oscar away from Birmingham, but in steps Neve, veteran of all our rooms, and an actress in training!
Friday, 22nd November 2024
Welcome Oscar!
Amir had to leave us in the summer as he headed off to continue his studies, Oscar joins the Escape Brum team bringing a wealth of experience!
Sunday, 17th November 2024
But This Room is Hard?!?
The Barrington's Job has been open for barely a month, and has been proving a difficult one. Except for Escape Broom who have somehow completed it in 29:01! No one else has got under 40 minutes yet!
Monday, 11th November 2024
TERPECA 2024 Nominated
Labyrinth: Lord Barrington's Folly retains its status as a TERPECA nominated room for 2024!
Sunday, 13th October 2024
The Barrington's Job is open!
The Covert Acquisition & Tactical Services: Brum Division have a job for you, enter Barrington's Jewellery store and crack the safe.
Friday, 20th September 2024
Testing, Testing, 123!
We've started play testing our fourth room, not long now! The first victim was our own Jai with a couple of his friends.
Saturday, 13th April 2024
It's our birthday!
It's been five years since our very first game in Blackmail!
Saturday, 18th November 2023
E$C@peR5 set new fastest time in Blackmail
The record stood for nearly three years before E$C@peR5 came along, and they took over three minutes off it! 20 minutes and 30 seconds, can this time ever be beaten?
Monday, 6th November 2023
TERPECA Nominated!
Labyrinth: Lord Barrington's Folly nominated for The Escape Room Project's Enthusiast Choice Awards! We're absolutely delighted to be listed on a page of the world's best escape rooms!
Thursday, 2nd November 2023
Welcome El!
Just in time for the Christmas rush, El joins the Escape Brum team!
Friday, 6th October 2023
Welcome Amir!
With the departures of Olivia and Abbie over the summer we've been on the recruitment trail, Amir joins the team!
Sunday, 11th June 2023 @ 12:45
Labyrinth beaten for 2nd time!
Team Squared head in to Labyrinth, and 41 minutes 27 seconds later they are out with 40 tokens! The 2nd team to retrieve them all, and over 10 minutes quicker than the previous record!
Sunday, 11th June 2023 @ 11:45
Team Squared set new Cabin record!
Team Squared are back in Birmingham, and not holding back! A new record in The Mystic's Cabin, only the 2nd team to go under 30 minutes, and beating the old record by nearly 5 minutes! 21:47 Incredible.
Thursday, 2nd March 2023
Welcome Abbie!
A busy Christmas and new year period has resulted in a new hire! Abbie joins the team! We can now run three games at a time on weekends.
Saturday, 17th December 2022
Labyrinth has been beaten!
We didn't expect it to happen this quickly, but congratulations to #Altogaldem, the first team to retrieve all 40 tokens from Labyrinth!
Wednesday, 28th September 2022
Labyrinth is finally open!
It's been a long time in the making, but Labyrinth: Lord Barrington's Folly hosts its first game! A game with two objectives - you don't just need to escape, but also collect as many tokens as possible!
Friday, 9th September 2022
Welcome Olivia
With Jai heading off to uni we welcome Olivia to the Escape Brum team!
Monday, 18th July 2022
PuzzlePost now in stock
Added to our range of Exit! games we're now stocking PuzzlePost games too. Prices start at £9.99 for Elf HQ rising to £15.99 for The Scandal.
Sunday, 12th June 2022
How Quick?!?
The Mystic's Cabin has proved a tricky proposition since the COVID update, but after nearly 400 games Ferngate are the first team to crack the 30 minute barrier! In fact they knocked nearly 5 minutes off the previous fastest time setting a new record of 26:43. Wow!
Friday, 8th April 2022
Giving something back... or maybe taking something away?
Lee & Jai spent some time with the JQ clean team, picking litter. One full bag taken off the streets in a little over an hour!
Tuesday, 25th January 2022
Masks are off
We're delighted to have teams back in playing games without the need to wear face masks, hopefully this is the beginning of the end.
Sunday, 19th December, 2021
New fastest time in The Mystic's Cabin
Only Jai's 3rd day and he's witnessed the fastest ever time in the Mystic's Cabin! Clueless Wonders, with only the 6th sub 40 minute time, set the target with 31:12
Friday, 17th December, 2021
Welcome Jai!
After all the chaos of the last year and a half, we're finally taking on our first permanent team member! With Jai working Friday to Sunday each week, we're now able to run Blackmail and The Mystic's Cabin simultaneously.
Friday, 19th November 2021
Engagement!
What a fantastic and beautiful event: Ash proposed to Unique at the end of Blackmail after finding the engagement ring at the end of the game! Congratulations! (Unique said yes)
Friday, 5th November 2021
New room coming... sometime
The starting point for room 3, a big pile of wood delivered today! Not sure when it will be ready, and we're not giving any details away on the theme, we'll keep you posted!
Monday, 26th July 2021
Unleashed Unlocked
After posting the 5th fastest time in Blackmail, Unleashed Unlocked have posted a new fastest time in The Mystic's Cabin with 32:34! Moving ever closer to that 30 minute threshold.
Monday, 17th May 2021
Exit! Games now in
We're now selling Exit! games in our reception area. With a range of titles available, buy one for £15 or two for £25
Monday, 12th April 2021
Open Again!
It's been over 6 months, and we are finally open again! There are some restrictions, but we're looking forward to getting teams back in again!
Wednesday, 4th November 2020
Closed again :(
It's been less than three months since we opened up after the first lockdown, and we have to close again. Hopefully it won't be for too long, stay safe.
Sunday, 30th August 2020
New fastest time in The Mystics Cabin
Team Reprobates with the first sub 40 minute time in the new set up of The Mystic's Cabin! Well done - 39:41. The adjustment has definitely made the room harder!
Saturday, 15th August 2020
We are open for business!
Lockdown is long ended, carpets have been pulled up and replaced; Blackmail and The Mystic's Cabin await you!
Saturday, 1st August 2020
New carpets
Dealing with insurance loss adjusters and finding a carpet fitter during a global pandemic... a really slow process! Still we're nearly there; reset of the room, a couple of tests and we'll be back open soon.
Wednesday, 17th June 2020
Flood!!!
Can't believe it: making final prep for reopening and a huge rainstorm has overloaded the drains. Water everywhere, not sure the carpets will survive this, might have to delay reopening :(
Friday, 1st May 2020
Cabin Adjustment
Lockdown has afforded us the opportunity to make a small adjustment to The Mystic's Cabin - we've added an extra puzzle to make it a little more difficult. As a result we have retired the existing leaderboard and will start afresh when we reopen.
Thursday, 26th March 2020
COVID Lockdown
It seemed inevitable, and now it is confirmed: we are closed until further notice due to the government imposed national lockdown. Fingers crossed it won't last too long.
Saturday, 25th January 2020
Woah! New record in Blackmail
Absolutely incredible performance from Ole's At The Wheel, absolutely flawless from start to finish, and a time to match: 23:42. Just WOW! (Seems to be the month for fast times!)
Sunday, 19th January 2020
Well that didn't last long!
Bored Gamers have just obliterated The Mystic's Cabin in 21:08. That's ridiculous. There's only two of them. Starting to think we should be making the game a bit more difficult...
Friday, 17th January 2020
New record in The Mystic's Cabin
#Altogaldem are the first team to go sub 30 minutes in The Mystic's Cabin, and we've not even had 50 teams through the room yet. 24:47 Well Done.
Tuesday, 3rd December 2019
The Mystic's Cabin is open!
Dare you enter the Mystic's Cabin? Lord Barrington needs you to retrieve a lost statue of Bastet thought to be hidden within her walls. Thanks to Team Kibblewhite for being the first through the door.
Monday, 4th November 2019
I'm Back!!
A successful operation, 4 weeks of bed rest and recuperation: we're back open! Working through a backlog of games of those that graciously agreed to postpone - thank you!
Wednesday, 25th September 2019
Disaster
A long term back issue has taken a turn for the worse, I'm incapacitated and I have had to close Escape Brum. 50 games either postponed or cancelled, and an operation looking like the only remaining option - which will require 4-6 weeks of recovery.
Wednesday, 18th September 2019
New room in final testing!
Been working flat out through the summer trying to get the second room open, we're now doing final testing - shouldn't be long now.
Thursday, 18th July 2019
Old Joe set a new record
Sensational time in Blackmail from Old Joe, they were really going for it: 25:57. Can this ever be beaten? Only the second time under 30 minutes.
Friday, 5th July 2019
Break In
Why? We've had a break in, only thing taken was the CCTV box used to run Blackmail. Fortunately nothing was damaged apart from a couple of doors. Can't believe they just kicked their way through the reinforced glass panel next to the front door!
Friday, 18th June 2019
Team Squared -1
Had the pleasure of a visit from Team Squared (unbelievable level of experience - 2 of the team have played 1300 rooms!). Fascinating to watch them play Blackmail so calmly and methodically, no rush just working through and understanding everything. 29:00 our first sub 30 minute time - incredible!
Saturday, 13th April 2019
Blackmail's first game
The first team to play Blackmail! Huge relief to have a team play the game, and everything run smoothly. Thanks for taking a shot on a new small business Knock It Back Like Philip, who escaped with a very respectable 56:40
Wednesday, 10th April 2019
Open at last!
The venue is ready, the website is live, Blackmail awaits its first players! It's taken a huge amount of effort to get to this point, and so proud to reach this milestone in the journey: Escape Brum is open for business!