This section chronicles our family’s love of escape rooms, from cracking a record 23 rooms in 2025 (82 total since 2016) to quirky trip logs detailing each puzzle, travel stop and post‑game reflection. It’s an ever‑growing diary of teamwork, hints and shared victories.
This year we jumped way into our Escape Room adventures, more than any previous year. We completed 25 rooms in 2025! This year we went through all of our records and made sure we had a complete inventory of all of our rooms, resulting in our Escape Rooms list. We are getting …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Escape Rooms of 2025We had a great time solving the Scooby-Doo™ and the Spooky Castle Adventure room at Escapology today. It was our first room at Escapology and we’ll be back. Finished in 39m 46s — very fast for us! Room 86!
We had a great time completing the Loose Sleuth escape room at Puzzleworks. The puzzles in the room were just right — hard enough to be challenging but never so difficult that we felt lost. No clues! Solved in 49m 05s. Room 85!
We got a very slow start in the Legend of the Yeti room at The Escape Game Nashville today. This was one of those times that in hindsight there was an obvious thing that we just didn’t explore enough in the first section of the room. The game master missed that we hadn’t found …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Legend of the Yeti Escape RoomWe completed the Ruins: Forbidden Treasure room at Escape Game Nashville today. This was a really well done room with good puzzles and very immersive experiences. Solved in 55m 12s. Room 83!
After using GPT-5 to create category introductions for my website I got to thinking about the categories themselves. With over 9,800 blog posts spanning 20+ years it is daunting to figure out an approach to categories. It is especially daunting to approach them in a way that …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Blog Categories via LLMI used GPT-5 to create introduction text for my blog categories. Now I just need Tiny Theme to pull them in and I’ll be set. This is the prompt I used: I’m including a list of all categories on my blog along with the link to the archive page for that category. I would like you to …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Category Introductions via LLMWe have significantly increased our escape room activity in 2025! Just past half-way through the year and we are already at 23 and 82 total since 2016. 🤩
✅ Quebec ✅ Montreal ✅ Stowe ✅ Bismarck Tammy and Mazie go on independent runs around Downtown Fargo. Jamie goes to Youngblood Coffee Roasters for a coffee. Check out of Jasper Hotel. Breakfast at Prairie Kitchen. Drive to Bismarck, ND. Stop for lunch at Fireflour. Explore …
Keep reading · 1 minute: QMSB Trip - Day 15We all stopped at Breakout ND today in Bismarck to do the Gemini Quantum Quest game. The game is a split-start so Mazie and Tyler went to one place and Tammy and I to another. After getting through the initial puzzles we joined forces and saved the space station with 11m 15s still on the clock! Room 82!
