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.
Tammy and Mazie go for a morning walk around Fergus Falls. Breakfast at Toast Cafe: Swedish Pancakes, Frikkadiller Toast (Swedish Meatballs), French Toast, Avocado Toast, and Fluffernutter to share. Drive to Prairie Wetlands Learning Center. Walk trail at Prairie Wetlands. Drive …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: QMSB Trip - Day 14We arrived in Fargo today and made our way to Puzzled Escape Rooms and did their Time Machine room. The room had a lot of locks and codes to figure out. We started with uncovering a lot of different items in the room and then had to figure out where to get started. The beginning …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Time Machine at Puzzled Escape Rooms12:53 PM: Start drive to Alexandria, MN. 23 minutes late. Up North Ice Cream for some delicious house made ice cream. Escape Room Alexandria to do the Mad Scientist room. Talked to owner of escape room and shared as well as received a bunch of recommendations. Drove to Fergus …
Keep reading · 1 minute: QMSB Trip - Day 13We made a stop at Escape Room Alexandria today and did “The Experiment”. We successfully solved the room and escaped with 6m 46s on the clock. The room had a cool flow starting with a set of puzzles that we were able to divide and do in parallel. Then we hit a whole different set …
Keep reading · 1 minute: The Experiment at Escape Room AlexandriaPOAP 7402510 at Magnifico at Escaparium 🎪.
Also Olson Family Vacation 2025 Day 4. Saturday and coffee shops downtown open later. Find Columbuse Cafe open at 7am. The WiFi is good and appreciate them being open. Transfer to Structure Coffee when open at 8am. Pack up and check out of Sonder. Drive to Laval for our long …
Keep reading · 1 minute: QMSB Trip - Day 8Today we did the World’s #1 Escape Room according to TERPECA 2024 — Magnifico! It was an incredible experience. Unlike anything we’ve ever done before. Jamie Unlike any escape rooms experience I’ve ever imagined. The depth of the story drew us in right away. I wanted the story to …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Magnifico at EscapariumToday we did two escape rooms at Escaparium, and nine years ago today Tammy and I did our second escape room ever in Maine. We’ve now done 78!
Also Olson Family Vacation 2025 Day 1. Up early to pack up, get car, and unload out of Airbnb. Delightful time in Quebec. Drive to Laval, suburb of Montreal. Go to Escaparium in Laval. Did the The Lost Island of the Voodoo Queen room — amazing! Went to Birdhouse Wings for lunch. …
Keep reading · 1 minute: QMSB Trip - Day 5After our morning defeating the Voodoo Queen we had a break for lunch and then returned to Escaparium. We were guided through a number of hallways until we came upon a wardrobe sitting in the hall. We were left and upon inspection the wardrobe transported us to another world …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Wardrobe for Sale at Escaparium