Our October Adelaide trip was planned back in February (I know, too eager), and we had no idea at the time how busy we were going to be at this time of the year due to a variety of circumstances. So as we dragged ours butts to the airport, with J feeling under the weather and E and I utterly agree exhausted, Adelaide was not looking like the best idea, especially as we crammed a lot of rooms into our first couple of days to take advantage of massive weekday discounts. In hind

Real Escape Game Crossing - Shibuya (Tokyo, Japan) Time limit: 30+3 minutes Age limit: Under 12 requires adult Player limit: 2-4 Difficulty: Hard Date visited: July 2026 The final game of our Canada-Japan trip brought us back to Scrap's Shibuya venue for Escape from the Underwater Puzzle Challenge. Like many of Scrap's puzzle-based experiences, this one was not a typical escape room and was focused entirely on solving a lot of puzzles in a short period of time. But was it a g

Real Escape Game Asakusa (Tokyo, Japan) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Under 12 requires adult Player limit: 2-4 Difficulty: Expert Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2025), Golden Lock Award (2026) Date visited: July 2026 After tackling Escape from the Haunted Manor, we went to a nearby convenience store to cool off in the air conditioning and grab an ice cream before returning to Scrap Asakusa to tackle A Challenge from the Crafting Genius, our first "hall type" escape room. We we

Real Escape Game Asakusa (Tokyo, Japan) Time limit: 40 minutes Age limit: Under 12 requires adult Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: Easy Date visited: July 2026 It was E's birthday, so we gave her the day off to go shopping in Tokyo while I took the boys back to Asakusa to play a game we had wanted to play ever since we started researching Japanese escape rooms in 2024: Escape from the Haunted Manor. Back then, the kids were a bit young and we were somewhat wary of scary rooms, b

Real Escape Game Ikebukuro (Tokyo, Japan) Time limit: 50 minutes game time (approx. 80 minutes including intro and debrief) Age limit: None Player limit: 2-6 Difficulty: Expert Date visited: July 2026 After being amazed by Escape from the Red Room during a previous visit to Japan, we were very excited to hear that its sequel, Escape from the Blue Room, had finally landed at Scrap's new Ikebukuro location. And so after our long flight from Montreal to Tokyo, we got a good nigh

Sauve Qui Peut (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Canada) Time limit: 120 minutes Age limit: 16+ (flexible — email and ask) Player limit: 4-6 (recommended 4) (2 players okay on Tuesday-Friday before 4pm) Difficulty: Medium Awards: TERPECA Top Rooms No. 19 (2025), Golden Lock Award (2026), Best of Morty (2025) Date visited: July 2026 *Physicality and health warning: make sure you read the waiver carefully and speak to someone if you have any health issues or concerns. The Castle of Et

Sauve Qui Peut (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Canada) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Recommended 8+ Player limit: 2-8 (recommended 3-6) Difficulty: Advanced Awards: TERPECA Finalist (2020-2022), TERPECA Nominee (2023-2025), Golden Lock Award (2019) Date visited: July 2026 Our third game at Sauve Qui Peut (SQP) was kind of a throw-in because we had time to kill before our final game, The Castle of Eternal Suffering, the main reason we made the drive down from Laval. I made sure

Sauve Qui Peut (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Canada) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Recommended 8+ Player limit: 4 only (max. and min.) Difficulty: Variable (adaptive) Awards: TERPECA Finalist (2022-2025) Date visited: July 2026 Our second game at Sauve Qui Peut was the highly anticipated Falderon Forest, their most high-profile game before The Castle of Eternal Suffering came along. We were quite fortunate to be able to play it as the game shut down for a while earlier in th

Sauve Qui Peut (Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Canada) Time limit: 60 minutes Age limit: Recommended 8+ Player limit: 2-8 (recommended 4-6) Difficulty: Intermediate Awards: TERPECA Nominee (2022-2023, 2025) Date visited: July 2026 Following an incredible couple of days at Escaparium Laval, we finished up our Canada escape room adventures at Sauve Qui Peut (SQP) in Saint-Jean, located about 40km southeast of downtown Montreal. We were initially going to do SQP earlier and leave Esc

Escaparium (Laval, Canada) Time limit: 150 minutes Age limit: Recommended 10+ (Under 16 requires adult) Player limit: 4-6 Difficulty: Hard Awards: TERPECA Top Rooms No. 1 (2024,-2025), Best of Morty (2024-2025), Golden Lock Award (2025) Date visited: July 2026 Magnifico really needs no introduction. Built by a team of 25 people (20 full-time, 5 part-time) for CAD 1.4 million over nearly a year and a half. Voted the best escape room in the world by TERPECA in a landslide in 20