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Greetings, brave souls! You’ve dared to enter the lair of Edward Tandy and, against all odds, emerged triumphant. Your heart raced,...
Nov
07
2023
Oct
18
2023
The Basement Escape Room Welcomes Unionization with Actor’s Equity Association
The Basement: A Live Escape Room Experience, a leading name in immersive escape room experiences in the United States, proudly...
Aug
26
2022
Do Escape Rooms Have Bathrooms?
When the heavy, black metal door swings closed, it locks behind you with a spine-chilling rattle. The rules are simple...
Aug
20
2022
Do You Tip Escape Room Hosts?
You've paid the tithe, the bond has been sealed and your fate determined. Blood drips from the gash in your...
Aug
13
2022
Can You be Drunk in an Escape Room?
The room swirls, spinning on the axis of malcontent and misery. Your head is pounding, throbbing with every crash and...
Aug
05
2022
Can You Fail an Escape Room?
Your stomach drops, eyes darting about the room, still desperately searching for answers. Clammy hands barely holding pieces of the...
Jul
29
2022
Escape Room Jobs
Gaunt creatures, eyes sunken and features sharp, shuffle through the twisting corridors. They are easily identified by their stained and...
Jul
23
2022
How to Beat Escape Rooms
The room is dark, so pitch black you can scarcely see the shadows moving out of the corner of your...
Jul
17
2022
Escape Room Party Ideas
The list reads: Sackcloth hoods stitched to floor-length cloaks, black and red candles, heady incense, and the deepest purple wine;...
Jun
17
2022
What is the Scariest Room at The Basement?
The blood-pumping, blinding sensation of true fear is so rarely experienced. It can be a shock to the system to...
Jun
10
2022
How Do Escape Rooms Work?
The black sackcloth hood obscures your vision, dark shapes barely visible in a blur of confused motion. You can hear...
May
28
2022
Can You Do an Escape Room with Two People?
As you grip your partner's hand tightly, thin rivulets of blood run between your fingers and onto the floor. In...
Mar
05
2022
Are Escape Rooms Scary?
Escape rooms certainly can be scary, but they don't have to be. Here at The Basement, we specialize in horror-themed...
Feb
26
2022
10 Movies For Escape Room Fans
Escape Room fanatics can't always be locked in a room filled with puzzles. I mean, I suppose they could, but...
Jan
17
2022
What Is An Escape Room Experience?
The wind howls outside the stoic and dilapidated estate, shutters slamming ceaselessly against rotted siding. Standing over his most recent...
Nov
16
2021
Crowning the Champions of The Study
Like a bloody rag dragged across a dusty blackboard, we are wiping clean the leaderboard for The Study. Not for...
Nov
10
2021
What to Wear to an Escape Room
The footsteps grow louder outside, heavy boots hitting the hardwood floor. The babysitter clamps her hand over her mouth. The slats...
Sep
30
2021
A BRAND NEW OVERNIGHT EXPERIENCE!
The door to the main hall groans loudly as you step inside, your eyes growing wide in the dark. There...
Jul
21
2021
Special Events Are Back!
The fog is thick, spilling between lichen-encrusted tomb stones and angelic statues with grime-streaked faces. You can see your breath...
Jun
11
2020
Reopening and New Safety Protocols
Many of you may know that for the past few months all Basement locations have been under a government mandated...
Jun
06
2020
How Much is an Escape Room?
Have you been wondering How Much Is An Escape Room Experience? Well, depending on how many people are on your...
Mar
13
2020
A message to our customers regarding the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) and The Basement
First off, we want to ensure you that all members of our small staff at all 3 locations are in...
Mar
11
2020
How to Play an Escape Room
I would like to categorize this question alongside similar ideas: “How to Make the Perfect Salad,” “How to Get a...
Mar
06
2020
What is an Escape Room Like?
Put rather plainly: An Escape Room is a themed room and puzzle adventure in which players and participants attempt to...
Feb
26
2020
How Long Does an Escape Room Take?
Time. We all know it, we all love it, we all exist in it without purpose for age or regard...
Feb
19
2020
How To Beat An Escape Room
Every now and then at The Basement, located in Los Angeles, California, I get the chance to host a group...