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Room Escape Fairfax is a Great Company Team Building Activity 1024 640 Bond's Escape Room

Room Escape Fairfax is a Great Company Team Building Activity

We have all had to do those uncomfortable ice breakers in middle school and high school to get to know your classmates. Working with others in a new office setting is similar and can also sometimes be awkward or uncomfortable at first, so coworkers may do these activities or games to get to know each…

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A Technological History of Escape Rooms

A Technological History of Escape Rooms As people who spend so long around escape rooms, we often forget how new a concept they really are. The very first escape room didn’t exist until 2007 and there weren’t any open in the United States until 2013, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at the current…

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5 Escape Room Tips from an Experienced Player 1024 471 Bond's Escape Room

5 Escape Room Tips from an Experienced Player

I’ve always had a love for puzzles, brain teasers, and riddles. I played The Incredible Machine and Lemming on my computer everyday after school. I even created my own puzzles and riddles and tested them on my parents. When escape room games made the jump from online computer games to live-action adventure, I was that…

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How Escape Rooms Encourage Creative Problem Solving & Team Work 1024 683 Bond's Escape Room

How Escape Rooms Encourage Creative Problem Solving & Team Work

The escape room craze is sweeping the nation. Escape rooms make great activities for fun nights out with friends, but escape rooms are also quickly becoming a favorite activity of choice for a specific activity: office team building games. Employees are tired of boring trust falls and awkward ice breakers. Escape rooms are a new,…

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I Themed a Theme and Won a Prize! 1024 427 Bond's Escape Room

I Themed a Theme and Won a Prize!

One of the things that sets Room Escape Fairfax apart from other escape rooms you may have seen or visited is that our escape room games are designed entirely in house by our small creative team. While many businesses in our industry are franchises that use games written in a corporate office by someone who…

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Improve Your Team Building This Year with an Escape Room

2018 has finally arrived, and many of us are looking forward to an exciting year. Many people abandon their new year resolutions not far into January, but others still hold onto them. Individuals may want to cut back on soda or finally go after that promotion at work. Businesses make resolutions, too. For many businesses…

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Need a Gift Idea? Give the Gift of Fun This Winter With a Gift Card 1024 693 Bond's Escape Room

Need a Gift Idea? Give the Gift of Fun This Winter With a Gift Card

This holiday season, you may be trying to find the perfect gift idea for your friends and family. But what should you get them? You need to buy them an affordable gift that they will love. There are several classic options such as clothing or electronics, but you want to give them something very special.…

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12 Unusual Holidays You’ll Want to Celebrate 620 413 Bond's Escape Room

12 Unusual Holidays You’ll Want to Celebrate

Once again and just as suddenly as last time (and seemingly earlier every year), the holiday season is upon us, but here at Room Escape Fairfax, we consider every day the holiday season. This is the part where I should come up with some explanation for this where I talk about how we as a…

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Six Things TV Got Wrong About Escape Rooms 1024 709 Bond's Escape Room

Six Things TV Got Wrong About Escape Rooms

Six Things TV Got Wrong About Escape Rooms From time to time when we ask people if they’ve ever played an Escape Room before, they’ll say they’ve only seen it on TV. With Escape Rooms growing in popularity, they’ve begun appearing more and more on TV, sometimes as a reality show where random people give…

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Four Local Restaurants our Game Hosts Love 1024 768 Bond's Escape Room

Four Local Restaurants our Game Hosts Love

Local Restaurants Game Hosts Love One of the most common questions our game hosts receive (besides “Can we get a hint?”, to which the answer is always yes) is “Where can we go to eat around here?” Old Town Fairfax is the home to dozens of restaurants to fit all sorts of needs, be it…

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