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March Madness Escape Room Tournament

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March Madness Escape Room Tournament

Play any game between 3/15-4/05/20 to enter to win great prizes for teams with the best escape time!

Does the NCAA tournament get you into a competitive spirit? GOOD! If you play a game at Cross Roads Escape Games anytime between March 15th– April 5th you will be competing for amazing prizes!

For the first time in Cross Roads history, we will be bringing in leaderboards for each of our 3 games. If you are one of the FINAL FOUR teams on the leader board by April 6th, you will win an amazing prize! With the final four teams getting prizes in each our games, that makes 12 total prizes you can win!

If you are the one who makes the booking, that automatically makes you the team captain and you will be the one who’s name goes on the leader board and will be the one contacted if your team makes it to the final four on April 6th!

Here are our categories and prizes:

THE HEX ROOM

  1. #1 Survivors: Most amount of time left on the clock with all 6 survivor medallions in hand
    • Prize: Play Live Nation, Fullerton: 10 gift certificates for $150 off a 15 station VIP Gaming Party Package! ($1500 value) 
  2. #2 Survivors: Second most amount of time left on the clock with all 6 survivor medallions in hand
  3. Best Time: Most amount of time left on the clock with or without survivor medallions
  4. Second Best Time: Second most amount of time left on the clock with or without survivor medallions

THE FUN HOUSE

  1. Best Time: Most amount of time left on the clock
    • Prize: VR Zone, Fullerton: ½ hour VR Session for 8 players  ($120 value)
  1. Second Best Time: Second most amount of time left on the clock
    • Prize: Play Live Nation, Fullerton: one hour free game passes for 10 people ($100 value) 
  1. Fun House KIDS Best Time: Most amount of time left on the clock in a KIDS game (majority of the group needs to be ages 12 or younger)
    • Prize: Play Live Nation, Fullerton: 5 gift certificates for $100 off a 7 station VIP Gaming Party Package ($500 value) 
  1. Fun House KIDS Second best time: Second most amount of time left on the clock in a KIDS game (majority of the group needs to be ages 12 or younger)
    • Prize: Sky Zone, Anaheim: 2 hour jump time and socks ($240 value)

THE PSYCH WARD

  1. Most Sane Points: Finishes the game with the highest number of points for the sane team
    • Prize: ArrowTag, Santa Ana- 1 Hour Private Arrow Tag Event for up to 16 ($300 value) 
  1. Most Insane Points: Finishes the game with the highest number of points for the insane team
    • Prize: Curtis Theatre, Brea: 10 tickets to any show in the 2020 Curtis Theatre Season ($400 value) 
  1. Second Most Sane Points: Finishes the game with the second highest number of points for the sane team
    • Prize: Chance Theater, Anaheim: 2 Free tickets and 8 50% off tickets to The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Diety
  1. Second Most Insane Points: Finishes the game with the second highest number of points for the insane team
    • Prize: The Bruery, Anaheim: Behind the scenes tour and 2 tasting flights ($60 value) 

All you have to do to enter is play a game anytime between March 15th-Apirl 5th, 2020! We will be posting our leaderboards every night to our Instagram and Facebook stories. Make sure to follow us to stay updated with your status! Winners will be announced and contacted on April 6th, 2020. The person who made the booking is the team captain and will be the one contacted if your team makes the final four!  All prizes will be either mailed or emailed.

Common Questions:

How do I enter?

Just play any of our 3 games anytime between Sunday, March 15th and Sunday, April 5th.  BOOK NOW! 

How do I check the leaderboards?

Follow us on Instagram or Facebook and check our stories! We will be posting updated leaderboards daily.

How do I claim my prize?

If your team is still on the leaderboard by April 6th, your team wins that category! We will reach out to the team captain, AKA the person who made the booking, and mail or email them the prize. It is their responsibility to split it amongst their team.

Do I pick my prize?

Each category has its own sponsored prize. You will win the prize of that category if your name is still listed on the leader board by April 6th.

Will I stay on the leaderboard?

Maybe! Your name will stay on the leaderboard until another team beats your time/score. If you were in the first place position, but someone beat your time/score, you will automatically move down to the second place position.

Is there a recommended team size?

Nope! You can come with any size team as long as it is between our minimum and maximum for that game. But here is a tip- larger teams mean more minds, so it might help to bring a large group!

If I have already played your games, can I still enter?

Of course! The Hex Room and The Psych Ward are designed to be re-playable games so you can definitely come back and play our March Madness Event.

How many hints can we get in the games?

For the 3-week March Madness event, Game Masters will only give a max of 3 hints per game! If you need more then 3 hints, don’t worry, we will still help you along, but you will not qualify for the leaderboards.  

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Twitter & Instagram Contest

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Show off your group photos and write a fun caption to win!

Contest Dates: June 10th- June 30th, 2019

What to do: Post your Cross Roads Escape Games group photo with a caption on Instagram or Twitter with the hashtags #CREGContest and #CrossRoadsEscapeGames

How to win: Winner will be notified through social media on July 3rd after all submissions have been reviewed. The best caption & photo combo wins! 

Prize: Two weekend tickets to Midsummer Scream and instant sign up for the new Cross Roads Mini Game! Midsummer Scream is a Halloween and Horror Convention in Long Beach on August 3rd& 4th. Cross Roads Escape Games will be there with a brand-new mini game experience. Winning this contest also gets you instant sign-ups for the game!

 

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Vote now for best Escape Room in the Nation!

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USA Today has gathered the top 20 highest reviewed escape rooms in America and wants you to vote for your favorite!

We have been nominated the 2nd year in a row for this award. Thanks to the votes of our amazing fans we were able to rank 3rd best escape room in the nation and #1 in SoCal in 2017!

You can vote for us HERE.

Voting only takes a few seconds. No sign up or email required! You can vote once a day until the contest ends on Tuesday, Oct. 2ndat noon.

Six teams of escape room reviewers were chosen to nominate their favorite escape rooms of the hundreds they have played across America. Cross Roads Escape Games has been played by all of them and highly praised in their reviews.

Escape Authority ranked The Hex Room 6 out of 5 keys and ranked The Fun House 5 out of 5 keys.

Room Escape Artist awarded The Hex Room their Golden Lock-In Award in 2016.

Esc Room Addict gave a glowing review to both of our games.

The Haunt Girl awarded The Hex Room the Skeleton Key Award in 2016.

Escape Room Tips ranks The Hex Room as one of the top 10 games in Los Angles (and we aren’t even in Los Angles!).

Escape Rumors awarded The Hex Room their Achievement Unlocked Medal in 2017 for best puzzle design.

We want to thank each of these review teams for the kind words and recommendations they gave us!

We also want to thank YOU for your support and your help in the past with this contest! Keep voting, it means the world to us to see how much you enjoy our games! We can’t wait to show you what we have been up to in The Psych Ward… We think it will be well worth the wait!

Madison Rhoades
CEO and Creative Director
Cross Roads Escape Games

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The Strangers: Prey At Night Giveaway

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If you follow Cross Roads Escape Games on social media, you may have noticed that we’ve teamed up with THE STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT to offer a themed prize package including a black lantern flashlight, ‘The Strangers’ t-shirt, an entry for you and a guest to the advance screening in LA, and 2 free tickets to Cross Roads Escape Games. To enter, simply visit the contest post on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, leave a comment tagging your dream team of 6 for The Hex Room and your number one strategy on how you would survive a night with THE STRANGERS. The contest ends March 4th, 2018 and the winner of the giveaway will be chosen at random.

If you ask me, having experience with escape rooms would most definitely come in handy for surviving a night being stalked by The Strangers. In escape rooms, it is essential to keep calm under pressure, plan ahead, communicate with your team, and escape before it’s too late. These same tactics could be applied to surviving the horror film. You would have to be one step ahead of the stranger, figuring out places to hide or escape that haven’t been found yet; You would have to be able to make a plan but be able to adjust the plan in an instant if something changes; and you would have to keep the rest of your group on the same page so nobody is left behind and you have to go back to save them.

Looking over many of the responses we’re getting, there are a lot of people who would take the escape room route: Elect a leader, work together, and think quickly. There are also those that take the more “horror-flick” approach and plan on running as fast as possible. And of course, my favorite plan, which is to just infiltrate The Strangers and become one of them. Which plan do you think would work best, or do you have a different plan completely?

When we were contacted about teaming up with The Strangers to offer a giveaway, I was beyond excited. The Strangers is one of my favorite horror movies of all time and I’ve been dying to see PREY AT NIGHT ever since they dropped the first trailer. Pun intended. To me, THE STRANGERS is a simple but effective home invasion film that packs a punch. The plausibility of the film lingers long after the final credits roll, and that insidious feeling of not being alone still haunts me every now and then.

Think you have what it takes to survive a horror film? Put your survival to the test in The Hex Room, where you are cast as one of six horror movie stereotypes and thrown into your very own horror film.

3/12/18 Update- We will be giving out free The Strangers: Prey at Night posters for the month of March for groups who successfully escape The Hex Room! Book your game now and try to win this exclusive prize! 

Geoff Durham
Game Master, Manager, Probably One Of The Strangers In A Mask
Cross Roads Escape Games

Jigsaw

JIGSAW Giveaway and Contest This October!

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“Could you survive a horror film?” This is a question that horror movie fanatics ask each other all the time. It’s fun to sit around and joke about which of us would make it and which of us would fall victim to the killer’s nefarious plot. However, when the SAW series first made its debut on the silver screen in 2004, many horror movie fans found themselves slack jawed when asked if they had what it takes to survive?

SAW redefined what it would take to survive a horror film. No longer could we survive by simply avoiding horror film clichés or by enduring until help arrived. Suddenly, there was a time limit on our survival and in place of some supernatural monster, we found ourselves trapped in a room full of torturous contraptions with a sadistic game to be played. Instead of being a passive victim, we were forced to actively find a way to survive.

Though the idea of being locked in a room, building, or house was not new to horror films, SAW quickly became the first thing on peoples’ minds when horror escape rooms started gaining in popularity.

The Hex Room, though less deadly (and requiring less physical harm), offers players a similar experience to living one of the SAW movies; you are trapped in a room with a set of clues that you must solve within the time limit or you lose. It was only natural that the promoters of the movie JIGSAW would team up with Cross Roads to promote their new movie, in theaters October 27! For the month of October, any group that manages to escape the Hex Room will get a free JIGSAW poster while supplies last.

Jigsaw Poster

In an additional giveaway, if you comment on our official social media posts on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook and tag 5 friends that you want to see JIGSAW with, you will be entered to win a special JIGSAW prize package, including a T-shirt, playing cards, a syringe pen, and tickets to the film! Want to stack the odds in your favor? Comment on all 3 social media sites! The winner will be chosen at random on October 23rd.

Do you want to play a game? You can see if you have what it takes to survive a horror film with The Hex Room at Cross Roads Escape Games, perfect for the Halloween season.

About the movie: Thirteen years ago on Halloween weekend – SAW and the character of JIGSAW introduced the world to a new face of horror. For seven straight years “If it’s Halloween it must be SAW” was a holiday tradition. This October 27… Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures proudly present JIGSAW! After a series of murders bearing all the markings of the Jigsaw killer, law enforcement find themselves chasing the ghost of a man dead for over a decade and embroiled in a new game that’s only just begun. Is John Kramer back from the dead to remind the world to be grateful for the gift of life? Or is this a trap set by a killer with designs of their own?

Jason Sakal
Manager & Game Master
Cross Roads Escape Games

Characters of The Hex Room

What Makes The Hex Room So Unique?

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Since The Hex Room opened back in January of 2016, it has received rave reviews from fans and critics who consistently claim it as their new favorite escape room. But what makes The Hex Room so unique and popular? Is it the room’s dedication to absolute immersion? Is it the set design perhaps? Though these aspects play a huge role in people’s experience, I believe that the number one reason for the Hex Room’s popularity is its unique style of game play.

Owner and creator of The Hex Room, Madison Rhoades, says, “My husband and I created The Hex Room because we wanted something new. We played about 50 escape rooms, and they were starting to all blend together. We wanted something that gave each player an individual experience and their own moment to shine, without having to battle over it with other players. We also wanted to create an escape room that was replayable. We love escape rooms so much, but once we played one we really enjoyed, it was impossible to replay it with new friends without already knowing all the answers. It was a huge challenge to create this unique design, but after a lot of testing, it all came together in the end!”

In a standard escape room, you and your team all start in a single room with clues to find and puzzles to solve. You are told to communicate and work as a team, but not everyone needs to participate. Sometimes there aren’t enough puzzles for the number of people in the room. Sometimes people are shy and let the more assertive players take the lead. Either way, it is possible for parts of your team to do all the work while other parts of your team do very little. This is the biggest difference between the standard escape room, and the Hex Room.

In the Hex Room, each person is divided into separate rooms based on a personality quiz that is taken before entering the room. Each person is given costume pieces based on which stereotypical horror movie character their personalities best match; such as the Detective, Rebel, Jock, Nerd, Prom Queen, and Virgin. You are then led into the rooms one by one. Once divided, it becomes each player’s imperative to try and escape their individual room. Though the team is divided, everyone must still work together to escape. Each player must search their rooms for clues to help themselves and their team mates.

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In the Hex Room, everyone must work as a team and effectively communicate between their individual rooms. They must be able to tell their team mates what they see and what they have; they must ask for and pass clues between their rooms; and they must actively participate throughout their experience if they are to have any chance of escaping alive.

When six players enter the Hex Room, they will leave with six completely different experiences; each of them feeling a sense of accomplishment for their contributions to their team. There are no passive observers in The Hex Room, only active players!

Once each player is inside their room, they are instructed to remove their blindfolds and are instantly immersed within their own horror film. Cross Roads is dedicated to making each player feel as though they have stepped out of their normal lives and into the extraordinary adventure. This engaging environment makes players want to participate and see more of what the room has to offer. I have, on several occasions, had a player admit to me that they normally just stand around and let their team mates do all the work, but in the Hex Room they felt so completely immersed and engaged in the experience that the thought of standing around never even occurred to them. This is the magic of the Hex Room.

As mentioned before, The Hex Room is also the only replayable escape room in SoCal. Because each player has such an individualized experience, you can come back and play again as a different character and enjoy the game all over again with new friends or family members. We have had multiple guests play up to 6 times because they wanted to experience every room.

The Hex Room has a stressful and demanding style of game play that requires each member of the team to push themselves to escape. When this is combined with our movie quality set design and immersive ambiance, players are compelled to suspend their belief for an hour and experience what it feels like to step into the shoes of a horror film character. This completely unique style of escape game is exactly why the Hex Room has become the #1 escape room in both Orange County and Los Angeles.

If you are a fan, or even if you have not played yet, make sure to check out our pinned post on our Facebook page for a chance to win 2 free tickets and an awesome box of horror swag by tagging who you and your friends would play as in The Hex Room! Contest ends September 4th. 

Jason Sakal
Manager & Game Master
Cross Roads Escape Games