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Game Master of the month Sara Strain December 2019

Geoff Durham: Game Master of the Month

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Each month we like to highlight one of our amazing team members and the outstanding work they do! For the month of January our Game Master and Manager, Geoff Durham, has gone above and beyond. 

Have you had Geoff as one of your game masters at Cross Roads Escape Games? Lets get to know Geoff with some questions:

Q: How long have you worked at Cross Roads Escape Games?

A: I’ve been with CREG since December of 2016 as a Game Master and I became a manager in July of 2017.

Q: How many escape games have you played?

A: I haven’t kept count, but it’s probably somewhere around 20, if not more. One of the perks of being a game master is getting to experience a lot of other escape rooms!

Q: What is a unique hobby or interest you have? 

A: I collect vinyl records. I really like colored vinyl, movie soundtracks, and electronic artists. It all started with the Donnie Darko soundtrack release from Death Waltz Recording Company many years ago and has become a large collection.

Geoff’s record collection

Q: What is your favorite game to Game Master and why?

A: I love being an orderly in The Psych Ward. Because of the game’s design, every game is different, so I always get to do something a little different. I love when patients find some of the secrets hidden throughout the experiment and I get to have an interaction with them that most other people don’t get.

Q: What is your favorite board game, movie, book, and TV show?

A: My favorite board game is probably Universal Monsters Horrified. I’m a sucker for those classic monsters (especially The Wolf Man), and I like that players work together rather than against each other. (I’m competitive and actually not that great at board games.) My favorite movie of ALL TIME is Tarsem’s The Fall starring Lee Pace. Favorite book is American Gods by Neil Gaiman. My favorite TV shows are Bryan Fuller/NBC’s Hannibal (or really, all of Bryan Fuller’s TV shows. #RevivePushingDaisies). 

Q: Without giving anything away, what is the funniest thing you have seen in a game?

A: One time I was supervising The Fun House when a group asked Zoltar for a hint. He told them he needed a joke in exchange, so the mother of the group blurts out a fairly scandalous joke that actually made me scream with laughter. I probably can’t say it on here, but it was so unexpected that it caught me off guard.

Q: What is your favorite thing about being a Game Master?

A: I love watching when people solve a puzzle and they get really happy and celebrate that they figured it out. Those little victory dances are what it’s all about.

Thank you for all of your answers Geoff! 

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Bradley Trout: Game Master of The Month

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Each month we want to highlight one of our team members and the outstanding work they do! For the moth of November our Game Master, Bradley Trout, has gone above and beyond. Bradley always comes to work with a positive attitude and he jumps in and helps his co-workers without being asked. Have you had Bradley as one of your Game Masters at Cross Roads Escape Games? Let us know!
 
Bradley Trout as Herbert West in Re-Animator for Halloween.
 
Let’s get to know Bradley with some fun questions! 
 

Q: How long have you worked at Cross Roads Escape Games?

A: I’ve worked for Cross Roads for a little over a year- I began working here in August of 2018.
 

Q: How many escape games have you played?

A: Not as many as I’d like! Total, I’ve probably played 5-6. Before working for Cross Roads, I actually was very new to the idea of Escape Rooms. CREG helped introduce me to a whole new world of puzzles and games; one that I have very happily introduce to my friends and family.
 

Q: What is a unique hobby or interest you have? 

A: I have a few interests and hobbies, but the most interesting are probably chemistry, my major, and journalism. I was actually the Editor-in-Chief of the Cypress Chronicle, the school newspaper at Cypress College, for several years!
 

Q: What is your favorite game to Game Master and why?

A: Probably the Fun House. With how fun, whimsical, and approachable it is, it makes for a great way to introduce someone to the world of Escape Games. Seeing the way people light up when they solve their first puzzle and how they interact with Zoltar is really fun and special, too.
 

Q: What is your favorite board game, movie, and book? 

A: That’s a hard question! Currently, my favorite board game is probably a game called Dominant Species or the game Power Grid- both make players interact and compete in really fun, unusual ways, which is what I usually look for in a game.
 
My favorite book is probably The Martian, by Andy Weir. As for movies, my favorite is Re-Animator. Such a quote worthy movie- “And what would a note say, Dan? ‘Cat dead; details later’?”
 

Q: Without giving anything away, what is the funniest thing you have seen in a game?

A: Oh, man, you see funny things while Game Mastering everyday! In The Fun House, I once had a group of teenagers start bowing to Zoltar and giving him “offerings” of every object they found in the game-that was pretty funny.
 

Q: What is your favorite thing about being a Game Master?

A: Probably the process of giving hints to people- there’s an art to it, and seeing the light go on in someone’s head after you give them a just subtle enough hint to push them in the right direction, without giving away the puzzle, is really satisfying. 
 

Thank you so much for answering our questions Bradley! Congrats on being the November Game Master of the Month!