{"id":107474,"date":"2022-04-30T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-01T00:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roomescapeartist.com\/?p=107474"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:50:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:50:01","slug":"2022-golden-lock-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roomescapeartist.com\/2022\/04\/30\/2022-golden-lock-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Golden Lock Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With an expanded team of prolific escape room players, it’s our pleasure to share with you the 2022 Golden Lock Award winners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2015, we have been honoring our favorite escape experiences of the year, calling special attention to them with the Golden Lock Award. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year’s collection of winners in the real-life category come exclusively from North America, as travel has been challenging. We have, however, dedicated much of our collective travel time to visiting parts of the United States that we hadn’t covered over the past 8 years, and found many gems to share with you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally we added a category to honor tabletop escape games (something we probably should have done a few years ago). We know there are tabletop games in our queue still that will likely be future winners. The tabletop escape room scene has expanded a lot of the past few years and we’re excited to continue to recognize creatively and ingenuity in this category as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Changes To The Award<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This year we made a number of changes to account for how much larger our team is, and allow all of our wonderful and dedicated reviewers to nominate games for the award. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, we adjusted the publication schedule by 3 months, so this year’s award accounts for games played in the past year and a quarter (we have only skipped 2021 in number). April is now the home of the Golden Lock Award. These changes are all reflected in the rules. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rules<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  1. We established no arbitrary minimum or maximum number of games that could win the award.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. A company could only win once per year, per category. Update: In 2024 we retroactively awarded some games that were originally disqualified over this rule.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. A REA reviewer had to play the game between 1\/1\/21 & 3\/31\/22.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. To be eligible for the “Virtual” category, games had to be playable from home, without any shipped components.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. To be eligible for the “Real-Life” category, we had to visit the venue in person to play the game.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    2022 Golden Lock Award Winners<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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