{"id":120027,"date":"2023-04-29T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roomescapeartist.com\/?p=120027"},"modified":"2024-05-16T22:26:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T02:26:17","slug":"2023-golden-lock-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roomescapeartist.com\/2023\/04\/29\/2023-golden-lock-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"2023 Golden Lock Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Room Escape Artist team is excited to announce the 2023 Golden Lock Award Winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2015, we’ve bestowed the Golden Lock Award annually to honor our favorite experiences that we played and reviewed that year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year’s winners primarily highlight North America, extending from coast to coast. However, we are also thrilled to include winners from Matthew’s trip to Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Categories<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For 2023, we are including a new category for escape game events. We’re honoring experiences from this year, as well as bestowing legacy awards to a handful of outstanding events from years past. You can’t play them anymore, but we wish you could!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022, we added a new category for tabletop escape games, and we’ll be recognizing winners in that category again this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, we have the main event: real-life escape games!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of note, in 2020, we introduced a new category for online escape games. Although we aren’t recognizing any winners in that category this year, we expect that the online category may return in a future year, as we know creatively continues in the online medium.<\/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 4\/1\/22 \u2014 3\/31\/23.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. To be eligible for the “Real-Life” category, we had to visit the venue in person to play and review the game this year.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    As we did in 2022, all the REA reviewers nominated their favorite games for the award. It was a team effort to coalesce around the winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2023 Golden Lock Award Winners<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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