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Finalist (2025)

Finalist (2024)

Finalist (2023)

Finalist (2022)

Finalist (2021)

Silver - Best Game (2021)

Finalist (2020)

Gold - Best Puzzles (2019)

SEE YOU ON THE PLAYGROUND
Summer is here! Well, almost… If you and your friends are going to leave for summer vacation, you’ll need your final report card. Here’s the problem, you haven’t finished your work and these assignments are unlike anything you’ve encountered in a classroom before. Luckily, you’ve got a great squad and everyone brings something different to the table. Band together to ace the ultimate group project. Pass or fail, you’re in this together!

Rating: 4/5
I didn't think going back to school would be so much fun! I loved the variety of puzzles and everything fit the theme, no random padlocks here.

I've updated this review in 2024 after playing almost all of TEG's rooms at several locations, here is my personal ranking from best to least favorite:
1. Cosmic Crisis
2. Ruins: Forbidden Treasure
3. Playground
4. Timeliner: Train Through Time
5. Prison Break
6. The Depths
7. Special Ops: Mysterious Market
8. Gold Rush
9. The Heist
10. Mission Mars

The Escape Game

Playground

Escape room

Nominee (2024)

Nominee (2022)

A MILLION WAYS IN, ONE WAY OUT
The year is 1955. You’ve been wrongfully accused of a crime, and sentenced to life in
prison without the possibility of parole. Your new “home” is a cell that once belonged to
an inmate who disappeared without a trace…or did he? Some claim he escaped. Others
swear he was murdered by the infamously cruel warden. But no one actually knows…
can you escape before you suffer the same fate?

Prison break was so fun! We did it with two people and definitely found it challenging, but it’s doable for experienced escapers. We did all five rooms at Escape Games and this was my favorite, but you really can’t go wrong here. All their games are so well thought out and the theming is phenomenal.

Prison Break

Nominee (2025)

Nominee (2023)

Finalist (2019)

Can you and your fellow field agents investigate an area's local market as you are about to wrap up you encounter a twist never expected?

This game was part of a weekend of Escape the Game, we rocked every room in the place and this one was the sleeper. You basically get the most amazing storyline I've ever had in an escaperoom and halfway through you almost need to completely switch gears. Basically you start in 1 room, and by the time you enter the second you are all primed for more puzzles like the first, when BOOM you are in a completely different style room.. It's jarring, but the story behind isn't makes all the difference. Are you a fan of James Bond? Do this room! You know what, do it first!

Special Ops: Mysterious Market

Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. Go directly to jail! Jump into this exciting, fast-paced jailbreak game set in the classic universe of MONOPOLY. Hasbro and Breakout Games have teamed up once again to bring you the first-ever officially licensed MONOPOLY Escape room. Do you have what it takes to... Get Out of Jail! | MONOPOLY TM, ® & © 2026 Hasbro. All Rights Reserved.

This is a must do - I highly recommend more than 2 people 3-6 would be optimal but I don’t want to say too much other than we had a great GM. We would have solved it sooner with 1-2 more people just due to the layout but it can absolutely be done with 2 people but I feel like it would be more fun with more

Breakout Games

Monopoly: Get Out of Jail!

Saddle up, gang-- it's time to ride into the Wild West. After striking gold, you and your band of prospectors were robbed, taken hostage, and handcuffed inside the infamous Outhouse Kid's saloon. He's rigged the joint with all sorts of tricks, traps, puzzles, and who knows what to keep his loot secure. Your mission: break in, free your compadres, and steal back your gold. Circle the wagons, and get to work. You have one hour ‘til dusk.

Wild West

Reopening for 2026. Hours, dates, and admission may vary — check official site for current details.

Last verified: 8/31/2026

Walk through Cincinnati’s Scariest Haunted House!  Experience the story of a murderous Janitor and the killer faculty that now inhabit this haunted schoolhouse.

The Dent Schoolhouse

Haunted house

Haunt

Reopening for 2026. Hours, dates, and admission may vary — check official site for current details.

Last verified: 8/31/2026

Are you prepared to survive? Supply shopping in a post-apocalyptic world is risky business, but this particular grocery store is cutting costs down to the bone.

Kings Island

KillMart

Maze

Reopening for 2026. Hours, dates, and admission may vary — check official site for current details.

Last verified: 8/31/2026

The USS Nightmare is the resurrection of the William S. Mitchell. The boat is in the exact condition it was left in the aftermath of the Mitchell Massacre. To this very day, anyone who enters is tormented by the sinister past of this former dredging vessel – including the cast and crew of our haunted dredge boat tour.

USS Nightmare

Haunted Dredge Boat Tour

Reopening for 2026. Hours, dates, and admission may vary — check official site for current details.

Last verified: 8/31/2026

Everyone has heard about the haunting tales of the old Hotel St. Michelle, but are they true? As you sneak into the abandoned hotel, named after the manager's missing daughter, you eerily find the hotel is not abandoned but very alive in spirit!

Hotel St. Michelle

Reopening for 2026. Hours, dates, and admission may vary — check official site for current details.

Last verified: 8/31/2026

Step inside this world-renowned wax museum filled with masterpieces both classic and creepy, and a past too tragic to share. Beware as you navigate through this Halloween maze of oddities, or you might be visiting for longer than you'd like.

Madame Fatale's Cavern of Terror

Hasbro and Breakout Games have teamed up to bring you the first official “Clue: The Escape Room.” The mystery game millions have loved is reimagined for you and your friends to experience and solve in person. Save the day by uncovering who is plotting the murder, with what weapon, and in what room all in less than 1 hour.

Such a fun room we all left smiling. Haven’t done a room like this before based on a game a lot of fun moments that were really delightful. On the easier side, but you need teamwork and you have to pay attention to the details. I would definitely recommend it for a really fun uplifting time.

Clue

You dared to enter the dark and mysterious castle where Dracula lives, but little did you know that the doors would lock behind you and you’d be placed under his spell. In order to escape, you must first find Dracula in his resting place and kill him. You have 1 hour before he awakes at dusk, or you will most certainly become his next delicious victim.

Sherlock's Escape Rooms

Dracula

You and your team of treasure hunters have landed on an exotic island. You heard there are treasures hidden deep in the jungle! You and your team have 60 minutes to discover the secrets of the jungle! Work as a team to solve puzzles and earn as many points as possible before time runs out.

Things to Do in Cincinnati: Escape Rooms, Haunted Houses and More

Top escape rooms in Cincinnati

Playground

Prison Break

Special Ops: Mysterious Market

Monopoly: Get Out of Jail!

Wild West

Top haunted houses near Cincinnati

The Dent Schoolhouse

KillMart

Haunted Dredge Boat Tour

Hotel St. Michelle

Madame Fatale's Cavern of Terror

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