Best way to survive the heat waves: go dive into a room of puzzles (preferably one with air conditioning). This month’s list of new UK escape rooms is sparse, but oh gosh, there are some heavy-weights on here. Here’s the full list:

Greater London

🎭 clueQuest launched a second outdoor city trail; this one is Glitch Hunters: Mission Seven Dials.

Also new, from last month’s update:
🔒 Room Lockdown Hornchurch: The Crows, The Extremist Project
🔒 Escape Hunt Wandsworth: Alice in Puzzleland, Curse of the Pharaoh, Excalibur, Eye of the Sun God, Jewel of India

South East England

🔒 Reading’s already one of the UK’s top destinations for enthusiasts, and here’s another reason to visit: Escape Reading have expanded to a third location in the city. Mary’s Curse is their new 90 min non-scary room; they’ve also opened a rage room and have another escape room in the works.

🔒 Got to love a bit of archaeological adventure, and since it’s from Pressure Point Escape Rooms, I’m betting The Temple is going to be a room not to miss.

🎄 Early Xmas in Horsham? – Major Mind Games re-opened Elf Intervention: The Great Sack Hijack for the summer period.

🎭 Social deduction rather than puzzles, but next week Pier Pressure are running The Slayers in Brighton, a three-hour challenge inspired by hidden traitor games.

Also new, from last month’s update:
🔒 Escape From The Room High Wycombe: The Mixed Up Mind of Mr Crabheal
🔒 Other World Escapes Portsmouth: Beeston Castle

Last call for:
❗️ Mythologic Escape Rooms (Gillingham): The Greatest Bank Heist (closing 31 Jul)

South West England

From last month’s update:
🔒 Enigma Escapes (Wells): Once Upon A Nightmare
🔒 The Engine (Dursley): Lister Over Time

Last call for:
❗️ 11th Hour Escape Rooms Limited (Bromham): Avast Fortune (closing 26 Jul)

Wales

🔒 New at Xscape Rooms in Bangor, Postal Panic! is a post office mystery that has optional bonus puzzles for all you speed demon solvers.

Also new, from last month’s update:
🔒 PanIQ Rooms Wales (Porthmadog): Bug Out

West Midlands

🔒 Later in July Escape Hunt will open a new town centre branch in Birmingham. This one has Aladdin & The Magic Vault, Alice in Puzzleland, Curse of the Pharaoh, and Journey to Atlantis. At their other Birmingham branch, they’ve also replaced A Dalek Awakes with Our Finest Hour.

🔒 The Puzzle Room Cannock have refreshed most of their line-up over the last couple of months, with updated versions of Game Over: Final Boss and Murder at the Station, new games The Control Room and The Toy Makers Mistake, plus The Tunnel which may or may not be distinct from their two previous designs by that name.

🔒 Top Escape Rooms in Worcester is now open in their new location at The Hop Pocket, with School Daze; I believe The Mystic Temple and Blackthorn Manor are likely to follow.

Also new, from last month’s update:
🔒 Alderford Escape Islands (Whitchurch): The Dragon Quest
🔒 Cannon Raceway (Bilston): Hollow Hills Asylum
🔒 Escape Hunt Birmingham: Blackbeard’s Treasure

East Midlands

🔒 Escape Halse is a pop-up charity escape room run by volunteers, with proceeds helping the upkeep of the mission hall it’s set in; if you’re near Northamptonshire give it a go and help support them.

🎭 The Conspirators is another chance to play an experience along similar lines to The Traitors, this one at Escape Coalville.

Also new, from last month’s update:
🔒 Escape Leicester: Mayan Temple
🔒 One Way Out (Oakham): Curious End Cottage

East of England

🔒 I’d include Escape Rooms Suffolk in Bury St Edmunds among the UK’s most impressive room designers, so I have high confidence that their new pirate room Shipwrecked is going to be very well-received.

🔒 And in St Neots, the first room from The Escape House is ranked among the UK’s best, so expect great things from their second game Galacticus, open from next week.

🔒 Great Yarmouth Escape Rooms are expanding to a second venue, down the road from their first. Already open is Dr. Jekyll and the Hunt for Mr. Hyde, with The Lost Circus to follow later in July.

Also new, from last month’s update:
🔒 Angle Escape (Peterborough): Vault: McAngleson
🔒 Cluetopia Braintree: Dino-Dash
🔒 EO Escape Rooms (Sudbury): CATastrophe, The Card Shark, The Maid of Dishonour, The Ritual
🔒 Exit Rooms – Cambridge Escape Rooms: Specimen 27

North West England

🔒 The Faithful is another Traitors-style social deduction experience, and it’s now available at Breakout Manchester as well as their Chester branch.

Also new, from last month’s update:
🔒 Code to Exit (Altrincham): The Escape Pod
🔒 Golden Lion Escapes (Wirral): The Curse of the Golden Lion
🔒 Houdini’s Escape Room Experience Blackpool: Apocalypse: Shelter 23, Creepy Carnival, The Lost Pharaoh
🔒 Lucardo Rawtenstall: Mutiny

Yorkshire and the Humber

🔒 Project Escape Middlesbrough’s latest is a robbery room named One Last Job: The Bank Heist, open from the 9th.

Also new, from last month’s update:
🔒 A Place To Escape (Redcar): Catch Me If You Can
🔒 Houdini’s Escape Room Experience Wakefield: Apocalypse: Shelter 23, Room 13, The Lost Pharaoh
🔒 Sherlocks Escape Room (Whitby): The Curse of the Whitby Siren

North East England

From last month’s update:
🔒 Pirate Escape (Whitley Bay): Time Hotel

Scotland

From last month’s update:
🔒 Bell Pettigrew Museum of Natural History (St Andrews): Code to the Crown
🔒 Case Closed (Edinburgh): Call of the Void