About Us | Trapped Puzzle Rooms

Trapped Puzzle Rooms was founded in 2015 by Karen and Jamie Fassett-Carman, a mother-son team who wanted to share their love of puzzles, games, and mysteries with their hometown. In the last five years, we’ve opened fourteen unique escape rooms in Minneapolis and St. Paul, as well as created fun puzzle experiences for schools, conventions, corporate parties, and much more.

All our experiences are designed and constructed in-house. We strive to continually raise the bar for escape rooms and puzzle entertainment in the Twin Cities, and we hope you enjoy the results of that effort!

Our Awards

Our experiences are nationally-recognized and have won dozens of awards and accolades for their quality, creativity, and production value, including:

The Escape Roomer Puzzle Prize – Ruff Bluff: A Furlock Holmes Mystery
Room Escape Artist Golden Lock Award – Escape from Escape Island
TERPECA Top Online Room Nominee – Prehistoric Park
TERPECA Top Online Room Nominee – Monster Smash
TERPECA Top Online Room Finalist – Super Squad
ESCAPETHEROOMers Best Live Hosted Game Finalist – Spirit Train
ESCAPETHEROOMers Best Overall Audio Game Winner – Super Squad
ESCAPETHEROOMers Best Live Hosted Game Nominee – Super Squad
ESCAPETHEROOMers Best Online Game Nominee – Furlock Holmes Museum Mystery
ESCAPETHEROOMers Cooperative Game of the Year – Taco TWOsday
ESCAPETHEROOMers Best Tabletop Game Nominee – Reelburger
ESCAPETHEROOMers Best Tabletop Game Nominee – Retro Rad Pizza Adventure
ESCAPETHEROOMers Best Illustrator Winner – Pirate’s Plunder
ESCAPETHEROOMers Best Illustrator Winner – Spirit Train
Room Escape Artist Golden Lock Award – Super Squad