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How Escape Room Video Games Mirror Setting Up Home Automation Triggers

Escape room video games hand players a locked space and a pile of half explained clues, then expect them to work out which object unlocks which door, in which order, before the clock runs out.

JPJonah PryceOct 13, 2026Games
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Three people who actually live with the gear they write about: a reviewer who buys new devices the day they launch and keeps a running list of what has failed him, a former security systems installer who now writes about what cameras and sensors actually protect against, and someone who builds absurdly complex home automations for fun and then writes the simpler version everyone else actually needs. Every article carries a byline, and nothing runs that the writer has not set up themselves.

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