Math is breaking. Space and time are fracturing. Someone or something is erasing numbers, rewriting equations, and opening a dreaded “ArithmeRift” in Portland’s Experiment PDX.
Agents of the Situationally Uncertain Mathematics Mitigation (SUMM) Division are trying to contain the Fracture and save math. But they need help from expendables ... volunteers. Like you! FRACTURE is an interactive math horror experience – part haunted house, part escape room, all live theater, and entirely SCARY. Suitable for anyone with a 3rd-grade grasp of math or more.
Explorations into the FRACTURE will commence from Thursday October 2 through Sunday 12 of October 2025. Before 7pm expeditions will be slightly less frightening than in the later “after dark" versions. Groups of ten will enter every fifteen minutes. Would you like to join the team?
No reservations necessary. Room for walkups is always available. Join up, just show up!
The FRACTURE! is being contained for the time being with the reinforcement efforts of the following governmentally approved organizations.
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