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Box One By Neil Patrick Harris
Theory11 Online
Escape room
Tabletop
I really don’t want to spoil anything about Box One, so I will say this is an experience that deserves to be played by fans of escape rooms and puzzles. Neil Patrick Harris’ involvement in this game is far more than just sticking his name on the box. His personality and creativity embody the box. The further you get down the riddles, the more apparent this is and the more clever and surprising the puzzles get. Try it! Also, even though it says it’s meant for one, I played with 2 players as I usually do most escape rooms. It’s technically replayable if you ever want to share the game with a friend!
Escape From the Maze of the Minotaur
Solve Our Shirts
Escape room
Tabletop
Yup, escape rooms come in shirt form now! The Solve Our Shirt series of actual wearable T-Shirts filled with puzzles and other secrets come from the incredibly bright minds at CU Adventures in Time and Space, who have also designed some of my favorite escape rooms to this day. Escape From the Maze of the Minotaur is essentially a tabletop game with accompanying paper materials, online browser website for inputting answers, and some other hidden goodies. The only difference is you also interact with a shirt, which by the way, feels nice and looks good, even though it’s a bit of a loud design. The puzzles are surprisingly devious and take a lot of time, even though there aren’t many. I’m amazed by what was hidden in plain sight on the shirt, and I love the different ways I got to interact with this wearable fabric. Note that you don’t have to wear the shirt while playing, but you can certainly wear it after! It’s a fun unique take on escape room games that doubles as a souvenir! You can buy it online or in person if you go to their physical location in southern Illinois.
The Treasure Trove Of Pirate Cove
Solve Our Shirts
Escape room
Tabletop
CU Adventures in Time and Space, a superb escape room venue in Urbana-Champaign, IL, have somehow come up with the novel concept of fitting an entire escape room game onto a shirt. All the puzzles are solved by examining and searching the packed design of this T-shirt - both front and back. You also need to use several papers, an online browser website for inputting answers, and quite a few other props including a bottle that comes with the shirt itself. The game has a lot of personality. A lot of it comes through in the detail-packed shirt, and also through fun audio clips. There are quite a bit of puzzles here, and the game will run at least an hour for most people. A lot of the game feels like a Where’s Waldo search which was a bit overwhelming due to the loud shirt. But the puzzle payoffs and endgame surprised were worth it! And you get to wear the shirt after!
Unlock! Timeless Adventures: Lost in the TimeWarp
Space Cowboys
Escape room
Tabletop
Very good Unlock! escape game! I was really impressed with how this game handled time travel and representing changes through time through an ever changing playmat. Some puzzles to pinpoint important years were maybe too hard. Great ending! I love how the end plays out, particularly in regards to the players’ own experience. I won’t spoil it so you’ll just have to see it to believe!
EXIT: The Game - Advent Calendar - The Silent Storm
Thames & Kosmos
Escape room
Tabletop
An enjoyable box of 24 Christmas workshop themed puzzles! There are lots of creative ways to thank both inside and outside the box for this one. I very much liked opening each door and experiencing a puzzle a day. The story is actually quite involved, and while it’s not necessarily my favorite of the Advent Calendar stories, it had interesting twists. This makes a great gift for the puzzle lovers in your life, as do the other EXIT Advent Calendars. Though, obviously, it makes most sense to play during the entire month of December. Now, be nice, because Santa Claus is coming to town!
EXIT: The Game - Nightfall Manor
Thames & Kosmos
Escape room
Tabletop
Really enjoyed this mix of jigsaw puzzles and EXIT style escape room game puzzles! The use of decoder disc was really effective here, and the combination of objects and jigsaw puzzle observation was clever. I was expecting scavenger hunt style challenges and was pleasantly surprised that everything was more cerebral and reliant on interacting with the completed puzzles. The 4 88-piece puzzles aren’t too big, but they feature great illustrations and can be replayed. The game runs long, about 2-3 hours, but you can take breaks whenever you want as long as you keep your completed puzzles intact. Bonus points for multiple endings!
Unlock! Heroic Adventures: In Pursuit of the White Rabbit
Space Cowboys
Escape room
Tabletop
I love Alice, so I wanted to get my feet wet with Unlock! escape games with this set! The other themes of video games and Sherlock Holmes were also very enticing. The games themselves are quite complex, especially if you’re newer to Unlock’s style of mixing and matching inventories of cards to discover new cards. It ends up being not as intuitive in Alice, the hardest game in the set, since the rules are all but thrown out the window. The required app is easy to use to input codes from and ask for hints. It also does neat things with the camera and AR. However again, when the rules are so broken and abstract like in Alice, it’s hard to even know if you’re following the logic correctly. It ends up being hard to ask for hints too since the app only gives numerical inputs for hints. Fun experience, but not a good 1st rabbit hole to fall into…
EXIT: The Game - The Return to the Abandoned Cabin
Thames & Kosmos
Escape room
Tabletop
One of my favorite Exit tabletop games! Thanks to the 3D setup for the cabin, it’s one of the most similar to an actual escape room. As a sequel to one of the 1st ever Exit games, this one was a lot more devious in its design and solutions. Lots of tricky out of the box puzzles, and even one or two that “wowed” us. And I don’t even expect to get “wowed” by tabletop games, but Exit continues to surprise me with new, clever tricks. I was possibly more “wowed” here than in some real escape rooms, and that’s saying a lot! Would return again!
Unlock! The Adventures of Oz
Space Cowboys
Escape room
Tabletop
A Wickedly Wonderful entry in the Unlock! escape game series! This game is based on the classic Wizard of Oz, and it does justice to the name. It’s a real adventure with a map, character roles for each player based on the ones from the story, puzzles utilizing special items and the app, and even bonus quests for the best finale. The bonus puzzles are a great addition, and are definitely a challenge. The game as a whole is rated at the highest difficulty of 3 and is a full 90-minute experience. Most puzzles are logically sound and were fun to solve. The music is great too, though it’s certainly not from the original movie. So what are you waiting for? Go off to see an adventure, a wonderful Adventure of Oz!
Unlock! Timeless Adventures: The Noside Show
Space Cowboys
Escape room
Tabletop
The circus is back in town! In app-based escape card game form! This Unlock! escape game incorporated several fun ways to utilize the deck of cards. The little booklet was particularly neat. The game felt weirdly uneven in terms of difficulty balance, though, like how some puzzles we would just cruise through, while others were illogical. I liked all the illusions and tricks, and the finale puzzles were fun, if not a bit tough to actually accomplish. The whole box of Timeless Adventures is solid, and this is a good part of it. Not my favorite box in the series, but the time travel one is definitely standout.
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