During a routine mission at REACT—Research and Education Across the Continuum of Time—the Time Craft encounters a sudden anomaly, sending it spiraling off course and crash-landing 65 million years in the past. Stranded in the heart of the Jurassic Period with the ship damaged and no way home, the only option is to repair it before the locals take notice. But the jungle is alive with danger, and the clock is ticking. It’s now or never.

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Jurassic Jungle

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I really wanted to love this room. I really did. But, alas, we left there absolutely irate and livid at the GM.
Neutrally, the set and the prop pieces are amazing! When we walked in we were in awe of the tech! It was an amazing upgrade from the first room we did here. Everything was solid and well thought out and by looks alone this was perfection. I could appreciate the puzzles and some of them were perfect. I love the whole finale sequence but the first 3/4 of the room had me banging my head on the wall. The first puzzle was what seemed to be a simple couting puzzle to open some consoles. You did this by counting dinosaurs outside of two portholes. Because of the spacing of the windows and the discrepency of the images you couldn't tell if you were seeing two individual scenes or whether you were seeing one scene seen through two windows. Some of the images you could tell that they were individual scenes and to count them all together but others appeared to be one group of dinos crossing from left to right. We essentially had to find out from the GMs how they were counting them. The next puzzle was a joystick puzzle where you had to go back and forth between the joysticks based on posters on the wall. We figured out the puzzle early enough but it was so sensitive that if you didn't shift them exactly it wouldn't trigger the drawer. We did this multiple times calling out the correct directions. After about ten minutes with nothing happening we asked for a clue and were basically told to do what he had been doing. OK. We tried it another three times and nothing. The GM finally came into the room and said that it had to be done perfectly and they had no way to trigger it until it was done correctly. The next big puzzle has three components but they must be done in a certain order with nothing in the room to tell you that it must be done in a certain order. We moved a little better going forward but again nothing really leading you in the order you had to accomplish them. We were getting to the end of the puzzle and had no idea what to do next and essentially asked the GM what's next. We had to press buttons in the order that they came up on the screen in the first room. I really had no issue with the puzzle except the fact that they told us this with about 3 minutes left. As soon as we looked at the screen it went to a screen saver for over a minute. Why?? Why would you have a built in time waster that might mean the difference between winning and losing!?!?! This may be me having an off day but I feel that this could be a truly great room with a little tweaking. Experiences may be vary and I may simply be a cranky old dinosaur myself.

Jurassic Jungle

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