Schlagwort-Archive: Room-in-a-box

The Panic Room: The Book of Grimm

Room-in-a-box, Jan 2021

In addition to their fairly huge range of online games, The Panic Room now have a considerable library of puzzle books. Some of them, including this one, are also available as self-print PDFs with the same content, which makes the books fairly close … (more)

Unlock!: Mission #07

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2021

In Unlock box sets the third game is normally the hardest; while it’s not always the best of the three it often is, and I’d say Mission #07 is the strongest of the Epic Adventures set. The deck of cards for this game is split into two halves with dif… (more)

Unlock!: The Dragon’s Seven Tests

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2021

Once every seven years the famous Master Li accepts new disciples to the Temple of the Gold Dragons – and that premise should give you an idea of this game’s theming, layered with absolutely every oriental stereotype you can think of, where inscrutab… (more)

Unlock!: The Seventh Screening

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2021

The Seventh Screening – name chosen purely to shoehorn in the number ‚7‘, to celebrate this being Unlock’s seventh box – is a tribute to the classic age of Hammer horror movies, and jumps between you as a cinema-goer and you as the movie’s protagonis… (more)

Champaign-Urbana Adventures in Time and Space: Solve Our Shirts

Room-in-a-box, Feb 2021

I’ll confess that when I first heard of Solve Our Shirts I wasn’t entirely sure whether to create a listing for it – surely an escape game in the form of a t-shirt had to be a fun novelty, probably a nice product but not any kind of substantial game,… (more)

Bluefish Games: The Curious Stairs of Mr. Hincks

Room-in-a-box, Sep 2020

After the Curious Elevator and the Curious Stairs, I have to hope that Team Bluefish release a third box named Curious Dumbwaiter or perhaps Curious Fire Escape. Actually, I hope they release more regardless of what they call it, because Elevator was… (more)

Bluefish Games: The Curious Elevator of Mr. Hincks

Room-in-a-box, Sep 2020

Curious Elevator is a combination of an online game with a physical box of puzzles delivered through the post. Each in the linear sequence of puzzles requires information from the website in addition to at least one of the items from the box. Each st… (more)

Enigma Emporium: Blowback

Room-in-a-box, Jan 2019

Blowback, Enigma Emporium’s second play-at-home puzzle game and a sequel to Wish You Were Here, is at time of writing about to launch on Kickstarter. It works perfectly well stand-alone, though I imagine most players will tackle it having first tried… (more)

Enigma Emporium: Wish You Were Here

Room-in-a-box, Jan 2019

The boom in physical escape rooms has brought with it an increasing range of play at home puzzle products in various formats. Enigma Emporium’s first such product, Wish You Were Here, is notable for the efficiency of its design: an envelope containin… (more)

James Hamer-Morton: Escape Room Puzzles

Room-in-a-box, Nov 2018

I have no idea how to rate this book. Its introduction states that it is „different to any puzzle book you’ve encountered“. Naturally, I dismissed that as marketing hyperbole, only to discover that it’s entirely true. The introduction also tells you … (more)