Schlagwort-Archive: Room in a box

Unlock!: Scheherazade’s Last Tale

Room-in-a-box, Jun 2019

Second in Unlock!’s Exotic Adventures set, Scheherazade’s Last Tale dives into the mythology of Arabian nights, with the premise that Scheherazade has run out of inspiration on her final night, and needs you to save her. It’s a romantic and distincti… (more)

Unlock!: Expedition: Challenger

Room-in-a-box, Jun 2019

In each set of games Unlock! releases, the third game has always been the one rated with the highest difficulty, has been the most innovative and ambitious in design, and – so far – has been my favourite of the box. Expedition: Challenger continues t… (more)

Unlock!: The Night of the Boogeymen

Room-in-a-box, Jun 2019

Unlock! are nothing if not experimental. I imagine it’s due to the variety of designers involved, typically a different designer for each game, but the way each game is distinctive not just in presentation but in gameplay is one of the series’s parti… (more)

Journal 29: Revelation

Room-in-a-box, Jun 2019

Naturally, the first thing I have to mention here is the terrible missed opportunity in not calling this book Journal 30. Leaving that aside, Revelation is of course the follow-up to Journal 29, a puzzle book that managed to spawn a small sub-genre o… (more)

Cryptogram Puzzle Post

Room-in-a-box, Apr 2019

Cryptogram Puzzle Post is a subscription puzzle product, definitely not marketed as a home escape game, but filling much the same niche as subscription-based home escape games. In its own words it is a „monthly illustrated storytelling experiment ins… (more)

Puzzle Card: Murder on the Line

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2019

Puzzle Card’s third card deviates a little from the first two: rather than the escape room puzzle style, it’s designed as a murder mystery. This means the card has quite a bit of story text to read and digest; and you then need to combine that with t… (more)

Puzzle Card: Crack The Safe

Room-in-a-box, Mar 2019

Puzzle Card is exactly what it sounds like: a birthday greetings decorated with a mini sequence of puzzles for the recipient to solve. Their first card, which I reviewed here, themed its puzzles with a simp… (more)