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Mystery at Stargazer’s Manor is the only game that’s ages 10 and up (the others are 13 and up). It’s the least complicated escape room in this series in terms of its puzzles, and it’s not scary at all. So if you have young children this is your escape room. Action Story (difficulty 1 out of 3) – The elusive Stella has stolen the world’s most expensive gem! Stop her and take away her precious haul; Physical components like the chrono decoder also center the group and make sure everyone can always see the timer. This isn’t quite true when the timer is on someone’s phone. So although it may not seem so important, in our experience the physical components really help to promote team work and player interaction as well. The ultimate tale of the Arabian Nights. The sultan is going to sentence Scheherazade to death. Fly to her rescue! This is the unfinished manuscript of an astonishing adventure I have in mind. It is entitled ‘Alice in Wonderland’. Please, help me write an end to it… and help Alice out of the mess I so maliciously got her into…
Hunt down by a sea monster during a dive, you find shelter when open an old hatch. Find a way to resurface!The day had started off well. After weeks ofhesitation, you finally accepted the invitationof Archibald Goorse, the eccentric billionaire,archaeological rarities collector. You’d beenflown to his private island, located a few milesfrom the Bahamas, in an old twin-engine.Unfortunately, the aircraft had been caught ina storm and you only just had time to bail outwith a parachute before seeing the plane crashland in the middle of the jungle. After losingconsciousness, you wake up on a windsweptbeach. Fortunately, despite some bruises,you have nothing broken. Instead, your groupis now split in two teams. Explore a valley full of dinosaurs and save the members of Professor Challenger’s latest expedition!
After a while the clue cards and information pieces are being discarded like the mussel shells in a seafood platter. You have extracted all the goodness from them, and the game tells you to “lose certain cards”. You are now after more tasty tit-bits. This blog was originally published on November 11th, 2020. Updated on May 4th, 2022 to improve the information available. The master of detectives has a peculiar case ahead of him. Can you help him find his way through this investigation? Another thing we really like about this escape room game series is that all of its games are reusable, because you can reassemble all the pieces to their original state. So what you can also do is play the game first yourself, and then reassemble it for your kids, who can then play through it themselves with your occasional guidance. If you are looking to linked adventures, the best ones are for sure those based on the great villain of the series, Professor Noside: “Squeek and sausage” (Escape adventures, difficulty 2), “A noside story” (Secret adventures, difficulty 1), “The Noside show” (Timeless adventuress, difficulty 1) and “Professor Noside's Animal-O-Matic” (Mythic adventures, difficulty 2).Another stand out addition of Escape Room In A Box is that Alexa can host your games. She can keep time and give you hints when you need them. Note that this isn’t necessary (in fact you don’t need a host at all), but it’s a very fun extra little something that this game adds.
Escape the Room is most family friendly. And especially The Cursed Dollhouse is outstanding with it’s physical components. One or two of the puzzles are very “left field”. I would even describe them as being obscure. In these we had to use the hint and on one occasion even the second hint to get the solution. In retrospect I can see where the designers were coming from. It just had not crossed my mind to use the clues in that way. Others, with more lateral thinking minds, may have seen the solution with more ease than my wife and I but for the “average Joe” I think many will have struggled. At the end of the game, it will give you your score calculated on the time you spent to complete the adventure, the number of penalties you collected, the number of clues you requested, etc. Escape the Room brands itself as the best the escape room game for families with children. It’s family friendly both in terms of its theme and its difficulty level, so it’s not too difficult and there also aren’t any scary or vulgar elements in it. It also develops the critical thinking skills of your children.
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Some cards require a close examination, even using the phone camera and app in combination. This may reveal hidden detail, but if you make unwise choices then time penalties are added. Like a real-life escape room, you do not want to waste time, but you need to be confident that you have made a sensible choice. Occasionally some cards need to be used in combination or even placed together and rearranged on the table. This might be to spell words or give a new image. It is good to get one or two of the party to be having a big picture look and others to forensically examine the relevant cards.
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