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Experience the thrill of an escape room in Mystery House: Adventures in a Box, which features a mix of technology and tradition. Play the game with this real 3D house where you can look in through the windows using a flashlight, giving you the experience of really exploring a dark, mysterious house. In this Escape Room type board game, you have to solve all the riddles you find inside to solve the mystery!
At the beginning of the game, you insert enigma cards in the box top, building the house, and these cards will tell a story as they're revealed and resolved during play. You must search for clues in the house, looking through the windows in the rooms. An app drives you through the game and records the progress of your team and your playtime. With the app you can try to see items better, use items and enter codes, needed to solve the mystery.
The base game includes an intro mystery and two adventures: "Family Portrait" and "The Lord of the Labyrinth". All future expansions will use the same base game box and app as a game system.
- Attempts to capture the live escape room experience with tactile 3D components.
- Mobile app integration for clues and actions.
- Torch lighting enhances visibility in dark areas.
- Box rotation and elevation aid exploration and viewing angles.
- Cooperative play supports group participation.
- Puzzles can be quite difficult at times.
- Some box exploration can be tricky or fiddly to access inside the box.
- Requires players to provide their own torch.
- mystery/escape room
- a mysterious house with puzzles to escape
- investigation through puzzles and clues
- Labyrinth
- Family Portrait
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- App Assisted — A mobile app is used to obtain answers and direct actions (e.g., removing or revealing cards).
- app_integration — A mobile app is used to obtain answers and direct actions (e.g., removing or revealing cards).
- Cooperative Game — Players work together to solve puzzles.
- cooperative_play — Players work together to solve puzzles.
- Deck Manipulation — Refilling next cards behind walls; manipulating the box with rotation and elevation.
- Deduction — Solving puzzles to advance and uncover clues.
- hidden_cards_and_slots — Finding clues by looking through slots and behind cards.
- Investigation — Investigating the walls of the house to find clues.
- lighting_needed — A torch is used to reveal clues in dark areas.
- Pattern Recognition — Puzzles include recognizing patterns as part of solving.
- pattern_recognition — Puzzles include recognizing patterns as part of solving.
- puzzle_solving — Solving puzzles to advance and uncover clues.
- tactile_and_visual_manipulation — Refilling next cards behind walls; manipulating the box with rotation and elevation.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Mystery House adventures in a box
- the puzzles in this one are pretty hard at times
- it's trying to capture more of the actual escape room live games
- the app usually will tell you to remove certain cards walls
- you need to look through the slots and find the clues using a torch
- we use lazy susan underneath the box so it's easy for us to rotate the box to see different angles
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