Professor Puzzle | Escape from Grand Hotel | Puzzle | Ages 12+ | 2+ Players

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invitations in envelopes – with full descriptions of the characters so your guests can dress up in advance Escape from the Grand Hotel was Professor Puzzle’s first foray into tabletop escape games… and they got a lot right. What hidden secrets will you uncover in the Grand Hotel? Invite your guests, set the scene and get ready to host a night of fun and intrigue with this fast-paced, fast-thinking cross between a murder mystery and an escape room game. Your guests travel through the hotel, solving the series of interactive puzzles that release them from each room. There are 9 different rooms to visit, starting in Your Room, each one containing a different puzzle or challenge that will lead to the next room… and the next riddle-filled envelope.

To make a larger event around this game, mail out the enclosed invitations and have your guests arrive in character and in costume. Note, the character roles are entirely for fun and are not relevant to the gameplay. Professor Puzzle’s Escape from the Grand Hotel was a standard play-at-home escape game with a moderate to high level of difficulty. If you’re comfortable with tabletop escape room puzzles, this was moderately difficult. If you aren’t comfortable with the format, the limited hinting could make this game quite challenging. Another very different at home proposition, Escape from the Grand Hotel, is a table top, envelope-based escape experience. The trails themselves require very little puzzle-solving and a bit more of a challenge would be very welcome but the object here is to immerse yourself in this steam punk world and go on a few adventures along the way. It's a totally unique experience. We encountered some taxonomy inconsistencies within the in-game instructions. The way that it referred to things sometimes shifted. This got confusing.Your experience of this game is very similar to ours, but we found the game far too easy, until we got to the coded fax. This puzzle made absolutely no sense – even after reading the supposed answer. Any chance you can explain it to us? This matchbox game is filled with difficult puzzles, brain-teasers, challenges and exercises for you to work your way out of a seemingly cursed hotel. What haunting secrets will you uncover in finding your way out of the Grand Hotel's history? Invite your guests, set your scene and get ready to host a night of fun and intrigue. The ultimate quest? To uncover the dark, hidden secret of The Grand Hotel … This is a really interesting concept. You are presented with a series of different envelopes, each designed as the exterior to one of the rooms of the Grand Hotel. You must work your way around the hotel, carrying out each of the puzzles contained within the envelope. When finding the answer to the puzzle, this will then give you a hint to the next room you need to move to. To win the game, you must answer all the puzzles within the envelopes, escape the hotel and work out what is happening behind its closed doors.

The box states it is for 2 to 8 players, but there were only two of us playing. So it was a surprise when we opened the box to find character invitations for 8 players. Maybe it is meant as a dinner party game where we all play different roles, we mused. But, no. The characters seem to play no part in the game whatsoever! Not sure what game to buy next? Buy a premium mystery box for two to four great games to add to your collection! Buy Premium Box »The story was hokey, but it came together well enough in the end. It worked for the game and made us smile in the end. Professor Puzzle stumbled with hinting and editing. Bluntly, this game felt under playtested. There were too many little problems that were easily fixable. The hint system was innovative, but insufficient.

Going over Halloween meant that we were there for the Lunar Festival and the town was suitably themed for spooky season. The decor really is superb and the actors go out of their way to make the whole experience feel genuine. So, you love escape rooms and you're excellent at solving puzzles. You make Sudoku look like naughts and crosses. But, you're yet to find a board game that will let you exploit your talents... until now. Say hello to Escape from the Grand Hotel. Or, should you say goodbye to the Grand Hotel? We suppose it depends if you can escape! When the Blossoms’ glamorous, rich and influential guests arrive for the grand reopening, they’re ready for a night to remember – but little do they suspect it will be for all the wrong reasons!Escape from the Grand Hotel”arrived in a beautifully designed box with quality printed material. Bigger than most escape-room-in-a-box we have played (except Mystery At the Stargazers Manor) we were expecting great things. Also, I’ve seen videos where they indicate they change puzzles and a different version 2 or version 3 of the game is released. As for the puzzles they were a mixture of “too easy” and “too illogical.” We rattled through most of the game without any trouble until we hit the coded fax puzzle. The game provided duplicate copies of this puzzle, so we could both pore over it. We found it to be one of the most tedious puzzles we’ve ever done. It made absolutely no sense, even after reading the hint and seemed to solved purely by searching. (When we finished the game we read the supposed answer and it still made no sense!) did you by any chance come up with a logical reason why the four numbers in the lobby room 118 were chosen and where they are seen in the grouping identified? Thanks Robert Cook That said, I don’t think that the characters/ invites are worth the effort. They do not impact the game in any meaningful way.