![]() The Adventures are one-and-done but the box sticks around.īy far the biggest issue we had with the game was the fact that the adventures themselves are one time play but you need to keep the large base game to play any future expansions. While this isn’t a deal breaker for the game, it is a bummer that such a set up was needed to enjoy playing. To solve this problem, we propped up the game on a basket, a box, and even placed the Mystery House itself on a lazy Susan turntable so we didn’t have to get up and move around the table the whole time. Our backs were aching by about 15 minutes in. Mystery House takes about an hour or longer to play, that means for a minimum of 60 minutes you’re going to be hunched over, necks bent, craning to see inside these tiny windows. The flashlights on our phones just did not light up the inside enough and this was in addition to pulling in every floor lap we had in the home and directing it inside the Mystery House. Even a keychain light like this would be great. You are going to need to grab some very bright flashlights to have any hope of seeing inside the house. Mystery House is aptly named because often looking into the house left nothing but mystery. This is fun when done once or twice, but after a while it just gets boring. You’re looking through rooms searching for numbers or symbols and then adding, subtracting, multiplying or decoding the symbols to get numbers that you’ll then add, subtract, or multiply. Many of the puzzles felt the same throughout the game. ![]() The concept is very cool, but in practice we just found it to fall a bit flat. That said, there are a few things that it doesn’t do well. You build a pyramid that stretches above the game box and each element holds some clue that can be solves as you adventure in the pyramid a bit more during the game. We also had the chance to play the newest expansion, The Secret of the Pharaoh and found it to utilize the unique game design really well. It does a great job of utilizing it’s 3D aspect to put you in a more immersive experience than just flipping cards. Our ThoughtsĪs a concept, Mystery House was very cool. You’re given a star rating based on how quickly you solved the puzzle and how many hints you used, but truly the experience of playing through the adventure is why you’re there - the end rating doesn’t really matter in our opinion. However, you can play well beyond the 60 minutes until you’ve solved the puzzle. If you get codes wrong, or misuse items you’ll lose 20 seconds at a time. Players have 60 minutes to solve the mystery. If you’re ever stuck, you can get hints to help you know where to look so you can continue the story. Other times you might find a card that has a locked door, chest, or something similar that will require you to enter a code into the app to advance. If it is, you often will get to take it - keeping it for later use. When you find an item on one of the house cards, you can enter that card into the app and see if the item is listed. Once inside, you’ll have to find more clues and more tools to help you navigate into different rooms, unlock items, find keys, all while working to solve the mystery. ![]() You have to search for clues to unlock doors, break windows, and in other ways find your way into the house. Instead of using cards, your game board is the box, or “house.” How Mystery House WorksĮach mystery adventure gives you a set up guide that tells you where to place each wall and room card in the slots.Īt the beginning of the game, most of your viewpoints into the inner part of the house are blocked by walls, windows, and doors. Mystery House plays like a 3D escape room. ![]() We recently had the chance to play Mystery House which is a unique game in the mystery/escape room style genre. These are games that function kind of like escape rooms where you are looking for clues and completing puzzles to solve a mystery. ![]() One of our favorite styles of games you play are mystery games. ![]()
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