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Post by craigrj on Jun 15, 2017 6:00:16 GMT -5
Another UK company, this seemed to kick into life late last year with three products: a set of letters/documents Enigma Files about a Great White Shark washing up on the beach; The Mysterious Package which seemed to be a largeish box of puzzles; and, Traveller's Suitcase (the pedant in me says this seems more to be a briefcase than suitcase) as their premium experience. When I found this stuff a few weeks ago, none of it was orderable but they told me it'd be relaunched soon - today I found their new website www.enigma-files.com/Which concentrates on the first one of the earlier products and is available to order. So I have. Will report back here what comes through in case people are interested in picking this up...
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Post by craigrj on Jun 21, 2017 10:38:24 GMT -5
So the first one is here - arrived yesterday - and provided a pleasant couple of hours: the first one in just messing around with the components, the second in piecing things together to solve the four puzzles. It's £19 plus shipping, and for your money you get a sturdy A4 envelope which hints at a time travel theme ultimately - a great white shark is washed up on the SW coast of Britain and inside it's stomach are a collection of weird items, the paper ones replicated here. The company's roots as an Escape Room company are evident in the materials - it's pretty much all printed off on laser print on sturdy cardstock, so although some documents purport to be aged, there's been no aging applied. This is all about the puzzles and the solving thereof rather than as an experience as such. Here's what you get: An instruction leaflet A couple of cipher sheets (phonetic alphabet, morse code, semaphore, some time thing, another couple) - again, assuming you are in an escape room with no net access, giving you the deciphering material to hand A copy of the periodic table An investigator's report from 1994 into the shark's stomach contents Four or five mini movie posters of classic films from the 80s Two photos taken on consecutive days in 1933 A letter from 1633 Three coded acetate sheets with various symbols on Three newspaper articles from 1916 Two business style cards from 1984 A map of the world in German from 1748
A fairly large amount of content then, especially when chucked out onto your table. I particularly liked that it didn't overtly tell you exactly what you're supposed to do, you divine it from the items involved and have to make the last logical leap yourself as to what to do with the four answers you get. A couple of parts were ridiculously simple, another one was great fun to do, and the last one was a real stinker - there are some red herrings amongst all the items given, and it was only when I was really tired and perused the papers once more that I suddenly saw...the key to the fourth puzzle. Given I didn't have to pay too much in postage, I'm very happy with the value for money of this one - I'll also GM the kids on a run through this weekend, I think they should be capable of working through all the bits (and having four puzzles to work on simultaneously is great) with maybe a minor hint or two at most.
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Post by thegenii on Jun 21, 2017 17:32:33 GMT -5
I gather from your comments and looking at the website that it's a single mailing experience?
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Post by craigrj on Jun 22, 2017 4:17:47 GMT -5
I gather from your comments and looking at the website that it's a single mailing experience? Exactly so - one mailing gets you everything.
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Post by squirrel on Jun 28, 2017 4:41:14 GMT -5
Interesting, it's nice to see something shipping from this side of the pond. I'll have to check it out
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Post by squirrel on Jul 4, 2017 8:57:18 GMT -5
and it showed up today.... it feels kind of odd to receive something so quickly.
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Post by distantsmoke on Sept 5, 2017 19:49:24 GMT -5
and it showed up today.... it feels kind of odd to receive something so quickly. Were you given notice it was coming? I ordered late last week and haven't heard or seen anything yet.
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Post by squirrel on Sept 6, 2017 4:12:23 GMT -5
No.... It's just that I'm in Ireland, and most mystery/puzzles ship from the US - so it can take weeks.
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Post by Memosinstilettos on Jun 16, 2018 20:32:23 GMT -5
I have completed 3 of the 4 components. The 4th one has me stumped..
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