The game will have you cut bits, staple things, glue sections, and assemble 3D puzzles in a logical and exciting way. The notes he has left behind first point you to a box, then to a window, then to a final lock to escape (I’m probably over-simplifying it here but it works!). You find yourself locked in Houdini’s mysterious room. Illustrations aside, the game play is straightforward! Houdini’s Secret Room comes in 3 distinct parts that are well written and give helpful directions of what to do. It worked well though, so don’t let that stop you from giving it a go if you’re a smaller group like us.
I did the ‘setting up’, then where a spoiler came up I quietly stepped back and let player 2 solve the rest. In our game, we didn’t quite have that luxury – there’s only two of us. One big thing I should pause to mention before I continue however: Houdini’s Secret Room is an ‘Escape Room Kit’, meaning ultimately it’s designed to be set up by one player and played by others. How on Earth is this game not as popular as it should be? It’s going right to the top of my list of games I’ll be recommending to my friends. But does the game play live up to the gorgeous designs? Absolutely! In all ways I found Houdini’s Secret Room quirky and fun. It’s quite rare to experience a fully illustrated play at home escape game that does so in such an immersive and high quality way. It was the first thing I noticed, those illustrations. Houdini’s Secret Room is visually INCREDIBLE. Walking around, your curiosity leads you to a secret room, one in which no one has set foot for over a century…
You decide to go there and learn some of his greatest tricks and illusions.
The 150-year-old house that belonged to the most famous illusionist Houdini is now a museum.
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