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Murder on the Ornament Express
Review Game Description “Six train cars, six suspects, and a snowman melted before his time. It’s up to you to crack the case and save Christmas in this holiday whodunit by CU Adventures. Follow the rail of clues to uncover the loco-motive …for MURDER!” Personal Experience CU Adventures makes some of my favorite puzzle games (both in-person and at-home) so…
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Scarlet Envelope: Screaming Venice Art Heist
Review Game Description “Venice, 2000. The Scream, Edvard Munch’s famous painting, disappears right before the opening of a posh Art Biennale. Was it stolen for ransom? Or to cover up a larger mystery? You are now hired by the Italian Art Gallery’s President, and he’s got some game-changing insider intel for you… Delve into the world of art crime, recover…
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Enigma Fellowship: The Submerged Sentinel
Review Game Description “An experimental submarine, the ISS Sentinel, carrying a revolutionary new energy device and the world’s leading scientific experts has missed several scheduled check-ins. The Enigma Fellowship has been contacted for help. Given the lives and scientific knowledge at stake your mission is to not only find the submarine but also rescue the crew.” Personal Experience Like many…
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Scarlet Envelope Holiday Puzzle Cards
Review Note: Scarlet Envelope provided a complimentary copy of this game for review, but that has in no way affected the content of this review. Game Description “Santa’s Wish: Ditch your typical cheesy Christmas card and impress your loved ones with our puzzle card! Your goal is to decipher Santa’s New Year’s wish hidden in a cheerful Christmas poem and…
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Sins of the Father
Review Game Description “What lengths would you go to in order to support and protect your family? Placed in a desperate situation, Rudolph Greenwood is given an opportunity to provide his family everything they could ever want – unbeknownst to him, it will come at a cost that will echo throughout the generations to follow. Decades later, Jonas Greenwood has…
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The FairyTale Files: The Curious Case of the Poisoned Apples
Review Game Description “Once upon a time, there was a murder. In fact, 3 murders – well, technically, the victims are not quite dead, but in a land that prided itself on happily ever-afters, it was quite disturbing. 3 princesses who were set to participate in the upcoming Fairest Of Them All competition ate poisoned apples and fell into a…
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Double Major
Review Game Description “An unexpected envelope arrives containing evidence that makes you question everything you know to be true. After a second mysterious mailing, the sender vanishes and you receive a box of seemingly unrelated artifacts. You are left to make sense of it all before another person disappears.” Personal Experience I played the first two Crack-A-Nut games pretty early…
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Scarlet Envelope: Wild Mansion of Mr. Ferri
Review Game Description “Mr. Ferri, a rich gentleman with an intense love for animals, has suddenly passed away. The word on the street is that he was killed…by his own lion! But was he really? You’re hired to investigate the creepy mansion and to find the will hidden by the gentleman. Solve puzzles and uncover the truth behind the paranormal…
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Adrift
Review Game Description “Adrift is a puzzletale told through poems, illustrations, and physical artifacts, in which players will take on the role of a dream expert interpreting the significance of subconscious messages communicated by ethereal beings. Solve your way through a variety of puzzles to discover the mysterious world of Adrift.” Personal Experience After playing through The Emerald Flame, one…
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The Medusa Report
“After four long decades serving a secret intelligence agency, an embittered Abigail Vandermist suddenly drops off the map. She has found something out. Something to do with an old rescue mission into the heart of the USSR, a nuclear physicist, and her own enigmatic father. Meanwhile, Abigail’s sister Helena has been searching for her, ever since her disappearance in 1979.…
