Meet the New Generation of Puzzle-Makers Bringing Mystery to Your Door
upstart writes in with an IRC submission:
Meet the new generation of puzzle-makers bringing mystery to your door:
A few weeks ago, my husband and I broke into a museum.
Well, we didn't break in, exactly. We had keys, so it was more like, you know, a little light trespassing. The keys came from some guy in a hooded cloak standing around outside, but they worked, and the cops never showed up. So, long story short: there's an artifact sitting in our living room currently, and we're trying to figure out what to do with it.
The artifact, alas, exists only digitally (for now, at least). And both the keys and the museum were made entirely of paper. My husband and I both wore cozy pajama pants for the break-in slightly unauthorized entry, which took place on our coffee table while I sipped a glass of red wine.
If all this sounds terribly confusing, know that we were playing a game made by the Curious Correspondence Club, a subscription box filled with mysteries instead of with snacks. It was one of a litany of at-home mystery boxes we've played through in the past two years, a stack of adventures each positioned somewhere between an escape room, a puzzle, and an alternate reality game. So it's not unusual that our home remains full of ancient, furled maps and long-lost artifacts pointing the way to solve mysteries of the ages... none of which existed till, roughly speaking, last Thursday.
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