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5 produkter
5 produkter
Sherlock Holmes Escape Book, The: The Adventure of the British Museum
Solve the Puzzles to Escape the Pages
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
114 kr
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Inspired by the urban craze for escape rooms, where players tackle challenges while trapped in a locked room, this is an escape room in the form of a locked book: filled with codes, ciphers, riddles and red herrings, plus an ingenious Hieroglyphic Code Wheel set into the cover. Taking on the role of Sherlock Holmes, in this new adventure readers find themselves trapped with Watson in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum after a curator collapses in the Egyptian Collection. With King Edward VII due to arrive at the nearby tube station, and rumours of an anarchist plot, Holmes and Watson must find their way through the museum, and fathom the involvement of both Mycroft and Colonel Sebastian Moran, if they are to win their freedom and save the day.
Sherlock Holmes Escape Book, A - The Adventure of the Analytical Engine
Solve the Puzzles to Escape the Pages
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
114 kr
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The third title in this ingenious series of Sherlock Holmes Escape Books, The Adventure of the Analytical Engine is an exhilarating combination of escape room, puzzle book and adventure story. Inspired by the urban craze for escape rooms, where players tackle puzzles while trapped in a locked room, it is an escape room in the form of a locked book, filled with codes, ciphers, riddles and red herrings, and a clever Code Wheel set into the cover.In this new adventure, readers will take on the role of the world’s foremost consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes, snared at the centre of a cunning plot, after receiving a mysterious letter from beyond the grave. Intrigued by an invitation from mathematician Charles Babbage to view his newly completed pioneering contraption, Holmes becomes imprisoned in a magnificent London villa, where tricks, traps and illusions aim to divert him from uncovering the true purpose of the reimagined Analytical Engine.Combines riddles, logic puzzles, timed challenges, mathematical brain-teasers, maps and mazes.
Sherlock Holmes Escape Book, A: The Adventure of the Tower of London
Solve the Puzzles to Escape the Pages
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
114 kr
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A Sherlock Holmes Escape Book: The Adventure of the Tower of London is a unique form of puzzle book, in which the reader must solve the riddles to escape the pages.The fourth title in this ingenious series of Sherlock Holmes Escape Books, The Adventure of the Tower of London is an exhilarating combination of escape room, puzzle book and adventure story. Inspired by the urban craze for escape rooms, where players tackle puzzles while trapped in a locked room, it is an escape room in the form of a locked book, filled with codes, ciphers, riddles and red herrings, and a clever Code Wheel set into the cover. In the latest adventure in the series, readers will take on the role of the world’s foremost consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes. Holmes’s nemesis Moriarty has locked Sherlock’s friend, the musician Odon von Mihalovic, with the Crown Jewels in a cage in Tower Bridge the night before a special ceremony is due to be held for the Queen. Holmes and Watson are themselves trapped in the nearby Tower of London by Moriarty, and they must work through the night and against the clock to find and free Odon from the cage to prevent him being disgraced in the ceremony the following morning.Combines riddles, logic puzzles, timed challenges, mathematical brain-teasers, maps and mazes.The fourth title in the series of bestselling Sherlock Holmes ‘escape room’ puzzle booksCreates an interactive adventure based around two of Victorian London’s most famous landmarksAimed at puzzle/escape room fans, Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts and those interested in popular mathematics and the early history of computingFrom the authors of two previous books in the series, A Sherlock Holmes Escape Book: The Adventure of the British Museum and A Sherlock Holmes Escape Book: The Adventure of the Analytical Engine
114 kr
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An exhilarating combination of escape room, puzzle book and adventure story, this book is inspired by the urban craze for escape rooms as well as the history surrounding America’s most infamous prison.Readers will take on the role of Scott Wilson, a member of an underground US environmental movement called the Wilderness, who has discovered that a farming lobby is illegally using toxic pesticides to sell large amounts of land cheaply to corrupt politicians. There is enough evidence safely tucked away in a secret location to bring these criminals to justice, but failed sting operation takes place which leaves an FBI agent dead and Scott framed for the murder.Framed as a traitor and a murderer and sent to Alcatraz as a result, the reader must escape the forbidding, top-security jail, recover the lost evidence and stop the pollution and land sale before it’s too late. Surrounded by the most notorious, dangerous and unpredictable inmates, the reader will quickly learn that their only means of escape will be from solving hidden puzzles using the code wheel left behind by the renowned criminal mastermind Robert Stroud – the famous Birdman of Alcatraz.Nobody has ever escaped Alcatraz alive, and with time quickly running out, the reader will have to find unlikely allies who can help them break out and aid them when they come to face the perilous waters surrounding the prison in order to escape the Rock.Combines riddles, logic puzzles, timed challenges, mathematical brain-teasers, maps and mazes.
114 kr
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This book casts the reader as Mary King, a young woman who must navigate her way through Regency society, solving a series of puzzles to claim her inheritance. But word of her inheritance has got around, and will she also find the man who loves her for who she is, or a scoundrel who is only interested in her wealth?It’s October 1811, and Mary is celebrating her twenty-first birthday at her home, Oakham Grange, a country house near Meryton. Mary receives a letter from her grandfather, which sets her inheritance quest and adventure in motion: her grandfather has set her a sequence of puzzles, and she must successfully solve them to obtain her inheritance. The letter also reveals a watch – the codewheel set in the cover of the book. While attending a ball at Meryton, she discovers the first of the puzzles, which sets her adventure in motion. Along the way, Mary will also come across puzzles set by her two admirers, Wickham and Arthur, while also trying to solve the mysteries of society’s rules.The Adventure of Miss King’s Inheritance runs parallel to the events described in Pride and Prejudice, and throughout the book, the reader will interact with the characters of Austen’s novel. There are over 40 puzzles in the book, ranging from riddles and mazes to logic problems and visual conundrums. Solve them correctly and you’ll be on the path to wealth and love, but get them wrong and you could be condemning Mary to a far less rosy future…