Room Escape Artist

A birthday without puzzles is sad.

Location: at home

Date Played: April 14, 2018

Team size: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯; we recommend 1-2

Price: £4.25 (approximately $5.77) plus shipping costs for the UK and international destinations

REA Reaction

A puzzle card is like a gift and a card rolled up into one very thin package. For the right recipient, this thing would be an great birthday treat.

Who is this for?

• A puzzler celebrating the anniversary of their birth

Why buy?

• It’s a birthday card with a puzzle inside.

Setup

The Escape the Room Puzzle Birthday Card is exactly what the name suggests: It’s a miniature text- and image-based escape room birthday card.

Everything is self contained within the card with the notable exception of the answer mechanism, which requires the solver to visit a web site.

The card is large (A4), printed on heavy card stock, and covered in puzzle-related content. There is also a small outlined space on the back for writing your message to the recipient.

Analysis

+ It’s a birthday card with a puzzle! How great is that?

+ The puzzles resolve cleanly. While they likely won’t blow your mind, they offer a touch of challenge.

– The birthday card isn’t aesthetically pleasing.

– There were a pair of typos in the opening paragraph (unless these were British-isms that simply read wrong to our American eyes). We spent a portion of our solve time trying to figure out what they meant only to find that they did not factor in at all.

+ The answer verification mechanism was smart.

Tips for Using

• Ignore the typos. They aren’t part of the puzzle.
• Make sure that you have a web browser handy to submit your answer.

Order your Puzzle Card Birthday Card, and tell them that the Room Escape Artist sent you.