The Pizza Plot
Location: at home
Date Played: January 18 2021
Team size: we recommend 1-family
Duration: 15-60 minutes
Price: about $10
REA Reaction
With Operation Pizza, Escape Game Adventure genuinely surprised us. This kids’ puzzle book felt noticeably more advanced when compared to the other installments in the series… and the plot was a bit more grounded.
All of that is to say that this book spoke to me. Escape Game Adventure books generally speak to my inner child… which is cool… that’s the true audience.
This was the most challenging book in this series thus far. That doesn’t make it hard relative to other tabletop puzzle games, but in the kids category, it certainly stood out in terms of complexity. I’d recommend children start with The Mad Hacker or The Last Dragon and work their way up to this one.
Story
We’d traveled to Naples, Italy in 1889 with our robot companion Dooz to save the creator of the margherita pizza from being poisoned by a jealous rival.
I think we can all agree that there are few people in history as important as the originator of the margherita pizza. We had to stop this evil plot.
Analysis
The analysis in this section is about the content of Operation Pizza. To see our analysis of the structure, refer to our Escape Game Adventure Books overview.
➕ The story told in Operation Pizza was quite clever, and a little more understated that the rest of the Escape Game Adventures series. I do mean that as a compliment; it appealed to me, and not just to my inner child.
➕ There was a lot to Operation Pizza. It felt more like an escape room than the previous books in the series. It demanded a general awareness beyond what was specifically in front of us.
Tips For Players
- Space Requirements: a small table
- Required Gear: pencil, scissors
Buy your copy of Operation Pizza, and tell them that the Room Escape Artist sent you.
Disclosure: we received a media sample for review.
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