Journal 29

Team - 1 player Outcome - Escaped Time Elapsed - About a week of on and off puzzling. This was my first time tackling a puzzle book of this complexity and it was incredible. 63 individual puzzles with call-backs and interlinked puzzles throughout. Each puzzle in the journal has two pages - A puzzle page and a QR code that takes you to a webpage in which you enter the answer to the puzzle. If you're correct it will give you a key (word) and you move on to the next puzzle, if its incorrect it will tell you to try again. You need to take note of each key as they are used throughout the book. Every single puzzle is very different and there's a mixture of puzzle types; logic, observation, sudoku, pattern recognition etc. Some of these puzzles were extremely difficult but fortunately there is a forum online in which users submit hints on how to solve the puzzles, this was great as it meant you could still figure out how to do it with the hints without just being told the answer or what to do. I'd highly advise taking notes and keeping track of both your keywords and how you figured out the puzzles. You will need to reference previous keywords for puzzles. There are some puzzles that also require searching through multiple pages of the book or searching the internet. Overall it took me about a week to get through this book with a few puzzles every night, more often than not I found it very difficult to put down. It was a great experience overall and I cant wait to get a hold of the other 2 books in the series. The only downside I would say to this book is that it starts with the storyline (at the top of the review) and then this story isn't really mentioned again. It would have been nice to have a story develop throughout but it didn't take away from the enjoyment of the puzzles. Final Review Difficulty - 4.5 / 5 Puzzles - 4 / 5 Theming - 4 / 5 Creativity - 5 / 5 Enjoyment - 4 / 5 Value For Money - 5 / 5 Overall Score - 4.25 / 5

a book that is great for moment to moment puzzle solving. i was curious to how a puzzle book could play out but was surprised with how much i enjoyed it. happily looking forward to the other entries in the series