50 Clues – The Leopold Trilogy (The Pendulum of the Dead, White Sleep, The Fate of Leopold)
- Designer: Jeppe Norsker
- Publisher: Norsker Games
- Players: 1-4
- Age: 14+
- Time: we took about 4 hours total to play all 3 games
- Times played: 1, with review copies provided by the publisher
(Note – while I will include some picture of some actual game cards, none of the things shown below should have spoiler information on them, especially with no context surrounding them. I did want to show a few illustrations as examples)
50 Clues is a very unique experience. In the words of the designer: “The Leopold trilogy is not a feel-good escape room game.” I did not know anything about this series until about a month prior to SPIEL 2019, and I was excited to get a chance to play the full set. I was sold on the promise that the game would offer a different take on the genre; which, while still quite enjoyable, is starting to feel very samey-samey. I can safely say that there is no other escape room game that I’ve played that felt anything like this.
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Brandon Kempf – Surviving the Purge 1
Over the next few months, instead of going with my Three Games articles, I am going to take a look at my collection and try to discuss why certain titles survived the great purge of 2019. During this process I may take a look at some games that didn’t survive, but only as a measuring stick for what did survive. Since I am silly, like a lot of gamers, I use Ikea Kallax shelves to display the games that we own. This makes it pretty easy to break things down cube by cube, so that’s what we’re going to do, twenty-four cubes, plus a top shelf for games that don’t fit in the cubes, over the course of a few months. I hope you enjoy!
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