Escape room. La conspiración de Wexell

by James Hamer-Morton

Únete al periodista de investigación Adam Parkinson a fin de escapar de las garras de Wexell Corporation y descubrir su malévolo plan maestro para dominar el mundo. Con tal objetivo, deberás resolver los exigentes enigmas que se plantean a lo largo de las diez habitaciones de este libro, concebido como una auténtica experiencia de escape room . ¿Serás capaz de conseguirlo antes de que se acabe el tiempo?

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2018

Reviews

[Emma · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some of the parts were too open-ended so it was difficult to get a straight answer.

[Книжни Криле · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Iris · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book has been a complete letdown. It started off being great; some of the puzzles were easier, some others more complicated, but pretty much all of them were entertaining and engaging regardless of their difficulty. Even the story was somewhat interesting.
However, when I was halfway through, the book started to go downhill: many puzzles were long and tedious, others had solutions which didn’t make much sense, and to top it all off, more and more mistakes started to pop up everywhere in the puzzles, making them even more difficult and boring to solve (this last problem was mostly because the Spanish translation was really sloppy, although some of the mistakes were definitely not because of it). Besides, the way to solve the last chapter of the book was a sheer disappointment, and it certainly left a sour taste.
So, even tough at first I tought this would be one of my 5 star rated books, in the end I’m not even sure if it deserves 3 stars. All in all, I guess it had many wonderful puzzles I had so much fun with, but despite looking so promising in the beginning, the feeling was ruined after the first half of the book. A real shame.

[Jiří Pavlovský · Rating 2 out of 5]

Další z hlavolamových knížek. A pořádně obšírná, přes dvě stovky stránek. Pravda, něco z toho zabírá i příběh, který se do toho tvůrce bohužel rozhodl vtěsnat (a fakt je špatný a těžkopádně napsaný), ale většina z toho jsou opravdu různé úkoly a hádanky. A na rovinu - ne moc zábavné. Co jsem četl jiné podobné knihy, tak ty nejlepší přicházely s věcmi, které vypadaly neřešitelně, ale když jste se na ně podívali ze správného úhlu, byly najednou úplně jednoduché. Stačilo jen přijít na to, jak se na ně podívat. Tady na spoustu věcí přijdete velmi rychle... ale pak vás čeká dřina dotáhnout to do konce. Není to postavené na brilantním nápadu, spíš na tvrdé dřině spočívající v řešení různých šifer, na převádění textu z morseovky, z nesmyslného textu na přeházené klávesnici či z binárního kódu. Některé věci jsou na oplátku až hodně za hranou a porušují zásadu, že by člověk měl být schopný vyřešit záhady za pomocí základních znalostí.
Do toho občas vtrhávaly problémy, které byly zase až moc fousaté. Třeba řešení sudoku... jen zkomplikované tím, že to sudoku musíte nejprve složit. Což není těžké, jen prudivé.
Je fakt, že jen u málokteré záhady jsem měl radostný pocit z elegance řešení. Nehledě na to, že spousta úkolů vás nutí dělat logické úvahy za dva rohy, což si pak můžete ověřit jen tím, že se podíváte na správné řešení. Na některé jsem se ke konci už vykašlal, protože vyžadovaly přepisování dlouhých řad čísel... a v některých případech buď naprosto fenomenální vizuální paměť nebo schopnost celou věc naprogramovat v počítači.
Tahle knížka je spíš pro lidi, co rádi luští šifry... pro hodně trpělivé lidi, co opravdu děsně rádi luští šifry.

[Márcia · Rating 2 out of 5]

The puzzles were a bit too difficult and similar from chapter to chapter and the overall plot was not appealing enough for me to want to solve the puzzles and move on. I ended up just skimming the book from the halfway point and skipping to the end to know how the story ended. Not for me.

[Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

These are some seriously hard-earned three stars.

The puzzles were fun, once you knew what was being asked of you. And you never knew that because the whole sequence of them was pretty illogical. Some were a little too subjective to be possible. Some were entirely pointless because the only logical answer was staring you in the face, even before you'd done any of the hard graft.

A couple of puzzles (bubble beads and Marks 3s) would have taken an enormous amount of work to finish and I just found I wanted to be done with it.

And this is because there were numerous errors!

1) every page has a morse code hint on it. Everytime G was required, D was used by mistake.
2) the bubble bead game says pop the groups of 3 or more. But the answer requires a group of 3 or more to make up the hidden digits. You would never get any hidden digits because it would also pop.
3) a code written backwards and in a mirror changes digital numbers so the answer is wrong. You have to use the number they have in the solution, not the actual solution.
4) there are a couple of times when they appear to have not proofread it well enough. "There is only one solution" nope, there are 2. But one doesn't spell out a fish. "Right, up, up, up" has too many Ups, changing the answer and making it so you have to use their solution.

So I did enjoy the puzzles but I pretty much had to reverse engineer them all.

Overall quality of the book 5*
Overall enjoyment vs frustration ratio 1*
Overall story - meh.
Overall review therefore 3*

[Kat · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was borrowed and I could have done with a photocopier as a lot of puzzles were 3D (and even if it was mine I don't think I could bear to cut it). I mostly managed with some cheating. The mix of puzzles was quite good but some were too long winded (especially that bubble pop one). The story itself was very man-oriented and not very interesting for me personally.

[Inge Hulsker · Rating 2 out of 5]

Dit boek viel tegen. de puzzels waren te ingewikkeld en vergezocht. Daardoor heb ik uiteindelijk elk hoofdstuk gelezen en vervolgens achterin de oplossingen gelezen, nauwelijks zelf iets gepuzzeld.
Ook het verhaal kon me niet boeien. De conclusie aan het einde was raar en ongeloofwaardig.

[Mirjam · Rating 1 out of 5]

The puzzles are not so good.

[Zaira · Rating 5 out of 5]

Una pasada. Con algún fallo.

[Montserrat Esteban · Rating 4 out of 5]

Libro con una historia interesante de verdad, pero en la que no ahondamos en los personajes si nos involucramos demasiado en el juego del escape room

[Ivan]

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