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Gail Simone

11 Jun, 12 tweets, 7 min read

HEY!

I have a super-short #TableTopGails thread today, just five items!

HEY! It's SHORT!

But MAN, were these games fun!

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@ThinkFun

Okay, so this lovely company that makes a lot of family games and puzzles, @ThinkFun, saw that we love Escape Room and mystery games, and sent this big lovely box...and I really want to talk about two of them that we freaking LOVED.

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The games I want to talk about in particular are the COLD CASE games, but first, check out these ESCAPE THE ROOM games...we have played a few from other companies, but they were not this elaborate...these look incredible. Anyone played them?

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The boxes are filled with story, props, and puzzles, and you have to ‘escape’ a locked building in the story. We love these kinds of games, during lockdown they are very cathartic.

This one makes the box itself into a dollhouse, with paper doll characters! That is just cool!

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Okay, we haven’t played any of these, but I looked and they have a nice online component, with hints, difficulty settings, mood music and more, all on the thinkfun.com website.

Nifty...we might do one this weekend!

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Now, here are the ones we DID play...we made a last minute decision to drive up the beach on the Oregon coast and stay at a nice hotel for the first time since lockdown. We grabbed some games, including the first of these Cold Case games...

A Story To Die For.

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We were HOOKED. It’s a simple package, a box with a file full of relevant papers to a murder that happened years ago that was never solved. We couldn’t stop until we finished...it was SO FUN. You read witness interview, examine documents, check the autopsy...

We loved it.

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This is some of the interior, and you just really examine it all.

There are tricks and lies and red herrings, and when you actually solve it, it feels like a genuine triumph.

You check your answers in a online ‘database’ to see if you can get the case re-opened.

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We enjoyed it so much, that as soon as we got home, we opened the second Cold Case box and did THAT one.

This one was about a nice old man being killed on the day of a church fete. SUPER satisfying to find his killer!

This one is just released this month, I believe.

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This is a LOT of entertainment in a box for just $14.95, but be aware that you can only solve the mystery personally once. You can get the set to another true-crime loving friend as often as you like, though.

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@ThinkFun

We loved it, I have enjoyed many escape room boxes, I have never played a case file game like this.

We’re hooked, anyone know of any others? There are only two in the series so far from @ThinkFun games, but we’re in, definitely buying future editions. FUN!

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@ThinkFun

Thank you, @ThinkFun!

As always, these were gifted to me, my opinions are my own, I am not paid to endorse any of these.

So, what about you all? Have you played any games in the crime/mystery genres that you would recommend to us?

Let us know in this thread!

Thanks!

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