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Mattel Games Escape Room in a Box Game The Werewolf Experiment, Mystery with Physical Puzzles, Paper Puzzles & Real Locks

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Age Range (Description) 13 years and up
Number of Players 2 - 8
Brand Mattel Games
Theme Horror
Material Paper

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  • Exciting cooperation game—everyone in the game is after the same goal: to escape.
  • You have to solve 19 mental and physical puzzles before a mad scientist turns you into werewolves—and you have only an hour to do it.
  • To enhance gameplay, players can connect to the Amazon Alexa.
  • A great immersion experience.
  • Includes 19 puzzles and three locks. You can do it.

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Escape rooms are exciting immersion experiences in which participants are challenged to find clues, solve puzzles, and crack codes in under an hour if they want to escape. Now you and your friends can play the ultimate escape game at home—and the heat is on! A mad scientist is plotting to turn you and your friends into werewolves. Only if you and your team members can solve 19 2D and 3D puzzles in an hour will you be able to escape with your humanness intact! You'll have to work as a team—so put your heads together and let's see if you can escape. And there's help from the outside: players can connect with Amazon Alexa to enhance the gameplay of Escape Room in a Box: the Werewolf Experiment! Good luck! Colors and decorations may vary.

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    4.2 out of 5 stars
    4.2 out of 5
    2,996 global ratings

    Customers say

    Customers say the game is fun and great for family game night. They also find the puzzles engaging and challenging. However, some find the interactivity too easy, confusing, and hard to follow. They dislike replayability, and hints. Opinions are mixed on quality and value.

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    134 customers mention131 positive3 negative

    Customers find the tabletop game so much fun. They say it's a great game for family game night or when you just want to hang out with friends. They also say it has plenty to keep everyone busy with various puzzles and difficulty levels. Customers also mention that the game is immersive, satisfying, and tactile. They describe it as designed for the whole family and brilliant.

    "...It was a good distraction for an hour, but with all the nice quality pieces, it should have come with a second set of paper puzzles so that you..." Read more

    "...They were not two difficult but just enough to make it thoughtful and fun." Read more

    "...The first half of the game was tons of fun and we felt like this could be the best escape room yet...." Read more

    "...Super fun and it had tons of different things to do in the box that you have to figure out...." Read more

    105 customers mention86 positive19 negative

    Customers find the puzzles in the game very engaging and fun to figure out. They also say the game has a good mix of difficulty across the puzzle types and that the puzzle are used multiple times. Customers also say that the story is simple, strong, and funny. They appreciate the hint book for clues and the tight connection between the puzzle and the story.

    "...Good puzzles, that are logical and solvable, and lots of stuff for everyone to work on at once. A few clever surprises...." Read more

    "...The puzzles were challenging, but not *too* hard...." Read more

    "...Ill start with the good first. I thought the story was simple and this game had one of the best presentations out of the different escape room games..." Read more

    "...Super fun and it had tons of different things to do in the box that you have to figure out...." Read more

    28 customers mention23 positive5 negative

    Customers like the appearance of the game. They say it's well-designed, well thought out, and ornate. They also appreciate the excellent graphical designs and the creative theme. Customers also mention that the pieces are cool and cute.

    "...I thought the story was simple and this game had one of the best presentations out of the different escape room games we have tried so far...." Read more

    "...The puzzles are fun and well written.Cons:- It's VERY difficult for 8 people to play, no matter what's said on the box...." Read more

    "...It's all the more important, then, that the story is well written and the puzzles challenging and well designed...." Read more

    "...The puzzles were fun: challenging but doable, good variety, and unique. The game itself gets 5 stars...." Read more

    135 customers mention40 positive95 negative

    Customers find the puzzles in the game too easy, confusing, and hard to follow. They also say the directions are tedious and require players to be literate. Additionally, customers mention that the game is frustrating and hard for them to complete.

    "...(image was too dark and you could not make out any details)...." Read more

    "...we had clues that were very strangely worded that made it impossible for us to figure out. Even after looking at the hint, we were just as lost...." Read more

    "...Good puzzles, that are logical and solvable, and lots of stuff for everyone to work on at once. A few clever surprises...." Read more

    "...It was pretty hard for me, (I was probably 16/17 when I played it)...." Read more

    60 customers mention27 positive33 negative

    Customers are mixed about the quality of the game. Some mention that it's well-made, with nice quality pieces. They also appreciate the quality printing and graphical designs. However, others say that after you play once the game is pretty much worthless, disappointing, and a complete waste of money and time.

    "This was such a disappointing game….wasn’t as described at all and a total flop at our New Year’s party. I wouldn’t recommend this game." Read more

    "...It was a good distraction for an hour, but with all the nice quality pieces, it should have come with a second set of paper puzzles so that you..." Read more

    "...This wasn’t fun or satisfying at the end and so many of the puzzles were just busy work with very obvious clues showing the only important part...." Read more

    "...Loved the theme and presentation of this game, it had a ton of potential, but I was really disappointed be the end...." Read more

    48 customers mention19 positive29 negative

    Customers are mixed about the value of the tabletop game. Some mention that it is worth the price for a fun activity to play, while others say that it was not great for the money, a total rip off, and a waste of money. They also mention that the parts were replaced with cheaper or different ones, and the game was very cheaply manufactured.

    "...said the game has been discontinued and likely due to these quality issues...." Read more

    "...younger child is only 10 but it looked like fun and the price is less than a haunted hayride (we did that 2 weeks ago) or even dinner at a..." Read more

    "...the game having been used and can't be played again so it's a waste of paper/plastic/etc. It's all just going to get tossed...." Read more

    "I just finished and I loved it. Worth every penny. I love escape rooms so this was so fun to do at home...." Read more

    33 customers mention0 positive33 negative

    Customers find the game to be one-time use and not easily reusable. They also say the instructions are difficult to understand and the game is not replayable.

    "...I didn’t realize it could only be used once. I wish I had known that." Read more

    "...No replayability for the same group. Unfortunate -- but I did know that going in...." Read more

    "...Definitely not replayable, but if you write in pencil, you can erase and re-use clues and pass the game onto friends or family...." Read more

    "Game was fun and challenging but your only able to play it once. Don’t write on puzzles if you want to regift/replay it." Read more

    28 customers mention3 positive25 negative

    Customers find the hints in the tabletop game worthless and misprinted. They also say the answers are out of place and the system is flawed. Some customers also mention that the paper clues are only usable once.

    "...Further, multiple times we had clues that were very strangely worded that made it impossible for us to figure out...." Read more

    "...It becomes chaos, and you miss the puzzles someone else solved. I think it's probably best played with more like 4 people...." Read more

    "...with the puzzles with the Werewolf Experiment game is that they seem sort of random. They don't have the depth or cleverness of the Exit games...." Read more

    "...It got a bit chaotic at times. If you divide up the puzzles, then you miss out on the other things going on and that was kind of a bummer...." Read more

    Great experience for a box escape room
    3 Stars
    Great experience for a box escape room
    My wife and I have done 8 actual escape rooms and had never done a box based escape room experience. As I researched the product, I came across a website that led me to the company website that commented the Alexa was now integrated with the box. We added the "skill" module Alexa and it voiced that we could use it as a timer and that we could use it to ask for hints. The problem was that as soon as we added the skill, it started the timer and we had to keep yelling to restart the timer when we were ready to start. We agreed that Alexa integration wasn't helpful or added to our experience. We just use our phones as timers. What is helpful is if you download the MP3 soundtracks from the bottom of the web page at www.escaperoominabox.com/en-us . Make sure to put them in order. There are 6 of them. Track 1 welcomes you the game and starts the background music. Each remaining track announces 15 minutes increments so they are all 15 minutes long. Put those in order and play them on your laptop or phone for a nice affect. On that same web page are duplicate PDF's to print out to replace the docs you write on as you do the puzzle to repack and gift this box to a friend. You NEED a color printer for those printouts.I attached pictures of the box and papers that you can see before you start. The instruction highlight that the experience has been completed in 14 minutes. I find that HARD to believe. The word search and crossword puzzle parts took us way too long. I can see having 4 or 5 people doing each of those could hasten the experience with more eyes and minds on the puzzle. But one person doing word search took 20-25 minutes all by itself. Frustrating. Definitely need more bodies to push through that one to be able to finish in an hour.I honestly never experienced puzzles like these in actual escape rooms (except for lock boxes).Here's what I think about timing.6 people can do this in an hour.5 people 1 1 /4 hrs4 people 1 1/2 hrs3 people 1 3/4 hrs2 people 2 hrs.In terms of doing the puzzles, there are 2 envelopes inside the box. One says to open after 15 minutes and the other in 30 minutes. The 15 minute envelope has hints and the 30 minute one has outright answers to each puzzle. These are booklets where you turn to the page of the puzzle your need the hint or answer on. My suggestion is to reset the reset timing to 25 % of estimated time and 50% of total time above. So if you have 2 people consider opening the envelope labeled "open after 15 minutes" after 30 minutes. And open the envelope labeled "open after 30 minutes". And use the same timing brackets for the suggested timing above.It's not a matter of smart. It's just that some puzzles are time consuming by design. But they do go faster when you have more people surrounding the same puzzle to reduce your search time.i'd recommend this puzzle to others, but only using the suggest time reset I've outlined above. My wife and I decided to order more escape room in a box experiences, but from other companies just to see how those experiences are.Lastly, unlike an escape room experience, you'll have a desire to open the box and spread everything out and then get a sense of everything. Don't do it with this box. That's part of the experience with this package. Only look at the two papers I've taken a picture of in this review and then start the timer when you decide to open the package marked "start here". Part of the real escape room experience is to wander the room and get a lay of the land. That's time that is part of your solution time. So should that also be when starting this escape room box experience for the maximum enjoyment factor.
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    Mackenzie
    5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing game!
    Reviewed in Canada on February 1, 2021
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    KLB
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fun and great for beginners to home escape rooms
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 9, 2019
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Todo correcto
    Reviewed in Spain on July 20, 2019
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