The Catacombs of Horror

This EXIT game is literally double the size and length of a standard EXIT game. Bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better, however. What’s good about this one is the sheer scope of how many puzzles you get to do before the end. Unfortunately, we found the final puzzle to be a bust. You have to use external (and potentially hazardous if you are not careful) sources to solve it, and even then, it’s very obtuse and we just didn’t get it. Worse, due to the nature of the puzzle, you only get one chance or you fail… There’s also a stinker of a puzzle midway through, due to the flimsiness of the materials, and the precision needed to come to the solution. Other puzzles were good, though, not mind-blowing, but the kind of deviousness we’ve come to expect from EXIT, plus spicy puzzles that can only be accomplished with the game’s doubled size. It’s really spooky though, so it nails being a scary tabletop game.

The Exit Games are a high quality, take home version of escape games that are: 1) Family Friendly 2) pocketbook Friendly 3) challenging (and accurate to their on-box) difficulty rating 4) designed by game masters who love what they do. The newer versions even contain cheats/clues and contain a scoring system.