I'm stuck at home for a while, so I decided to tackle an EXIT game solo: Polar Station. It took me 3 hours and 15 minutes, and I used 6 hint cards, which gave me a score of two stars. This is the lowest score I've seen in any EXIT game I've played so far. Even though…
The other night, I dreamed of a whole bunch of clowns singing a song. (Don't worry; they were on TV, so I was safe.) It was a nonsense song they sung over and over again. Then I woke up. Thinking on it, it occurred to me that I've often dreamed of people singing. I wondered why that…
I'm driving home in the dark on a wet road. Suddenly a deer bounds into the road about ten feet in front of me. Even though I'm going at the speed limit (yes, really!) there's no way I can avoid hitting her. I slam on the brakes, but the deer collides heavily with my left front bumper.…
This is a follow-up to my previous post. Last night I played EXIT: The Forbidden Castle with a different group of friends than the ones from last week's puzzle game. Notes: The game seriously handed us our butts. It took us two hours and forty minutes to solve it. We used several hint cards, though only three…
Please don't buy any of the Thames & Kosmos EXIT games... so I can play them with you! I purchased my first EXIT game because the series had won the prestigious Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) award in 2017. These are "escape room" games: Your character is trapped, and can only escape by solving a…