Escape Room in a Box: Flashback (2019)

About this game

With Escape Room in a Box: Flashback, you and your friends can play the ultimate room escape game at home -- and the heat is on! Your team of 2 to 9 players has 90 minutes to find clues, solve puzzles and crack codes in order to escape the mad scientist werewolf, Doc Gnaw. Solve 22 puzzles and unlock 4 real combination locks to construct a powerful amulet that holds the key to your freedom! This unique, three-path escape room game can be played UP TO THREE TIMES -- if you stick to one path during gameplay, you can play again on a different path with no overlap. And there's help from the outside: players can connect with Amazon Alexa to enhance the gameplay of Escape Room in a Box: Flashback. Good luck! —description from the publisher

Does it fit your group?

• Group size. Works with 2 to 8.
• Rules load. At 2.0/5 this is a mid-weight game — expect a proper rules explanation before you start.
• Age. The publisher suggests 13 and up. That rates the rules rather than the artwork, so judge the box yourself for younger players.