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2019 Ranked #6,173

Escape Room In A Box: Flashback

A cooperative escape-room puzzle game where players solve clues, crack codes, and unlock combination locks before time expires. Three separate paths offer distinct solutions, so the same box supports new investigations without repeating every puzzle.

Puzzle Real-time Cooperative Game Category: Escape Room Games

Players

2-8

Play time

30-90 min

Age

13+

Complexity

2/5

Rating

7.18

Harder to teach Low interaction Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 1.6/5

Low interaction

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

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.

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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

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Play and group

Players
2–8
Best with
1–3
Play time
30–90 min
Age
13+
Complexity
2.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

2
Juliana Moreno Patel Ariel Rubin

Publishers

1
Mattel, Inc.

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