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Unlock!: Heroic Adventures – Sherlock Holmes: Der Scharlachrote Faden box art
2018 Ranked #7,160

Unlock!: Heroic Adventures – Sherlock Holmes: Der Scharlachrote Faden

A cooperative escape-room card adventure in which players help a master detective unravel a peculiar case. Shared clues and puzzles must be linked before the investigation’s time runs out.

Card Game Exploration Storytelling Cooperative Game

Players

1-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

10+

Complexity

1.8/5

Rating

7.28

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.9/5

Highly interactive

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?

Help the master detective link the scarlet thread in this peculiar case. In live escape rooms, participants are locked in and must manage to leave the room within 60 minutes.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Cooperative Game

Players coordinate their actions toward a shared objective and win or lose together.
Storytelling

Create or extend a narrative in response to prompts or game events.
Read the full game description

Help the master detective link the scarlet thread in this peculiar case. In live escape rooms, participants are locked in and must manage to leave the room within 60 minutes. UNLOCK! lets you experience this cooperative experience at your home gaming table. Contained in Unlock!: Heroic Adventures but a German edition was released by itself. —description from the publisher

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Category

4
Card Game Exploration Puzzle Real-time

Mechanism

2
Cooperative Game Storytelling

Family

5
Books: Sherlock Holmes Category: Escape Room Games Components: Digital Hybrid – App/Website Required Players: Games with Solitaire Rules Series: Unlock! (Space Cowboys)

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
1–6
Best with
1–3
Play time
60 min
Age
10+
Complexity
1.8/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Dave Neale

Artists

1
Arnaud Demaegd

Publishers

2
ADC Blackfire Entertainment asmodee

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