Thames & Kosmos EXIT: The Sunken Treasure

I love all the Exit games. This was a good solve for family game night. You’re able to include everyone. Puzzles were difficult but not too hard to solve. I fully recommend this game

Love, love, love these Exit games, an escape room in a box! They are great, provide hours of fun, will give your brain cells a workout and are perfect for multi-generational groups to play together. If I had one negative comment, it would be that you usually need a piece of paper, pencil or pen and pair of paper scissors and these aren't provided, which isn't usually a problem if at home but the first one we bought, we were travelling, and didn't have scissors so had to tear certain bits of paper, when precision cutting is required.

Good game. Not that difficult and can kind of guess your way to the correct answer. Bought this for a game with family over zoom which didn't work out well as you need to draw and cut things so they didn't get to participate much but if you are all at one table it could be useful. Lots of small parts though so not easy for all to see.

This game is easy to set up and play. The game is rated as an easy one and although we have played a lot of this type of game we needed to use about 6 of the help cards. Make sure you have a scissors handy as you need to cut some of the parts. The game took us about 1 hour and 20 minutes. It was an enjoyable experience and I am planning to buy another one to play soon.

Good plot and game for a bit of fun if you like doing escape rooms at home

Ive played a few of these types of games and although it idea of having a 'home escape room' sounds enticing, I've always found them to be a little anti-climactic and usually contain a few puzzles which we had no idea how we should have solved. This usually leads us to lose a large amount of time and becoming frustrated and how the puzzles should have been done at all. For "The EXIT Sunken Treasure" there are two puzzles which causes us issues. The main one being the one which included the Gems. Without giving much away, Even though our gems followed the rules.. it was still wrong. This escape room was a little different to the others I have played too as it seemed to hold your hand regarding which puzzle to do next. I guess this was for story telling reasons but resulted in everyone trying to solve the same puzzle rather than everyone trying different ones. The 'Wheel' system is still the key component which feels like its very restrictive when it comes to creating puzzles around it but the makers seem insistent on keeping it in all of their escapes. If you're a beginner at this kind of game I would recommend trying HASBOs escape room box. Edit: We have since played "Dead Man on The Orient Express". Stay well clear from this one. Not fun at all!

I've finally played this with the family in lockdown after buying it ages ago. As a result I just bought 3 more in the series. It was fun. This one is pretty simple but I wanted my family including kids of 11 and 15 to play and enjoy it so something too hard would not have worked. We scored 8 stars (of 10 max) and completed it in just under 90 minutes with just one episode of reaching for a clue card. It's interesting how the different members of the family see different things and contribute to the solutions in different ways. what one person alone might find hard is soluble with 4 heads together. We will play some more at 2/5 difficulty but I've also bought a 3/5 to progress to.... If you've not played them before, be clear that they are single use games. Not just because you know the solution once you've played it, but because you cut things up in the playing. If you know what it means, some of the games in the series won "Kennerspiel des Jahre" in 2017, which is usually a good sign!

This has been a game changer for games night with the family. The cleverness of the “riddles” and the way it’s presented was just amazing. Yes, it is a use once only game but totally worth it. Will definitely be buying some more

Hallo! Ich habe dieses Spiel meiner Schwester und ihrem finnischen Freund geschenkt. Obwohl er zwar schon sehr gut deutsch spricht, bevorzugen sie die englischen Versionen der EXIT Games. Wie alle anderen auf englisch erhältlichen EXIT Games hat den beiden auch dieses hier sehr viel Spaß gemacht. Da es leider das letzte englische EXIT Game war, dass sie noch nicht kannten, hoffen sie nun natürlich auf weitere englische Versionen dieses fantastischen Spiels! Liebe Grüße, Sina

My husband and I have done 2 real escape rooms and loved them both. During the quarantine I wanted to find something non-electronic that we could do together and a cooperative game sounded like just the thing. We started the EXIT series with the Mysterious Museum (a level 2), then Secret Lab (3 1/2). Since then we’ve also played Pharoah’s Tomb (4) and Sunken Treasure (2) and have Forgotten Island (3) and Forbidden Castle (4) waiting in the wings. Having done four of these games so far, this is what I have to say: We are absolutely AMAZED at the cleverness. I’m particularly amazed that although each game follows the same basic format (i.e. once you’ve played one you will know quickly how to play the rest), each one is completely and utterly different in terms of theme and puzzles to solve. We have seen no duplications of anything, though each game does give you more ideas about how to think for the next one. We time each clue and then enjoy going back over what stumped us. Some puzzles took 1-3 minutes, others took 20-30 minutes or more. On the first game my husband felt we were stuck too long at one point so he went for a clue, but I was sorely disappointed that we did that. Since then we tough it out - NO CLUES! Though after we’ve escaped the room it’s fun to go back and read them. Also - these are one and done games. In other words, once you solve it you won’t want to do that again (unless some time has passed and you have a terribly memory) because it’s one solution - one game. There is no variation if you play it again. BUT... for the price - it’s cheaper than two movie tickets (also one and done) and totally worth it for an evening of entertainment. They say you have to cut/tear/bend and while that’s true we managed to keep each of the games in tact and passed them along to friends. Sometimes it SAYS to cut so we cut and just taped back together. If bending was required we used our imagination so as not to deface the game or give clues to the next players. We were able to make it happen each time. So technically you can pass it along if you want to, but even if you didn’t - like I say - cheaper than going to the movies. How many people? One could do it. Two was perfect for us. MAYBE three, but the caveat is that the pieces are small and can only be looked at by a couple people at a time. If you had a group of 4 or 5, someone will be waiting. Two people is great because the ones I got quickly, he wouldn’t have and visa versa. My only complaint: the writing is quite small on some of the pieces making it really difficult for me to read. My younger-eyed husband didn’t have a problem, but if it were just me the tiny print on some of the cards would have taken away some of the joy. So far we’ve had four great date nights and had a blast. The people who aren’t liking this game obviously just bought the wrong game for them. Go into it understanding and accepting the challenge and you will do just fine. The clues are pretty good and are progressive... so lets say you take a clue and you already had figured that out - it won’t count against you and you have two more progressive clues to check if you’d like. So there is no reason you can’t finish or understand the game. Be patient, clever, and think outside the box (or sometimes inside the box, but I digress...) LOVE.THESE.GAMES. !!!

This is a well thought out game. May be challenging to younger audiences or those new to escape room style games. I had never played one before but found this easy enough to work through without getting discouraged. Great starter game.

I did this with my 9 year old son, who is very smart and loves puzzles. We downloaded the app and listened to the introduction. It was a little slow to get through but better than reading them aloud myself. We REALLY enjoyed the puzzles. This was difficulty level 2 of 5, which I felt was perfect for us. We did use the help cards on a few, and only used the solution card on one particularly difficult puzzle. It took us about 2 hours or so to complete and we both had fun the entire time. Even though the box is small and there aren’t a lot of props, it really had some ingenuous puzzles that were fun using just the decoder, cards and book. This game had my son so excited that afterwards he saved the decoder and made his own games for his little brothers quite a few times! In my mind that’s the best kind of game - one that inspires creativity to make new games from it. It’s a little bit of a shame that the game can only be used once because you Mark and cut it up, but there are certain puzzles we could keep and my son could use in his own made up games. The price is totally worth a few hours of fun and all of the creativity that flowed from it. Now a days it’s more about the experience than the material objects! I already bought another one - we’ll do a couple level 2 before advancing to level 3. I think once you do a few you learn how to think like the puzzles.

Fun game - efficient service