Each room was playable by an escalating number of teammates, from two players up to eight. Puzzle RoomsĪnother new addition to the PAXU puzzle experience was a set of four cooperative puzzle rooms. Foodies was a great addition to the convention and I look forward to this format being continued in the years ahead.
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Fourteen puzzles plus having to visit booths to find the aliens plus a meta meant you had plenty of puzzle content to keep yourself occupied. I especially appreciated that some puzzles were based on art found at the convention center, and thus were tied directly to the event. It was the perfect thing to help while away the time waiting on line for a panel, or to occupy your mind as you rested your feet after walking the show floor for a few hours.
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This was a great series of puzzles if you were able to get your hands on it on day one. Seven feeder puzzles helped players match the names of aliens to their descriptions, while an additional seven feeder puzzles helped figure out which food to choose as the aliens’ favorites. On top of that, a helpful convention map pointed out the locations of 7 cardboard standees of aliens, labeled with prospective favorite foods. The core 14 puzzles relied heavily on delightfully creative word puzzles whose format and difficulty would be familiar to Puzzled Pint fans, paired with two location specific puzzles that asked attendees to find pieces of art around the Convention Center. Foodies from Outer Spaceįoodies From Outer Space was the main puzzle hunt-style experience of PAX Unplugged, designed to be a playable pen-and-paper puzzle challenge of 14 puzzles, feeding into one final meta puzzle to answer one pressing question: after indulging in all of their favorite foodie pleasures that PAX Unplugged had to offer, what was the one food they could all agree on taking together?
And because I didn’t have a chance to play and complete all of this content during the convention, I reached out to PAX Unplugged attendee Michael Andersen – writer at ARGNet and a friend of REA – to help me recap them. Considering that PAXU 2021 did not have any of these types of events that I could find on any scale, the inclusion of so much puzzle content floored me. There was a puzzle hunt, four different puzzle rooms, and a scavenger hunt, just to name some.
While there were not many exhibit booths dealing entirely in puzzle games, the concept of puzzles as large-scale games was very present throughout the convention. In a previous article, I wrote about the experience of being at PAX Unplugged 2022 (PAXU), a convention dedicated to analog gaming of all types.
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