"Your mission, should you choose to accept it: find the location of the Independence Day barbecue bash!"
Every year, my friend Ryan and I host an Independence Day cookout. We decided to up the ante last year, and turn our invitations into an experiential puzzle. Presenting, Spy Cookout.
Backstory: I really want to design an escape room. So far, I haven't found a financially responsible way to do that . In the meantime, I've been messing with other types of physical puzzles.
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| The outside of the invitation |
If I couldn't create a room full of puzzles, could I send the puzzles to players instead?
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| The instructions |
The answer was obviously: yes! Ryan and I enciphered the location of the party into a spy-themed package, and sent a copy to fifteen friends. The results were spy-tastic.
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| Top Secret Spy ID |
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| Photo negative, with mysterious playing card suits. |
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| A handsome man holding a book of ciphers. |
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| ...And all this stuff too! |
We designed the puzzles to be easy enough for everyone to solve. (I don't want my guests missing the party!) But somehow, we forgot to take a group photo of everyone gathered together. Any real spy would say -- "That's intelligence gathering 101!"
Maybe I'm not cut out for the covert life after all.
Cheers,
-Spymaster Mike
Starts off sounding like something about Mission impossible, however, soon turns more comical and amusing. The pictures are nice but the content needs a bit of work.
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