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Puzzles. They're a bit of a guilty pleasure, aren't they, like when we're doing a wordsearch in one of those puzzle magazines that we always hide when someone else enters the room. They've been predictable and fun since you've been a kid - just like crosswords and Sudoku - but they've never been, how can we put this, cool.
Until now that is.
Whatever you call it - alternate reality gaming, interactive fiction or real life MMO (massively multiplayer online gaming)...welcome to Perplex City - a completely new type of puzzle that's starting to cause more than a stir around the world.
It's The Matrix meets Alice in Wonderland meets The Da Vinci Code in one of the most unusual concepts we've ever seen at dStore. Is it a game? Is it a story? Is it a series of interlinked puzzles spanning mysterious websites, cryptic phone calls, stray emails, hidden messages and live events in random cities around the world? We're not entirely sure but we're looking forward to finding out.
What is known is this - a valuable object, the Receda Cube, has been stolen from a place called Perplex City and hidden somewhere on Earth. The people of Perplex City desperately need it back and have offered a reward of US $200,000 to the first person that cracks the mystery and finds it.
This is where the puzzles come in. Created by a range of leading designers and illustrators, the Perplex City puzzle cards range in difficulty from the fun and easy to the captivatingly complex. There are beautifully crafted riddles, origami challenges, pop culture trivia, logical mindbenders, 3D mazes, Egyptian hieroglyphs and much, much more. These cards give you a window into the world of Perplex City and contain information and clues essential to unravelling the mystery and finding the missing Cube.
Perplex City is the sort of enigma where sheer brain power isn't as valuable as creative and lateral thinking. In other words, a quick-witted child is as likely to piece the story and clues together as is a retired Math professor. So what will it be - the blue pill or the red pill? If you value your sanity and free-time we suggest you take the easy way out. Alternatively, step this way, your rabbit hole awaits...
...want to know more about Perplex City, including the story so far? Then visit the official Perplex City website here.
Specifications:
Perplex City puzzle cards are sold in four pack bundles. Each Perplex City puzzle card pack contains six unique cards from the Wave 1, 2, 3 & 4 releases. The combination of the four releases to date (Waves 1-4) results in a total possible set of 256 unique puzzle cards.
Each Perplex City puzzle card is 148 x 105mm in size and shipped in foil packaging.
