AN ESCAPE ROOM IN A BOOK: This book is at the new frontier of the puzzle book trend, with a unique interactive element that taps into the escape room phenomenon.
In this brainbending interactive game, you’ll solve puzzles on every page, and obtain keys to move forward by submitting answers online. To solve each puzzle, you’ll need to think outside the book.
You are an agent of CY.P.H.E.R., the secret international agency working on’unsolvable’ code-based cases. Called upon to investigate cryptic cluesdiscovered in the wake of a series of mysterious disappearances, the clock isticking to crack the codes before it’s too late.To escape this book, you must write, draw, search, fold and cut pages, explorevirtual escape rooms and think laterally to identify the perpetrator and solve themystery.
All you need to play is a pencil, a pair of scissors, an internet connection, and a curious mind.
Dimitris Chassapakis is an expert puzzle designer with a cult following. He was the mysterious creator of a viral mobile puzzle app game in 2015 called none*, in 2016 he ran an IndieGoGo campaign for Journal 29 and in 2018 ran a Kickstarter campaign for a second book: Journal 29 Revelation, which went on to become a self-published phenomenon. Now, The Cypher Files will bring Chassapakis’ interactive puzzle book concept to a mainstream readership for the first time. For lovers of The Floor is Lava and the GCHQ Puzzle Books, for fans of Stranger Things, The X Files and Stephen King, and for those hungry for something new on the puzzle shelves, Dimitris’s game mechanism is completely unique.
The Cypher Files by Dimitris Chassapakis will be available on 5th November 2020 priced £12.99 and it’s a really fun interactive puzzle book you just won’t want to put down!
