The House of Riddles | Exit: The Game - A Kosmos Game from Thames & Kosmos | Family-Friendly, Card-Based At-Home Escape Room Experience for 1 To 4 Players, Ages 10+, Multi-colored
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Features
- Unique storyline: in this adventure from the exit: the game series, players are summoned to an abandoned house to solve a mystery, but upon arrival, they get locked Inside! Can you crack The case and escape?
- Teamwork: up to 4 players work together to solve a series of riddles and puzzles, crack codes, and escape!
- Unplugged: no app required! Everything needed to solve the riddles (including hints, if necessary) is included in the box.
- Play time & difficulty level: This exit game, for ages 10+, takes 1-2 hours to complete, and has a difficulty rating of 2 out of 5.
- One-time use: this game can be played only one time because you must Mark up, fold, and tear The game materials to solve the riddles and escape.
Description
You and your fellow detectives are summoned to an abandoned house. Never wanting to turn down an Unsolved mystery, you arrive at the house. Suddenly, you hear screams and see that the entrance has shut behind you. What’s happening here? Will you be able to crack the case and find your way out of the house?
Age Range Description: Kid, Adult
Brand Name: Thames & Kosmos
Included Components: cards, paper and cardboard game components, decoder disk, rule book
Unit Count: 1 Count
Model Year: 2019
Sub Brand: Exit
Item Type Name: Card-Based Escape Room Game
Model Name: EXIT The House of Riddles
Number of Packs: 1
Set Name: The House of Riddles
UPC: 814743014251
Edition: Original
Global Trade Identification Number: 51
Manufacturer: Thames & Kosmos
Model Number: THA694043
Manufacturer Part Number: 694043
Manufacturer Warranty Description: 1 Year Warranty Against Manufacturer Defects
Manufacturer recommended age: 10 years and up
Material Type: Paper
Number of Players: 1 to 4
Container Type: Box
Number of Items: 1
Language: English
Estimated Playing Time: 120 minutes
Supported Battery Types: No batteries required
Educational Objective: Develop problem-solving skills, encourage creative thinking, promote logical and strategic thinking, and enhance mental agility.
Indoor Outdoor Usage: Indoor
Operation Mode: manual
Power Source: manual
Theme: Adventure
Color: Multicolored
Subject Character: Exit
Product Style: The House of Riddles
Grenre: Mystery
Item Dimensions L x W: 7.09"L x 5.12"W
Package Quantity: 1
Item Weight: 0.25 kg
Size: 1.7 inches x 5.1 inches x 7.1 inches
Item Dimensions: 5.1 x 1.7 x 7.1 inches
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SPOILER-FREE REVIEW TL;DR Version... PROS: - great price for the experience - excellent at-home approximation of the real thing, down to having help/hint cards, like you might ask a real-life game master for help - no experience necessary - during COVID: an escape room... in your house... with only those you already hang with daily! - free mobile app for skip-reading-the-rulebook instructions with graphics AND a timer with appropriate atmospheric audio, which adds a lot to the experience (they should promote this feature more) - a "scoring system" that favors quicker exits without using help cards and compares your accomplishments across different Exit games (or to other people, if you want that) - some of these puzzles are just ingenious and I don't know how they can make so many across multiple games and maintain excellent quality CONS: - really struggling to come up with any here... - reaching/picky: there's one puzzle you can only really solve (beyond a powerful imagination) with a very common kitchen item that's not mentioned in the "other things you'll need" section (but is depicted when you get to that puzzle) ... but I can also see an argument that naming it would give too much away - there's also one puzzle where the scissor-work required just takes a long time, only one person can do it while the others watch (long, boring for them), and the longer it takes with the ticking time-pressure, the more socially agonizing it is to be "Edward Scissorhands" ... so this one game could be improved if there was a way to shorten that one puzzle. - unlike a real escape room, you can't break off into sub-teams to solve any puzzles simultaneously ... this is 100% linear ... a very minor thing, though. FULL REVIEW: My first escape room experience was when my 2nd-level-up boss had us do one as a team building thing around the holidays a few years back. So ~8 of us made it out of a hostage-like situation with ~10 seconds left. The thrill of that is akin to the first time one makes an amazingly unexpected shot while golfing (regular or mini-golf). And it makes you want it again. But my first "hit" was free. I not only wanted that experience again, but also wanted to share it with my family. This past summer of 2021, the kids were old enough to get into it, so for my birthday we tried out a real room together. We failed... with several puzzles remaining. We figured if we played smarter and ask for more help earlier, we could win one. So we did it again the last week of summer. And failed again. But this time we were so close, the game master generously gave us 5-10 extra minutes to experience finishing it. Nice, but still a bummer to "lose" again. And they cost about two hundred fifty dollars combined. Worth it, but deterred from another go for a while. Plus, it was a summer of COVID before kids could be vaxed, so we were masked up and scheduling the first session of the day to avoid people, which is much harder during the school year. When along comes my discovery of these Exit games. Gave one each to the kids for Christmas. Now, I'm a board-gamer, so it takes some mental toughness for me to consider buying a game (out of Germany, no less) where I will be damaging game parts on purpose and only playing it once. BUT for the chance of giving my family the escape room experience for this price compared to the real thing ... this is practically a steal! New Year's Eve 2021 was an ideal time to try this, and House of Riddles was the first we've tried so far. It just went fabulously! Everyone contributed, even the 8-year-old spotted some things that saved us. In the end, as a team, the family figured everything out without a single Help card, and we finished in less than the 90min max, but more than the 60min "ideal" which docked us 1 "star" (equal to under 60min + 1 Help card). This was a family-bonding, new-years accomplishment we could all be proud of. And to round out the experience... in real escape rooms, if you win/finish, they get a pic of your group while holding a board with your time on it. Otherwise, you can get a pic, but no time. So before this, we had 2 family photos with no one holding a time. But to close out 2021, I screenshotted & printed the final time (and score) from the mobile app, setup the tripod, and we got a family photo (dog included) where we finally got to hold up our successful escape room exit time! Bottom Line: While it is "just a game," it also holds the potential for building memories with family & friends that you will never forget. Thank you, game makers!
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Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2022 by S. Quinn
Played with 3 people and we all felt this was one of the better Exit the Games for the puzzles and the story. Giving no spoilers here. This game is rated as 2 out of 5 on the difficulty scale on the box and I believe that to be accurate. I never time games as that adds stress to something that is meant to be fun, but you can time with the free app if you want (app not needed to play). The story is fairly mellow and makes sense. The best part of the game is that the puzzles are in order. In some of the more advanced games the puzzles are not in order and can be confusing for even advanced players - that is not the case with House of Riddles. Fairly straight-forward. the GREAT thing about the Exit games is there is a hint card system so even if you feel lost take a hint and keep having fun. IF YOU ARE NEW to the Exit games make sure to read the instruction booklet. It is a fun read and often there is info there that is important for the game you are playing. For those wanting to play an Exit game with others over a video call... you can do this if each remote player has the game. Trying to play it with only one game isn’t exactly going to be fun for the remote player. I played this game with one of the group being remote with their own game in front of them - so 2 copies of the game (one at my house, and one at their house). It worked out perfectly. We all had fun and laughed. Worth it.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2021 by Chris In Jersey
I’m always looking for fun family games and I love escape rooms, but I don’t like when the home versions are overly complicated to set up or trying to figure out how to play. This game checks all the right boxes! It’s a 20 to 30 minute setup including understanding how to play for the first time (others maybe faster). The riddles are quite challenging! My grandchildren 10 and 7 LOVE to play these games. I am actually quite impressed with how they can work through the clues quicker than the adults. I bought 2 games so far but I’m definitely going to get a few more.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2026 by Kaks
Just completed The House of Riddles Escape Room with my 11 year old son. Prior to this, we have done four family escape rooms in person. So this was our first experience with an "at home" escape room and our first experience with the EXIT A Kosmos Game series. First of all, the content was family friendly and not scary. In the narrative, we arrive at a mysterious house and solve clues/puzzles left by three detectives. The cover made it seem more scary than it really is. Yes the narrative has you walk down dark hallways etc. but in the real world, you are sitting in a brightly lit room at home and the puzzles at the end are to discover a code and unlock a door. No death. No monsters. No blood. Maybe the content might bother a very young child with an overactive imagination... but this product is for ages 10 and up, so with that age group, I cannot imagine the story line of a detective club with puzzles to solve to get in it is really all that bothering. The card system for playing the game did work well. I was skeptical that you could use cards in an Escape Room to guide you through game play, but we had no issues at all. It was very well planned out. The cards also came in correct order so we did not have to sort it out. We learned to pay careful attention to colors, symbols, and more on the clue cards and images. Difficulty wise, we used only 3 of the 1st level hint cards and finished in 1 hour and 45 minutes. This was because we missed a major, obvious clue on how to solve a particular puzzle, but we had a lot of fun figuring it out. We generally don't like hints (in person or in games) but this was the first time facing these particular series and its puzzle types, so we did end up needing 3 hints to learn what things to focus on / mattered and game play. We never went on to use 2nd clue or solutions cards, so there were 2 more levels of hints for those who were struggling, but we found the 1st level clues to be more than enough to see where we went wrong and correct it. Fourth, it does not list that you need a glass of water to solve one puzzle, but you do, so have that one hand. We were able to solve it without access to a glass of water just because we have very good spatial brain skills and happened to know what the results would be scientifically. It would have been better though to just have the glass of water there. If you use a washable overhead projector marker during the game, then it will wash off the card with a wet wipe. I also had a plain piece of paper on hand and by its cunning use, we were able to leave the items in a re-usable condition and will pass it on to friends- hopefully getting them hooked on the series to purchase their own in future. This is one of the few versions you can keep in a reusable condition, though the booklet is trying to come apart because 1 page was removed. Overall, I have no way to compare it to other at home type Escape Rooms or even to other version in the same EXIT A Kosmos Game series. For us, we thought it was ok as the first one to have tried. I mean we were able to solve it with only 3 1st level hints, so that is not bad for the first time. We will buy more in future! Hopefully they have a lot that are not scary or evil - we just want fun things not dark things.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2026 by ScotFlower
We love the story, spending the time with friends figuring out clues and going through evidence. Our game took us around 2.5/3 hours BUT some of our crew had partaken in adult beverages throughout the evening and a couple of them were not game night lovers. Definitely not complicated game night lovers... If you love an escape room, a murder mystery dinner/game/book, if you try to figure out a mystery show/movie before it ends, you'll love it. Not a game I would want to do with kids who don't enjoy puzzles, context clues, extra so I'd play with adults unless you have kids who love "who-done-its".
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Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2024 by brittany eustis
I've played games from the Exit series before & decided to get this as a gift for my dad for my family to play together. We had 3 people (all adults). I felt that most of the puzzles were fairly quick to solve, but the solutions were always fun so we never got bored. Most of the riddles in this one had mini hints in them, which made it much easier than some of the other games in the series. The puzzles get harder as you move along, so I feel that it builds very well for people just learning to play this kind of game. You do have to destroy the game pieces to solve puzzles & it is one time use, so that hurts a little. But, I still feel like the price is good for a one-time fun experience for a small group of people. If you've played room escape board games before, I would recommend you find a different game in this series. The Exit series is good & has several games on different difficulty levels.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2022 by Annie
Really fun! We did it with our 2 middle school aged children and were able to get through it with minimal hints in 1 hour. It was the perfect 'intro' to at-home escape rooms and we'll certainly be purchasing more!
Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2026 by Lisa M. N.
Great idea and we had a fun time playing through it and solving the riddles. Two of the riddles we needed the solution given to us to move on they were a tad challenging. I have two comments/complaints about the game: 1) Wasteful. I felt really bad throwing out the entire game after a single use. 2) very difficult for 4 players to work together at same time around a relatively small booklet with pictures. They should really include two of the little booklets so each pair of two can look at the picture and try to solve. It would allow all four players to work together at the same time. With just the one booklet and the picture being so small two people literally just sit aside and do nothing. It almost would be best just being a two person game. Yea actually thinking about it I would recommend MAX of two players. If four players just be prepared for two people to sit and be bored while the other two work on a riddle.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2021 by Kev