Solved! Unlock: Pandemic (Game Adventures) Part 1 - full walkthrough with Dr Gareth and Laura
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- * CONTAINS SPOILERS *
Join Laura and me as we solve Unlock: Pandemic, one of three games included in the "Unlock! Game Adventures" box. This box is the latest release in the Unlock escape-room-in-a-box series, published in late 2022. In this video we solve the Pandemic scenario so there are spoilers throughout. 😁
Our solve takes a long while, even though we don't waste a huge amount of time, so I have split this video into two parts. Here's part 2:
• Solved! Unlock: Pandem...
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Like the sorting, you immediately have a break around the middle of the deck.
"We've only got six cubes, so we can only go so badly wrong."
Spoken like a person who's never played Pandemic before XD
Imagine if she did that in the actual game!
Haha! It's possible I spoke too soon!
You're only told to discard the safe at 59:02, does that mean you dragged it halfway across the world? That must have been a nightmare 😂
Yes, the logistics don't make sense to me. How is one person creating 3 diseases as they travel? How is it they have a letter about the pandemic in their apartment that they have received before they left - did they ignore it? I don't think the story entirely hangs together, but hey!
Wow, you were meant to do all that and more in 70 minutes?! This one has a really good story and seems like fun to solve. Looking forward to part 2!
I know! If you count the number of separate deductions in the solution booklet then I make it exactly 50 separate deductions/solves that are needed to complete the game, plus an additional 5 memory recall prompt sections. Let's say you get 15 minutes extra for the memory recall bits and end up with 85 minutes in total. That gives you less than 1.5 minutes for each and every solve/recall event, which INCLUDES finding and sometimes discarding the correct cards at most steps (which averaged us 20 seconds per step - I cut a lot of these pauses out because they really added up) and reading them! So you end up with maybe 55 seconds per deduction to hit the 85 minutes total, and many of them are far from trivial. In fact there are several that aren't physically possible in that time, so really if you stop to think at all then you are not going to make it in 85 minutes.
To be fair this game does allow some parallel solving so that a bigger team could solve a bit faster, but you're still limited by having only one app for everyone to use and only one deck of cards. Also I think this team advantage is easily lost to making it harder for everyone to see and try everything, unless your team are focused on speed and some of them don't mind missing bits. In any case, anyone who solves this without running out of time has done very well.
Thanks for all the details! It's fascinating to read how you as a puzzle creator analyze the structure and demands of the game. And of course, you are totally right about the fun! Thank you for taking the time to let us follow along and understand your thinking as you solve. It is really a pleasure to join in with your joy of puzzle-solving!
@@drgareth usually boardgame companies under rate the time requirement for their games to make it more appealing to the mass.