#Unboxing The Shining: Escape from the Overlook Hotel, a Coded Chronicles escape room in a box
Channel: Tabletop Bellhop
Date: 2020-10-26

A spoiler-free look at the puzzle board game: The Shining, from The Op. The Escape from the Overlook Hotel is an escape room in a box style experience played over two parts. It is the follow up to Scooby-Doo! Escape from the Haunted Mansion and uses the same Coded Chronicles system. It was designed by Jay Cormier and Sen-Foong Lim and published by The Op in 2020

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Disclosure: The Op provided me with a review copy of this escape room style board game.

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From the publisher, 

The Shining: Escape from the Overlook Hotel puts one or more players in the roles of unhinged writer Jack Torrance's wife and son, Wendy and Danny, who must work together and find a way out of the mysterious resort!

Driven by the "Coded Chronicles" mechanism, which requires you to unlock clues and solve puzzles for unique storytelling codes, the game allows you to use psychic abilities like "the shining" to get through more than two challenging hours of escaping the threat of homicidal Jack and the paranormal hotel itself! Since every Coded Chronicles game is enriched with thematic details and objectives, escaping captivity makes this edition's difficulty level as hard as a dizzying hedge maze (minus the time limit)!

Players can anticipate being engaged with every unpredictable turn, thanks to Wendy and Danny's heightened abilities, which allow their characters to investigate with double the intuition as characters from the previous Coded Chronicles game, Scooby-Doo: Escape from the Haunted Mansion. Use Wendy's skill of looking and using surrounding objects to get a better hold of helpful items or tap Danny's supernatural "Shining" to reveal hidden clues.

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My written review of The Shining Escape from the Overlook Hotel: https://tabletopbellhop.com/game-reviews/the-shining/

Video review segment from our podcast: https://youtu.be/u9TWYFcxX4g


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