Unlock!: Mythic Adventures: Around the World in 80 Minutes

By | November 20, 2020

by Unlock! (website)

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“I made the bet with these gentlemen from the Reform Club that we will travel around the world in 80 days. Passepartout! Hurry! The world awaits Phileas Fogg’s masterstroke!”
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Based on Jules Verne's novel, you do indeed have 80 minutes to solve this one rather than the standard 60 minutes, so it fits Unlock's usual pattern of having the third game in a box be longer and more difficult. In many of their other box sets the third game is also the best designed, but I thought this was more middle of the range, an ambitious game with plenty of good ideas but also plenty that didn't work so well.

It opens 'in medias res' partway through, before jumping you back to play thr...

Unlock! Mythic Adventures is therefore probably the strongest overall box of all the boxes so far. All three adventures are coherent, entertaining and convince with quality. Even if some adventures from other boxes are perhaps even ahead of "In the clutches of Hades" or "Around the world in 80 minutes", we would unreservedly recommend Mythic Adventures.

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