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Life & fun · November 5, 2020

The Cypher Files: Escape room in a book

Interactive puzzle book from the creator of the Journal 29

The Cypher Files: Escape room in a book launched on November 5, 2020 with 9 votes, #1,039 of 3,461 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

What it does

The Cypher Files is unlike any book you've experienced before. In this unique interactive game, you will 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 box.

An escape room in a book

The new interactive puzzle book from the creator of the bestselling Journal 29: Interactive Book Game . The Cypher Files is unlike any book you've experienced before. In this unique interactive game, you will 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 box . You are an agent of CY.P.H.E.R. , the secret international agency working on 'unsolvable' code-based cases. With fellow agents missing left and right and a mysterious foe bearing down on you, the clock is ticking to crack the codes and avoid a certain fate. To escape this book, you must write, draw, search, fold pages, and think…from thecypherfiles.com

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