06-12-2008, 08:18 PM | #1 | |
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Living in an adventure game
This family of 4 (with one dog) live in an $8.5 million 4,200 sq. ft. apartment on Fifth Ave. in Manhatten, NY. The apartment was renovated and the architect put in a series of hidden puzzles that the family would find by surprise.
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Although, they kind of blew it. The article and slideshow are full of spoilers. |
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06-12-2008, 09:24 PM | #2 |
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That is so cool.
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06-12-2008, 09:27 PM | #3 |
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The people who live there know all the clues. I wonder what the point is then. I wouldn't want people, even my friends, to examine every nook and cranny of my house in search for clues. Luckily I don't have many friends who like adventure games
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06-12-2008, 09:40 PM | #4 |
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Well there's a clue in the 1st sentence. $8.4 million. Looking at the photos on the slideshow I was able to deduce it down to a select number of letters:
Y.O.U.V.E.B.E.E.N.C.O.N.N.E.D It's a really nice house though and a lovely idea. I'm sure when the family leave or pass away there will be rumours of hidden treasure and stories of people visiting there for a night's sleep and coming back claiming there to be zombies roaming around in it. |
06-12-2008, 10:10 PM | #5 |
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Wow, that is awesome. The hallway piece with the da vinci designs looks especially interesting.
My only question is the house compatible with SCUMMVM? |
05-02-2009, 03:46 PM | #6 |
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I'm bumping this to show a cool picture. I'm not sure where it's from and it's nothing to do with the apartment mentioned in the original post. But it's a real-life adventure puzzle!! Ha!
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05-02-2009, 04:00 PM | #7 |
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I guess rich people don't need to play adventure games, they can just freaking hire a team of people to turn their life into one.
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05-02-2009, 06:03 PM | #8 |
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Ha, that's awesome, yet odd. If I had that kind of money, I'd much rather make a game
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05-02-2009, 06:23 PM | #9 |
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Hah, that's awesome.
Perhaps the husband is planning on committing a grisly murder inside the house, then the police department will send a single detective inside the house to try and solve the mystery, who will then have to get passed each puzzle to gain further entry into the house, picking up random objects along the way and combining them into his inventory, figuring out when and here he needs to use them, which he will at some point... Hey, it could happen! Puzzler (who had not read the above comment before writing his post. The fact that we both started with "Hah, that's awesome" was completely coincidental.) |
05-03-2009, 05:40 AM | #10 |
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Is there a slider puzzle to open the safe...?
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05-04-2009, 11:18 AM | #11 |
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Pretty cool, but I suspect it's a computer generated image and not a real photo, and thus not a real-life adventure puzzle either.
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05-04-2009, 12:35 PM | #12 |
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This is so awesome. I wish I was talented enough to build a hidden puzzle within my own house.
Makes me wish I was rich enough to afford to have architects make stuff like this. |
05-04-2009, 03:36 PM | #13 |
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Cool, but a waste of money!
Oh wells. |
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