About Agent in East Berlin
Agent in East Berlin is an escape room for adults with spies, rain and orange street lamps. It is August 1961, and you are in a safe flat in East Berlin. Your contact, the Nightingale, has not come back, and there are rumours that the border will close tonight. Before dawn you must decode her last message, find her microfilm, make papers that will pass the check and get over the bridge.
You search the flat, the stairwell, the street and the checkpoint. Along the way you tune an old radio using a postcard, decode a numbers station with a one-time pad and a code book, bring out invisible ink, read carbon paper in a mirror, develop microfilm in a darkroom and use a cipher wheel to find a secret hiding place. In the end, every clue comes together in one set of papers that the guard at the barrier will accept.
The puzzles are made for adults who like to think, and almost none of them can be solved alone. On a TV, letters, lists and newspapers are handed out on your phones, so you have to talk to each other. That makes the room a great choice for the office party, team building or a game night with friends. The help button gives three levels of hints, and the codes are new every time you play.
How to play
- Gather the team around the iPad, or put the flat on the TV and get your phones out.
- Read the orders from the Office. They tell you what must be done before dawn.
- Tap things in the picture to take a closer look, and switch between the places with the buttons at the top. The street and the checkpoint open up along the way.
- Tap an item in the bag and then something in the picture to use it. Tap an item twice to read it or take a closer look.
- Combine cover name, photo, stamp and colour into one set of papers, and hand them to the guard at the barrier. Tap Hint if you get stuck.