Blackout: Escape Aunty's Smart House

Aunty Fatima is on her first ever cruise and has left the grandkids in charge of her house and her legendary freezer of samoosas. At 18:00 the power goes. At 18:01 someone raids the freezer. At 18:02 GOGO, the home AI Uncle Rashied built in the garage, bolts every door and launches the Intruder Protocol.

You have 60 minutes of battery to wake GOGO up, restart the generator and name the thief. Solve the first lock together, then split up across the Kitchen, Garage and Study, where three rooms of puzzles can be played in parallel. Cut out a cipher wheel, rebuild a shredded note, crack Aunty's recipe code and read Rashied's tool wall. Then bring every room's clue together to unmask the culprit.

Every answer is checked with folded Response Cards, and every wrong card tells you why you're wrong. Proper escape-room tension, with the humour of a South African family WhatsApp group.

What you get

• File 1 · Start Here (8 pages): Rules, story, the first lock, the selfie clue, the Final Lock page, progress and score sheet
• File 2 · Envelopes (sealed) (15 pages): Six room envelopes: Kitchen, Garage and Study
• File 3 · Response Cards (sealed) (11 pages): 20 cards, two per sheet
• File 4 · Hint Book (2 pages): Three hints per lock
• File 5 · Walkthrough (sealed) (2 pages): Every puzzle explained
• Screen Edition · Play on screen (94 pages): Everything in one PDF: click a card number to check an answer, one hint per page, and a cipher table instead of a cut-out wheel

Highlights

• 8 locks: one opening puzzle, 3 parallel rooms and a final whodunnit
• Hands-on puzzles: cut-out cipher wheel, shredded note, fuse logic, tool wall and more
• Parallel rooms, so bigger groups always have something to do
• 20 folded Response Cards that check answers and explain wrong ones
• 3-tier Hint Book with a time-penalty scoring system and ranks
• Spoiler-proof setup, plus a full walkthrough for afterwards
• Includes a Screen Edition: one clickable PDF with screen-friendly versions of the cut-out puzzles

Players: 2–6 · Time: 60–90 min · Ages: 12+

Instant PDF download. Best printed, but fully playable on a tablet or laptop. Licensed for personal household use only.