About The Ship in the Bottle
The Ship in the Bottle is an escape room where the whole family solves the puzzles together around one iPad or on the TV. You stare a little too long at Grandpa’s ship in a bottle, and suddenly you’re standing on deck yourselves, as small as matchsticks. To get out, you have to fix up the ship and sail out through the neck of the bottle.
There are three places to explore: the deck, the cabin and the hold. You find items, combine them and use them in the right places. Along the way you need to read Grandpa’s own signal flags, tie the right knots, find the course on a sea chart with a rotated compass rose, read a tide table and reveal a secret message in lemon-juice ink.
The game is made to be played together. One child knows what the flags mean, while another stands by the chest, and a grown-up keeps an eye on the tide. If you get stuck, the help button gives three levels of hints, from a little nudge to the full solution. Every time you play, you get new codes.
How to play
- Choose how many of you there are, and go aboard. Read Grandpa’s message in a bottle on the deck.
- Switch between the deck, cabin and hold with the buttons below the picture, and tap anything that looks interesting.
- Tap an item in the bag to select it. Then tap a spot in the room to use it, or another item to combine them.
- Plug the leak, sew and hoist the sail, set the course and wait for high tide. Then you can sail out.
- Use Help if you get stuck. The fewer hints and the faster you are, the more stars you get.