Exit: The Gate Between Worlds

Exit: The Game – The Gate Between Worlds is a co-op game where you work against the clock to
decipher 10 riddles. You and your friends have stumbled across a mysterious gate within the depths
of a cave. You know what they say about cats and curiosity, right? Too late – this isn’t an ordinary
gate! You feel drawn in and then darkness takes over. You get spat out on the other side of this
portal, no longer in the cave. Now you’re somewhere else – somewhere strange, somewhere most
bizarre. Can you work together to find your way back home?

Design duo Inka and Markus Brand have teamed up with KOSMOS to create Exit, a series of
thinky escape rooms. (Albeit, in a card game format. You can play this one in your living room!)
The Gate Between Worlds works in the same manner as the other games within the Exit series. You
and your team have a deck of 26 riddle cards, lettered A-Z – don’t look at them, yet! There’s also a
booklet (the ‘notebook’) with a blurb introducing you to the scenario. An array of pages follow with
text and images. You’ll be drip-fed riddle cards, which you pluck from the A-Z deck at the relevant
time. You need to solve them together with what information lies within the booklet. You’ll need no
prior general knowledge, but you may need to think in a creative manner.

When you think you’ve solved a riddle, align up the suspected code using the circular coding
wheel. If you’re right, it reveals whether you’re correct or not. You’ll receive more riddle cards. Got
it wrong? Try again – was there something you missed? Like real escape rooms, there are ‘clues’ (a
mini-deck for each riddle), which push you in the right direction if you get stuck. You record the
time it took you – minus how many clues you used – to get your end-game score. Can you and your
team escape back through the Gate Between Worlds?

The Exit series of games come with a range of difficulty. The Gate Between Worlds is weighted 3/5
(1 being easy, 5 being very hard). This is an intermediate challenge within the series of Exit games.
Some of these puzzles might involve thinking outside the box! Please note that this is a one-time
activity, also known as a ‘destructible game’. You might need to cut, fold and draw on some of the
components…

Player Count: 1-4 Players
Time: 60-80 minutes
Age: 12+