Vice Versa: The Cooperative Puzzle Escape Book - Tails Edition

I have done many escape rooms and puzzle books and usually don’t have any difficulties. 1/3rd of this book is a good level of difficulty. 1/3rd is very challenging and 1/3rd is just stupid/impossible. The hints which people have uploaded occasionally help but not always and then when you finally get to the end it’s just a random, boring and anticlimactic finish. Such a shame as a really good idea otherwise.

Great but who did it?My husband and I have just finished the books and most of the puzzles were great and challenging. The only disappointment was that we didn't find out who was the killer and who was the victim!

While I love the idea of this, this was ultimately the most disappointing puzzle experience I've had in quite a while.The main problem is that the puzzles themselves generally have nothing that can be tackled independently, so when working with your partner, you can't say "Ok, I figured this out, what did you learn?". Instead, basically every puzzle has just been cut into two pieces, so you need just need to share your entire puzzle page (or a description of it) every time. So it might as well have just been a single puzzle book...especially since some of the pages depend on how things are aligned and really benefit from both books being in the same physical space (I was playing with a friend in another province).Except once you have both halves of the puzzle together, the puzzles aren't that good! Most are trivial, some are impenetrable. They're all simple one-step puzzles, where there's no process to the solution; you're never halfway done a puzzle. You just suddenly leap to the solution when you see the trick. There were only a few puzzles that felt really satisfying or clever -- in at least two cases, there were "wrong" answers that seemed like better solutions than the "correct" ones!The story, such as it is, is short (just a couple sentences per page), simple, poorly-written, and completely disconnected from the puzzles (if you shuffled the story pages and puzzle pages you wouldn't be able to match them to each other again). To top it all off, both the final puzzle and the conclusion to the story were quite unsatisfying.Overall, the only thing this book has in its favour is the unique concept. It's fundamentally fun to work through puzzles with someone else. But I think you'd be better off by buying a better set of puzzles and solving them together.

Note: you will need both "heads" and "tails" books to solve the riddles