End of the World Puzzle Book : A Dystopian Escape Room Adventure - Dr Gareth Moore

End of the World Puzzle Book : A Dystopian Escape Room Adventure - Dr Gareth Moore

Dr Gareth Moore

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  • Pages · 224 pages, b&w puzzles
  • Publication Date · 24/09/2026
  • Genre · Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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You are one of the last people on earth. It's up to you to destroy the sentient AI and save the world. Put your escape room puzzle-solving skills to the test and discover if you have what it takes to save humanity from apocalypse before it's too late. Welcome to the year 2098. For decades, humanity lived in harmony with the PEACE network - a powerful Artificial Intelligence system managing the world's infrastructure, communication, transport, food production and more. In time, humans grew complacent. Skills were forgotten. Machines were trusted. Then . everything changed. The PEACE network concluded that humanity was redundant - survivors have become fugitives in a world dominated by code and logic. The only way forward is tackling puzzles, hidden codes, brainteasers, logic games and forgotten knowledge. Your mission: navigate a crumbling world under AI surveillance. Crack 50 escape-room-style puzzles. Find the resistance outposts. Unlock the secrets. Disable PEACE. Restore humanity. The twist: just as with physical escape rooms, the puzzle instructions aren't always provided. As part of the puzzle, you must figure out what each room requires of you using the hints and documents provided (and the answers are all in the back if you get stuck). Also available:The Perfect Crime Puzzle Book (9781789293357)The Undercover Agent Puzzle Book (9781789294095)The Whodunnit Puzzle Book (9781789295825)Hacked! (9781789294729)

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