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Mastermind

2 hours ago
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Fox in a Box (Bowral, Australia)

Time limit: 60 minutes

Age limit: Recommended 11+ (child adaption available)

Player limit: 2-6

Difficulty: Beginner friendly

Date visited: June 2026

We finished Life Sentence early and went straight into our second room at Fox in a Box Bowral, Mastermind (also known as Mastermind Heist at other Fox in a Box venues). This was considered a "beginner friendly" room, but it's also their highest-rated room on Morty (small sample size though). Here are our thoughts:

Another solid game from Fox in a Box that revolves around a fairly standard heist theme, with multiple spaces and a variety of tech-based puzzles.
The set was similar to other heist rooms, starting off in the office of the bank before moving to the vault. As expected, there was a quite a lot of tech in this one, though some of puzzles unexpectedly involved manual solutions.
The puzzles were quite varied and required close observation, hunt and seek, logic, mathematical skills, and some dexterity. A couple of them could be solved with logic/skill or brute-forced through trial and error, though the amount of time spent would be drastically different.
A key prop used throughout was an electronic tablet that would provide prompts to let you know what you needed to do next, among other things. It's also where you could ask for hints. However, there was a bit of a lag/delay, so there were times when we were confused for a few seconds as to whether we had solved a puzzle correctly and wondered what the next step was.
Despite the "beginning level" difficulty, we didn't think it was a walk in a park, as there were several puzzles that required a bit of thinking and trying things that might be considered outside the box. That said, we set the all-time record in under half the allotted time again, so beginner teams should have no problem clearing it in 60 minutes with a couple of hints.

Escape time: 27 minutes and 39 seconds