Hush Money

 

After buying this in Sept 2023 and sitting on it for a year and a bit and seeing it in Tesco in the UK this year, last night I was finally motivated to move this from the pile of shame and take a crack at it.

It's essentially a mostly online experience -- in the box are a few pieces of paper to set the scene (a paper wallet with a couple of cards and photos inside) and a nice intro booklet to set the scene and introduce a website which is the hub of everything that follows.

Progress is gated via a series of questions -- answer a couple and the story develops with more evidence being available, and I quite liked this approach: you first of all work out the victim and his job and that gives you access to his personal network....check the details out of these to work out who are the suspects and that means they get brought in for interview...read the interviews and check various bits of paperwork and investigations, and work out their alibis...check who has a dodgy alibi and they get brought back in for a second interview.

I didn't realise it would be so online intensive and played on my phone....you're gonna need a bigger screen. Would've been better done on laptop or ipad.

Having said that, it was a good long dive, pretty logical throughout, satisfying and sensible conclusion and overall thoroughly enjoyable...the fact it cost six quid is absolutely stunning.