Monster Day Tours - "Ransack @ Chinatown: The King's Feast "

Updated: Apr 17

LOCATION:  Chinatown, Singapore

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📝 ETR DECODER

🔑 GAME: The King's Feast
📅 DATE PLAYED: July 30, 2022
🎬 GENRE: Heritage, Food
🧠 DIFFICULTY (Based on 4 ppl): 5/10
👥 TOTAL # OF PLAYERS: 4-8 ppl
🕒 LENGTH OF TIME: 150 Min
💰 PRICE: SGD 30/PP
☎️ BOOKING TYPE: Private
🔓 ESCAPED/ COMPLETED?: Yes

📖 THE STORY

After an entire day in front of the stove, Pepper the Dinosaur is excited to share the feast he prepared with all of his friends. However, he bumped into the dining table after placing his last dish, breaking one of the table legs on impact and sending his dishes splattering across the floor. While he scrambles to get his table fixed, help him out by journeying through Singapore’s Chinatown, and help him pick up some local eats before his guests arrive!

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🎯 HIT THE BULLSEYE

This is an overall bullseye point across the Ransack Puzzle Hunts thus far - Pepper the Dinosaur is a cute mascot that ties the tour story together. Your game master is accessible to your team, but is also thorough in presenting the lore of the hunt before you start. And at the end of each hunt, the game master presents you with a collectible pin aligned with the theme of that tour.
There are also constant promotions and discounts available for each tour, either promoted at the end of each Puzzle Hunt or on their website and socials.
This puzzle hunt serves partly as a self-guided tour around Chinatown as well. Along with your activity book, you also receive a puzzle tool and a map of the location. The map, in particular, manages to direct a greater focus for players, considering how open Chinatown as an area can be.
Given the independent nature of this puzzle hunt, we had a great time re-exploring this local landmark and taking advantage of the environment - the longer duration even allowed us to take a dessert break in the middle of the hunt itself!
Each puzzle hunt is constantly refreshed to align with any changes in the environment. The version of the hunt we were doing was a refreshed version of the original hunt, with changes made due to building changes or shop closures.

🧩 MISSED THE MARK

Hints and lifelines were limited to the activity, with some hints just providing the answer outright, which may take the fun out of the puzzles.
Puzzles in Ransack’s Chinatown area were less involved - there were puzzles that we could work out without being in the stated location.

🏹 TAKE A SHOT?

The Ransack series by Monster Day Tours continues to be a great way for us to experience familiar locations in a new way. For those who lean towards independent travel but would like something different from the typical guided tour, this puzzle hunt can be a great option.

Monster Day Tours refreshes their hunts and locations regularly, running different hunts each month on a rotating schedule. Therefore, completionists or hunt fans can always stay tuned to their channels on upcoming puzzle hunts. The different enamel pins you receive at the end and completion of each hunt do help in attracting players as well!

ℹ️ ADDITIONAL INFO

Monster Day Tours and their Puzzle Hunt / Ransack series covers various locations across Singapore, covering various themes such as history, food, and culture as more tours are planned. Every month, they run a different puzzle hunt around a single location in Singapore. Stay updated on their tours on their website.