The other day we brought up the nazo toki (puzzle solving) trend that with the appearance of in Daikanyama, Shibuya-ku¡¯s Theatre Cybird. Though I¡¯ve played ¡±¡± and used to get a kick out of logic exercises as a kid, I can¡¯t say I am ¡°good¡± at puzzle solving, so it took some guts for me to walk into the quirky pop-up cafe.
I thought I would warm up with a ¡°cup dessert,¡± a perilously sweet parfait-like affair with heart-shaped cake, generous amounts of whipped cream, marshmallows, cornflakes, etc., but my true warm-up was the puzzle that came with it.
The event is put on in collaboration with a romance sim mobile game for girls by Cybird (under the same company group that runs the theatre space) called ¡±¡± (something like ¡°Hottie Royal Palace: Midnight Cinderella¡± in English). In the cafe puzzle, you¡¯re a princess 30 minutes before a ball and you¡¯ve received a letter announcing a crime will occur. However, the message is in code, so you need to get hints from the game¡¯s handsome young men to discover what the criminal is after.
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