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Huge thanks to the entire Third Gate team for such a fun event! As a Floridian, I’m _begging_ you to bring this format to Orlando.
My favorite part of the game was not having to carry a clipboard and keep track of/juggle a bunch of paperwork. My least favorite part was traversing the park during Fantasmic.
LOVED this format! Really challenging trying to figure out what you guys were asking/looking for. The difficulty level was perfect…hard, but not too frustrating. We would really love to see this become a staple in the MouseAdventure games. We also really liked the digital component. And the kinda “no rules” part… splitting up, using our phones, accessing friends to help, using reference material…that made it AMAZING!!! Please don’t abandon MouseAdventure classic though, we still LOVE those games too. 🙂
Thank you, as always, for a wonderful evening!
I love this 3-hour scavenger hunt-style format! I love that it was still logic and puzzle-based, but quicker. (Love the OG version too so please don’t get rid of it. It’s just when you spend hours working on one task, but didn’t get the final answer, it hurts to lose that 70 points.)
I think 3 hours was just enough time to try to complete all the tasks, but didn’t like the option of being able to split up or partner with other pairs/groups. I feel like that was an unfair advantage because then technically there were groups of 4 working on these tasks, and they could split across the resort four different ways. I did like that it was spread out throughout the resort, and even though my partner and I didn’t split up, we were able to hit up all the hotels, DL, and DTD (twice).
Please add this format (and nighttime… fun!) into your usual rounds of games. We loved it!
We loved this format, totally worth the travel from Florida! I think it perfectly combined the difficulty of the In A Box challenges with the scavenger hunt feel of the original format. I wouldn’t want to ONLY do this format but if it meant adding more games I’m totally for it!
I didnt even think to communicate with other teams like the poster above mentioned, maybe because the only other team we knew were our other teammates so we had a bit of friendly competition going.
I liked not having to carry around a ton of stuff. I didn’t like not knowing the park/DTD/hotels like the back of my hand like I do at WDW. I did not like knowing where I needed to get an answer but also knowing I’d not be able to go find it because of fireworks. The center hub of DLR was already packed by 815 for the fireworks so we had to hold off on a few answers, and then Fantasmic also made the park a mess. I get that was kinda part of it but navigating around essentially 3 shows was real frustrating.
That being said, please do more!! Keeps giving us excuses to be irresponsible and fly out to California.
See you in March! 🙂
Thanks again for hosting another fun event guys!
I think it might help to tailor expectations a bit more on what kind of experience Pixie Dust Dash is vs. regular MouseAdventure. PDD felt like it required a higher level of knowledge about the parks, the layout, the history, overall Disney knowledge, etc. then regular MA. For context, I have a friend who usually comes to MA who has almost no Disney knowledge, but loves puzzles, and she always has a blast. The Disney fiends on the team like myself navigate the park and know where to look for answers, but she gets to participate in solving the puzzles themselves. She didn’t come to this one, but had been strongly considering it. When I showed her the packet, however, she was quick to say she would have been useless on the team because she didn’t have the knowledge base to help solve the riddles.
There’s definitely a place for PDD, it might just help to set expectations ahead of sign up!
My feedback about The Quest (the dreaded locker one) is that it threw us that it functioned so differently from the rest of the Quests in the game. In every other one, once you figured out the spot the riddle referred to, you were basically extremely close to the answer, if not staring directly at it. So to not have the answer in the store, but in a completely different area, tripped us up (we never looked anywhere outside the store for the answer).
This was the only quest that was a multi-step process, and our brains just did not make the leap that we needed to do something else (obviously, some people did figure this out!). And since the instructions to the game said the underlined text was the answer, we ended up stuck focusing on how to enter the code into the answer sheet, not in applying that answer in a different way.
I hope this is helpful feedback! We did have fun overall and were glad to be your guinea pigs!
Thanks for all the feedback! Keep it coming!
The answers to the challenges are on our blog here: https://thirdgategames.com/pixie-dust-dash-digest/
I really enjoyed the shorter format and having it at night. I liked that there were so many shorter problems. I liked that all the questions were still provided on paper and that it was very condensed.
It felt very weird to be able to use a phone (it felt like I was cheating). I would have preferred that we had to stay together and that we could have up to groups of 4. I guess I didn’t realize that we could collaborate with the other groups (based on what I was seeing above). I also wish it had been communicated that it wasn’t going to be solely in the park like the last one in DCA. As locals with passes, we spend very little time in Downtown Disney and almost none in the hotels, and there were 5/15 of the problems were not in the park. It was still fun, but I would have preferred it to have stayed in Disneyland the whole time. Maybe have a separate one that is solely hotels and another that is solely Downtown.
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