After two years of searching we received a tantalising update from the Perplex City Sentinel yesterday, holding breaking news that the Receda Cube had finally been found! It wasn’t until much later, in the evening, that we found out the full details of the finding. The lucky person to find the Cube was Andy Darley (astro_random on the Perplex City leaderboard), known as Rand0m on Unfiction, and a valued member of the community. I always hoped that a member of the community would find the Cube, as we all worked hard towards it!

According to Andy, he never expected to find the Cube (did any of us? I know I didn’t ), and was only in the game for the puzzles and the community, like the majority of us, so it came as a great shock to him when he dug the Cube up! In a spot of dedicated Cube hunting, Andy went to Wakerley Great Wood, Northamptonshire at 4am to search for the Cube! It seems to be that he just pipped a group of Cube hunters, that had been searching all weekend, to the post, as they found a Cube shaped hole and a Perplex City card: “End of the Line” which was a fairly apt card to leave behind!

Two articles have been published about the finding of the Cube, one by the BBC and the other by Gamasutra. The Gamasutra article has a small picture of the cube, if you squint you might be able to make it out. There is a Sentinel article on the recovery of the Cube , and also more information about it all on the Perplex City website. Here is a proper picture of the Cube, apparently drinking champagne, with another article by ARGNet here.

There will be a formal ‘handing over’ ceremony on the 24th February, but we are still waiting on the details for this to be finalised! I look forward to seeing you there! (For those unable to attend this, I will be writing up my account of the event, I promise).

I’d like to offer my congratulations to Andy, and I’d like to thank the whole of Mind Candy for all the hard work they have put into this to make it the success it has been. I’ve been playing over a year now, and it’s been a fantastic (albeit hectic) year! So many thanks to you guys, without you, this would never have taken place!

Onto the next installment of this post, the information we’ve been waiting for… SEASON 2! The Perplex City website officially announced Season 2 is starting on March 1st, where the first wave of cards will be released.

According to the website, we can look forward to a brand new look on February the 14th, with more puzzles for us! Also in the near future there will be “Perplex City Stories”, and apparently a new immersive experience!

All in all, it looks to be an exciting month ahead, with releases, revamps and mucho partying!

See you all for Season Two!
(where the 3P will have stolen the Cube back at the party and we have a mad rush to regain it )

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