--- product_id: 219360949 title: "Break In Alcatraz" brand: "playmonster" price: "AED 34" currency: AED in_stock: false reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.ae/products/219360949-break-in-alcatraz store_origin: AE region: United Arab Emirates --- # 1-6 players collaborative 54 intricate puzzle cards 3D expanding game board Break In Alcatraz **Brand:** playmonster **Price:** AED 34 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Summary > 🔓 Break in, break out, and be the mastermind behind the greatest escape! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Break In Alcatraz by playmonster - **How much does it cost?** AED 34 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ae](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/219360949-break-in-alcatraz) ## Best For - playmonster enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted playmonster brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Unfold the Mystery:** Peel back layers of the game board to reveal Alcatraz’s secrets. - • **Immersive Storytelling:** Step into the role of the 'outside man' in a cinematic escape room experience. - • **Multi-Sensory Gameplay:** Engage with puzzles, radio decoders, and physical props for total immersion. - • **Collaborative Challenge:** Team up with up to 6 players to crack codes and outsmart the prison. - • **Accessible Yet Thrilling:** Difficulty level 2/5 makes it perfect for both casual and strategic players. ## Overview Break In - Alcatraz is a 1-6 player escape room board game featuring a 3D expanding game board, 54 puzzle cards, and immersive story-driven challenges. Players act as the 'outside man' helping prisoners escape the infamous Alcatraz by solving layered puzzles and decoding clues. With a moderate difficulty level and multi-sensory components like radio decoders and physical props, it delivers a cinematic, collaborative experience perfect for game nights and strategy lovers. ## Description You are the “outside man” breaking into Alcatraz to help a few of your buddies escape the inescapable prison. Throughout this collaborative experience, you must work together to follow a series of clues and solve puzzles to unfold multiple layers of the game and move deeper into the facility to find your ship! You’ll encounter many obstacles and characters along the way—good luck! It's more than a game, it's an experience--this game provides the thrill and challenge of an escape room, combined with the experience and world-immersion of a movie! For 1 to 6 players. Difficulty level: 2 out of 5 Review: AMAZING DESIGN AND STORY! - I'm not usually moved to write reviews for products, but I need to make an exception here. I ordered this game to help wrestle the family away from the digital realm for a few hours and am really glad I did. Not only am I impressed with the game play, but the playing board itself it exceptional. It's beautiful, functional and engaging! I also learned something . . . I was surprised to learn that this game, in part, is based on actual events, AND I LIVE IN THE BAY AREA! Shameful, I know. We had a delightful evening marveling at the art and figuring out the crafty puzzles inside. Nothing too easy or overwhelming - just right. Took us about 2 and a half hours to play and provided us a screen free couple of hours. The box says it's for 10 and up, and I would agree with that assessment. We have three teens that took great interest in the, shall we say, "subverting of authority" angle of the game. Now they are bugging me to show them "Escape from Alcatraz", which I haven't seen either (like I said - shameful), so we have that to look forward to as well. This is a great game and I Highly Recommend it! Review: Challenging-Teamwork required! - Not only is this game a great way to get the teens away from the TV and video games, but it provides an opportunity for the family to work as a team. We have a competitive family. Most games only have one winner. This game is different. The only way to win (Break In) is to work together. It is a bit complicated at first to figure out how to set it up and how all of the cards work. The puzzles are difficult enough to be challenging, but not too difficult that they are frustrating. The teens are good at deciphering the clues. Fortunately, when we got stuck, we used the website dedicated to this game to help us. But don’t read it before you play the game because you don’t want it to spoil it for you. The game takes about 2 ½ hours to play. This is not your typical game board! It is very cool! Ingenious, really. Once finished, repack it and pass it on to another family to enjoy! Tip: Be sure to leave sufficient time to play. Don’t start late at night! We will probably try the Chichen Itsa Game next. ## Features - UNRAVEL THE STORY—The night of June 11, 1962 marks the only successful break out from Alcatraz. No one has ever figured out how these men made their way off the island. But no one ever knew their secret: There was an outside man. - ENTER THE STORY—You are the “outside man” breaking into Alcatraz to help a few of your buddies escape the inescapable prison! - USE YOUR INSTINCTS—Solve puzzles to peel back layers of the game board to get deep inside the facility, and then back out! - IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE—The thrill and challenge of an escape room meets the experience and world-immersion of a movie! - TAKE ON THE CHALLENGE—Have you got what it takes to break in and get out? ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B085PRTKPF | | Age Range Description | 3 Years | | Best Sellers Rank | #609,781 in Toys & Games ( See Top 100 in Toys & Games ) #14,620 in Board Games (Toys & Games) | | Brand Name | PlayMonster | | Color | Multi | | Customer Package Type | Standard Packaging | | Customer Reviews | 3.8 out of 5 stars 697 Reviews | | Educational Objective | Spacial Awareness | | Grenre | Escape Room | | Included Components | Expanding 3D Game Board, 54 Cards, 7 Solution Sticks, Envelope with Raft Puzzle, 2-Piece Ball & Chain Puzzle, Radio Decoder, Rules | | Item Dimensions | 4 x 10.25 x 9.1 inches | | Item Type Name | Strategy | | Item Weight | 16 ounces | | Language | English | | Manufacturer | PlayMonster LLC | | Manufacturer Part Number | 7491 | | Manufacturer recommended age | 10 years and up | | Material Type | Paper | | Model Name | BREAK IN - ALCATRAZ (2CT) | | Model Number | 7491 | | Number of Items | 1 | | Number of Players | 1-6 | | Operation Mode | manual | | Package Quantity | 1 | | Set Name | Break in - Alcatraz | | Subject Character | Alcatraz | | Theme | Games | | UPC | 093514074919 | | Unit Count | 1 Count | ## Images ![Break In Alcatraz - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61xn8JBwQqL.jpg) ![Break In Alcatraz - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71ruOI+KJdL.jpg) ![Break In Alcatraz - Image 3](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71AyFLVHiAL.jpg) ![Break In Alcatraz - Image 4](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/616vcHn3iqL.jpg) ![Break In Alcatraz - Image 5](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71RYDCnPZKL.jpg) ## Questions & Answers **Q: Is this game replayable? Or if you've escaped once you will always know how to escape?** A: HI - This is a one time game but you can repackage it for another group to use. Please check out our Break In Alcatraz page on the PlayMonster website. Look under game clues and party ideas. **Q: Can just two people play?** A: Yes 2 people can play **Q: Is this a one time play game? Or.can it be reset for others to play?** A: HI - This is a one time game but you can repackage it for another group to use. Please check out our Break In Alcatraz page on the PlayMonster website. Look under game clues and party ideas. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ AMAZING DESIGN AND STORY! *by R***E on August 20, 2020* I'm not usually moved to write reviews for products, but I need to make an exception here. I ordered this game to help wrestle the family away from the digital realm for a few hours and am really glad I did. Not only am I impressed with the game play, but the playing board itself it exceptional. It's beautiful, functional and engaging! I also learned something . . . I was surprised to learn that this game, in part, is based on actual events, AND I LIVE IN THE BAY AREA! Shameful, I know. We had a delightful evening marveling at the art and figuring out the crafty puzzles inside. Nothing too easy or overwhelming - just right. Took us about 2 and a half hours to play and provided us a screen free couple of hours. The box says it's for 10 and up, and I would agree with that assessment. We have three teens that took great interest in the, shall we say, "subverting of authority" angle of the game. Now they are bugging me to show them "Escape from Alcatraz", which I haven't seen either (like I said - shameful), so we have that to look forward to as well. This is a great game and I Highly Recommend it! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Challenging-Teamwork required! *by L***E on September 9, 2020* Not only is this game a great way to get the teens away from the TV and video games, but it provides an opportunity for the family to work as a team. We have a competitive family. Most games only have one winner. This game is different. The only way to win (Break In) is to work together. It is a bit complicated at first to figure out how to set it up and how all of the cards work. The puzzles are difficult enough to be challenging, but not too difficult that they are frustrating. The teens are good at deciphering the clues. Fortunately, when we got stuck, we used the website dedicated to this game to help us. But don’t read it before you play the game because you don’t want it to spoil it for you. The game takes about 2 ½ hours to play. This is not your typical game board! It is very cool! Ingenious, really. Once finished, repack it and pass it on to another family to enjoy! Tip: Be sure to leave sufficient time to play. Don’t start late at night! We will probably try the Chichen Itsa Game next. ### ⭐⭐⭐ For the right price, it's worth it *by R***S on January 24, 2021* I didn't have high hopes going in to this game, given the other reviews, and they aren't wrong, but I was happy for the price I paid ($15). The quality of the game pieces was better than I expected. There's even a plastic 3D puzzle included. The opening layers is unique. Though you'll want to use something flat like a butter knife to help pop the cardstock layers off the plastic studs when its time. This game would be difficult to do in a medium or large group. I played it with one other person, and that was a good number. While there are a couple cases where 3 puzzles can be done in parallel because they are printed on separate cards, there's still only one card giving you direction on all 3 puzzles that you'll have to share, and most of the game is played serially. The printing is small, so you can't have a lot of people working one puzzle at a time. The game rules suggest you take a picture with your phone so multiple players can work it at the same time, but that's pretty ridiculous. And the fact that all the layers stay connected throughout the game, makes it a clumsy to pass around and look at. You'll also need a bright place to play. I would recommend having a flashlight on hand. There's a couple puzzles that are hard to view otherwise. There are a good number of puzzles, with good variety, and for the most part they are the quality you would expect from this kind of game. But there is some conflicting information in some of them that does lower the quality of the game. And some vagueness where there shouldn't be. Like at the start there is a card that says "read this card" and has a picture of a talking face; that actually means pull a card from the deck that has that talking face picture, but when I first saw it I thought it was just saying to read the card aloud. We also had a mix up in our game and didn't realize we were supposed to start the game with the toolbox card and mailbox card. The rules do say that you start with the radio, tools, and letter, but we thought the letter was the previous story page in the rules and didn't realize we could keep the toolbox card either. It didn't call them cards. They could have easily avoided the confusion by also mentioning the card #, but didn't. They had the card icons, but they put them next to an unrelated tip about the making sure the perforations of the toolbox card and another card were cut out. One of the first lines in the rules say to look online for updated clues and hints, which we didn't do, but that's pretty bad to immediately tell people to look for corrections outside the game. We didn't use much of the hints, but the ones we tried to did leave something to be desired. There's also one card at the start of the game that you have 2 paths to get to (by the first puzzle or by reading another card) which left us wondering if we really understood the rules at the time. Those are little things that could have been easily cleared up. As for the conflicting information, there were 3 puzzles that had some contradictory information that threw us off. I do understand the answers, but that contradictory information should have been cleared up. Like other escape room games, once you solve it, you've solved it. But it is very easy to return the game back to its original state, more than most games of this nature, so you can give it to other friends. And I'll keep it to play again once I forget it. Though the shape and size of the box is annoying. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ae/products/219360949-break-in-alcatraz](https://www.desertcart.ae/products/219360949-break-in-alcatraz) --- *Product available on Desertcart United Arab Emirates* *Store origin: AE* *Last updated: 2026-10-28*