My Favourite Puzzle in Big Walk (So Far)

Last week, during my friend group’s weekly hour-long Big Walk session, we stumbled on a very special puzzle room. It took place in a little house, perched near the edge of a cliff, with windows overlooking a little beach. It’s clean, modern and playful in its Toy-Construction-Set-like aesthetic, and sparsely decorated. There’s some chairs, a little table, and a giant LED clock screen displaying “00:00” in an ominous red colour. And the puzzle in that room felt like the purest distillation of what Big Walk is all about. Capture by shel. I’m the one in the middle holding the glowing orb! Let me rewind a bit to set the stage. The way that session started felt a little off-kilter. Usually, we go into a session already having a clear idea of our goal. “Get 2 avocadoes,” “Bring last week’s avocadoes to their slots,” or “Walk to the next Large and Notable Structure Dotting the Horizon.” This time, we weren’t sure. Not through any fault of the game’s, though. It’s just that we had previously…