From booking to accusation
How a voyage becomes an investigation.
A case is not a box you open once. It is a story paced to a sailing — prepared before you leave, carried aboard in your luggage, and solved somewhere between the last port and the first sight of land.
The five stages
What actually happens.
Each stage has a job. Two of them happen before you ever board, because a case that needs the internet at sea is a case that does not work.
Choose your voyage
Tell us the cruise line, ship, sailing date, party size, and the age of your youngest investigator. We check that sailing against our prepared ship profiles and tell you honestly whether it is Confirmed, In Validation, Waitlist, or Closed — we do not call a voyage supported just because the ship exists.
Receive your case
Your physical evidence file ships to you before departure, not to the ship. Documents, statements, schematics, coded messages, maps and the artifact at the centre of the mystery arrive sealed, so nothing is spoiled before night one.
Get voyage-ready
Install the app and download your case while you still have a connection. The app verifies every asset — audio, images, maps, puzzles, hints, the solution itself — and only then shows the Ready for Voyage seal. That seal is the promise the rest of the trip depends on.
Investigate at sea
Chapters unlock across the sailing. Sea days carry the longer investigations; port days stay light. You open envelopes when the app tells you to, compare what you are holding against what a witness claims, and keep notes as the story stops adding up.
Make the accusation
When the final investigation closes, the accusation unlocks: who did it, why, who was framed, and which piece of evidence proves it. You commit once. Then the case seals and the full resolution opens.
And afterwards
Your accusation, score, rank and notes stay on the device. Nothing about how your party played is uploaded, because there is nothing to upload to.
The rhythm of a sailing
Paced to the sea, not to a timer.
A twenty-night crossing is not a weekend. It has embarkation nerves, three busy port days in a row, then eight days of open water where the horizon does not change. A case built for that voyage should feel different on day three than it does on day fourteen.
So chapters are tied to the shape of your itinerary. Short, self-contained investigations sit on port days when your party is ashore and tired. The long ones — the statements that contradict each other, the ledger that takes an hour to read properly — land on sea days.
Play together, or hand it round
Two to eight investigators. One device is enough: the physical evidence spreads across a table, and the app is the thing you pass to whoever is reading aloud. Parties who prefer it can run separate devices and compare notes.
Hints that do not spoil
Every investigation has a graded hint ladder. The first nudge tells you where to look. The last one tells you what you are looking at. You can also reveal a solution outright and keep playing — it costs points, not the story.
Two things people ask first
The awkward questions.
Do I have to wander the ship?
No. Optional field missions turn public spaces into part of the investigation, but every single one has an in-app or map alternative that gives you the same information. Nothing requires crew-only areas, nothing asks you to block a walkway, and nothing breaks if you would rather solve the whole case from a lounger.
What if the itinerary changes?
Ports get missed and venues close. Cases are authored so that no single location can make the mystery unsolvable — if a field mission cannot happen, its alternative carries the same evidence. An itinerary change costs you atmosphere, never progress.
Ready when you are
Find the case waiting on your cruise.
Check your sailing and we’ll tell you what’s coming aboard.
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