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SherlockDC and the Clocktower Mystery
Jul. 27th, 2013 05:50 pmThe Maryland Science Center is currently hosting Sherlock Holmes and the Clocktower Mystery, a traveling whodunit starring The Great Detective. Today, SherlockDC made a group trip up there. (It's a bit sad that this is my first official SherlockDC outing, considering I've made it to two of SherlockNYC's events!)
I have been sworn to secrecy about the solution - spoilers, sweetie - and I'll hold to that because it's a traveling exhibit and if it travels to your town, it's well worth the trip. I can say that it starts with a little paper foldover to write your observed clues down and is told in 8 chapters, each with an introductory panel, an exhibit to examine, and sometimes includes audio of a witness/suspect/person of interest being interviewed. For those who want to be lazy, some of the exhibits also come with cheater clues telling you what to specifically pay attention to. (It is not, I feel, a spoiler to say that the last clue before the reveal says, in exceptionally tiny type, "You didn't think you'd get more help NOW, did you?")
I did the cheat version, I'll admit it, which does *not* tell you whodunit. It also meant that because I was letting the exhibit do my thinking for me, I missed some really good bits. Like any good murder story, it is all there for the observant to find.
As none of us had read the description from the traveling exhibit or the science center, the finale was actually a surprise.
The MD Science Center doesn't say this, but according to newspaper articles, it runs through September 2. Well worth the trip if you can make it. And if you do go, I recommend the parking lot on 11 East Lee Street. Right across the street, convenient return to 95, and the Science Center will give you a ticket that's good for cutting the day rate in half.
I'd gone there without having had lunch, so by the time we came out, I was starving and voted for an early stop for food. The group agreed and although our originally proposed noshing place point-blank refused to sit 10 together, we were right by Inner Harbor and M&S was happy to shove tables together to give us a 10-top. It took a while to arrive, but it was very good in my opinion.
Afterwards, we split up. Some of us (including me) headed elsewhere, while others wanted to go back to the Science Center and see the rest of it.
I got back home just in time for the skies to turn black and open. I think it's still raining and I forgot to bring in my bags of books -- of course I went to the Book Thing first; if I'm going to be near Baltimore on a Saturday, I'm going to go to the Thing!
Tomorrow, BenFest; Mondaythe world Watson's Tin Box. It's a Sherlockian weekend around here...
I have been sworn to secrecy about the solution - spoilers, sweetie - and I'll hold to that because it's a traveling exhibit and if it travels to your town, it's well worth the trip. I can say that it starts with a little paper foldover to write your observed clues down and is told in 8 chapters, each with an introductory panel, an exhibit to examine, and sometimes includes audio of a witness/suspect/person of interest being interviewed. For those who want to be lazy, some of the exhibits also come with cheater clues telling you what to specifically pay attention to. (It is not, I feel, a spoiler to say that the last clue before the reveal says, in exceptionally tiny type, "You didn't think you'd get more help NOW, did you?")
I did the cheat version, I'll admit it, which does *not* tell you whodunit. It also meant that because I was letting the exhibit do my thinking for me, I missed some really good bits. Like any good murder story, it is all there for the observant to find.
As none of us had read the description from the traveling exhibit or the science center, the finale was actually a surprise.
The MD Science Center doesn't say this, but according to newspaper articles, it runs through September 2. Well worth the trip if you can make it. And if you do go, I recommend the parking lot on 11 East Lee Street. Right across the street, convenient return to 95, and the Science Center will give you a ticket that's good for cutting the day rate in half.
I'd gone there without having had lunch, so by the time we came out, I was starving and voted for an early stop for food. The group agreed and although our originally proposed noshing place point-blank refused to sit 10 together, we were right by Inner Harbor and M&S was happy to shove tables together to give us a 10-top. It took a while to arrive, but it was very good in my opinion.
Afterwards, we split up. Some of us (including me) headed elsewhere, while others wanted to go back to the Science Center and see the rest of it.
I got back home just in time for the skies to turn black and open. I think it's still raining and I forgot to bring in my bags of books -- of course I went to the Book Thing first; if I'm going to be near Baltimore on a Saturday, I'm going to go to the Thing!
Tomorrow, BenFest; Monday
