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Aksys Blog '�" An Introduction To Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors
The following blog comes from Ben Bateman, Localization Editor at Aksys…
As you likely know by now, Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors is a game about 9 people trapped on a ship. If you don’t know, then allow me to educate you!
These 9 strangers wake up in a turn-of-the-century cruise liner, and are told in relatively short order that they must solve a series of puzzles and escape, or die when the ship sinks beneath the waves. Between the strangers and sweet freedom are several doors with numbers on them. Opening the doors requires the use of Math.
Each character wakes up with a bracelet with a number on it. Each bracelet has a different number, and in order to open a door, several people must form a digital root equal to the number on the door. A digital root is found by basically adding up all the digits you have until you only have a single digit left. Say, for instance, that you want to open door number 6. You could do this with bracelets 1, 3, 5, and 6: 1+3+5+6=15 -> 1+5=6. Of course, with 9 people to work with, that’d be pretty easy, which is why there are also rules about how many people can enter a door and things like that.