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TOMB
5 Wits, Inc. Boston, MA
This project brought it all together, master planning, show control, creative development, script writing, construction, fabrication, you name it. In the end we had created an award-winning, immersive experience that has become a staple of the Boston tourism industry. Hundreds of thousands of guests have found themselves trapped inside of our beautifully recreated Egyptian tomb, where they get physically involved in the action by solving a series of clever puzzles and enjoying Hollywood special effects through five independent spaces.

59 Appleton Street, Saugus MA 01906

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Wirelessly Controlled Flashlights

TOMB 5 Wits, Inc. Boston, MA
As our guest archeologists enter TOMB, they are given flashlights to help illuminate the pitch dark first chamber and find our missing professor. However, as they explore the room, the flashlights begin to flicker and die leaving them in complete darkness, trying their nerves as they wait to meet Pharaoh. The flashlights are wirelessly controlled from a transmitter via the master show controller. They are programmed to flicker and die in varying patterns and to respond to different trigger events.

59 Appleton Street, Saugus MA 01906

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Operation Spy
International Spy Museum, Washington D.C.
Once you have discovered the mole in the agency and figured out who has stolen the nuclear trigger, your team of agents must escape up to the helipad on the roof of the building you have breached to be rescued in the harrowing conclusion to your hands-on spy mission.

59 Appleton Street, Saugus MA 01906

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ESPIONAGE
5 Wits, Inc. Boston, MA
Designed for 5 Wits Inc., ESPIONAGE is an hour long, interactive, guided walk-through adventure. A group of guests take on the role of secret agents, recruited to track the enemy, get information, and destroy stolen blueprints. The new spies experience the thrills of breaking and entry, computer hacking, audio surveillance and laser evasion to successfully complete their mission and achieve the highest score possible. At 5 Wits Productions we were responsible for the entire process from blue sky design, script writing and multimedia content creation to fabrication of all electromechanical interactives and simulations, master show control programming, and operations planning.

59 Appleton Street, Saugus MA 01906

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ESPIONAGE
5 Wits, Inc. Boston, MA
ESPIONAGE features over twenty interactives and special effects. The group of spies must figure out how to blow out the security system using fuse boxes. They use a top secret code cracker to descramble a keypad code and break out of the tunnel into the Mainframe computer room, where they encounter Password Cracker.

59 Appleton Street, Saugus MA 01906

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Bug Sweeper
ESPIONAGE, Boston 5 Wits, Inc. Boston, MA
In ESPIONAGE, spies enter the Listening Post where they will get their mission briefing. Before they can safely talk with other agents they must sweep the room for listening devices. In this search-and-find game, guests take one of four hand-held sweepers and search the room deactivating each concealed listening device as they find it. This self-contained interactive has a control case which detects when bugs are found and simulates scanning the airwaves until it declares the room safely void of all planted bugs.

59 Appleton Street, Saugus MA 01906

781.233.3245

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Password Cracker Challenge

ESPIONAGE 5 Wits Inc. Boston, MA
A group of spies is trying to break into the mainframe computer to discover a list of buyers for a satellite stolen from the US government. To do this they must defeat the computer at a logic game similar to Mastermind. There are two terminals waiting for unique three symbol codes that our spies must logically determine before time runs out. Each controller is handled by a different agent; teamwork, intellect, and quick thinking are critical in completing the mission successfully in ESPIONAGE.

59 Appleton Street, Saugus MA 01906

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A brief history of
The KGB says Farewell
At the height of the cold war, America appeared to be in a technology race with the Russians. However, the Farewell les (documents provided by a Russian defector codenamed Farewell) revealed that the U.S. had, in fact, been racing against themselves. The source of Russias newfound technology boom? 200+ spies operating in dozens of North American companies. The Russians primary interest was in computer tech, semiconductors and radar. By the time the information was revealed they already had most of what they were after, however, the Farewell les also pointed to a bevy of technology the Russian spies were actively persuing. American counterintelligence operatives at the CIA began circulating fake information in any number of high-technology business sectors and even inserted malicious code into software they knew the Russians were after. By the mid-80s there were regular malfunctions of stolen equipment and software all over Russia, culminating in a catastrophic, 3 kiloton explosion of a trans-Siberian oil pipeline. The Russians quickly understood and all U.S.-gained information became suspect.

Ne Cede Malis
5 Wits Productions Inc. 5WitsProductions.com

Under the guise of a Phone Booth, this kiosk contains two touch screen based spy games, Disguiser and Profiler, and can be configured for free-play or to require a dollar bill inserted. In Disguiser, guests create their own secret disguise with hats, glasses, and other accessories to conceal their identity. Profiler is a twelve question, multiple choice spy test that determines what role guests would play in the world of espionage. Both Disguiser and Profiler print the customized results including a photograph of the guest to take their experience home with them.

ESPIONAGE 5 Wits, Inc. Boston, MA

Phone Booth Spy Interactives

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Cryptanalysts are known for using their combination of logic and intuition in uncovering top secret information. They are theoretical yet abstract; quiet, contained, exible and adaptable. More interested in ideas than social interaction, The Code Breaker must have the rare skill of in-depth problem solving and use a variety of methods in order to decipher sensitive information.

Cryptanalyst

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Elevator Simulator
ESPIONAGE, Boston 5 Wits, inc. Boston, MA
Developed for Operation Spy and ESPIONAGE, the Elevator simulates an elevator ride three stories down into a sewer tunnel for a breaking and entering operation. It makes use of a vibrator, scrolling walls and all steel construction to engage guests in a frightening, light flickering elevator ride. The elevator is PLC contolled and will operate unmanned and reset itself automatically. Interfacing to all common show control systems is standard. A comprehensive operator control panel is provided for ease of maintenance. Custom footprints and integration challenges are our speciality.

59 Appleton Street, Saugus MA 01906

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Conveyor Belt Xylophone

Down a Sunny Dirt Road Strong National Museum of Play, Rochester, NY
Built for the Strong National Museum of Play, the Xylophone provides a fun medium for children to experience music in the form of a giant music box. Each bar of the conveyor belt accomodates 8 wooden balls that can play any note or chord in an 8 note octave. Children can place balls to set up a classic melody or compose their own music. Once all the balls are in place, cranking the handle topples the balls onto the xylophone bars, sending the tune echoing through the chamber. The balls roll into a collecting bin below ready for the next song!

59 Appleton Street, Saugus MA 01906

781.233.3245

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Jump Rope Interactive

Down a Sunny Dirt Road Strong National Museum of Play, Rochester, NY
At the Strong National Museum of Play, children can step into this interactive and practice jumping rope with Sister Bear! The jumping starts slow for a warm up and the lights and audio effects speed up until the goal of 40 jumps is reached. Optical sensors detect the activity in the jumping area and count how many jumps are successfully made as lights illuminates the path of our pretend rope below the jumpers. Kids can compete with friends to see who can get the most jumps in a row!

59 Appleton Street, Saugus MA 01906

781.233.3245

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Sailboat Racetrack
Design Challenges Museum of Science, Boston MA
Water Racers is a water-filled fiberglass racetrack designed, built and play-tested for the Museum of Science, Boston MA. The racetrack was commissioned by Design Challenges, an engineering program at the museum, to provide children with the opportunity to design and build their own sailboats and race them down a fan powered racetrack. Start gates limit the motion of the boats before the race sequence begins and finish line sensors determine the winning times!

59 Appleton Street, Saugus MA 01906

781.233.3245

info@5witsproductions.com