The Glass Onion Experience

For the Glass Onion Experience, we wanted to capture the thrill of puzzle-solving and create a murder mystery experience that allowed people to see multiple perspectives like the two sleuths of the eponymous film. Each room pitted visitors against the clock in different challenges that tested their puzzle-solving, memory, and observation skills.

The experience was structured around a three-act storyline that mirrored the film's narrative. After walking through a kaleidoscope tunnel inspired by a dodecahedron , participants were led through a series of seemingly endless vignettes of the Glass Onion from unique perspectives.

Upon emerging from the center of the Glass Onion, their intelligence was challenged with the Puzzle Box, representative of the puzzle box invitation from the film. Visitors had 90 seconds to solve a digital, touch activated sliding puzzle to reveal a sneak preview from the film. If a team failed to solve it one person was eliminated and sent somewhere secret, diminishing their ability to quickly solve the following challenges.

The secret place? The Banished Corridor, where eliminated team members had an opportunity to interact with a two way mirror and control panel to either help or hinder the competitors still left in the challenges.

Those not eliminated were then ushered into a room that tested their memory with light up sculptures. The challenge was to remember and repeat the light sequence seen in the sculptures. Once again, those that selected the wrong sculpture out of sequence joined their eliminated friends.

The ultimate challenge of the experience had guests entering a lavish dinner party where they had to use their power of observation. Revealed through a lighting sequence, the paintings lining the walls held hidden clues that helped the amateur sleuths determine which of the decadent desserts placed on the table was the murder weapon. If successful a transparent glass onion emerged from the center of the table and the eliminated group members were illuminated in the Banished Corridor.

In the end, we achieved what we set out to do with the Glass Onion Experience: creating a captivating experience that captured the thrill of the film and gave guests an opportunity to stretch their intellect and have a blast while doing it.