To ask you to help me find this game/puzzle

[LMW1990]

Please help me find this puzzle!

I played it about 8 years ago on the PC (online?)but it had been out quite a while at that point.

It was a puzzle/ riddle solving game and quite difficult.

When game was originally out it had som real life clues to solve. There was a prize I think and it was like a treasure hunt. This part had ended when I played it but the puzzle part online (?) could still be played.

Very vague I know!!

Enigma? That was a real life prize puzzle/treasure hunt game I think

Or I could have just made that up. I have no idea what recess of my mind I dragged it up from!

The name doesn't ring a bell. I seem to recall that you had to subscribe to the real life bit somehow.

Could it be Perplex City?

No I don't think so. No board game element that I'm aware of. Just PC or online. There were a lot of levels. The puzzles were quite difficult (at least for me!)

Mystery PI OR The Room?

No neither of those. It came out in early 2000s I think

Professor Layton?

I was going to say Perplex City too! Loved the first season was so sad the second one never finished.

Wow that's jogged a memory, I don't remember an online element but I did have a couple of puzzle magazines/books from WH Smith's that I'm sure led to a real life prize. I'm sure one was a da Vinci code theme. If you are looking for something similar now have you tried Journal 29? No treasure at the end but a great puzzle book.

Or Masquerade?

Mi5 /GCHQ do recruitment that way sometimes.

Was it Myst or Riven?

Non of these I don't think but I'll be looking at these as alternatives!

It was definitely online. There might have been a subscription for the real life element.

Majestic?

None of these but thank you for the suggestion.

Each level was pretty separate and individual. There wasn't a map or journey of any kind. Just a new puzzle for each level.

I seem to recall some levels having words which you had to find the significance of.

The answers were a number or a word you typed into a box.

Are you sure that isn’t perplex city? Each card had a number and you entered it in a box. It did lead to something somewhere but most people just played the game for the puzzles?

It wasnt mindmaze on encarta was it? I loved that game :)

Was it puzzle donkey?

I'm raking up an old thread here but I'm still trying to find this game! It's none of the ones previously suggested

Was it notPr0n?