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Gareth Moore, Laura Jayne Ayres

End of the World Puzzle Book

A Dystopian Escape Room Adventure

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Imprint: O'Mara Books

Publication date: 24/09/2026

ISBN: 9781789299038

Subject: Non-Fiction

Category: Activity & Puzzles

Binding: Paperback

Size: 234 x 153 mm

Extent: 224 pages

Illustration: b&w puzzles

Territorial Rights: World (All Languages)

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Summary:

This is puzzle book is designed to sit centrally in the survivalism genre. You are one of the last people on earth. It's up to you to destroy the sentient AI and save the world. Put your escape room puzzle-solving skills to the test and discover if you have what it takes to save humanity from apocalypse before it's too late.

Welcome to the year 2098. For decades, humanity lived in harmony with the PEACE network – a powerful Artificial Intelligence system managing the world’s infrastructure, communication, transport, food production and more. In time, humans grew complacent. Skills were forgotten. Machines were trusted. Then … everything changed. The PEACE network concluded that humanity was inefficient – survivors have become fugitives in a world dominated by code and logic. The only way forward is tackling puzzles, hidden codes, brainteasers, logic games and forgotten knowledge.

Your mission: navigate a crumbling world under AI surveillance. Crack 50 escape-room-style puzzles. Find the resistance outposts. Unlock the secrets. Disable PEACE. Restore humanity. The twist: just as with physical escape rooms, the puzzle instructions aren't always provided. As part of the puzzle, you must figure out what each room requires of you using the hints and documents provided (and the answers are all in the back if you get stuck).

Also available:
The Perfect Crime Puzzle Book (9781789293357)
The Undercover Agent Puzzle Book (9781789294095)
The Whodunnit Puzzle Book (9781789295825)
Hacked! (9781789294729)
SAS Puzzle Book (9781789296495)

Sales points:

  • Trend-led puzzle book: from Black Mirror to The Last of Us, dystopian and survivalist programmes are drawing huge audiences, and survivalism is huge online, with #survivalism amassing over 2.2 billion views on TikTok.

  • Capitalizing on the huge popularity of the survivalism genre: The Last of Us has been watched by 40 million people worldwide, The Handmaid’s Tale had its sixth season in 2025 and Netflix have a string of dystopian programmes now available to stream.

  • An immersive, narrative-driven puzzle experience: readers solve 50 escape-room-style puzzles as one of the few survivors of a series of apocalyptic events, tapping into key genre concepts.

  • Also available in the series: The Perfect Crime Puzzle Book (over 70,000 copies sold in the English language and translated into over fifteen languages), The Whodunnit Puzzle Book (over 60,000 copies sold in the English language and translated into over fifteen languages) and Hacked! (over 15,000 copies sold in the English language).

  • Written by an expert: As well as being a master puzzle creator, Dr Gareth Moore has a PhD in machine intelligence from the University of Cambridge.

About the Author:

Gareth Moore

Dr Gareth Moore (B.Sc (Hons) M.Phil Ph.D) is the internationally bestselling author of a wide range of brain-training and puzzle books for both children and adults, including Anti-stress Puzzles, Ultimate Dot to Dot, Brain Games for Clever Kids®, Lateral Logic, Extreme Mazes and The Ordnance Survey Puzzle Book. His books are available in over 40 countries, with worldwide sales of over 5 million copies. He is also the creator of online brain-training site BrainedUp.com and runs the daily puzzle site PuzzleMix.com.

About the Author:

Laura Jayne Ayres

Laura Jayne Ayres is a puzzle writer and researcher. After studying Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, she worked as a playwright before joining Dr Gareth Moore’s puzzle team. Books that she has worked on include Hacked: The Cyber Crime Puzzle Book, The Great British Puzzle Book, The Perfect Crime Puzzle Book, The Nautical Puzzle Book and The Ordnance Survey Kids’ Adventure Book.