Six people that have seemingly nothing in common wake up entrapped in cubic rooms. Each room has portals - one in the middle of each side - that leads into another cubic room. They have no recollection of how they got there and - after some deliberation - venture on together to look for a way out.
Only trouble is that any given new cube/room could hold a deadly trap - and quite wonderful they are. You could be sliced into pieces, you could take a load of acid in the face, the room could turn into an iron maiden. At first, they test for traps by use of their shoes. Eventually, the figure out that each room has a unique set of nine-digit numbers and deduct that whether or not the adjoining room holds a trap can be figured out through the number based on whether it is a prime number or not.
Thankfully, one of the six is a maths wiz. But once the prime number theory fails them they have to adapt their search by a new numeric parameter. Here another of the group comes into play. One young, mentally challenged man, who was previously regarded as a burden to the group, can calculate impossile problems in his head in no time.
As the search for an exit goes on, people get more and more agitated and turn on each other. Through trial and error they finally do figure out a way to make it out again, by being in the right room at the right time. See, it turns out that the rooms shift and the numbers not only include coordinates but also a time frame (it is all very mathematical and way above my head).
So simple, yet so effective.
8/10
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