# What's going on with the Sherlock people? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2018, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-sherlock-people/814686 "2018-05-23T16:49:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-sherlock-people/814686/1 "2018-05-23T16:49:09Z")
Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat are pushing out some mysterious stuff through twitter, and look like they’re going to do something interesting as regards the _Sherlock_ series. I’ve only just come across it. Looks like they’re making a mystery for their fans to decode to find out what it’s all about. [Here’s the twitter stuff](https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheGameIsNow?src=hash). I’ll work on it. Can anyone else tell me what’s up? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-sherlock-people/814686/2 "2018-05-23T17:32:00Z")
“Coming to London 2020”? Does that mean no new episodes for more than eighteen months? ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-sherlock-people/814686/3 "2018-05-23T17:52:39Z")
They’re not talking about new episodes (I don’t think there ever will be any), or a new film. [Here are the writers discussing it.](https://twitter.com/221B/status/998896262840643584) But I can’t make out just what they _are_ talking about. Which is their goal, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-sherlock-people/814686/4 "2018-05-23T17:54:48Z")
Scuttlebut in fandom is that it’s some sort of game - either a computer/phone game, or an AR game that requires you to be in London to play. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2018, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-sherlock-people/814686/5 "2018-05-23T18:21:24Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > “Coming to London 2020”? Does that mean no new episodes for more than eighteen months? Uh, 18 months would be a miracle. I don’t think we’ll see a new movie/episode for up to a decade. Maybe never. Nah, I think they’ll throw one together in the next 10 years. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-sherlock-people/814686/6 "2018-06-05T15:35:25Z")
More stuff trickling out. It’s some sort of game, it looks like. Here’s [Mycroft](https://twitter.com/221B/status/1003879091710423040) giving us some instructions, full of cryptic clues. Of course, it’s beyond me, but maybe some clever dicks here can figure out what’s going on. ---
**Author:** ![Uniqueorn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uniqueorn/32/2807_2.png) [@Uniqueorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniqueorn)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-sherlock-people/814686/7 "2018-06-05T16:15:26Z")
It seems to be an escape game set in the Sherlock world: [https://www.sherlockgame.com/](https://www.sherlockgame.com/) ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-going-on-with-the-sherlock-people/814686/8 "2018-06-05T16:41:16Z")
So a Sherlock themed escape room in London? Meh.