Price: $49.99
(as of Dec 21, 2024 09:19:22 UTC - Details)

Oh no! Something terrible has happened: Santa Claus’ golden book has disappeared! It contained a complete list of all the Christmas wishes. If the book isn’t found by Christmas Eve, there will be nothing but sad faces around the tree on Christmas morning. It is up to you to save Christmas — and time is of the essence! The thief’s trail leads you to a remote mountain village. You quickly notice that something strange is afoot here … but what? And where has the golden book gone? You must find it, but let me tell you: Behind the doors of this village there are many surprises waiting for you! This advent calendar is an EXIT game and an adventure story all in one. To find the golden book, you must open a little calendar door every day. Behind each, you will find a new exciting puzzle, the solution of which will help you to move onto the next room. Only if you follow the clues and solve all 24 puzzles will you find the thief and the book ... and save Christmas.
This advent calendar is both an EXIT game and 24-day-long adventure in one!
Each door in the calendar reveals a unique room containing an exciting new riddle; solve one day's riddle to determine which door to open the next day.
Santa Claus' book with the complete list of Christmas wishes has disappeared! Can you find it in time to save Christmas?
Completely card-based and 100% unplugged, the calendar comes with a decoding table, storybook, riddle cards, and a help book to ensure you never get stuck on a riddle.
This game can be played once because you mark up, fold, and tear game materials; For one or more players age 10+; playable over 24 days; 2 out of 5 difficulty level
Reviewer: Paul A. Martorano
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A unique and fun advent calendar
Review: As a fan of many of the EXIT games, I knew that this would not be a letdown. The folks that designed it were very clever and used the box provided to its full potential. Unlike many advent calendars that have numbers printed on its doors, this one challenges you to move from one door to the next by solving puzzles. Sometimes, the puzzles are slightly ambiguous and don't work as well as they should, but most are fun and satisfying.A hint book is provided but my suggestion is to use it sparingly. The solution tends to present itself sooner or later and as you progress through the month, you develop a sense of what to do next.Each morning, I woke up eager to tackle the day's challenge while sipping my morning coffee. Occasionally, the answer came to me too quickly and I was disappointed that my session was over so soon. But more often than not, an adequate amount of solving time got my mind and my day off to a great start. There is most definitely something to be said to solving a particularly clever riddle early in the day - it provides one with a sense of great satisfaction.I will undoubtedly purchase one of the other titles for next December. I feel corny saying this, but it made my Christmas very Merry!

Reviewer: Jake B
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Amazing Advent Calendar
Review: This advent calendar is well worth the price. There are 24 different doors and each one has a different little puzzle to solve.If you are familiar with the Exit escape room games you will know how to move through the rooms, but they are easy enough to pick up even if you've never done an escape room before. The puzzles range from very easy to a little tricky, nothing too hard but most always fun.This is the second Exit advent calendar my friends and I have done. They were both so much fun and the puzzles varied. It was surprising how different all the puzzle mechanics are. You are always looking for three numbers to move to the next door but they really are creative with how you get to them.Seriously they are so much fun to do. They are one and done as you have to destroy some things as you go and the puzzles aren't redoable. That may sound like a negative but usually the destroying reveals something hidden in the box and it is so exciting and awesome.

Reviewer: Barbara Olson
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fun challenge, decently difficult
Review: This is for the Golden Book Advent Calendar. We enjoyed this thoroughly and are getting another one this year. I suspect the one this year will be easier now that we have a better idea of the types of solutions they may implement. You do have to literally think outside the box. The clue book gives you 3 levels of hints, I'll call it nudge, explicit hint, and solution. The majority of the days were solved with no hints at all, 4 we turned to the nudge, 3 of those continued to explicit hint, and 2 of those days were completely exasperating and we ended up all the way to the solution. That being said we had no problem letting it sit for days, and just come back to it later, life happens. We sometimes had to skip days, then do a few in one. It was a lot of fun, we are two adults and one teenager (occasionally).

Reviewer: Traci
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: This was so incredibly fun!
Review: My husband and I received this as an early Christmas gift, and so absolutely enjoyed working through the puzzles each day. The game is incredibly well-designed and inventive, we found our selves delighted with how it was put together so cleverly. The puzzles were, for the most part, easily doable within 5 minutes, with 2-3 being trickier. Definitely not too hard for the average person to figure them out. There is also a hint book if needed. Great story, great game play, and the gift of quality time with my husband is priceless! Really can’t say enough good things about this. I bought it for our friends after we did the first puzzle!!

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fun but was defective
Review: This is the second exit advent calendar we have done, Very fun, and enjoying all the little puzzles, wide variety of difficulty in each one. However, It seems the room dividers were not glued/assembled very well. On one side all the rooms cards were getting mixed up due to the divider/side wall of the rooms attached to the bottom board. Still playable, we are managing , although it does make it a little more difficult making sure we find all the cards for the door we are playing, without accidently getting sneak peaks into doors that have not been opened yet.

Reviewer: Jennifer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Clever and engaging content each day
Review: This escape game Advent Calendar was a big hit with our adult family. We started it at Thanksgiving with the visiting relatives and have continued with various houseguests through the weeks. Everyone keeps asking about it after they have returned home! It would be really fun to buy a copy for various puzzle loving households and enjoy the common activity through the holidays. We did the game each night after dinner and it did not take too long. Occasionally we did 2 days worth if we had been gone. A few times we needed a clue, but it's nice that the clues do not give the answer right away but just give hints to help you in the right direction. The puzzles were hard, easy, clever, and intriguing. The company put lots of thought into this game and the uses of materials and pictures! I highly recommend this Advent calendar escape game. While it is a Christmas theme, it could be used at any time of the year actually - even a summer vacation or family reunion.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: We gave this to my son and his partner for December instead of the usual advent calendar. They are big gamers so they LOVED this. They said it was well thought out and loved getting a variety of different challenges every day. Will get again.

Reviewer: JJL
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This is a very well put together escape advent calendar - and even though it's a bit pricey; totally worth it. My 13 and 16 year old actually walk into the kitchen together and ask to solve that days clue. And we have conversations that are more than 1 word! (I'll pause for the knowing grins and/or eye rolls...)Some of the puzzles are quick, and some are a lot more devious (and fun!).Each set of clues will solve to a 3 digit number which in turn map to directions you move on the calendar; and you have a way to check if you're correct with a set of symbols on the door you got to. Due to the layout of the calendar, it's not actually possible to back solve it because each day you can get to multiple locations.There is a hint book that is also excellently done - with two hints before giving you the answer if you're really stumped. We've used a few hints here and there, and it didn't take anything from the game.While I have teenagers, this is solvable with younger kids; it might take a bit of coaching for those under 8 or so - but that's part of the fun...watching them think outside the box and excitedly tell you when they find something that just might solve the clue for you.Definitely getting one next year.

Reviewer: Daph91
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: C'était une commande pour une ado et le retour est top. Elle a adoré. Bien pour travailler son anglais

Reviewer: MarkC.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Bought this for my sisters family, we are all massive escape room fans. We've done maybe 20 of the Kosmos EXIT games and when I saw this it just stood out as a perfect gift for them. Puzzles are really well balanced, taking between 10-20 mins each day, so enough to be interesting and worthwhile but short enough so you don't overload as you do one every single day. A very different advent calendar, gets the whole family involved and great fun. You don't need to have done any of the EXIT games before, if you have it has a very familiar feel.

Reviewer: cj marin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This was purchased for our teenage son as an older alternative to a traditional advent calendar (his younger brothers had toy calendars). It was really surprising as we didn't know what to expect ... we all really enjoyed it! It definitely challenged us all, and we couldn't wait until he opened a new door each day to see what he had to solve. It's a great concept and the resources included are of a high quality. We would purchase any of the other designs again next year. Highly recommend, particularly for teenagers who love puzzles, mystery and mental challenges.