Christmas escape room
The Sleigh That Wouldn't Fly
Six puzzles and a final code, pencils only.
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Printable escape rooms and mystery games
Puzzle games to print and play at the table.
Escape rooms and a cold case file that you print at home and solve with pencils. Each game has a free companion page with hints and an answer check.
Choose a game.
New for Christmas
A Christmas escape room for kids.
The Sleigh That Wouldn't Fly is 6 pencil puzzles for children aged 8 and up, with a grown-up hosting. The magic word that starts the sleigh is hidden in six secret words, and the children find them all over the North Pole. It comes in color and as a coloring edition.
New for Christmas
A Christmas escape room for teens and adults.
The Three Visitors is 6 pencil puzzles for players aged 12 and up, set in a counting house in Victorian London on Christmas Eve. Three visitors each show two scenes, every scene hides a word, and the six words open the three locks on the street door.
Christmas escape room
The Three Visitors
Six puzzles and three letter locks, pencils only.
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New for Christmas
An escape room for the office Christmas party.
Secret Santa Sabotage is 6 pencil puzzles for 2 to 4 teams aged 14 and up. Every Secret Santa gift has gone to the wrong person, and the teams race to find out who swapped the tags. A scoreboard in the extras adds minutes for hints and wrong guesses.
Office Christmas party game
Secret Santa Sabotage
Six puzzles for teams to race, pencils only.
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New for Christmas
An escape room advent calendar.
After Hours at Halloway's is one puzzle each night from December 1 until Christmas Eve, two on the last night, 25 in all, for ages 12 and up. It is 1936, the star from a department store's Christmas tree is missing, and each night's card sends the new night clerk to another corner of the dark store. Print the cards at home, or get the paperback.
Escape room advent calendar
After Hours at Halloway's
A folded card for every night until Christmas Eve.
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New
A cold case to solve at home.
The Storm Night is a 53-page police file for 1 to 4 players. A hotel owner was found dead the morning after the Great Storm of 1987, and you work out from the file how she died, who killed her and why. Check your answers on a free companion page or in the Sealed Solution.
Cold case
The Storm Night
Three questions, answered from the printed file.
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New
A murder mystery puzzle book.
The Killer Paid in Cash is set in a snowbound hotel at Christmas 1987. The owner lies dead beside his open safe, and one of the 4,000 guest folios in the night auditor's register was opened under a false name. Cross folios out clue by clue until one is left, then use the evidence to name the killer. It comes as a paperback (opens in a new tab) and a hardcover (opens in a new tab) on Amazon.
Murder mystery puzzle book
The Killer Paid in Cash
Find one false name among 4,000 guests, clue by clue.
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A printable escape room.
The Midnight Carnival is 7 pencil puzzles in 3 acts for a group around one table. Print it on A4 or US Letter. The host runs it with printed hints or a free companion page on a phone.
Escape room
The Midnight Carnival
Seven puzzles, pencils only, nothing to cut.
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Nonograms for e-ink and paper
A good puzzle has one way through.
Nonogram books checked for one valid solution. Use them on your e-ink tablet or at your desk.
Solver-verified
Each puzzle is checked to make sure it has one valid solution.
E-ink and print
Black-and-white pages for an e-ink tablet or paper.
Easy to hard
Start with an easier grid or choose a longer one.
Read the clues. Reveal the picture.
A nonogram, also called picross or hanjie, uses row and column clues to reveal a hidden picture. You solve it by deduction.
- Choose a level.
- Use the row and column clues to fill the grid.
- Use the answers section to check your work.
How to solve nonograms, step by step, with each technique worked on a real grid.
Choose a level.
Easy
50 gentle puzzles
8×8 to 12×12 grids. Solve each one line by line without guessing.
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Medium
50 medium puzzles
13×13 to 17×17 grids. More to solve, with one valid solution.
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Hard
50 deeper puzzles
16×16 to 20×20 grids for a longer solve.
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Complete collection
150 puzzles, all three levels
All three difficulty levels in one collection.
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Halloween
50 Halloween puzzles
30×30 grids of pumpkins, bats, and skulls. Difficulty comes from the picture.
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Get five free puzzles.
Five formats, the same ones in every book: three for e-ink tablets, two to print. What is in the sample.