The Christmas workshop has never been busier! For more than two months you’ve been working hard so that by the 24th, everything will be ready. As one of the chief toymakers in the workshop, you have your hands full. You are testing out a particularly beautiful rocking horse when suddenly the ground begins to tremble. A violent storm lashes the building and snow begins to billow in through the window. Hastily you close it, but something is not right! A terrible silence has fallen over the workshop. When you hear all the doors click locked, you feel very alone. It is clear you need to find Santa! But first you have to find a way out of here … This Advent calendar is both an EXIT game and adventure story: In order to free yourself from this predicament, you must open a door of the calendar each day. Each door hides a new and exciting riddle, the solution to which will bring you closer and closer to your goal! Only by solving your riddles cleverly will you save Christmas! Now get going … there’s lots to do!
This advent calendar includes 24 days of unique puzzles that will lead you through a Christmas mystery
Can be played solo or with as many other people as you would like!
This is the latest EXIT advent calendar to be released in North America
Solve escape room style puzzles that you will have you rip, discover, write on, and cut components to solve the riddles
A storm has hit the north pole and you must look for Santa to figure out how to escape the workshop and save Christmas!
Customers say
Customers find the advent calendar to be challenging, fun, and well worth the money. They mention it has a wide variety of difficulty levels and is well thought-out. However, some customers have reported that they received missing parts.
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Paul A. Martorano –
A unique and fun advent calendar
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!
Jake B –
Amazing Advent Calendar
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.
Barbara Olson –
Fun challenge, decently difficult
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).
Angelica Orr –
Fun for the whole family
If you are struggling to get your older child or adult family member a Christmas Advent Calendar, I HIGHLY recommend this little doozy. It uses the Escape Room mentality where you have to look at everything it provides in order to solve the riddle. Only the 1st day is marked the rest of the days are not numbered but you have to use clues and a decoder in oder to find the next days box/room. It’s fun for the whole family. It took all of us to solve the 1st day (about 10 minutes). Word of advice look at everything and more importantly make sure your decoder is right side up. Tickles the brain just right and its not an electronic!!!
With two daughters in tow –
Second half is better
I think this would work well for folks who already play this brand of escape games. The puzzles either got easier, or more polished, or it was easier to think like the designers after reading their earlier solutions. A bit more editing is needed in their solutions as some necessary rooms were not cited. The story line is a bit repetitive, and the mystery was clear to me by day 17. This is a good quality build though. Doors opened easily, were able to stay open, and all the listed contents were present. The two sided manipulatives are cute and nicely cut. This Exit game can quickly be completed (not solved) by testing the limited number of landing codes in the decoder. The solution key is good to confirm the problem solving steps taken. The destructive solutions actually had alternate solutions that were non destructive and not described in the solutions. I’ve successfully rebuilt the game for reuse. (I used scrap paper to map the doors.). There is one small tear with a non-obvious intent and I was able to stop there because I found a non destructive way to access the code. I did not pull out the insert until every puzzle was solved. They need an editor who either travels more or has read about the North and South poles. SMH. Anyways, the game seemed to get much easier further into the days. The storyline is also pretty sweet at the end if one recognizes the reference.
ash –
These are always a treat every year. Highly recommended for any puzzle-lover!
Amazon Customer –
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.
MarkC. –
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.
cj marin –
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.
NathVrt –
Une super idée de cadeau de lâaven destiné aux ados qui ont déjà un bon niveau en anglais âºï¸ Ou comment acquérir du vocabulaire tout en sâamusant ! Le défi est double puisque chaque jour il faut résoudre une énigme (pas toujours très facile dâailleurs !)⦠Mon fils de 13 ans a adoré !