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Think You Know How This Fairy Tale Ends? Think Again!
Coming soon to an enchanted forest near you! Letters from a knight, a troll, a librarian and a dragon. A package of wax-sealed messages, objects and clues delivered to your door. Have you got what it takes to be an unsuspecting hero? Find out when you solve The Enchanted Slumber.
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Have You Seen This Mysterious Creature?
Coming soon to a mansion near you! A package of personalized letters, objects and clues delivered to your door. Try the mystery experience that fans are raving about. Have you got what it takes to crack The Case of the Missing Bigfoot?
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Mystery Mastery: Check Out These Reviews From Quarantine!
We were positive that Mail Order Mysteries would make fantastic activities for kids stuck at home. We know this because we have been cooped up with bored, irritable and bewildered kids for months now. But it means everything to us when we hear it from you. And you agree! Mail Order Mysteries do make fantastic activities for kids stuck at home!Check out these excellent reviews: Best sibling bonding⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐I admit, I ordered this as a desperation activity in quarantine. My daughters (12 and 10) loved it. It was engaging, age appropriate, and fun. We ordered the whole kit in one package...
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Summer Learning Can Be Fun
Well, we made it. “School” is wrapping up and so ends our first collective experiment with what we call “distance learning”. Distance learning worked better for some families than others, but no matter how well each kid did (or didn’t) manage with “school” this year, these months have been tough for many of us. Now that summer is here, we can look forward to more outside time, more freedom and more play. But things are not the same, especially for kids. Seeing friends from six feet apart is a start but we still have a long, strange summer ahead of us....
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Power Down the Screens and Fire up the Imaginations!
Mail Order Mysteries are screen-free experiences, and now more than ever we celebrate our decision to make them that way. These last months there have been no escaping screens. School is screens, our social lives are screens, our entertainment is screens, our babysitters are screens.The one exception to our screen free mission - and we feel it is worth taking a moment to explain - is our espionage-themed Spies, Lies and Serious Bad Guys. Over the course of the mystery kids search for three digit codes, which they can enter into a basic website to get their next clue. But we...
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A Box Full of Mystery: What’s Not to Love?
We know that kids love getting letters in the mail. So do we. But like they say, trust is the cornerstone of love. And if we can’t trust the overloaded and backlogged postal system to get your Mail Order Mystery letters to you on time, in the correct order, then we won’t risk sending letters in the mail. This is why we have decided for now to make our only shipping option “all in one box”, which means we pack up all six installments of each mystery and send it in one parcel, with tracking information so you can look it up...