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Treasure Hunt Now Available in French!
Read more →Bonjour! We have some great news. Our best-selling and best-rated Mail Order Mystery - Treasure Hunt - is now available in French. That’s right! En français. How cool is that? Missive Mystère, our sister company in France, has just opened for business with a French translation of Treasure Hunt, called “Le Trésor Perdu”. It is available for 59 Euros plus another 15 Euros to ship to Canada or the US. (That works out to about $108 CAD or $82 USD, in case you were wondering.) Après des mois à fabriquer des parchemins, dénicher des clés spéciales, inventer des codes secrets et...
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Mail Order Mystery + School = LOVE
Read more →When we created Mail Order Mystery we had in mind an experience for families, for a kid or small group of sibs in a single household. But life is full of surprises, and one particularly happy surprise is that Mail Order Mysteries can, and often are, successfully adapted to a large group in a classroom setting. We are constantly sending out mysteries addressed to “Miss X’s Classroom”, or “Mr. Y’s Grade 4s” and so on. Teachers order mysteries for their classrooms, parents order mysteries for their kids’ classrooms, and one principal even got the school council behind the project and ordered a...
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Awesome T-Shirt Sale at the Mystery Emporium
Read more →Awesome T-shirts are hard to find. Goodness knows we’ve peered sadly into enough empty drawers at the start of the school year and had to run to the mall to buy an armload of shirts with superhero logos and cats, sloths or dogs on skateboards saying things like “Stay Cool”. So look no further, because we have a ton of great Tees at our Mystery Emporium. And until the end of the week they are on sale. In fact, until the end of the week everything at the Mystery Emporium is 10% off when you enter the promo code MYSTERYTEE...
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Celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day With a Special Discount!
Read more →Ahoy Mateys! Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Originally founded 19 years ago by John Baur and Mark Summers, aka “Ol' Chumbucket” and “Cap'n Slappy,” Talk Like a Pirate Day has caught on all over the swashbuckling world.There were some great years when any old lubber could walk into a Krispy Kreme on September 19th and get free donuts for letting loose a few words of Pirate Speak. But avast! For the third year in a row those scurvy scalliwags at Krispy Kreme have denied pirates their free donut treats. The only way for pirates to claim their free Krispy Kremes is to brave the...
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Why We Can’t Live Without Common Sense Media
Read more →Parenting is a challenge all the time, and we all have our tips, tricks and tools for doing our best with what we’ve got: rewards, consequences, bribery, parental control apps, wi-fi shutter downers. For us, one of the most important tools in our parenting toolbox is a website called Common Sense Media. For those of you who don’t know it, Common Sense Media is a phenomenal resource for parents to find reviews of books, movies, TV shows, websites, games and apps. There are star ratings for everything and three separate age ratings: one for what Common Sense Media says, one for what parents...
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Make Homework Fun with a Mail Order Mystery
Read more →Ok parents. It’s homework time. You know what to do. You’ve read the advice. Don’t let the kids have fun until the work is done. Make homework a habit. Set a timer. Set another timer. Be involved. Don’t be too involved. Encourage, but don’t bribe. Support success but know when to let kids fail. Aaaggh! Why is this so hard?You see it like a movie montage: the slow-motion ripping up of the math worksheet, the lying-on-the-floor-crying while you are trying to make supper, the bleary, late night dioramas. There is no magic wand. But we know, from experience, that some things...