News
-
Why We Love Dungeons and Dragons
We love Dungeons and Dragons. Not to play - our kids gave up on trying to teach us after a few fraught hours. But we love it for our kids, and for so many reasons.When kids get together to play D&D they talk to each other. They really talk to each other, without looking down at their screens while they do it. They work together to solve problems. They participate in each other’s victories, defeats, miscalculations and mistakes in a way that requires empathy, tact, humour and the kind of nuanced social interaction that we fear our kids will never...
-
It’s Not Too Late for a Mysterious Easter
Easter is just around the corner. And we know what a challenge it is to find gifts that are small enough to fit into those little baskets. You know what does fit perfectly into an Easter basket? A BUNNY! You know what else fits perfectly into an Easter basket? A MAIL ORDER MYSTERY!Sadly our household remains divided on the topic of bunny acquisition. Yours may be as well, which is why we recommend you go with the Mail Order Mystery. Mail Order Mysteries begin with a single, intriguing envelope that can tuck right into the fake purple straw between the...
-
Spring Break: It's Not Too Late!
Spring break. Do we have a plan? No. And will we regret it? Yes.But depending where you live, it may not be too late. Order a Mail Order Mystery now and send us an email asking us to ship it all in one box and we’ll send it out this Thursday.Each mystery has six installments you can dole out over spring break at whatever pace you choose. There are ciphers to solve, clues to ponder, magazines to read, activities to complete and wondrous stories to send kids off on all kinds of imaginary and learning adventures. For nine days your...
-
Take a (Spring) Break with a Mail Order Mystery
We all know spring break isn’t really a break. It is a break from some things: lunches, homework,early morning practices. But it’s sure as heck not a break from others: bickering, boredom, screen-begging. Those are not things you can ignore. Those are not things that will just go away. If you want a break this spring break you need a plan. You need to keep the kids occupied. Or even better, engaged. Or better yet, swept up in an extraordinary story in which your kid is the hero and the star. Mail Order Mysteries are story adventures that unfold through a series of...
-
We Have Some Winners in Our Photo Contest!
The first-ever Mail Order Mystery photo contest has been so much fun; we have been delighted by the pics of these extraordinary little spies, detectives, pirates and heroes. But choosing the winner was no easy task. Thanks to you and the enthusiastic voting of your family and friends you’ve helped us narrow the winners down to ten photos. But how to choose from these ten? These photographs are all so ridiculously cute that in the end we realized we could not choose the grand prize winner based on cuteness alone. And so we selected this photograph of Detective Jo, hard...
-
Vote Now! Help Us Pick a Winner in Our Photo Contest.
We are over the moon with the results of our first ever photo contest. You have got to check out these pics. And these are just a few of the entries! They are so unbearably cute, so seriously determined, so silly, so fun and so focused that we can hardly stand it. This is Mail Order Mystery history in the making, and we are so happy that you can be a part of it. There is no way we would ever be able to choose a winner on our own, which is why we are giving each of...