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GIFT ALERT! 🎁 Cool Gear at the Mystery Emporium
Read more →You likely know all about our mystery experiences, but did you know we also have a whole line of great gifts featuring the beloved characters from all five of our mysteries? If you know a kid who has done one of our mysteries or will be doing one soon, they would love a gift from our Mystery Emporium. Maybe the kid has been to the SHOE Spy Academy in Spies, Lies and Serious Bad Guys? Our spiral notebook is perfect for keeping track of secret messages while our line of t-shirts lets everyone know you're a proud SHOE Academy alumni. And we know young spies...
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Made By Humans #6 - We ❤️ Wax Seals
Read more →This is Marion working on a wax seal, one of the many items we craft here at Mail Order Mystery. As we get closer to the holidays we begin to think of ourselves like elves in Santa’s workshop. We are busy busy getting everything ready for the holidays: stuffing envelopes, aging pirate maps, tying keys onto strings, and, one of our favorite crafty tasks, sealing envelopes with wax just like they did in the olden days of dragons and knights. Ok, maybe they didn’t have glue guns back then, but they had heat, wax and seals and that’s everything you...
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2023 Holiday Shipping Dates
Read more →If you are planning to order a Mail Order Mystery as a holiday gift we want to help you time its arrival. There are two ways to have your mystery experience delivered. You can have it packed up all together and shipped in one box, or you can have the mystery sent as separate installments mailed once a week for six weeks. ALL IN ONE BOX All six installments will be packed together in a single shipment that is fully tracked. Every mystery we send out is personalized, so it does take some time from when you place your order to when it...
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Made By Humans #5 - See How We Make Our Pirate Maps
Read more →This is Mail Order Mystery team member Ilknur working at the crafty task of making authentic looking pirate maps for our Treasure Hunt! mystery. We still call this job “baking” because back when Mail Order Mystery first started we soaked the maps in coffee and baked them in the oven at a low temperature to get that faded, weathered look. Since then we have discovered that air drying works just as well as the oven, but nothing works better than coffee. We have tried a lot of ways to do this, but nothing beats the old school coffee soak. And we continue to...
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Avast Matey! It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Read more →Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day! This here yearly occasion was dreamed up by a pair of hearties called Ol’ Chumbucket and Cap’n Slappy in 1995, and it be a jolly day for landlubbers and old salts ever since. We have a real affinity for Talk Like a Pirate Day on account of the fact that we love pirate speak, pirate lore, pirate maps and long-lost pirate loot. If you also love pirate speak, pirate lore, pirate maps and long lost pirate loot, Treasure Hunt! Is the mystery for you!Treasure Hunt! be startin’ with a letter from a far off land, a peculiar key and...
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Celebrate Back to School by Enrolling in Spy School 🕵️
Read more →Your kids may be excited about going back to school. Or they may need a bit of convincing. But the one school that everyone loves is spy school! So enroll your kids in our spy academy in Spies, Lies and Serious Bad Guys. They'll get to get to practice their reading and problem solving while having fun at the same time.