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These 14 Cousins Loved Their Summer Spy School
We are often surprised by the creative ways in which people experience their Mail Order Mysteries, but this one takes the cake! This summer the “Cousin Camp Kids” celebrated their 15th annual event, and this year's theme: Spy School! Well it just so happens that we have a spy-themed mystery in which kids are enrolled in a top secret spy school called S.H.O.E. (The Secret Headquarters of Espionage). Grandma Lisa and Grandpa Phil set to work building a whole adventure around our Spies, Lies and Serious Bad Guys mystery. They organized the kids into three teams, added some awesome signage and custom...
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Take a Peek Behind the Master Loop
We love our new time travel mystery and we think you will too. Escape the Master Loop is fun, funny and full of the twists and turns that make time travel adventures such a mind-bending delight. As you may or may not know, Mail Order Mysteries are personalized. Each story unfolds through a series of letters, and the letters are addressed directly to kid(s). Say, for example, you are sending a mystery to a kid named Sam who lives in Cleveland. When you send Sam “Escape the Master Loop”, the letters Sam receives will be addressed to Sam from Sam, Sam’s future self....
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Celebrate End-Of-School With an Awesome Experience Gift
Congratulations to all you parents and caregivers for making it through another school year! It was a lot of work for us grown-ups, of course, but let’s give credit where credit is due: to the kids! They are the ones who did the homework, wrote the tests, and glued the fake grass to the dioramas. They are the ones who savored the success and suffered the setbacks. They are the ones who are moving on to the great unknowns of the next grade. To all those kids we say, woo-hoo! You did it! The end of a school year is...
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Our New Mystery Has Launched! Now You Can Escape the Master Loop.
Escape the Master Loop is our brand new time travel mystery and it is now officially launched and available to the world! You may not know it, but your future self is causing all sorts of trouble in the time/space continuum. Every time you change something in the past (which you have done, many times) you create a new future (which you have done, many times). You and your future self need get to work, untangle your timelines, figure out what the heck happened to the Mona Lisa, where that dinosaur ran off to, and where you disappeared to in 3042.And...
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Can You Escape the Master Loop? Our New Mystery Launches April 28.
Can you Escape the Master Loop? Should you Escape the Master Loop? What the heck is a Master Loop? Did you even know that you are a time traveler? Did you know that you are a time traveler in a whole mess of trouble? And what does Leonardo da Vinci have to do with all of this? Fear not, magical traveler. All will soon be revealed. Or at least some of it will be revealed. The rest of it, you - and your future self - are going to have to figure out on your own. Our brand new mystery Escape...
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A Family Affair
We know that creating quality family time can be tough. Just getting everyone to agree on an activity can be a challenge, let alone doing that activity together. Which is why we love this review we got recently. A family activity where everyone hangs out together, works together and solves problems together. That sounds pretty great to us!