$12.99A 24-Day Advent Murder Mystery: one printable puzzle a day, 480 suspects, one name left on Christmas Eve
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On 1 December the last sleeper train of the season to Edelweiss is stopped by snow at the little mountain town of Glockenau. That night a music-box collector is found dead in his compartment. Everyone who went through the gate of the town's Christmas market that evening, 480 passengers and traders, is on the register. Every morning until Christmas Eve, Inspector Marta Kessler sends you a coded note. Solve the day's puzzle, read the clue, cross names off. On 24 December exactly one name is left.
This is a puzzle book shaped like an advent calendar. Instead of a chocolate behind each door, every day from 1 to 24 December has its own page with one puzzle: a code to crack, a logic grid, a word search, a maze through a snowy town, a dining-car bill to add up, two photos to compare, a torn note to cut out and put back together. Every day brings a different kind of puzzle, they get a little harder as the month goes on, and the Sundays are bigger.
What turns it into a mystery is the register. At the front of the book are the 480 people who passed the gate of the Glockenau Christmas market on the night of the murder, each with an age, a home town, a train coach or market stall, a gate time, what they bought, the hat they wore and a pass number. Each solved puzzle gives you a clue such as 'the culprit passed the gate after 17:20' or 'the culprit did not buy a wooden sled', and each clue lets you cross more rows off. Every day page tells you how many names should be left, so you always know you are on track.
By Christmas Eve one name remains. A sealed page at the back explains who did it, how and why, in a gentle, cozy-mystery tone with nothing graphic. Play alone, as a couple or as a family: grown-ups solve the puzzle, younger helpers hunt through the register.
Ten to twenty minutes on most days. The three Sunday puzzles are bigger and can take up to twenty-five.
No. Print the register and the tracker once, then the day pages as you go. Day 23 is a cut-out sheet, so print that one single-sided. On a tablet you do not need to print anything.
The puzzles are written for ages 12 and up. The story is a gentle mystery with nothing graphic, and younger children love crossing names off the register once the clue is known.
Every day page says how many names should be left after that day. If your count is different, check the register again before the next day. Two hints and the full answer for every day are at the back.
Yes. The Printer-Friendly Edition has white pages and dark text, and no puzzle depends on colour; hats and purchases in the register are written as words.
Yes. One person reads Inspector Kessler's note, everyone solves, and the register hunt is shared. It works well as a daily family ritual over breakfast.
Yes. Every puzzle has a single solution, and the 24 clues leave exactly one person on the register. The book was checked by a computer program that solves every puzzle and replays every clue.
Straight away. After checkout you can download the zip with all four PDFs.
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