Thames & Kosmos EXIT: Advent Calendar - The Missing Hollywood Star, Escape Room Card Game, Family Games for Game Night, Holiday Season Games for Adults and Kids, for 1+ Players, Age 10+

I've bought one of these Exit Advent Calendars every Christmas for the last few years and they never disappoint. They're great value for money and make the countdown to Christmas much more exciting than a traditional advent calendar. The puzzles are clever, engaging, and each calendar tells its own story that unfolds throughout December. There's always a good mix of challenges, and it's something I genuinely look forward to every year. It's worth noting that these are designed as a one time play experience. Many of the puzzles require you to cut, fold, write on, or otherwise alter components, and sometimes even the box itself, so it's not something that can be reset and played again. That said, for the amount of entertainment you get throughout the month, I think they're excellent value for money. It's become a Christmas tradition for me, and I'll definitely be picking up another one this year.

I love these, I get a different one for my family every year and we love working out the puzzles together. Great bonding experience for the family and something different other than chocolate to look forward to. They are really well thought out, put together and detailed. The story element is always great. I would say don't buy this for one person or kids / teens to do alone. The puzzles and clues are harder then you think so it needs some adult input to work things out. Some questions we get really quickly, others we grt stumped on and my husband and I have to really put our heads together to reason it out. That's part of the fun though!! Working together. My son likes the easier doors and we'll always explain how we work things out. He's fitting good at escape room stuff now. He is also fully incharge of putting in the code to unlock the next room. So yeah - Great activity, do as a family (kids alone will struggle), for people who love a challenge and an amazing Christmas adventure to boot. Strongly recommend.

Very good and well made range of puzzles and kept my boyfriend entertained.

This was amazing!! Such incredible good way to do something with your kids. It definitely challenge you. I was doing it with my 8 and 10 year old. They struggled a bit but together we solved them all. We were looking forward to do this every day. It wasn’t easy and you had to think outside the box, but not too hard so you won’t make it. But if you do struggle, you can choose to do three clues. If you still don’t get it, you can easily find the answer. I’m buying the other one but not as an advent calendar, just for us to do on a rainy day:) Definitely worth every penny!! Thank you to the clever people making this. This was so much fun!!

This is a great item but unfortunately turned up with the seals broken and so the person I gave it to thought it was a second hand purchase rather than new.

A brilliant advent for my 13 year old daughter. It has kept her entertained all the way through. Some clues were challenging but the book of extra clues were helpful. It’s so well thought out and inventive. We will definitely be buying again!

Cannot reccomend this enough. My husband and I did it and we’re going to try and do one next year too! So fun to spend 15-20 mins together everyday and we thought it was amazing how much was packed into the experience. Great value for money.

We really enjoyed this. The puzzles are so cleverly put together and every day is different! Good quality and lots of fun!

One of my siblings bought another advent calendar (The Silent Storm) from the company last year and my then-6-year-old absolutely loved it. We decided it should be a yearly tradition and were excited to do this one for 2024! Each day you read a little snippet of the story, then open a door to reveal the puzzle. Depending on the day, puzzles usually took about 2-5 minutes, though a few tricky ones took longer. The puzzles are beginner level, so good for most older children, teens, or adults who are not big into puzzles. I had to give my kid clues fairly often, and there is a hint book with three levels of clues for each day, which helps to steer you in the right direction if you're stumped, without making it too simple. There was 1 or 2 where we did end up looking at all three of the hints, as well as one unfortunate time where we misinterpreted a hint and ended up revealing something for a different day, which spoiled the later puzzle. There's no good way to warn which puzzle without a spoiler though. The story for this advent calendar is movie-themed, with tons of fun references and puzzles related to lots of classic movies. Overall, great experience and highly recommended!

Incroyable calendrier de l’avent d’énigmes ! Attention il est en anglais. Parfois certaines énigmes ont nécessité de regarder les indices, mais au global c’est une folle expérience, on sent qu’il y a énormément de travail derrière ! Je conseille fortement

Vamos en el día 9 y ha Sido mejor de lo esperado, los acertijos verdaderamente desafiantes y entretenidos todo bien armado, como dato es importante leer el contenido día por día porque los accesorios se pueden mover dentro de la caja y terminar en el día equivocado, nada que no se pueda resolver. Nos encanta como el juego incluye todo el empaque. Sin duda volveremos a comprar otra versión.

Arrived damaged and cards inside various doors contents got mixed around meaning you had to open all the doors to find cards required for each puzzle. I’m still missing one card in puzzle 3, after opening all doors so it’s stuck presumably inside the game box - so you’d need to open that to get it out - very disapproving. Will skip that puzzle but with all doors open, moving box now will lead to materials sliding around.

I liked it a lot! This is my first calendar from EXIT, and I was surprised about how much I loved it. I liked how the riddles were created, it was really fascinating to solve everything.