Exit: Advent Calendar - The Magic of Christmas (EN)

Exit: Advent Calendar - The Magic of Christmas turns the classic advent calendar into a full escape room adventure, one door a day until Christmas. It all starts with a peaceful hike through the forest to escape the pre-Christmas rush: the scent of pine, dead silence, not a soul in sight. Then a loud bang, and everything goes black. When you wake up, the forest has completely changed: snow blankets everything, red baubles hang from the branches, lights twinkle in the underbrush... and your hands are now covered in strange green fur. To figure out what happened and uncover the forest's enchanted secret, you open one door a day and solve the riddle of the day hiding inside: each answer leads straight to tomorrow's door, until all 24 chapters come together into one single story.

Exit: Advent Calendar - The Magic of Christmas is for you if you're looking for an original way to count down to Christmas, if you're already a fan of escape games but find that classic single-session Exit boxes are over too soon, and if solving a small riddle every day in December, solo or with family, over morning coffee or after dinner, sounds like your kind of holiday tradition. Since each door only takes about 10 to 15 minutes to solve, the game slips easily into your December routine without ever feeling like a chore.

This isn't the Exit series' first trip into the holiday season: it's actually the sixth Exit Advent Calendar released since 2020, following The Mystery of the Ice Cave, The Hunt for the Golden Book, The Silent Storm, The Missing Hollywood Star, and The Intergalactic Race. Unlike a standard Exit box, where every riddle belongs to its own self-contained adventure, this calendar links all 24 doors into a single continuous storyline, almost like reading one chapter of a novel at a time. On BoardGameGeek, the game holds an average rating of 7.7/10 and a very approachable difficulty score (around 1.4 out of 5), a great entry point into escape games for anyone who has never tried one.

The game was designed by Inka Brand, Markus Brand, and Emely Brand, the same trio behind the entire Exit: The Game series as well as the Adventure Games series, known for its multi-chapter narrative adventures. Their signature shows here in how naturally each small riddle folds into the bigger story without ever breaking the adventure's pace.

BOX CONTENTS
1 Advent calendar with 24 doors (riddle cards, strange items, and secret extra materials)
1 story booklet
1 help booklet with the rules
1 decoder board (with 3 decoder strips)

Number of players: 1 to 5
Playing time: 10 to 15 minutes per day
Age: 10+