The Ice Kingdom

“The Ice Kingdom,” made for kids ages 7 to 10, locks your team in an ice palace where the great doors have suddenly frozen shut. The snow queen has vanished and left her palace without its magic heat: there is only one hour before the last ice crystal melts and leaves the doors impossible to open for good. Every room hides a puzzle: find which snowflake matches a model among several, put the steps of building a snowman in order, crack the code on a frozen chest, and piece together the shards of an ice mirror to reveal the key. The puzzles are solved as a team, by looking closely and reasoning, with no long reading and no supplies to buy. The book already includes the padlocks to cut out and assemble, the clue cards, a countdown to start, and the grown-up guide, which explains the game step by step and offers backup hints so the game never stalls. It works as well for a birthday party as for a family evening, for a small group or a big table of kids. Five puzzles carry the team through the palace, from the entrance hall to the throne room, where the team that solved everything relights the crystal and earns an Ice Explorer diploma.