With an Escape Room Advent calendar, festive anticipation of the playful kind comes directly into your living room. While we at OPOLUM provide unforgettable adventures with our innovative Escape Room Hamburg with live acting, Escape Room Advent calendars offer a more tranquil way to enjoy challenging puzzles, exciting stories and tricky tasks at home in the run-up to Christmas.
In this article, we present our favorite selection of the 5 best escape room advent calendars that you can play together with partners, friends or family. The great thing is that escape room advent calendars are also ideal for players who have no previous experience with live escape games – a wonderful preparation for the “real” experience.
What is an Escape Room Advent Calendar?
This special edition combines the good old Advent calendar with playful elements. Instead of chocolate or small gifts, this creative variation on the traditional Advent calendar offers unique puzzles and challenges every day.
These calendars are designed to bring the escape room experience into a compact, domestic form. Behind each door is a new puzzle to solve, often linked by an ongoing story – often with a Christmas theme.
Puzzle enthusiasts and game fans who want to live out their enthusiasm for escape rooms during the festive pre-Christmas period will certainly have a lot of fun.
What makes a good Escape Room Advent calendar?
Of course, a real escape room adventure is not really comparable, the live experience is not so easy to capture. But properly thought out and made with love, this Advent version for at home also creates a great atmosphere. Creatively designed puzzles, a captivating story and moments of surprise are the hallmarks of a successful escape room advent calendar.
Each door should offer a new challenge that not only stimulates your logical thinking skills but also your imagination and ideally appeals to you as a team – even if there are only two of you.
What puzzles does an Escape Room Advent calendar contain?
An escape room advent calendar contains a wide range of puzzles: classic logic puzzles, deciphering complex secret messages, searching for hidden clues in texts or pictures, putting together puzzles or simple handicrafts are often among the tasks that await the players in an escape room advent calendar.
Some calendars also use innovative elements such as interactive online components, where players have to solve digital puzzles or explore virtual rooms. The variety of challenges ensures that every day of Advent holds a new, exciting discovery.
Our top 5 escape room advent calendars
Escape Room Advent Calendar #1: The wild Christmas puzzle journey
With this Escape Room Advent calendar you will be accompanied through Advent by 24 puzzles in booklet form – and each of these booklets, which are put together in a charming cardboard slipcase, contains a nice story with a new exciting logic puzzle.
- Price: approx. 25 EUR at Thalia
- For the whole family
- Published by Frech-Verlag
Escape Room Advent Calendar #2: Oh you deadly one – Christmas with the Ashtonburrys
The escape room experience for the Krimidinner® show at home. Here you get a pitch-black story with 24 tricky puzzles: Milady is hosting a Christmas tasting dinner, but the dessert has a bittersweet aftertaste. Who is the poisoner? Can he be stopped before he strikes again?
- Price: approx. 19 EUR at Amazon
- From 14 years
- A book to unravel
- Published by EMF-Verlag
Escape Room Advent Calendar #3: EXIT Advent Calendar, The Hunt for the Golden Book
Santa’s golden book has disappeared! If it doesn’t turn up by Christmas, you’re bound to be disappointed. Can you prevent this?
You embark on a search in a remote mountain village and get a little closer to the solution every day with a new puzzle.
- Price: approx. 25 EUR at Amazon
- From 14 years
- Game box
- Published by EMF-Verlag
Escape Room Advent Calendar #4: Escape Christmas 2023
Solve 24 puzzles and beat the Christmas blues in the process? Doesn’t sound too bad! A story that will make you forget the Christmas spirit: Aunt Margarethe has invited you to a Christmas dinner in her hidden forest cottage – but only if you find it will you get the delicious feast and a big Christmas present on Christmas Eve! A puzzle book to tear open.
- Price: approx. 18 EUR at Amazon
- Published by ars-vivendi-Verlag
Escape Room Advent Calendar #5: Crime Podcast Advent Calendar
Here, the escape room is combined with a daily audio experience (5-15 minutes). Hidden behind each door is a QR code that leads you to new evidence and clues in a new mystery case. A wonderful combination of entertainment and active puzzle solving.
- Price: approx. 30 EUR at Amazon
- From 14 years
- Published by Kaufmann-Verlag
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Extra tip for next year: The Secret of the Guardians – An Escape Advent Calendar
Who are the guardians? You will assist police officer Vincent with his investigation – it’s about a mysterious organization that has its fingers in the pie of business and politics. Vincent himself becomes the one being pursued – can you solve all the puzzles to escape from the monastery?
- Price: approx. 14 EUR at Thalia
- From 14 years
- Book with separable double pages.
- Available to pre-order, published by Kaufmann-Verlag
Conclusion
The range and quantity of different escape room advent calendars is huge. There is a lot to discover here. The stories and the type of puzzles can be very different – often with a reference to Christmas, of course. What they all have in common is that the creative puzzle collections provide lots of fun for the Advent season. Every day there is a new challenge for the gray cells.
It’s definitely worth trying out an Escape Room Advent calendar or giving one as a gift and puzzling out Christmas Eve together with your partner, friends or family. Have fun – we hope you find the right one for you in our selection!
