Frost Village Puzzle Hunt, Printable 24 Day December Countdown Game for Kids 7-12

Designed by Creouts Publishing using original prompt(s) and AI (Claude by Anthropic). Illustrations made with AI image tools. Every puzzle is computer-checked to have exactly one answer.

FROST VILLAGE PUZZLE HUNT: 24 letters, 24 puzzles, one hidden envelope a day
A printable 24-day countdown game for December (or any 24 days). The animals of Frost Village are getting ready for their Frost Fair, and the Fair Key has gone missing. Each day a villager writes to your child. The letter holds a puzzle; its answer (the KEY) sets a cut-out Scarf Slider, which decodes where tomorrow's envelope is hiding in your home. On Day 24 the last code leads to the Fair Key itself.

THIS IS A PRINTABLE ESCAPE-ROOM-STYLE PUZZLE HUNT, not a book: you print it at home, fill 24 envelopes once, and hide one each evening.

HOW A DAY PLAYS (10-20 minutes)
- Find today's envelope and read the villager's letter
- Solve the puzzle: its answer is the KEY
- Slide the scarf until the gold snowflake sits on the KEY number
- Each picture of the Snow Code now sits under a letter: decode where tomorrow's letter hides
- Wrong KEY? The code turns to nonsense, so every answer checks itself
- Cut out the day's stamp for the Village Album and colour the KEY's snowball

TWO TRACKS, ONE HUNT (so brothers and sisters play together)
- Snowflake Track, ages 7-9: adding and taking away within 50
- Icicle Track, ages 10-12: the four operations, times tables, factors and logic
- Both tracks give the SAME KEY every day, so each child solves at their own level and they decode and search together. One child? Print one track.

48 PUZZLES, 23 DIFFERENT KINDS
- 11 kinds of math pyramid puzzle: Snow Stack, Postmark Pictures, Wobbly Block, Sled Run (pyramid maze), Bigger Bun, Mixing Bowl, Mirror Pond, Cracked Ice, Twin Stacks, Melting Stack and the Fair Gate
- 12 more kinds: Delivery Round (map), Plank Puzzle (cut and order), Bun Count (number clues), Skate Trail, Mitten Match, Scarf Stripes, Snowfall Chart, Paper Snowflake (fold and snip), Shelf Order (logic), Word Stack, Number Code and Carousel Ride
- Puzzles get harder as the days go by; every puzzle is new and has exactly one answer
- 3-step hints (a nudge, the method, the answer) and a full answer key with solved pictures

A GENTLE STORY, NO HOLIDAY FIGURES
- Eight villagers write three letters each: Nib the ermine, Alder the beaver, Mabel the badger, Nell the otter, Tansy the hare, Gus the moose, Hattie the mole and Barley the bear cub
- Type your child's name once and every letter, label and the certificate greets them by name (fillable PDF), or write it in by hand
- 24 stamps to collect: their letters spell the Fair motto. Two snowballs left white open the Fair Gate on Day 24
- The finale: a paper Fair Key and a Golden Ticket to hide, with a treat of your choice

FITS ANY HOME
- Every day offers two hiding places (A and B) that decode with the same KEY: tick the one that suits your home (for example a pillow or a blanket, a bookshelf or a toy box)
- The hiding plan also shows how to write a place of your own in Snow Code

WHAT YOU GET (instant download, 5 PDF files)
- Full kit, US Letter (80 pages)
- Full kit, A4 (80 pages)
- Tablet edition with tap-to-jump links and fillable names (the hunt itself needs printed pages)
- Village Extras, US Letter and A4: door sign, spare Scarf Slider, stand-up villagers, Fair bunting, colouring page, letter paper
- Free bonus folder (QR code inside): the Snow Day Trail (6 more letters for one afternoon, ages 7-12) and ink-saver versions of every page

INSIDE THE KIT
- How it works, six set-up steps, the two tracks and all 24 days at a glance
- The Scarf Slider (true size) with building steps and a worked example, the hiding plan, 24 envelope labels
- Nib's Snow Code school with a practice code, the Village Album
- 48 full-colour day cards, the Fair Key and Golden Ticket, a certificate, hints, answers

YOU WILL NEED
Printer (colour or black and white), about 35 sheets of paper for one track (60 for both), scissors, a glue stick, sticky tape, pencils and crayons, 24 envelopes. Print single-sided: many pages are cut up.

GOOD TO KNOW
- Digital download only: nothing is shipped.
- Set-up takes about an hour, once; then one minute each evening to hide tomorrow's envelope.
- Print the Scarf Slider at 100% (actual size).
- A winter story with no holiday figures: it suits every family, and any 24 days.
- Love math pyramids? Creouts Publishing also publishes math pyramid puzzle books in paperback (search "Creouts Publishing" on Amazon).

PERSONAL USE LICENSE
For your own family or a single classroom. Print as many copies as you need. No resale, sharing, uploading or claiming as your own; no AI training.

Digital files cannot be returned.