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Long-Lost Pirate Treasure: Does It Belong to You?
Read more →All of our Mail Order Mysteries are a blend of fact and fiction. This allows us to create a window of sorts, where a child’s Mail Order Mystery opens into a larger mystery, which can then send the imagination sparking in all directions.The story of the Treasure Hunt mystery, for example, is based on two real-life pirates and one genuine treasure. The pirates are Bernard Nageon L’Estang, aka “Booty Man”, and Olivier “La Buse” Lavasseuer, both of whom have ancient connections to a mysterious missing treasure in the Seychelles Islands.Treasure Hunters have been searching for this treasure for years: they have solved puzzles...
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Need a Father’s Day Gift? How about a Mail Order Mystery.
Read more →When we were kids we gave our Dads a lot of hand-painted ashtrays for Father’s Day. They loved them, of course, because Dads love anything their kids make themselves. But you know what Dads love even more? Doing stuff with their kids. Taking on a project. Sitting down at the kitchen table, rolling up the shirt sleeves, puzzling out some clues, poring over some ciphers, talking through some plot twists.Mail Order Mysteries are six week long adventures of intrigue - what better way for Dads and kids to spend the most memorable kind of time together? And the best...
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The Best End-Of School Gifts Are Mail Order Mysteries
Read more →Mail Order Mysteries make the best end-of-school gifts and here are 14 reasons why:1. Because some of us parents are one eye-roll away from being too embarrassing to be seen with, but for now we are still awesome and our kids still love doing stuff with us.2. Because we still love doing stuff with our kids.3. Because six mailings over six weeks make Mail Order Mystery the gift that keeps on giving all summer long.4. Because Mail Order Mysteries are super fun experience gifts and a great way to spend time with parents, siblings, friends, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins...
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Our Spy School Grads Think Outside the Box!
Read more →Summer is just around the corner and (most) kids are looking forward to the end of school. But here at Mail Order Mystery we are accepting applications to a different kind of school. It’s a school that all kids will love, even in the summer: spy school!For the last year and half junior agents around the world have undergone their spy training at our S.H.O.E. Academy (Secret Headquarters of Espionage). After completing a series of top secret missions, cracking ciphers and solving some tricky clues, these Jr. agents graduate spy school with their own top secret keepsake and their very own...
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The Best Plans Are Mysterious Plans
Read more →The older our kids get the more jealous we get of their summer camp options: behind-the-scenes at the museum, improv comedy, sailing, space camp… you name it they can do it. The problem is that booking these camps is like a competitive sport, and we are, at best, passable at it. Just a few weeks ago we tried to book a camp that was full - and it was more than five months out. Five months! What the heck?!If you’ve got some gaps in your summer calendar or if you like to leave a few - or a lot -...
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We ❤ the Earth
Read more →Sunday, April 22 is Earth Day. We celebrate Earth day every year by saying “Hey it’s Earth Day”, and then we go about our usual weekend activities. And then every year we say, shouldn’t we be doing more? And the answer is yes, of course. We should all be doing more. All the time. But what? There is so much to do. It’s like when the kids’ rooms get so messy that they actually don’t know where to start, and you have to sit there with them and say “Ok, put away the Lego. Now pick up the books.” But with...