Game Review: EXIT Advent Calendar: Silent Storm

EXIT Advent Calendar: Silent Storm designed by Inka and Marcus Brand and published by KOSMOS

See my review of EXIT Advent Calendar: The Golden Book.

This is another adaptation of the EXIT: The Game system as an Advent calendar, with one puzzle to solve each day of December before the 25th. In this game, players are elves in Santa's workshop but a calamity has happened, an earthquake and a storm. Santa hit the emergency button which has the whole place on lock-down. Things are so jumbled that someone needs to get back to the control center and get the situation back to normal. Each puzzle deals with a different room, e.g. the stuffed-animal-making room, the candy-making room, etc. A tear-off booklet has one page of story for each day along with some hints on how to solve that day's puzzle. The "rooms" in the calendar typically have one or more puzzle cards and maybe some strange items, like these, behind the doors.

What sort of magic makes a button larger than a tray of cookies!

The items help make a good variety of puzzles. Scissors and writing implements are needed to complete some of the puzzles, along with the ability to spot clues all over the rooms, the box, the manuals, and everything else. The diversity in puzzles is fun. Even if we fell behind a day or two and had to catch up, each puzzle is only five or ten minutes long to solve at the most and is different enough that we did not feel like we were doing the same thing over and over.

This set is rated as an easier one, with puzzle that are not too hard to solve. We only went to the hint book two or three times to find out solutions we couldn't achieve on our own (which is typical for us playing EXIT games). The last couple of days have a fun twist to the story and, like any Christmas story, it ends very happily for all concerned. 

Recommended, highly for EXIT fans.