About The Elves’ Workshop
The Elves’ Workshop is a cosy escape room for Christmas time, where the whole family solves the puzzles together around one iPad or on the TV. It’s Christmas Eve, the wind has slammed the big gate shut, and Pjok, the forgetful elf, has taken the Christmas key apart and hidden the three pieces. Now he’s asleep in the storeroom, and the presents have to get to the sleigh before midnight.
You need to explore the workshop, the storeroom and Mother Elf’s office. Along the way you count toys, play the elves’ song on a set of chimes from a sheet of music, weigh toys on Pjok’s home-made scales, sort presents by Mother Elf’s rules and follow directions on the treasure map of Elfland. Finally the gate has to be opened, and it’s so heavy that several of you have to pull the handles at the same time.
The game is made to be played together: one person reads the note aloud, another taps the bells, and notes can be turned round to the other side of the table. If you get stuck, the help button gives three levels of hints, from a little nudge to the full solution. Every time you play, you get new codes and a new treasure hunt.
How to play
- Sit around the iPad and tap Enter the workshop. Read Pjok’s letter out loud.
- Tap things in the picture to take a closer look. Use the buttons at the top to switch between the workshop, storeroom and office once the doors are open.
- Tap an item in the bag and then something in the room to use it. Tap two items in the bag one after the other to combine them.
- Find the three pieces of the Christmas key, put them together and open the gate. Hold all three handles down at the same time.
- Tap Help if you get stuck. At the end you see your time and how many hints you used.