Cosy crime. 3 to 6 players, or solo. 1 to 18 December: a small puzzle every few days, with a live finale on 18 December at 7pm.

Nana's Advent

Nana died in November, at 84. Heart failure, they said. On 1 December her number texts the whole family.

She'd scheduled an advent calendar before she died: one little puzzle at a time, each one opening a page of her Little Book of Suspicions.

1 to 18 Dec 2027 Tell me when it opens Buy as a gift
Nana
If you're reading this after I've gone, it wasn't my heart.

Tell me when it opens.

Nana's Advent runs 1 to 18 Dec 2027. Leave your email and we'll send you one message when Nana's Advent opens. Nothing else unless you ask.

Your weekend, roughly.

You can still go to the shops. The busy stretches are Saturday morning, Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon.

  1. 1 December, 7pmThe first door: a message from Nana, and a puzzle.
  2. 2 to 14 DecemberFive more puzzles, a bridge club, a will and a tea caddy.
  3. 18 December, 7pmEveryone in one chat, live, at the cottage. Nana's last door.

Six people in the lodge. One of them knows.

They'll all be in your phone by Saturday lunchtime. Each player was closest to someone different, so each of you hears different secrets.

  • Iris PenhallowNana. Texted better than her grandchildren.
  • Clive BarrowHer gentleman friend from bridge club.
  • GrahamHer son.
  • DoreenNext door, forty years.
  • Auntie ValHer sister, 88.