New Year's Eve Escape Game
The Midnight Clock: New Year's Eve Escape Game
A printable New Year's Eve escape game for a family team to solve with pencils before the countdown
- Printable PDF
- US Letter + A4
- Instant download
One zip. Pages: 17 player pack pages, 4 hint sheets, 8 guide pages and 1 cover page (Letter edition)
Look inside
Parts of real pages from the download, shown smaller and marked as a preview.
Player pack opening: the tower, Pip the owl and the story 
How to play: the five steps and a gold-box check example 
Tower map: three rooms, the puzzle names and where the team splits up
What's in the download
- Player Pack: story, how to play, tower map, logbook, ten linked puzzles across the Tower Door and three rooms, the Great Clockwork finale, the Bell Board and a certificate
- Hint cards: three hints per puzzle plus a Junior tip, answer never on a card
- Host guide: setup, play overview, worked example of the hardest page and the full answer key
- Cover page
- US Letter and A4 editions of the player pack, hint cards and host guide; the cover page is Letter size
Exactly what you get
- Pages
- 17 player pack pages, 4 hint sheets, 8 guide pages and 1 cover page (Letter edition)
- Paper sizes
- US Letter and A4
- Players
- 2 to 6 per team, one Player Pack per team (design target)
- Time estimate
- About 45 to 75 minutes of play, about 10 minutes of setup (estimates)
- Supplies
- Pencils only: nothing to cut or assemble
Good to know before you buy
- Print-only: answers are written by hand on paper
- Age 8 to 12 with adults and difficulty are design targets, not tested with children
- Play time and setup time are estimates, not measured with families
- English only
- Personal use only
What you need
A printer, plain paper and one pencil per player
Guides that go with it
- DIY Escape Room at Home, from Story to Finale
Build a DIY escape room at home from a short premise, a backward clue chain, paper checks, a quiet test, and a finale proved with a sealed envelope.
- New Year's Eve activities at home, with an early countdown
New Year's Eve activities at home for a family evening: an early kids' countdown, a DIY balloon drop, and a homemade countdown you can run indoors.
Questions about this printable
What do I need?
A printer, plain paper and one pencil per player
Can I type into it?
No. These are print-only PDFs: you fill them in by hand.
How long does it take?
About 45 to 75 minutes of play and about 10 minutes of setup. Those are our estimates; the game has not been timed with families.
Which paper sizes are inside?
US Letter and A4. Both editions come in the same zip, so print whichever your printer uses.
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The Midnight Clock: New Year's Eve Escape Game
2 to 6 per team · pencils only · Printable PDF · US Letter + A4