Crossword Puzzle Day This is your opportunity to start sharpening your pencil and get sharpening your brain. To celebrate Crossword Puzzle Day, try solving a crossword or creating a crossword puzzle of your own. Varieties include acrostic, arroword, and skeleton crosswords, as well as straight and cryptic crossword. Elizabeth Kingsley The first double-crostic puzzle was published… More Crossword Puzzle Day 21st December
What’s an Escape Room? Escape rooms are immersive, live games where groups of players are locked in a room and must solve clues and puzzles to escape. Think Da Vinci code meets Crystal Maze. Popular themes include exploring Egyptian tombs, defusing cold war bombs, escaping mad scientists and searching for pirate treasure. Why do this? Recently Natalie… More Mindfulness and Escape rooms
What makes a City Adventurer? A city is full of opportunities for exploration and discovery. It offers the chance to have an adventure. Just take a look at your own city and you’ll see lots of excitement right on your doorstep. Think you have what it takes to be a City Adventurer. Answer the following questions… More Are you a City Adventurer?
Do you ever feel you are getting too old for games? Well don’t. There is growing evidence that accomplishing novel or challenging tasks can help the brain. And when games are played as a group, they can spark creativity, imagination, and innovation. Our brains don’t stop growing as we age and its been revealed that the brain… More Too old for games?
Join Treasure Hunts in London for a festive Treasure Hunt around the National Portrait Gallery. Called The 12 Days of Christmas Treasure Hunt, this adventure is based on Christmas carols.… More This Christmas explore the National Portrait Gallery in London with a festive Treasure Hunt
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Black Friday Deals from the ITM Games Group -Including treasure hunt tickets, book offer and free downloads.
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The history of Piccadilly The urban development of the area dates back to the 15th century. Giving most of his land to the King for a Royal Park, Anthony Cotton retained a parcel of land to bequeath to his heirs. In 1618-19 John Cotton sold it to John Golightly, who later sold it to the tailor Robert Baker. The… More An Afternoon Adventure in Piccadilly
Benedict Egg meets Runcy Spoon Benedict Egg and Runcy Spoon were locked in a vicious battle. Both were rivals in the field of electronic innovation. Both were concerned about the problem of sustainable energy. Both were racing to find a solution. But only one could win The Egg and Spoon Race Benedict Egg with Al… More A Murder at Easter – The Egg and Spoon Race murder mystery
A Christmas Mystery party for your little ones. The Mystery of the Missing Reindeer is aimed at children aged 5 to 9 years. It gives them the chance to solve a mystery, just like the Scoobey Doo Gang. The children play games and assemble easy craft projects as they try to solve the mystery and rescue… More The Mystery of the Missing Reindeer
It’s Christmas 1979 and School is nearly out…. The year, and the decade, was about to end with a Christmas disco to remember. It was 6pm as the gang assembled in the foyer to check that everything was ready. The first thing they all saw was “The Winter Wonderland” display erected in the school foyer.… More “Who Slayed Santa?”