Recommended for: 9+

PREORDER - Available on October 15, 2026 for instant download.

This Christmas, your family is checking into the Winterhouse Hotel, a grand and snow-draped place full of secret passages, hidden codes, and a mystery waiting to be unraveled. For three weeks, cozy sleuthing by the fire becomes the heart of your holiday season, with the whole family pulling together as a band of detectives on a case that unfolds a little more with every puzzle you solve.

Create a case file to track suspects, log clues, and record each breakthrough as the mystery deepens. Together you will untangle logic puzzles, crack ciphers, unscramble anagrams that hide more than they let on, follow a trail of curious clues, and team up to escape a locked room before time runs out, all wrapped in the twinkling-light, hot-cocoa magic of the season.

Throughout these three weeks, we will read Winterhouse by Ben Guterson, an award-winning mystery set in a hotel brimming with secrets during Christmas time.

This is Christmas School for the older kids, made for families who still want to gather around something special in the upper years. If you've been hoping for a holiday guide your nine, twelve, or fourteen-year-old will happily curl up with, full of clever puzzles and cozy sleuthing rather than crafts they've outgrown, this is the one to share together this season.

Recommended for ages 9 and up.