The Great Christmas Candy Cane Quest

It was built for a primary school, so roughly 4–11 with a grown-up. Younger children love the characters and the tapping games; older ones take over the quiz questions and the sliding puzzles.

One to two hours for all twenty stops, depending on how far apart you place them and how long everyone stands about looking at the mice. Families can stop and come back later, and their progress is kept.

No. Place as many as your route can carry. A ten-stop version around one park works perfectly well, and the story still opens and closes properly.

Your place name is filled in for you. Beyond that you can edit any screen after the wizard has built the trail, so local jokes and street names are easy to add.

It happens: wind, weather, or someone tidying up a lamp post. Every magic summoning word is also shown in your organiser dashboard, so you can read a family the answer over the phone or print a replacement poster in a minute.

Please do. They print straight from your dashboard on plain A4, and lamination is the difference between a poster that survives a fortnight of December weather and one that does not.

The trail sits on your map, not on a calendar, so families play whenever suits them across the window you set. Most organisers run theirs over a fortnight in December and let people pick a dry afternoon.

There is no cap and no queue. Everyone plays on their own phone, at their own pace, in whatever order they like. A hundred families on the same Saturday is no different to one.

No. Once your trail is set up it runs itself. Organisers usually staff a start point on the busiest days to hand out maps and sell refreshments, but that is a fundraising choice, not a requirement.

Families play together under adult supervision, and we say so on the opening screen. We do not create child accounts, ask for names, or collect personal details from players. Pick your stops the way you would plan any walk: pavements, daylight, and nothing that needs crossing a busy road.

Screens load as families reach each stop, so patchy 4G is fine but a true dead spot is not. If part of your route has no coverage, tell us when you set up and we will help you place the stops around it.

Text can be enlarged with the phone’s own settings, every screen works one-handed in portrait, and you choose the route, so you control step-free access, distance and gradient. Families can also skip a challenge and carry on rather than getting stuck.