9 complete adventures
What can happen when every timing rule must hold?
Players put events into a workable order and use the timing information on the page. The useful skill is checking how one scheduling decision affects the remaining choices.
Choose this when the group enjoys putting events in order, comparing times and spotting a clash in a plan.
Keep event names, times and badge labels together. Test the printed before, after and availability rules before accepting a schedule.
Start with the times or positions the sheet gives directly. Separate those facts from placements the team is still trying.
Use one rule at a time and check its effect on the rest of the schedule. Cross out impossible placements rather than erasing the rule.
Once the schedule meets all the constraints, follow the page’s extraction instruction. Check whether it asks for an event, position, time or code.
A schedule can look orderly while breaking one small condition. Read every constraint again against the finished arrangement.
For the host: Ask “Which part is fixed, and which part are we trying?” Give the group room to revise a tentative placement.
Each adventure has its own evidence, story and final instructions. Open a game to check its full setup and print plan.
Work together to reconstruct the mail round.
Work together to reconstruct the nest survey.
Work together to rebuild the castle welcome schedule.
Work together to reconstruct the kite demonstration.
Work together to reconstruct the clock repair schedule.
Work together to reconstruct the cargo release schedule.
Work together to rebuild the dusk observing schedule.
Work together to reconstruct the paper bakery run.
Work together to reconstruct the lantern rehearsal.
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Welcome to the lantern theatre. Stage cards contain both immediate handoffs and longer before-and-after relationships. Your team has the original records on the table. First recover five pieces of information, then use the final plan to reconstruct the lantern rehearsal. Keep every result beside its badge so another teammate can check your reasoning.
Read every clue below, including the final instructions. Answers and host hints stay in the host materials.
Clue 1 of 6
Arrange the four event cards using every witness note. "Immediately before" means there is no event between them. Report the requested position after the whole order has been checked.
Event cards A: Place lantern B: Hang screen C: Open curtain D: Test shadow Witness notes B is immediately before A. D is immediately before C. A is before D. Report the event ID in position 2.
Clue 2 of 6
The team needs time for both the job and the journey. It cannot start before the earliest time, leave a window unfinished, or arrive after the deadline. Which departure window works? Times are minutes after opening.
Departure windows (minutes after opening) STAGE-A: start 10; window ends 21 STAGE-B: start 16; window ends 34 STAGE-C: start 30; window ends 49 Work and travel Earliest start 12; job 10 min. Travel 6 min; arrival deadline 40. Job + travel must both fit inside one window. Report the only possible window ID.
Clue 3 of 6
Recover the complete desk-signal legend from the training cards. Compare which signals and words appear together across the cards; word order on a card is not a clue. Decode the received message in order. The desk uses this message when handling the stage rehearsal.
Unlabelled legend Signals: DOT, BAR, ARC, RING, CROSS. Words: WAIT, SEND, TURN, REST, CHECK. Each signal has one word; each word is used once. Training messages DOT+BAR means SEND+TURN (any order) BAR+ARC means TURN+REST (any order) ARC+RING means REST+CHECK (any order) RING+CROSS means CHECK+WAIT (any order) Received message CROSS > BAR Report decoded words in order, with hyphens.
Clue 4 of 6
Follow the checked cue through the stage book to its signed notice. A draft notice can share the same bay, so both the joins and the copy status matter.
Cue sheets item: Screen | tag: PINE | status: cancelled item: Lamp | tag: WAVE | status: draft item: Curtain | tag: STAR | status: checked Stage book tag: STAR | bay: NORTH tag: PINE | bay: EAST tag: WAVE | bay: WEST Director note bay: WEST | seal: RING | copy: signed bay: NORTH | seal: KITE | copy: signed bay: EAST | seal: LEAF | copy: signed bay: WEST | seal: KITE | copy: draft Cross-check Match A.tag to B.tag. Match B.bay to C.bay. A.status is checked. C.copy is signed. Report C.seal.
Clue 5 of 6
The shadow rehearsal needs screen, light and stage-mark cards. Pack the lightest complete kit within the carrier limit. A combined card can cover two requirements.
Supply cards A: weight 2; gives screen B: weight 4; gives light+mark C: weight 3; gives screen+light D: weight 2; gives mark E: weight 7; gives screen+light+mark Packing order Capacity 7; must cover screen, light, mark. Use the lightest complete kit. Each card once. Write chosen card IDs alphabetically, with hyphens.
Clue 6 of 6
Each recorded result recovers one order note. Use all five notes to put the six named events in order. A>B means A happens before B. Write all six event IDs from first to last; check that every note is satisfied.
Run sheet A: Place lantern B: Clear stage C: Open curtain D: Hang screen E: Take bow F: Test shadow Recovered order notes Order: A=B>D; B=D>B Window: STAGE-A=A>D; STAGE-B=D>A Signal: WAIT-TURN=A>F; WAIT-SEND=F>A Record: RING=C>F; KITE=F>C Kit: C-D=C>E; A-B=E>C Order rule A>B means A happens before B. Use all five notes. Report all six event IDs in order, with hyphens.
A rain shower mixed the delivery notes before the mail round. Work together to reconstruct the mail round.
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The field team must finish its careful survey before the nest path closes. Work together to reconstruct the nest survey.
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The guests can enter only after the invitation checks are completed in the right order. Work together to rebuild the castle welcome schedule.
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Launch, inspection and landing notes were mixed before the festival rehearsal. Work together to reconstruct the kite demonstration.
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The clock repair cards must be returned to an order that allows every check to happen. Work together to reconstruct the clock repair schedule.
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The cargo notes say what must happen first, but the release timetable has been erased. Work together to reconstruct the cargo release schedule.
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The crew needs a slot long enough for setup and travel before the observing window closes. Work together to rebuild the dusk observing schedule.
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The model bakery has cooling and packing steps that must fit between the order checks. Work together to reconstruct the paper bakery run.
See clues & prepareStage cards contain both immediate handoffs and longer before-and-after relationships. Work together to reconstruct the lantern rehearsal.
See clues & prepareChoose this when children enjoy decoding, testing a possible legend and tracking how a sequence of instructions changes a control.
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