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Field Notes

The Toucan's Lost Map: What It Can Do for Players

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  • Printable games
  • Benefits
  • Ages 7 to 11

A printable jungle explorer escape room party game. Win back 12 squares of a torn paper map, put it together, walk the way home with a compass and hop up the Pyramid Pass. It is a digital download for ages 7 to 11: you print it at home or at school, and nothing is shipped.

What it can do for the people who play it

  • A themed adventure turns an afternoon or a party into something with a clear goal and a finish line.
  • A locked puzzle that will not open teaches checking your work and trying again, in a setting where a mistake is part of the game.
  • Counting, adding and logic puzzles are practised inside a story, which keeps children going longer than a worksheet would.
  • Cut-out props and cards give hands something to do as well as heads, which suits many children who find it hard to sit still.

None of this needs special training: the puzzles do the work. The aim is practice and enjoyment, and we make no promise about test scores.

How to use it

Print the pages, cut out the props and read the host script once. Split the guests into teams, hand out the first clue and let them go.

A page from The Toucan's Lost Map.
From the game.
A page from The Toucan's Lost Map.
From the game.

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The Toucan's Lost Map, first picture of its store page

The Toucan's Lost Map

A printable jungle explorer escape room party game. Win back 12 squares of a torn paper map, put it together, walk the way home with a compass and hop up the Pyramid Pass.

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Digital download: nothing is shipped.

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