Once a year the Puffcloud islands float down to Home Hill. Your crew climbs aboard, the rope snaps, and the islands drift away. The only way home is the Long Slide inside the Cloud Pyramid. Puffcloud Expedition is a printable escape room card game, played with 52 cards on a table.
The answer is the next card
Read a card and solve its puzzle together. The answer is the number of the next card, so the cards check your answers. And the next card must also show the same little sky sign (an acorn, a kite, a lantern), so a right answer is confirmed twice.
Choose your path
On every island you choose: one puff is a gentle breeze (counting, adding and taking away, for ages 7 to 8) and two puffs a strong wind (bigger numbers and times tables to 10 × 10, for ages 9 to 11). Both paths meet at the island's Windgate, and opening it wins a sky pebble. Five pebbles open the Pebble Door. One game uses 18 of the 29 puzzles, so you can play again on the other paths.
Nobody gets stuck
Every puzzle has three hints, a nudge, the method and the answer, and friendly gust cards catch the likeliest slips. You start with ten suns to keep, and a hint or a gust costs one, but nobody can lose.
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Puffcloud Expedition
A printable escape room card game for ages 7 to 11: 52 cards, 29 puzzles, two paths to choose from on every island.
See it on EtsyDesigned by Creouts Publishing using original prompts and AI (Claude by Anthropic). Illustrations made with AI image tools. Digital download: nothing is shipped.
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