Snow Owl Ice Camp, Math Escape Room for Kids 8-12, Browser Game + Printable PDF

Designed by Creouts Publishing using original prompt(s) and AI (Claude by Anthropic). Illustrations made with AI image tools. Every puzzle is computer-checked to have exactly one answer.

SNOW OWL ICE CAMP: an escape room puzzle adventure with 120 math pyramid locks
The Big Freeze has iced every lock at Snow Owl Ice Camp and blown out its twelve picture lanterns. Without the lights, the supply sled cannot find its way home. Follow Drift the snowy owl from hut to hut, thaw the brick locks, open each lantern box and relight all twelve lanterns in time for Lantern Night.

THIS IS A DIGITAL GAME FOR A WEB BROWSER, PLUS A PRINTABLE PDF. It is not a book and nothing is shipped.
- The interactive game is the HTML file. It opens in a web browser after unzipping, checks your answers, gives hints and saves your progress on your device. It works offline: no internet, no account, no ads.
- The PDF is a printable paper version of the same adventure. It is not interactive: you solve with a pencil and check with the answer key at the back. It works completely by itself.

HOW IT PLAYS
- Twelve huts, each with ten brick locks. Every lock is a number pyramid: every brick is the sum of the two bricks under it
- Each open lock gives a token with a digit; four tokens open the hut's lantern box
- Inside waits a lantern: solve, join the dots made by your answers, and the picture lights up
- Stars for every lock (three with no help), a camp map, a lantern collection and a Camp Certificate with your name
- Six 60-second Snowball Sprints for quick mental math

18 KINDS OF MATH PYRAMID PUZZLE, FROM EASY TO TRICKY
Snow Bricks, Flag Trail, Odd Brick Out, Secret Signs, Frosted Digits, Crate Stack, Hidden Message, Downhill Run, Bigger or Smaller, Snow Maze (a pyramid maze), Mixed Signs, Ice Stick Fix, Number Set, Letter Code, Four Signs, Twin Domes, Under Zero and Mystery x.
- New kinds arrive two at a time, each with its own rule card
- Hut 1 is simple adding; later huts bring taking away, times and divide, numbers below zero and a first taste of x
- 230 pyramids in all. Every one is new, has exactly one answer and can be solved step by step without guessing
- In the game: 3-step hints on every lock (a nudge, the method, the answer). In the PDF: a hint ladder and a full answer key

AGES
8 to 12 and up. The first huts suit age 8; the last huts challenge 12-year-olds and grown-ups.

WHAT YOU GET (instant download, 3 files)
- Snow-Owl-Ice-Camp.zip: the game (one offline HTML file), both PDFs and a short START HERE note
- The print-and-play PDF again as separate files, US Letter and A4 (110 full-colour pages each)
- Free bonus folder (QR code and link in the PDF): Night Watch (16 expert locks with answers), the Camp Party Pack (door sign, token stickers, lantern garland, bunting, colouring page) and ink-saver versions of the booklet

HOW TO OPEN THE GAME
1. Unzip the download (Windows: right-click the ZIP, then Extract All; Mac: double-click it)
2. Double-click Snow-Owl-Ice-Camp.html; it opens in your web browser
3. Play, with touch, mouse or keyboard

PLEASE CHECK YOUR DEVICE
- Windows, Mac and Chromebook: yes, in a current web browser (Chrome, Edge or Firefox work best)
- Android phones and tablets: yes, open the file with Chrome
- iPad and iPhone: Apple's Files app does not run games from a file. You would need a file-viewer app with its own browser, or a computer. The printable PDF works on every device.

GOOD TO KNOW
- Digital download only: nothing is shipped.
- About 15 to 45 minutes a hut; twelve huts make many hours of puzzles.
- The game never goes online. Nothing is collected or sent; your progress stays on your device.
- A winter story with no holiday figures: it suits every family, all year round.
- Love math pyramids? Creouts Publishing also publishes math pyramid puzzle books in paperback (search "Creouts Publishing" on Amazon).

PERSONAL USE LICENSE
For your own family or a single classroom. Print as many copies as you need. No resale, sharing, uploading or claiming as your own; no AI training.

Digital files cannot be returned.