CORE DETAILS
One puzzle a night from December 1 to December 24, with a grand finale 25th puzzle released once the first 24 are solved.
You can play as an individual or as a team by using the same log in. Any mention of “team” or “you” from this point is inclusive of individuals/teams.
If you forget your password, contact us and we will send you a fun new one.
You can access the puzzles from the “Home” page, by either clicking on the day on the advent calendar or scrolling down the page to the list of puzzles.
Start time is 7:00pm AEDT each day for the first 24 puzzles.
The 25th puzzle will become available as soon as all 24 daily puzzles are solved. Therefore the soonest that the 25th puzzle could become available is 24 December 2023.
Hints automatically release at 7:20pm, 7:30pm and 7:40pm. If you haven't solved the puzzle by that point, you may as well have a peek at the hints. It doesn't affect your score and nobody will know you looked.
All announcements will be made via Evolo’s Instagram and Facebook accounts. These will be the primary source of communication. However, communication may also be made via the email that you enter as part of the sign up process.
There are two types of leaderboards; the Daily Leaderboard and the Overall Prize Leaderboard.
DAILY LEADERBOARD
The Daily Leaderboard simply reflects the fastest times on the puzzles for each day.
OVERALL PRIZE LEADERBOARD
The Overall Prize Leaderboard is a bit more complicated. This will show each team’s score based on the “Best 15 Results” scoring system explained below under “SCORING SYSTEM”. Due to the "Best 15 Results" system, this leaderboard will become far more accurate towards the later end of the 24 days.
PRIZES
There are three types of prizes. The prizes are as described below and are not exchangeable for cash or any other use, product or service.
The prizes will be awarded as follows:
"Daily Prize" is awarded to the first team finished each night (unless the team has already won a Daily Prize, then it goes to the next team on the Daily Leaderboard that has not already won a Daily Prize). Winners will be contacted via the email used in the sign up process.
"All 25 Lucky Draw" is a awarded by random draw. This prize is open to any team who completes all 25 puzzles by midnight 31 December 2023. The winner will be announced 1 January 2024 and also contacted via email.
"Overall Prize" is awarded to the highest scoring team as per the “Best 15 Results” described below in “SCORING SYSTEM”. This will be announced after the 25th team completes all 25 puzzles, ie the point in which all available points have been earned. The winner will also be contacted via email.
DAILY PRIZE (25 available valued at $25 each)
Each of "Daily Prizes" will be a custom-made $25 gift voucher for Evolo Room Escape. The Daily Prize gift voucher can be used on any Evolo Room Escape experience or a board game from our shelves at our Moonah location! These are valid until 31 March 2024.
OVERALL PRIZE (1 available valued at up to $419)
The "Overall Prize" is suited to those a bit on the competitive side; a free Space Race (1 in total). You can split your team and play, or invite an equal number of other players and keep your dream team together! This will be valid until 31 March 2024.
ALL 25 LUCKY DRAW PRIZE (1 available valued at up to $419)
Madly refreshing and solving as close to 7:00pm as possible isn't the only way to win a grand prize! There's another Space Race up for grabs, picked by a lucky draw from everyone who finishes all 25 puzzles by 31 December 2023! This will be valid until 31 March 2024.
SCORING SYSTEM
In order to give people a chance at winning without having to be available every night at 7:00pm, the "Overall Prize" will be determined based on a points system as follows:
Finishing a daily puzzle = 1 point (available for every puzzle, 25 points can be gained from completing all of the puzzles)
Daily 1st place = 25 bonus points
Daily 2nd place = 24 bonus points
Daily 3rd place = 23 bonus points
...etc.
Daily 25th place = 1 bonus point
Daily 26th place (and so on) = 0 additional points
Only your top 15 placings will count for bonus points. So if you can't make it for up to 10 of the nights at 7:00pm, we realise everyone has things on this time of year, you can still win if you ace the other 15!
Therefore a perfect score would occur if you finished first for 15 nights therefore 25 bonus points x 15 days + 25 = 400 points!
In case of two or more teams getting the same highest score, to determine the winner, the total time taken for each of the team’s 15 top scoring days will be calculated and shortest time wins. If the scores are still tied to the exact millisecond, we will bring back jousting to determine the winner. The swords will be real and we have not run this idea by our insurance provider yet.
Examples:
A) If on 1 December 2023, your team was the third team to enter the correct answer, your team would get 1 point for finishing the puzzle and 23 additional points for being 3rd place on the Daily Leaderboard. Therefore for 1 Dec 2023 you would have 24 points.
B) If on 2 December, you had something on at 7pm and didn't answer it until the following day, you would still get 1 point for solving the puzzle.
C) If you played all 25 puzzles, only your top 15 leaderboard places will count towards your "Overall Prize" points tally, plus the 25 points for finishing each puzzle.
D) If you only play 15 puzzles, all of your places will count towards your "Overall Prize" points tally, however you would be leaving 10 easy points on the table that you can get by simply finishing the other 10!
CHEATING AND DISHONEST CONDUCT
Evolo reserves the right to update these rules in light of any unexpected situations regarding dishonest conduct. The use of duplicate accounts is not permitted and will result in expulsion from prize eligibility. Any gaming the system, hacking the website or cheating in any way we at Evolo deem to be unfair could result in expulsion from prize eligibility.