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A mystery letterbox is a great activity that is done outside and is also fun for all ages. This makes it an incredible family fun activity. Not only does it permit you to be in the fresh air, it also exercises your head by trying to solve a puzzle.

If you're not familiar with letterboxing, it is a hobby of sorts. It going on the moors of England now has spread for the U.S. along with other areas of the globe.

Basically, a letterbox is really a container you will find outside somewhere. A common place to hide them is in parks on trails.

What's inside this mysterious container? Simply this: a log book, a rubber stamp, and usually an ink pad. Yup, that's all.

What your are doing is collecting stamps. The stamp within the box usually represents it. So a box across the trail to Mt. Washington could possibly be a picture of Mt. Washington. Most of such stamps are hand-carved by whomever hid the box, so they are pretty intricate and unusual.

When you need to attempted to locate one of the boxes, one thing one does is lookup and print out clues that could be entirely on a web site. Then off you go. You bring along your own logbook and your own personal "signature stamp" signifying you. This stamp can even be hand-carved.

When the lamp can be found, you're taking the stamp from the lamp and stamp it to your personal logbook. Over time you collect hundreds and also thousands of stamps. But you also stamp your own signature stamp in the book that lives inside box. This implies that you're there. It's a great deal of fun to take a look on the comments from all the people who are finding that particular box.

So have no idea of mystery letterbox completely different from a normal one? Well, for ordinary boxes, the "clues" are very directions. They inform you wherever to go to find the box. For instance, the clue might say "Take the skyline trail, in the first fork go left, in 10 steps look behind the 3-trunked tree in your right."

But a mystery box requires more of you to find it. These boxes are little puzzles that have to be worked out. So for that reason, they're great in order to give the kids challenging. And there's no more satisfying than getting a letterbox you possessed to fix a clue for.

Here's an illustration. My husband and I are big Harry Potter fans. One letterbox on Cape Cod was hidden the day one of many Harry books came out. The clue contains instructions based on something in the series.

One step believed to find the pond named after Colin Creevy's brother. Then count the quantity of words into the first book in the event it first mentioned where Mr. Dursley works and do certain calculations on that number, etc.

When we found the therapy lamp, the stamp inside was a hand-carved image of Hagrid with Hedwig looking at his shoulder.

So as you can see, finding a mysterious letterbox might be plenty of fun for your family. To locate mystery letterboxes, visit one of the following websites:

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Click on Search for Boxes.

Select your state.

For the town, put an issue mark.

Click on Search boxes.

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Under wall mounted letterbox inside top menu, select Simple Search.

In this area titled Area Search, check "Include only mysteries."

Select your state.

Click on Search.