We Opened All 24 Doors So You Can See Exactly What Arrives
The whole appeal of a mystery box is that you cannot see inside it. That is also the reason people hesitate before buying one. Here is every door, opened.
The Question Nobody Answers In The Reviews
Read the reviews on any mystery calendar and you will find photographs of the closed box, the open box, and the box beside a mug. What you will almost never find is a photograph of the twenty-four things that were inside it. So the four questions that decide the purchase go unanswered.
- Are they all different, or is the same shape repeated
- How big is each one, really
- Is the jumbo one actually jumbo
- Will my box match the picture
Those are not unreasonable questions. They are the only questions, and a product photo of a sealed box cannot answer any of them.
All Twenty-Four, Laid Out
Here is the entire contents of one box, taken out of the tray and photographed in a grid. Nothing removed, nothing added, nothing arranged to look fuller than it is.
Product note: Snowmen, Santas, gingerbread people, polar bears, penguins in scarves, wrapped presents, candy canes, small trees, reindeer and stars. Each about an inch tall. The assortment varies from box to box, so yours will not be identical to this one, and that is the point of a mystery box.
How Big They Actually Are
An inch is a number, and numbers are hard to picture. So the useful version is a hand.
Product note: Each mini is roughly an inch tall. The jumbo behind door twenty-four is about three times that, which is the size difference you can see in the photograph rather than a figure to take on trust.
The jumbo one behind door twenty-four is a different object again, roughly three times the size, and it is the one that gets named. Every parent in the review corpus mentions it.
The Numbers That Matter
Everything above, as figures you can compare against anything else you are considering.
Twenty-five separate toys, bought individually, would cost considerably more than one box and would arrive all at once, which removes the only thing a countdown is for.
What The Daily Sixty Seconds Looks Like
Find the numbered door. Press a thumb through the foil. Take out whatever is inside and squash it flat. That is the whole routine and it is the reason children get out of bed for it.
Product note: Door one opens on the 1st of December and door twenty-four opens on Christmas Eve. Starting late is not a problem: open two a day to catch up, which children enjoy more than they should.
Nothing is eaten, so nothing runs out. By Christmas Eve there are twenty-five toys in the house and an empty tray, which is the correct way round.
See It All, Then Let Them Discover It
A different soft squishy behind every door, and a jumbo one behind door 24.
CHECK AVAILABILITYWhat Parents Say About MerrySquish
Individual experiences shared by verified customers.
“I wanted to see the squishies before buying and nobody had photographed them. Now I have.”
“Every single door was a different character and the jumbo one is genuinely big.”
“All items are what is pictured, good size toys, not very many tiny ones.”
“My son counted them out on the rug and then counted them again.”
“The glow of finding out what today is has not worn off once.”