Pip hosts, the scoreboard keeps count, and your phones do the rest. Here's what's on the programme.
Team game
The stables hang their bells over the stalls, and each one has a mark. Read the marks on the beam and ring your bells in the right order to play three carols for the reindeer. One wrong note and the whole family starts the round again.
Turns
Each player takes a turn as a twelve-foot nutcracker. Hold perfectly still, coax a skittish glowing wisp onto your hand, then carry it to its lantern without a twitch. The rest of the family watches. Loudly.
Everyone at once
Four rounds: a reindeer, a drawing where you can't lift your finger, Pip himself, and your favourite Christmas thing. Send your drawing and it flies onto the TV and into Pip's hands. He judges every one live, honestly, and with feeling.
A chain of six words, each pair making a word or phrase: NORTH, POLE, STAR, LIGHT, HOUSE, ELF. You get the first and the last; fill in the four between before the clock runs out. Christmas chains, of course.
Your family shouts clues, acts it out or hums the tune while you guess as many as you can in sixty seconds. Christmas movies, carols, toys from Santa's workshop, and the North Pole's own staff. Picture cards for little ones.
The night ends with Pip's award show. The overall champion takes the top prize, and every player wins an award for something they did tonight, each with its own picture of them at the North Pole.
More games are on the way, including a sleigh race steered from your phones and a team challenge where one slip breaks it for everyone.
Pictures are concept art from the making of the game.
One ticket covers the whole household, two to six players, for 12 hours, 3 days or 30 days of play.
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