Adventure Escape Mysteries helps kids practice and improve the following skills:

Focus

Getting started and then maintaining attention and effort to tasks.

In this game, puzzles can hinge on the smallest of details. That means the player needs to be using all of their focus skills to make sure they aren’t missing information and clues. Ignoring internal and external distractions will help the player keep focused on any instructions or hints given in the game. Initiating tasks without procrastinating will help on several puzzles that have a time element. And, of course, maintaining focus will help solve puzzles, and since all the puzzles are varying lengths, the player gets to practice both short and long term focus.

Planning

Developing a systematic approach for setting and achieving goals.

Because the majority of these puzzles have many steps, and the order of the steps—and even the puzzles as a whole—matters, the player is going to have to use their planning skills. Every puzzle is a problem that has to be solved. Problem solving is one of the many planning thinking skills. The player will get to practice this skill almost every minute he or she is playing this game. These puzzles also tend to take only a few minutes each and require the player to plan only a few moves out in advance. That means the player will primarily get to practice their short-term planning. Without using these planning skills, the player will just be guessing about what to do next and will be unable to advance as quickly and successfully through the game.