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Gate of Adventures Card Game
A card game for developing creative problem-solving skills
The Gate of Adventures card game takes your child on exciting and imaginative journeys that build resilience, boost confidence, and strengthen problem-solving abilities, creative thinking, and coping skills, all through the power of play.
Life is the greatest adventure – help your child thrive in it!
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The Gate of Adventures card game takes your child on exciting and imaginative journeys that build resilience, boost confidence, and strengthen problem-solving abilities, creative thinking, and coping skills, all through the power of play.
How can you help your child become more creative, resourceful, and resilient?
As a parent, you want your child to succeed in life, and to face life’s everyday challenges with confidence and ease. But sometimes they hesitate, or they might be shy, unsure of themselves, or intimidated by bigger tasks, not knowing what to do about them. They may even hold back from things you know they’re capable of doing. So you start to worry about how they will cope later in life.
- How can you help them strengthen their problem-solving skills?
- How can you spark their courage and motivation?
- What can you do to help them feel excited about trying new things?
- How can you support them in finding creative solutions when things get tough?
In fact, the best way to help your child is through something they already love: play. Play isn’t just entertainment; it’s one of the most powerful ways children learn. While playing, they get to test their limits and skills, explore new situations, and act more freely, without the inhibitions that might otherwise hold them back in everyday life.
This is exactly where the Gate of Adventures card game can support you. The cards invite the children into magical adventures where they’ll need to find solutions to fantastical situations. Along the way, they’ll also encounter everyday challenges that call for just as much clever thinking and creativity.
The goal of the game is to strengthen children’s problem-solving abilities and nurture their creative thinking. Through magical quests and real-life challenges, they learn how to solve problems creatively and build effective coping strategies, all while having fun.
Why is it important to develop children’s problem-solving skills?
A child’s ability to solve problems also plays a crucial role later in life:
- Problem-solving skills promote independence and help children navigate everyday challenges. Children who can solve problems more effectively are better at adapting to change and handling difficulties.
- Critical thinking develops through problem-solving. Children learn to analyze situations, identify possible solutions, evaluate different approaches, and choose the most suitable one. This strengthens their overall cognitive development and reasoning.
- When children succeed in solving a problem, they gain confidence and self-esteem. These positive experiences motivate them to face new tasks with courage and trust in their own abilities.
- Problem-solving fosters teamwork and communication. Children learn to collaborate, share ideas, and listen to others, especially through the cooperative play mode available in the Gate of Adventures card game.
- Problem-solving also improves children’s emotion regulation skills, particularly in managing frustration and stress.
- Creativity and innovation are closely linked to problem-solving. Children discover how to come up with original solutions for challenges—a skill that’s increasingly valuable in today’s rapidly changing world.
- Better problem-solving leads to better academic performance. Children who are effective problem-solvers are more focused, persistent, and motivated to learn. They’re also more capable of understanding complex concepts and making connections.
Do you want your child to grow into a confident and capable adult?
Then building strong problem-solving skills is a must.
How to play the Gate of Adventures game
The game can be played in two different modes:
In the cooperative game mode, players don’t compete against each other—instead, they work together to go on as many adventures and solve as many challenges as they can. They either win together or lose together. This shared gameplay experience encourages teamwork and cooperation, while offering fun and exciting adventures for even the youngest explorers.
The competitive game mode gives more experienced adventurers a chance to challenge each other. In this version, the winner is the first player to complete all their missions. While competition is part of the gameplay, the focus remains on fun and the joy of playing, so everyone can enjoy the challenges and the adventure.
What ages is the game suitable for?
The game is recommended for children aged 3 to 12, making it a great activity for both younger and older children to enjoy together.
How many players can play the game?
The game can be played by 1 to 6 players at a time, so whether your child wants to play alone or you’re looking for an activity for the whole family or a classroom group, it’s a perfect fit.
How long does the game last?
Each session lasts around 15–20 minutes, making it ideal for busy weekday evenings or for a relaxing break during a trip or outing.
What’s in the box?
- 20 Adventure Cards, with a magical quest on one side and an everyday challenge on the other
- 20 Tool Tokens, showing objects and items that might help solve the challenges on the Adventure Cards
- 14 Skill Tokens that offer extra support for tackling tricky situations
- 1 Gate of Adventures / Lead Explorer Card
- 1 Mysterious Night / Wonderful Day Card
- 2 Solution Cards for completing adventures
- 1 list of tools
- 1 list of skills
- A game booklet
Where can you play Gate of Adventures?
Whether you’re out on a hike, relaxing on a family holiday, or winding down in the evening, The Gate of Adventures makes for a fun and engaging game! You’ll dive into exciting adventures, solve interesting tasks, laugh together, and come up with creative, clever, or even silly solutions to all kinds of scenarios. While having fun, your child will strengthen their thinking skills and grow in confidence.
About the author
BELLA BAGDI
Psychologist, mindfulness instructor (MBSR, MBCT), Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher (MSC), founder and lead developer of the Happiness Lesson Program. She launched the Happiness Lesson Program in the 2014/2015 school year, and since then, more than 1,500 kindergartens and schools have joined it. More than 100,000 children and young people can now take part in Happiness Lessons, often referred to by students as “emotion classes”.
Bella’s mission is to use science-based methods to promote mental health and thereby contribute to a happier, healthier, and more compassionate society. Her best-known publications are the Happiness Lesson book series and the Positivity development games.
Awards:
- Forbes Makers Hungary Award 2025.
- HundrED’s Global Collection of the most impactful and scalable innovations for 2025.
- HundrED’s Spotlight of the most effective Wellbeing in Schools programmes, 2025.
- Happiness Lesson OTP Fáy Educational Innovation Award - lower primary school category, 2024.
HundrED, an organization that promotes science-based education programs, has selected the Happiness Lesson Program as one of the 100 most impactful school innovation programs in the world. The Happiness Lesson Program is now included in the HundrED Global Collection 2025 and has also been recognized as one of the 15 most impactful school well-being programs globally.
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Mrs. Dombi István Bocskai Primary School of Derecske –
Mrs. Dombi István Bocskai Primary School of Derecske
As someone with decades of experience as a teacher, I’ve been trying to figure out why children today often struggle to express themselves. There are several reasons for this, but one of the most significant is what I call “silence at home.” Sadly, this is a major barrier to developing expressive skills. Parents who are overwhelmed with work want peace and quiet in the evenings. The children come home tired, too, but they would like to talk, to share the big events and small troubles of their day, but their mom and dad hush them. Not out of disinterest, but because they themselves are burdened with problems.
Language is our most important tool for thinking and connecting with others. Without it, community life becomes impossible. In the classroom, the teacher—regardless of the subject they teach—is a key figure. Their personality has a unique influence that cannot be replaced by anything else. Their role is to nurture in children the ability to express their thoughts and feelings, both in speech and writing.
One solution is to talk with children more—and The Gate of Adventures card game is a fantastic playful tool to do just that. It helps build creative problem-solving and coping skills through magical adventures. The everyday scenarios in the game encourage a kind of bravery in life that supports the development of effective coping strategies. Even the “silent ones” at home start speaking up, bursting with clever ideas.
It was truly heartwarming to see and hear how they found solutions to even the trickiest situations using the item tokens. They loved the skill tokens, and as a team, they filled their success albums together. The game got even more exciting when we flipped the item tokens face-down and asked them to recall and turn over one from memory. The hilarious ideas they came up with had us all laughing.
Mrs. Dombi
István Bocskai Primary School of Derecske
Mrs. Andrea Fervágner Sándor Nefelejcs Preschool for the Arts, Csömör –
Mrs. Andrea Fervágner Sándor Nefelejcs Preschool for the Arts, Csömör
Another beautifully designed card game from Mental Focus—one that doesn’t require any extra motivation, because as soon as the children saw the illustration, they rushed to the table. They could hardly wait for me to open the box. We unpacked the decks together, which include round and rectangular cards. They love that the Story Cards are double-sided, and they can choose which side I read. One side features a real-life problem, the other a fairytale scenario. Since they’re preschoolers, they naturally prefer the magical illustrations. They are a little exciting, a little mysterious, and give space for imagination, and of course, unleash incredible energy in the children, because now they get to be the superheroes.
At first, we searched freely through the cards for solutions, but then we added a challenge and only allowed them to use the top card. They quickly discovered that even everyday objects can be used in many surprising ways. There was joy, laughter, playful brainstorming, a bit of silliness, a touch of seriousness—all kinds of emotions came into play. One quiet child from the middle age group threw themselves into the game and competed enthusiastically with the older ones during the brainstorming rounds.
The card game offers so many possibilities. It’s cheerful, visually appealing, and filled with familiar situations and objects. It builds on what the children already know, develops creative thinking, expands their knowledge, grows their vocabulary, and strengthens expressive skills. Solving the challenges really gets everyone thinking and strengthens group cohesion and cooperation.
It never really ends. You can stop anytime, but it could go on forever. I wholeheartedly recommend it to everyone!
Mrs. Andrea Fervágner Sándor
Nefelejcs Preschool for the Arts, Csömör
Csilla Berencsi-Eke Péter Vermesy Primary and Elementary Art School of Maglód –
Csilla Berencsi-Eke Péter Vermesy Primary and Elementary Art School of Maglód
This card game is really exciting, and the children loved it, especially the magical adventures. That’s where they felt much more freedom and could really use their imagination. It develops cooperation, empathy, and most of all, problem-solving skills.
Csilla Berencsi-Eke
Péter Vermesy Primary and Elementary Art School of Maglód