The online North Pole
An online North Pole you can explore.
Santa’s Notes is an explorable online North Pole where families take part in Christmas stories, games and personalized experiences, and the world can remember what they do. There are eight places to go, it is free to play, and there is no account to make.
Eight places to go
Every door in the village square opens onto one of these. Each is something to do together, at home, on one screen — most of it in five minutes or less.
Mabel’s Office
Mabel Quill keeps the North Pole’s appointment book. Appoint somebody in your family to an official office — Head of Wrapping Standards, say, or Controller of the Thermostat — and they can accept, appeal, or nominate somebody worse.
North Pole Court
A sealed summons on the bench. Read the charge, choose a defence and let the family vote on the verdict. New cases are filed through the season.
Newsroom
The North Pole’s news desk. Pull tonight’s edition off the proof press — and if your household has been playing, its own dispatches arrive on the wire.
Santa’s Study
Santa’s writing desk, with a letter left on it. Once your family has done something at the North Pole, the letter can mention it.
Christmas Theatre
A stage manager’s bell and a call sheet. Ring for places and find out which part is waiting for somebody in your family.
Picture House
A small picture house. Pull the projector lever and see what is showing — for now, a studio preview of a Santa film.
Elf Workshop
The elves’ letterpress. Tick what is in your kitchen and how much time you have, and it prints one Elf on the Shelf idea for tonight, with the note the elf leaves.
Sleigh Station
The night shift loads the sleigh. This is the daily puzzle: a small ordering puzzle, solved by deduction in a few minutes, with a streak for households that come back.
The North Pole remembers
What your family does here is written into your household’s record. An appointment made in Mabel’s Office, a finished sleigh shift, a defence or a verdict at the Court — each comes back later on the Newsroom’s wire, and Santa’s letter in the Study can mention it. The North Pole only ever repeats what your family actually did; it does not make anything up about you.
The record belongs to the device you played on. There is no account, no email address and no password — just a household the North Pole recognises when you come back.
Free, and new through the season
Everything in the North Pole is free to play. The daily puzzle and the Incident Log are published through the Christmas season and the Daily Alibi opens on 26 November, so there is a reason to come back before Christmas Eve. The Court’s docket is open every night, and earlier hearings, bulletins and roasts stay in the archive under the dates they ran.
Shows and stories
North Pole Court
Summons. Defence. Verdict.
The Seven-Bow Parcel
North Pole News
Tonight’s consequences and updates.
The Casting Desk Has Opinions · Thursday 12 November
Character Roasts
Trees, wrapping and decorations under review.
The window from the street · From the archive · Friday 2 October
Bramble the G.O.A.T.
Self-appointed legend. Occasional disaster.
Who he is, and what he has done
The Studio
The one part of Santa’s Notes that sells anything. The Santa’s Notes Studio makes keepsakes for one child at a time, from what a parent writes, delivered in about a minute.
Who works here
Mabel Quill
Keeper of the Official Record; casting clerk and presiding officer of pretend Court.
Pip Snow
Public defender of festive absurdity and Sleigh Shift dispatch companion.
Juniper Bell
North Pole News correspondent and Quiet Delivery rooftop guide.
Bramble
Self-appointed Director of Spectacle. Occasional logistics volunteer. G.O.A.T. by species and personal press release.
Santa
Host of the world and keeper of its welcome.
Comet
Decorations critic, at large