• Cover of The Smoke Log of Corrow Peak, a solo mystery-horror journaling game, showing a fire lookout tower and the line There is never any fire
  • What's inside: sample pages for the rules, tracker sheet, 52 prompts and lookout map, 22 pages in US Letter and A4 plus a 23-page screen edition
  • How it plays: five steps (climb the tower, roll for the night, draw and write, watch your Nerve, follow the clues). About 45-90 minutes, ages 14+
  • 52 original prompts, one for every card: a sample Clubs 'The Forest' prompt page beside three prompt cards (6 of spades, K of clubs, 10 of hearts)
  • Tracker sheet for Nerve, Clues and Fire beside the lookout map of Corrow Peak with its radial sight lines
  • What you need: a deck of playing cards, one die and a pen, with a lined journal page. 10 journal pages included
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The Smoke Log of Corrow Peak: Solo Mystery-Horror Journaling Game, Play with a Deck of Cards and One Die, Printable

The Smoke Log of Corrow Peak: Solo Mystery-Horror Journaling Game, Play with a Deck of Cards and One Die, Printable

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Every dusk, smoke rises over the ridge. There is never any fire.

Summer 1923. You are the new fire lookout on Corrow Peak, alone in a timber tower above a sea of pines. The keeper before you, Ada Wren, never came down at the end of last season. The company says she walked out in the autumn rains. Most of her log is missing, and nobody in the valley will say why.

The Smoke Log of Corrow Peak is a solo mystery-horror journaling game. Each night you roll a die, draw cards and write what you see. Your Nerve wears down. Clues gather. Somewhere in the forest, someone knows what happened to Ada.

WHAT YOU GET

  • One game book, 22 pages, in two complete sets: US Letter and A4 (each laid out for its own paper, not scaled)
  • A 23-page screen edition for reading on a tablet or laptop
  • Rules, 52 original prompts (one for every card) plus 2 optional joker prompts
  • A tracker sheet for Nerve, Clues and Fire, a Clue Ledger, a lookout map and 10 journal pages
  • Five endings, two of them wins, and a one-page quick reference

WHAT YOU NEED

  • A standard 52-card deck, one six-sided die and a pen
  • Paper or a notebook if you want to write more than the journal pages hold

HOW IT PLAYS

  • 1 player. One sitting of about 45-90 minutes, or play a few nights at a time
  • Roll to see how many cards the night brings, answer each prompt in your log, and roll for its effect
  • Reach seven clues before your Nerve breaks, or before the fourth King sets the ridge alight
  • About half of games find the truth with 52 cards; add the two optional jokers for a gentler game (about three in four)

GOOD TO KNOW

  • Instant download: you get a zip file of PDFs right after checkout. Nothing is shipped.
  • Print at home at 100% ("Actual size"), or play from the screen edition and journal in a notebook. To save ink, skip the dark cover page: the game starts on page 2.
  • Tone: eerie and lonely, with dread rather than gore. Ages 14 and up.
  • Personal use only. Please do not resell or share the files.
  • This is an original game with an original story and characters. It is not affiliated with any other game, book, show or brand, and it is not based on a real event.

How we made it: the story, prompts and rules are original to this game. They were written with the help of AI tools, then checked and edited by us, and the rules were tested in 10,000 simulated games so every ending can happen. All artwork is drawn by code. No AI images.

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