An old ghost lives at the top of the ancient, crooked stairs. A handful of daring children rush up the silent stairs, competing to be the first to scare the phantom with a loud cry. But the ghost has long known the tricky young people, and he doesn't hesitate either: he cast a spell on the stairs, so that the children trying to go up one by one become ghosts themselves. What's more, because of the constant mixing, sooner or later they don't even know who is who! Which child will reach the old ghost first? The version of the 2004 Kinderspiel des Jahres Spirit Staircase with a metal box, recommended for travel, without magnets.

Ghost Stairs is a fun memory-testing children's game in which players climb the stairs of a haunted castle and roll dice to determine how many steps they can take. One side of the special die has a ghost on both sides, which allows the player on the turn to turn a player puck into a ghost. The ghost figures are all white, and can only be identified by the colored stickers on their soles. They can only see this twice: when it is replaced by the player puck of the same color, and when they reach the top of the stairs.

But if all players move with ghosts instead of discs, and someone is "ghost-able" to roll the dice, he can exchange two figures. From here on, only attention and memory can help the players!

English edition.