Escape Room Puzzles: Solve the puzzles to break out from ten fiendish rooms (The Escape Room Puzzle Series)

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Just get any simple recipe, like brownies, and encode the recipe in some way. Not the whole thing, as decoding that can take ages, but enough that players will need to work together.

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Tips:The object will usually have a magnet or an RFID tag buried on the bottom. The surface that the object is placed on will have a Reed Switch or some sort of RFID reader. There’s enormous flexibility here to hide the technology inside props that are appropriate for your theme. Make sure that once the door or cabinet is open, it is very clear to the players that something inside the room has changed. Tips:Keys are not magnetic, but steel rings are. A magnet attached to a string can grab keys on a steel ring.This concept also applies in general to any object that’s out of reach via normal means, and the player must find some sort of method to extract the object out. Usually the object is a key.Hardly anything can compare to being with your loved ones with a common goal and common effort. It gets people together more than anything other activity in a way you would have to experience to understand. Time spent around a dinner table with your loved ones is so valuable, but when you have a common goal and collective effort, time FLIES and you bond on a completely different and indescribable level. You’ll gain loads of memories and tons of hilarious experiences. More about the Puzzles! If players can’t defeat a foe, maybe they need to protect themselves from one. Give players a collection of objects and a limited amount of time to build fortifications. Objects could be solo cups, marshmallows and pieces of spaghetti (uncooked), or playing cards. Simply place objects in a pattern like this kitchen table example. The more normal the better, so long as it's going to be noticed.

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A sneaky spot is simply to put the key in the small space under the filing cabinet. Then, leave a note somewhere in the room with the message: This example, from our printable game Escape Room Z requires players to notice the zombie missing from the Polaroid, cut it out, and overlay it to read a message. A youtube video of yourself/friend explaining something. This can be recorded and uploaded from your phone. Then, simply visit the private video on your Smart TV/laptop and press pause so it's not playing. Then turn the TV off ready for players to 'find'. An object placed in the correct location can trigger the opening of a door or cabinet. This is more advanced than the other ideas on this list but also can be a simple electronics project. Some people love math, some people don’t compute! Either way, someone in any escape team is bound to be a fan of math problems. It’s so exciting to see a math equation to solve and finally have a real-world use for all that information they taught us in high school! If you do come across a math equation in an escape room, don’t worry because it is most likely basic algebra!Make a puzzle that requires players to use an electrical device, like a laptop. For example, create a folder that’s clearly labeled with something game-related (“BIO TOXIN” or “TROOP LOCATIONS”) and include a clue inside it. Then let the laptop battery drain completely. Team building content expert. Angela has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and worked as a community manager with Yelp to plan events for businesses. Make a string obstacle course like the laser detection systems in movies. Then it's a not-so-simple matter of ninja-flipping your way through it! Make sure to craft an epic story behind why your players need to solve these potentially infuriating puzzles.