How to Escape (For Fun Of Course! 😅)

Puzzle ideas:

1. TJJHUUIWWS PJJUOOZLLZEELSSE IDDSWW EWWAQQSUUY
2. oS si hits noe!
3. AAAESFRRROAHIEEE YYYUNTNOOOSDWUUU EEENHKVVVWIUEEELSDNNN SSSLKOOOPULLLHGDVVVQASIIIJDKNNNRTYGGG TTTHUSHHHWSDEEEKJSSSDFREEE??
4. &@&, ^*$%!# (&=W, ^=T, @=O, $=A, !=K, #=S, *=H, %=N)

Hello and happy Tuesday! (Or whatever day it is!)

K, here, and I’ve been working on some puzzles for my latest escape room! Above, I listed some of my ideas, so feel free to try to solve them! They’re not my best work, but sometimes it’s cool to play around with some new ideas.

Now, when I tell people I make escape rooms, a lot of people ask me, “Really? How do you do that?” So, today I’m going to explain to you how I plan for a simple escape room, AND how you could make your own!

First off, let’s discuss what exactly an escape room is! As the name implies, an escape room is a room (big surprise 😂) with lots of puzzles in it that you must solve in order to accomplish your objective. Sometimes your mission will be something like finding a missing piece of jewelry or escaping this room AKA prison, before the prison guard catches you!

Thus, puzzles are the most important part of any escape room!

If they’re too easy, then the person doing your escape room won’t feel challenged, but if they’re too hard, then the person will feel discouraged, especially when the time runs out and they still haven’t finished their objective.

So how do you make an escape room that’s both fun and challenging for a general audience? I would say you first have to plan out the clues and decorations so that everything in the escape room is luring and distracting. For instance, hang a painting in the room with multiple different stripes of colors on it. At first the painting just seems like a weird piece of art, but once the players find a clue with the same colors as the painting on it, they’ll have to think again!

And that’s the trick, I think. Instead of just doing average, boring puzzles that everyone’s thought of and done before like coded messages that require a key to solve (Like morse code or example four above!), think outside of the box and use objects that match your theme as past of the puzzles.

An example would be having a knife (Fake of course! Wouldn’t want people thinking that cutting off their fingers was part of the challenge! LOL) lying on the ground and on the back of it there’s the letters “loodb”. Once the letters on the knife are unscrambled, the word “blood” is discovered. THEN, the players can take this newly discovered code and enter it into a letter combination lock, which opens a small briefcase.

So, before you decide what clues to include in your escape room, make sure you’ve also figured out what the theme of your escape room is so you can incorporate various little clues into the surroundings of the puzzle itself! This will make your escape room much more engaging and interesting!

Anyways, those are my tricks!

Happy escape room making!

-Kaitlyn 💜