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First Brain Storm - Themes and Settings - Bradley

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First Brain Storm - Themes and Settings - Bradley

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DARSH'S FIRST BRAINSTORM - SETTINGS AND IDEAS

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DARSH'S FIRST BRAINSTORM - SETTINGS AND IDEAS

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This is super cool team! I am impressed. Keep it up!! You won't need a PPt if you put all the required information here. I wonder what your theme will be??  Donna :)

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This is super cool team! I am impressed. Keep it up!! You won't need a PPt if you put all the required information here. I wonder what your theme will be??  Donna :)

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After brainstorming, we decided to do a haunted houses basement, where the player has no idea how they got there and along completing puzzles, they discover the story and become immersed in the escape room party game!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI2wq39BPFo

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https://educationwaeduau-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/r/personal/darsh_chatterjee_student_education_wa_edu_au/_layouts/15/Doc.aspx?sourcedoc=%7BF267AA2C-BC1D-471F-8350-466AC46974D3%7D&file=Document18.docx&wdOrigin=OFFICECOM-WEB.START.REC&ct=1655963358005&action=default&mobileredirect=true This is the first clue, if you put the first letters in every word together and put spaces in, you get the challenges location

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The letter (once decoded) will read:
Go To The Fridge

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Escape rooms are extremely popular these days and if you haven't tried them yet you definitely should! And don't worry about being the first time comer to the game. The rules of the game are extremely easy - do whatever it takes to get out of the room. Believe in the impossible, think out of the box, and question everything you see.

But if you still worry about not getting what to do in your first escape room, or wondering what kind of puzzles will you find there, or if you are generally interested in how those things work from the inside, we've created a short guide on what kinds of puzzles in an escape room you should expect to find.

So here are some types of puzzles you need to solve in the real life escape rooms. Hope you will use it right and really take an advantage of knowing few of those puzzle ideas. Enjoy!

Hidden objects

So the first kind of puzzles you'll encounter in your play will definitely be the hidden objects. The first challenge you need to overcome is to learn how to observe things critically and use your imagination to the fullest extent. Simply because everything important for the game will be well hidden.

It can be an object glued to the table from the underneath or secretly hidden button that should reveal the whole puzzle for you. What we are trying to say here - explore every centimeter of the gaming space. Hidden objects are everywhere.

Design (visualities)

One more extremely common type of clues your team can find are those which are hidden in the decor. In other words, escape rooms using the full potential of their space and objects. All of the objects in the room, like images on the wall, decor items ( flower pots, statues, rugs), etc. might have the second meaning. Or they may give you a hint for the next puzzle.

For instance, the number of the frog images in the room might play a greater deal later on. Or the portrait of the person, in fact, can be a symbol connected to the puzzle you are trying to solve at the moment.

Riddles (labyrinth, puzzles)

No properly made escape room can be made without actual riddles. Such things like mazes, Sudoku, crosswords. etc. are essential for the real-life escape games. So what you should expect from the game is finding some riddles patiently waiting for you in every corner. The other thing is that you might be given the map for going through the maze or the key to the box with the riddle. And that's when you will need to work hard.

Light & Sound

Probably creators of the escape room decided that the visual hints are "too easy to spot" kind of thing. It is so much more interesting when your team cannot see the hint that can be noticed only in the blacklight. All the sparkling messages on the wall, the UV-paint, etc. make a great contribution to the game.

Sounds also matter during the course of the play. For instance:

1. Those can be the Morse code.

2. The songs that hide the message in the lyrics.

3. The melody tune that you will have to repeat on that mini piano they put in the corner.

4. This can actually be the record which says where to go next, but it says just parts of it in different rooms simultaneously. So your teammates will have to spread out.

One way or another, don't miss anything you hear!

Numbers & Texts

Don't start panicking here. No one will expect you to do the hardcore math but most likely you will have to deal with simple numbers. This stuff is very much appreciated in the escape rooms.

Another thing is texts. You should question all the text content you see there and read it really carefully. Actually, not read it but initially look for the clues between the lines.

Mirrors are also widely used for that particular reasons. Quite commonly there is no way to read the text if it is not read in the mirror reflection. Or the text is actually written on the mirror surface but you need to breathe on it in order to see.

Puzzles involving physical activity

Another funny type of puzzles in an escape room is that when you are asked to move. Literally. And most often quite energetically. It can be hand-eye coordination challenges, for instance, when you need:

1. to hit the target with something, like a ball or a water gun;

2. to find a creative way to get to the clue;

3. to break the lock;

4. to make some knots.

In addition, there can be even electrical darts game where you need to hit the specific number. So yes, that can be a bit of a challenge. But that is literally the funniest part of the play!

Long game puzzles (set, combinations)

Finally, one more very popular type of the puzzle is to use assemblies, sets or combination of different subjects. For instance, the room might have two objects that so clearly make an assembly. So when you connect them you will have a reward, like a hint of the next secret place or something.

Sets are also a great way to make the game harder to pass. Those can be a group of similar objects, or the pieces of the hint written on different sheets and hidden everywhere in the room. Or the order might be less chaotic and they are hidden in particular positions.

Wrapping up

We hope this short guide of ours has cleared some things for you. Those were just a few major types of puzzles that we managed to cover in one piece. The world of the escape games is huge, unique and constantly developing, take a chance to experience it on your own! Try to play escape room game, explore it and have fun!

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what kinds of puzzles can you find in an escape room?

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What Kinds of Puzzles Can You Find in an Escape Room? | Escape Hour

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Escape rooms are extremely popular these days and if you haven't tried them yet you definitely should! And don't worry about being the first time comer to the game. The rules of the game are extremely easy - do whatever it takes to get out of the room.

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Once the players get to the location stated by the letter, they will have to open a locked case with a 4 digit number code, to get the numbers they will have to look at apple stickers with numbers on them that are stuck to the bin (the location said in the letter they start with). Once they find the code they open the case and find a UV light! The UV light will have a riddle that tells them to use the light on the back of the letter. (At time of writing, we havent made riddle yet.

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Its hard to make a fun and difficult riddle linking to something so specific like "the back of the letter" and finding it out wouldn't be surprising, so instead a code or cipher would be best.

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Text and Word Tools

Wordplay and witty texts is one of the oldest forms of puzzles. Anagrams have been traced to the time of the Ancient Greeks, and they still are popular in modern brain teasers. Synonyms are common not only in crosswords, but plays a role in a wider range of puzzles. This section also contains text processing tools, which are useful for reversing, changing case, etc of texts.

These tools will help you identify the types of encodings and ciphers used.

In cryptography, a cipher (or cypher) is a method for protecting data through encryption and decryption. Most ciphers require a specific key for encryption and decryption, but some ciphers like the ROT13 or Atbash ciphers have fixed keys. Many of the ciphers listed here were for military or other significant use during an earlier time, but today mostly are used only by puzzle makers.

Modern encryption methods can be divided by the key type and their operation on input data. Symmetric key algorithms use the same key for encryption and decryption (private key cryptography). Asymmetric key algorithms use different keys for encryption and decryption (public key cryptography). With symmetric keys, the sender and receiver must have agreed upon a key in advance, while with asymmetric keys anyone can send messages to the receiver. Also depending on their operation, ciphers are either block ciphers (encrypting a fixed block size) or stream ciphers (encrypting a continuous stream of data).

While encryption protects information from being understood, an even higher protection would be if the information is hidden. The word steganography comes from the Greek word "steganos", meaning concealed, and "graphein", meaning writing. Modern steganography can hide information in images and audio files. Also information can be manually hidden in images through the use of very low contrast colors or metadata.

Computers and digital devices need to represent letters in appropriate ways. ASCII codes are very common for storing texts, but with the demand to support more non-English texts, the popularity of Unicode is increasing. Hashes are not encodings, but since they are more or less unique for all words, they can be considered like encodings (although much more difficult to reverse).

Mathematics play an important role in logic puzzles and code-breaking. It is important to be able to convert between different number systems, and detect special properties of numbers such as that they are prime numbers. Also number sequences, like the Fibonacci sequence, are commonly used in puzzles.

Every alphabet has a number of symbols that are the building blocks of the specific language. In addition to traditional written languages, alphabets have evolved for telegraphy (Morse code), visually impaired people (Braille) and maritime signal flags. Further alphabets have evolved in popular culture, such as the Klingon alphabet (from Star Trek) or dancing men code (from Sherlock Holmes).

Are you ready to take the "red pill" and go even further down the "rabbit hole"? Then this section is for you.

You can't rely on tools only

Although tools can be helpful, there's a saying: "A fool with a tool is still only a fool". Good quality code-breaking puzzles can't be solved simply by using tools. It's your wits and creativity that matter, and the tools are just there to help explore your ideas.

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Code-Breaking, Cipher and Logic Puzzle solving tools | Boxentriq

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Wordplay and witty texts is one of the oldest forms of puzzles. Anagrams have been traced to the time of the Ancient Greeks, and they still are popular in modern brain teasers. Synonyms are common not only in crosswords, but plays a role in a wider range of puzzles.

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Bradley and I decided that our escape room is going to be set for 4 players and that we will put a few chairs down the middle of the room to make a “wall” with 2 players to force them to work together.

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We decided that players will have 15 minutes to escape

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White and Black Illustrated ThrillerMystery Book Cover (1)

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You have the letter huh? He’s trapped you, left you to die… Listen carefully wanderer, if you want to escape... (riddle) (or it could be "look carefully" if its a puzzle)

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On the wall, in the area the players have as their play space there will be a poster, stating a made up quote in a speech bubble coming from someone famous, (this is the riddle relating to the letter, the letter will say: listen to (name of person saying quote)

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In the first few riddles, the clues and letters were leading to the fridge (wherever that is for the players play space) but then the area it could be played in could be limited and it would be impossible to play at birthday parties so we could supply a fridge sticker! (of medium size of course)

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The said made-up quote will talk about Usain Bolts sight of his future, anything about vision will be highlighted as the next puzzle will be a custom eye chart from eye chartmaker.com, but said eye chart may need to be changed to fit our theme. The eye chart shall lead to a box with a bike lock containing something for the next puzzle!

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We may write things such as "help" in pencil in the corners

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We decided that in the box we would put a key to a bike lock, originally, we thought of putting the bike lock on a actual door in the classroom but then the game wouldn’t be portable, so, instead we decided to allow the player/consumer to lock any cupboard, door etc, completed with a given ‘final lock here’ sign.

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White and Black Illustrated ThrillerMystery Book Cover

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https://www.online-stopwatch.com/bomb-countdown/

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We think one of the most important aspects of an escape room is the story, it immerses the players and makes it more fun!

This story is to be read at the start of the game just like Ultimate Roomscape viral outbreak!

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Copy of White and Black Illustrated ThrillerMystery Book Cover (1)

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Escape through here sign - Bradley and Darsh

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Escape through here sign - Bradley and Darsh

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Copy of Copy of White and Black Illustrated ThrillerMystery Book Cover

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Non-final journal presentation (Animated) - Bradley

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Non-final journal presentation (Animated) - Bradley