Spring Break “Islands” Puzzle
Identify the Islands puzzle from Spring Break Escape Room. Opens a six-letter cryptex. © 2024; modification of assets found on Internet for educational use.
Spring Break Maze
Maze puzzle from the Spring Break Escape Room. Opens a 3-digit combination lock. © 2024; modification of assets found on Internet for educational use.
Transport
The control-room drones work their magic:Oh-three. Oh-six. One four seven five.Standing aloneTogether on our circular marks—The first time for eachBoth—we shiver,Unaware of how the magic works,Knowing only that on thisYourMyOur honeymoonDistant dreams await. At last the final sequence starts:Two. Eighteen-one. Fivesixfour. Streams of data,Yet bone, blood, mind—We fly.My hand in yours,Your heart in mine,Our minds …
Nolan McGarry, Space Hobo
The doors are halfway shut when the two young punks clamber on board, distracting me from my search of the dozen or so boxes discarded in the corner. I turn when I hear them come over. Under the guise of nodding hello, I look closely at their faces, reflexively rub my stomach to calm the …
Halloween Pumpkin Carving Contest
A puzzle from the Halloween #2 escape room. (unlocks a 3-digit combination lock) A simple decoder key was included in class for my students, but since this is the internet, please solve it yourself! © 2023, 2024; modification of asset found on Internet for educational use.
Christmas Morse Code
A puzzle from Christmas #2 escape room. (unlocks a 3-digit combination lock) © 2023, 2024; modification of assets found on Internet for educational use..
Gatsby Word Search
A puzzle from the Great Gatsby escape room. (unlocks a 4-digit combination lock) © 2023, 2024; modification of puzzle from Hidden Message Word-Finds #130 for educational use..
Halloween Costume List
A puzzle from Halloween escape room #1. (unlocks a 6-letter cryptex) © 2023, 2024
A Thing About Spiders
Roger woke after two hours sleep, listening. Footsteps? Engine ticking itself cool? Anything? He let out his breath long and slow. Only a dream. Just to make sure he grabbed his shotgun and removed the black-rubber knothole plug at the front of cabin. The road leading up from Santa Cruz was quiet. Checking peepholes in windowless …
Schrödinger’s Gat
Ronald Uno leans on the desk, casual, smiling. “The uncertainty’s the problem here, Mr. S. Will they or won’t they—how and when will we find out? You can appreciate The Boss’s concern, right?” Arvy Schrödinger tilts his chair onto its back legs, tries to match Uno’s breeziness. “As I’ve been saying, Ron, the feds’ll never …