For teachers
Digital locks for your classroom escape room
How it works
- Create a lock. Pick a kind and type the answer. If you like, add a clue, hints and a message for when it opens. Before you take it to class, try it yourself.
- Print it or share it. Publish it to get a link and its QR code, ready to stick on a worksheet or show on the board. If you fix something later, the printed QR code keeps working.
- Your students solve it. They just open the link on a phone, tablet or computer, with nothing to install and no accounts to create. If they get stuck, they can ask for the hints one at a time.
Lock kinds
Each lock looks like something your students recognise, and every one can be opened by touch, with a mouse or with the keyboard.
- KeypadA code typed on a keypad: digits, letters, hexadecimal or symbols.Presets: Number keypad, Letter keypad, Hex keypad, and Symbol keypad
- Rotary dialA safe's combination dial, turned right and left to a sequence of numbers.Presets: Safe dial
- Text answerA word or phrase typed on the keyboard, in an answer box or on a computer's login screen.Presets: Answer word and Computer login
- DirectionalA sequence of arrows: up, down, left and right, or all eight compass directions.Presets: Arrows and Compass
- ColoursA sequence of colours, picked from swatches that show their names.Presets: Colour sequence
- Wheels and leversA padlock or cryptex whose wheels turn to digits or letters, or a row of levers set up or down.Presets: Combination padlock, Word padlock, Cryptex, and Lever switches
- Map coordinatesA place on the map: its latitude and longitude, typed in decimal degrees or in degrees, minutes and seconds.Presets: Map coordinates
- PatternA phone unlock pattern: join the points of a grid in the right order.Presets: Unlock pattern and Large pattern
- Mobile phoneA word typed on an old mobile phone's keys, pressing each key until its letter shows.Presets: Old mobile phone
- MusicA melody played on the keys of a piano, with or without its black keys.Presets: Melody
Made for the classroom
On paper or on screen
Print a sheet for your students with the clue and the QR code, and one for you with the solutions. No devices? Paper mode swaps the QR code for boxes to write the answer in.
Ciphers and templates
Caesar, Morse and other classic ciphers to build clues with, each with a worksheet to print, plus ready-to-use templates in A4 or Letter.
Accessible by design
Dark theme, more contrast, larger text, fewer animations and an easier-to-read font. Every lock works with the keyboard, and every colour has its name written on it.
Private by default
Neither you nor your students need an account, and we use no tracking cookies or analytics tools. Your library stays in your browser. Read more in the privacy policy.
Escapify grew out of an inclusive escape room that was designed for people with intellectual disabilities and tested with them. That is why accessibility is not an add-on here: when you design for diversity, the whole class gets a better experience.
Shall we set up your first challenge?
The help page walks you through creating, printing and sharing your locks, step by step.