Resources
Material to prepare a classroom escape room without starting from scratch. The templates help you design paper locks and organise the activity; the cipher worksheets let students practise each cipher, with its key and the answers.
Everything prints from your browser or downloads as a PDF, on A4 or US Letter paper.
Templates
Numeric lock
A challenge card with boxes for the combination, and a teacher's part with the solution.
Caesar cipher: your messages
A sheet to prepare messages in the Caesar cipher: your key, the messages and their solutions.
Teacher's quick guide
A checklist to plan an escape room step by step: goals, challenges, accessibility and assessment.
Cipher worksheets
Caesar cipher: worksheet
The key, a message to decode and one to encode, with the answer key.
Atbash: worksheet
The key, a message to decode and one to encode, with the answer key.
Substitution cipher: worksheet
The key, a message to decode and one to encode, with the answer key.
Morse code: worksheet
The key, a message to decode and one to encode, with the answer key.
Number codes: worksheet
The key, a message to decode and one to encode, with the answer key.
Vigenère cipher: worksheet
The key, a message to decode and one to encode, with the answer key.
Polybius square: worksheet
The key, a message to decode and one to encode, with the answer key.
Mirror writing: worksheet
The key, a message to decode and one to encode, with the answer key.
Pigpen cipher: worksheet
The key, a message to decode and one to encode, with the answer key.
Phone keypad: worksheet
The key, a message to decode and one to encode, with the answer key.