Puzzles are the backbone of your educational escape room
Ciphers
Secret Code (Download PDF)
An interoduction to ciphers and cryptography. (German)
Wikihow: How to Invent
and Decode Secret Ciphers and Codes
While spies and treasure hunters in movies make cracking codes look super complex, you can actually make your very own secret code or cipher quite easily. No special government training or spy school required.
This encryptor tool lets you choose from a collection of 255 Codes from Egyptian Hyroglyphics to Klingon. The one on the right is one of my favorites:
(from Sherlock Holmes)
A code table with 531 codes.
I love this book code.
Which one will catch your eye?
an interactive online version of the Caesar cipher wheel
Translate from text to morse code (or vice versa) and download or share the sound file.
🤓 For the real nerds: The site also features training tools!
If you come across an encrypted message that seems to consist of boxes, dots and the occasional triangle then you’ve probably found yourself an example of Pigpen cipher. This tool lets you encrypt (and decrypt) messages.
There are letters hidden in landmarks: a treeline shaped like a letter, a house, bridge or the entire mountain.
Find out how to tranform these letters into a code in my tutorial.
is a quick and simple way to find, share and save exact locations. The system converts GPS coordinates into 3 word addresses.
Visual
Puzzle Tools
A Snote is a fun, unique and creative way to deliver a secret message. Snotes come in all shapes, sizes and colors. You can make your Snote easy to read, or add extra layers of secrecy making it more difficult to decode.
Red Overlay Decoder Glass
(App)
To create and reveal text, images, or symbols that are otherwise invisible when viewed without the filter.
Rebuses are collections of pictograms with rules. At rebus.club, you can type any text and it gets magically transformed into a rebus. Many languages are supported.
Can you solve this one?
highlight the box below
to see the solution
escape room
An online tool to generate missing letters or vowels printable worksheets for spelling and word recognition practice. Download the generated puzzles as PDF format.
Chose different text layouts to hide clues.
With this converter you can jumble the letters within each word as in the example below.
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Creates a Backwards Effect (Reverses text) or an Upside Down Effect (Flips text).
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Interactive Puzzle Tools
Supports learning and teaching processes with small interactive, multimedia exercises.
Find out how to utilize
Learning Apps in virtual educational escape rooms in this tutorial
Customize your word, your hints, how many rounds and the feedback players will get, when they found it.
Create QR codes to color in which lead to a website or a password.
This tool is used in my tutorial:
reading comprehension puzzles for your educational escape room
To create and reveal text, images, or symbols that are otherwise invisible when viewed without the filter.
Create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more-using your own word lists.
Make, share and print dot to dot puzzles.
learning Locks 