Build an Escape Room

approx. 2-3 hours

Have you ever played an escape room? An escape room is a game where you are locked into a room or an area alone or with other people. The goal is to try and escape by solving puzzles and riddles and by executing assignments. Sometimes these are puzzles in a secret language (also called cryptography). Then you first have to find the ‘key’ to unlock the secret code. In this series you are going to discover 3 secret languages first that you can then use to build an escape room yourself!

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Missions

Introduction

In this series you are going to discover 3 secret languages first that you can then use to build an escape room yourself!

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Mission 1 – Encrypt and decrypt messages

In this mission you are going to discover 3 secret languages that you can use to send secret messages to your friends!

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Mission 2 – Build Your Escape Room

In this mission you are going to make encrypted messages yourself that someone else has to try and decipher. You will build your own escape room.

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Conclusion

In these missions you have learned a number of encryption methods and used them to encrypt messages.

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This series is based on the Dutch lesson materials “The Boss On The Internet (Cryptokids)” by Waag, Bits of Freedom and Netwerk Democratie. This series is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.”