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Midnight Escape Room

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Game guideMidnight Escape Room: full rules, strategy tips and FAQ

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Midnight Escape Room

Later dozed off in the haunted library, and at midnight the door locked behind you both. One room, five locks: a riddle on the desk, a number pattern on the grandfather clock, a cipher on the globe, a logic puzzle on the bookshelf, and the door, whose code you build from the other four. Ten minutes before the ghost librarian's round.

10 min
Logic

How to play

Explore the room. Five objects, five locks: a riddle, a number pattern, a cipher, a logic shelf and the door. Open them in any order; the door comes last.
Collect the tags. Each of the first four locks drops a brass tag with a symbol and a digit. The door's code is those digits, in the order its plaque describes.
Watch the clock. You have 10 minutes. A wrong answer costs 20 seconds and a hint costs 30.
Score. 200 per open lock, plus 2 per second left if you escape.

Quick tips

Open the easy locks first. Any order works. Start with what clicks for you and come back to the hard one.
Find the rule of a pattern. Write the gaps or compare each number with the one before: doubling, adding, squares.
Decode one letter at a time. In a shift cipher, every letter moves by the same amount. Count back along the printed alphabet.
Start with the strongest clue. An end, a fixed spot or a 'directly right of' clue pins things down; test the softer clues after.
Hints are cheaper than guesses. A hint costs 30 seconds, and two wrong guesses cost 40.