Escape Room: The Ice Cream Man Who Never Melts (Puzzle)

Escape Room

The Ice Cream Man Who Never Melts

One cone, cold fingers. Two cones, frost. Three cones…

Team:

Date:

Escape the Ice Cream Truck

You just ate cone number three, and the freezer door is swinging shut. Frost is creeping across the little round window. Work as a team. Open all four locks to escape.

Lock 1: The Number Lock

Locked

Answer each question with a number from the story. Put the three numbers together, in order, to make the code.

How many cones does it take to end up in the freezer?
How many times did Miles and Gavin run through the sprinkler?
In how many bites does Gavin eat his third cone?

Code

Lock 2: The Word Lock

Locked

This word from the story is in Mirror Code: A swaps with Z, B with Y, and so on. Find each code letter in the top row and write the letter under it. Hint: The heat feels like breathing in one.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA

In code:WIBVI

Code

CCSS RL.3–5.1, SL.3–5.1 · VA SOL 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 3.5, 4.5, 5.5 · scaremoor.com · Free to copy for classroom use · © T.L. Griffith

Escape Room · Part 2

The Ice Cream Man Who Never Melts

One cone, cold fingers. Two cones, frost. Three cones…

Lock 3: The Order Lock

Locked

These events are mixed up. Put them in story order, then read the letters in that order to get the code word.

OA ray of sunlight makes the Ice Cream Man’s hand drip.

TThe Ice Cream Man melts on the hot street.

FThe truck gives Miles a free cone.

RStella shows the boys a scoop that won’t melt.

SGavin climbs into the truck.

Code

Lock 4: The Fake Fact Lock

Locked

Five of these happened in the story. One is made up. The number of the fake one opens the lock.

The sprinkler on Stella’s lawn goes tick-tick-tick.
Gavin’s flavor is mint chocolate chip.
Stella’s scoop on the driveway is strawberry.
Miles wears his winter coat in the heat wave.
The truck has the Ice Cream Man’s name painted on the side.
The melted puddle smells like vanilla.

Code

0 of 4 locks open. Open them all to escape.

CCSS RL.3–5.1, SL.3–5.1 · VA SOL 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 3.5, 4.5, 5.5 · scaremoor.com · Free to copy for classroom use · © T.L. Griffith

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Escape Room

The Ice Cream Man Who Never Melts

Escape the Ice Cream Truck

Lock 1: The Number Lock

Lock 2: The Word Lock

The Ice Cream Man Who Never Melts

Lock 3: The Order Lock

Lock 4: The Fake Fact Lock

Some doors should stay closed…