Escape Room: The Pencil (Puzzle)

Escape Room

The Pencil

Some things draw themselves.

Team:

Date:

Escape the Midnight Drawing

It’s 11:58. The pencil is hot in your fist, and the tall thing at the foot of the bed is missing only its face. 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 legs does Wyatt draw on the spider?
How many nights does Sadie say it takes the pencil to finish?
The clock says 12:0__ when Wyatt wakes up and the pencil is drawing by itself.

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: What the cat leaves on the window glass.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA

In code:HNFWTV

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 Pencil

Some things draw themselves.

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.

RSadie tells Wyatt about the three nights.

YWyatt grinds the pencil down to its metal band.

CA black cat appears on the windowsill.

SWyatt finds a warm pencil in the Lost & Found.

AA spider lands on Kayden’s shoulder.

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.

Wyatt finds a light-up sneaker in the Lost & Found.
Wyatt tells a kid his gray cookie is whole wheat.
Mrs. Shaw squashes the spider with a dictionary.
Wyatt can’t eat his mom’s spaghetti for dinner.
Sadie wears an office helper lanyard.
Wyatt’s little sharpener is shaped like a dinosaur.

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 Pencil

Escape the Midnight Drawing

Lock 1: The Number Lock

Lock 2: The Word Lock

The Pencil

Lock 3: The Order Lock

Lock 4: The Fake Fact Lock

Some doors should stay closed…