This was an interesting puzzle, it used a feather duster with magnets inside to activate magnetic reed switches hidden inside the plaster lion statue. People are given clues as to how to dust the old lion statue in order to activate it. Upon activation a laser shines out from its mouth and points to the…
A little while ago I was asked to construct and design a few escape room puzzles for a new room at Escape Room Melbourne. It started out as just a few rudimentary puzzles… but it quickly escalated and I ended up constructing and installing all of the puzzles for the room. This also included designing…
After making all the ball puzzles, we realised that we needed an interesting way to sort them in such a way as to give a combination for a lock. The original idea of using buoyancy failed, so I quickly came up with this prop taking heavy inspiration from carnival clown games. The mechanism for this…
This is a puzzle that I quite enjoyed coming up with, it has a nice old world feel to it. It’s simply a channel behind a dart board, with a magnetic plunger that releases a key when the magnetised medal is placed on it. The channel and plunger are 3D printed, there is a magnet…
This is a simple swap the object puzzle using RFID and Arduino. Each RFID reader is connected to an Arduino Nano, and the two puzzle modules communicate via a high/low logic state single wire connection. This way the two modules only need a light gauge 3 core wire in order to power and communicate with…
This is one of my favorite puzzles, it’s a simple ball maze, that hangs from the ceiling, and requires two or more people to attach magnetised objects to each corner of the maze in order to manipulate the ball out. The maze layout was designed at 3am on some scrap paper while watching the original…
One of the larger puzzles in the escape room is the bed puzzle. The premise of this puzzle is that there are two balls inside the bed, that must be nudged around an obstacle course and out of an exit hole using a remote controlled car… The catch is that the controls for the car…
The plinth forms the center of the room and the first puzzle in the escape room. The purpose of the plinth is to house the amplifier and USB sound-card for the room, but also house a concealed switch and two mysterious press buttons. I mitered the corners of the plywood, because I’m not an end…