PGnoE Escape Room
I worked in an Escape Room as a producer for one of my classes. The solution for this puzzle is as follows: Players would find the book Das Kapital on the bookshelf. However the book is locked and can only be unlocked by a number from another module. Players would also find the cryptex on the shelf (during playtesting this was changed to the cryptex being a “dead drop” after the players opened Das Kapital). Players would also find 5 documents from searching the room and completing the various other modules. After measuring the space between the “company values” posters (in the room on the wall), players would know the numbers they would have to input into the back of one of the documents. The number sequence “1 5 2 4” would tell the players that they are looking in the sequence of page, line, word letter. Another document also tells players to “use the book” the book being Das Kapital and use 4 numbers per letter, the letters inputting into the cryptex. Inside Das Kapital is a note which tells the players to use the highlighted numbers on the front of the documents to find the letters to use for the cryptex. After players use the book cipher to find the code to the cryptex (POWER), the cryptex unlocks. The cryptex then reveals a USB drive which is to be put into the computer from the beginning of the escape room to end the game.