First, here is a testimonial of a trainer who has implemented educational escape games into her training strategies.

And here is how her students experimented the game:

Here are the bases for the creation of an educational escape game

To make the perfect educational escape game you need to keep in mind ‘to tell a story’. The time needed to create an educational escape room depends on who many times you already made on. Start with a small educational escape game. It is achievable to make a small game in not too long time and still have high results with your students.

Making an educational escape game step by step.

Step 1: Choose the theme and format

What is my theme? Can I tell a story about it?

Do I build a virtual (online) escape game?

Do I build a real-life escape game?

Do I use both?

Step 2: Make a quiz based on the knowledge you want to reactivate

Create question banks with short (unique) answers

Create questions banks with multiple answers

Create questions banks with all sorts of ‘puzzle answers’

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Step 3: Choosing the techniques and/or locks

Virtual (online): for example, Google Forms

Real life: creating by yourself of buying real locks and game elements

Step 4: Make the escape game

Combine the quizzes and choose techniques and put everything in a sequential order

Players cannot go further to the next level (next lock) until they solved the current problem, answered the question of unlocked the lock.

Do not give all the information to find the answer. Let them search and think out of the box to find a way to getting to the answer.

Hints may be useful to help for solving the problems.

Step 5: Test your escape game!!

Not only test the game by yourself, but let other people play the game to test it in a good way.

Define a time lock depending on the scope of the game.

You are ready to let the students play the game.

Do not forget to celebrate and reflect after they accomplished their mission!!