Percy Jackson Escape Room

This week, middle schoolers who signed up participated in a Percy Jackson Escape Room/Breakout Box activity. The setup was that Percy and his friends had gotten trapped in the Lotus Casino again, and to help them escape, students needed to find all the ingredients for the lotus flower potion (five bottles with different-colored liquids). To do that, they had to follow a series of clues to open five boxes with number locks, key locks, word locks, and directional locks. They needed to figure out how to dissolve a baking soda snowball that held the key for the key lock, find a way to make invisible writing visible, solve a Wordle, duplicate sounds given to them as an aural clue, and organize the bottles in the proper order based on a riddle clue. The kids all did a great job and got all the locks open, and there were cookies for everyone!

You can see many photos on Vidigami, thanks to Tara Mounsey.

Thanks also to Erica Testani, Youth Services Librarian at the Lewis Egerton Smoot Memorial Library in King George, Va, who created the escape room clues and shared them with me.