Locked In · The Escape Room Edition
A real escape room on your dining table. Sixty minutes, three locked doors, a character for everyone and a silly penalty for every wrong code.
Every wrong code costs a penalty. That's where the laughing starts.
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The Escape Room Edition · Rooms 01–07
Every character card, every locked envelope, every penalty. Your first room can start tonight.
Who's in the room
Each room comes with six characters. You open your card in private: the top half you read out loud, the bottom half is a secret mission nobody else may know about.
Example · Room 01 · The Professor's Bunker
Can fix anything with tape. Has never read an instruction manual.
Power · Duct Tape
Cancel a penalty someone has just drawn.
"That's not a bug, that's a feature."
Hasn't seen daylight since 2019. Types fast, mostly to look busy.
Power · Brute Force
Try one code. If it's wrong, nobody pays.
"I'm in."
Qualified in something. Nobody is quite sure what.
Power · Second Opinion
Read one hint without a penalty.
"Trust me, I'm a doctor."
Three passports, no surname. Was already in the bunker.
Power · Interrogation
Ask anyone one question. They must tell the truth.
"I could tell you, but then I'd have to... never mind."
Michelin-starred kitchen for one day. Fired for "too much passion".
Power · Bribery
Hand your penalty to another player.
"Needs more salt."
Unpaid. Over-qualified. Making coffee since 5 a.m.
Power · None
Makes coffee. It does not help. (Or does it?)
"That's not my fault."
Secret missionsGet someone to say "banana". Take two players' pulse "for medical reasons". Pull it off without getting caught and the team earns points.
The mole · 4+ playersEveryone draws a folded Loyalty Strip. There might be a mole among you, or there might not. At the end you all point at the traitor.
What's inside every room
Every room is built like a real escape room: locked doors, codes to find and a clock running. These are real pages from Room 01.
Fold it in half. Top half public: name, power, catchphrase. Bottom half secret: your mission.
Each envelope is a locked room. You only open the next one when the door gives way.
Letters, logs, diaries, wiring panels. Every specialist holds a piece, so nobody sits and watches.
Think you have the code? Look it up. Right: the door opens. Wrong, or not listed: draw a penalty.
A nudge, more help, then the answer. Every hint costs a penalty, so think twice.
Escape or fail, there's an ending for both. Then vote for the mole, add up your score and hand out the awards.
Whoever prints the game plays too: every secret file starts with a cover page that says which envelope it goes in, so you never have to read it.
The rooms · 01–06
Every room has its own story, puzzles, characters and endings. One room is one evening. Play them in any order.
You went to a free cheese and wine evening hosted by Professor Ignatius Crumb, a retired genius nobody invites to barbecues. Now you wake up locked in his bunker. In sixty minutes his rocket, MONDAY-1, launches and every day becomes Monday, forever. Get through the Airlock, the Laboratory and the Control Room and find the abort code. And don't touch the cheese.
No more Fridays. No more weekends. Just Monday.
The plan was perfect. Your crew is inside the casino after closing, the guards change shift in sixty minutes, and the door has just locked behind you. Everyone has a job: open the boxes, beat the security system, get out before the doors open in the morning.
Everyone has a role. Someone talked.
The neighbours said he was quiet. The police never found his study. You did, and the door has locked behind you. Photos, notes and red string cover every wall. Work out what he was planning and find the way out before he gets home.
He'll be home in sixty minutes.
You wake up on a night flight and every other seat is empty. The crew is gone and the cockpit door is locked. Find the code, get into the cockpit and work out where everybody went before the plane runs out of time.
Flight 404. Passengers: not found.
A dare, a torch and an abandoned clinic on the edge of town. The front door slams shut behind you and locks. The patient files are still on the desk, and somebody has been keeping them up to date. Find the way out before the lights go off.
Closed for decades. Someone still works here.
Aunt Pina is getting married (again) and the rings have vanished. She has locked every guest inside the hall until someone finds them. Seating plans, family grudges and a cake that should not be leaning like that. The purely silly room: expect a lot of penalties.
Nobody goes home until the rings are found.
Included
Every copy of Locked In comes with two extras: one more room for the holidays, and the thing everyone talks about the next day.
It's 11 p.m. on Christmas Eve at the North Pole. The head elf has gone on strike, locked the whole workshop and hidden the sleigh's ignition code. Get from the Mailroom to the Sleigh Hangar by midnight, or Christmas is cancelled.
Everybody gets socks. Grey ones. Forever.
Wrong code? Read a hint? Whoever pays closes their eyes, scrolls the file fast, stops and does what's on screen. No arguing. No re-rolls. At 30:00 comes Halfway Chaos: everybody draws one.
"Sing the last thing you said, opera style."
Six rooms, a Christmas bonus, one download. No subscription, no app, no expiry.
Get locked inHow the night works
Print the room and fold each file straight into its envelope. Every secret file starts with a cover page that says which envelope it goes in, so whoever prints plays too.
Everyone opens their card in private and reads out their name, power and catchphrase. The secret mission stays secret. Start a 60-minute timer and open Envelope 1.
Check every code in the Lock Register. Right: the door opens. Wrong: a penalty. When the last lock opens, or time runs out, open the sealed ending, vote for the mole and add up your score.
Take all six characters. For every penalty, do it anyway or take 2 minutes off your timer.
Share the six characters between you. No mole: just you against the clock.
Everyone draws a Loyalty Strip. There might be a mole at the table, or there might not. At the end, you vote.
One room is one evening. Play one tonight and keep the rest for later. No expiry.
The Escape Room Edition · Rooms 01–07
Every character card, every locked envelope, every penalty. Your first room can start tonight.
Before you get locked in
Straight away. The download link is emailed to you within a minute of your order. There's no expiry, so you can play the first room whenever you like.
A printer (any A4 or US Letter, black and white is fine), 4 envelopes or folded sheets of paper, a pen, a pair of scissors and a phone with a 60-minute timer. That's it: no app, no music, no extra kit.
The character cards, the envelopes and the documents are made to be printed: passing paper around the table is half the fun. The Lock Register can stay on a phone, and the hints and the Penalty Roulette are made to be used on a phone.
Yes. Every secret file starts with a cover page that says which envelope it goes in. You fold it with the printed side in and put it straight in the envelope, without reading it.
Two to six, or solo. With two or three players you share the six characters. With four or more, the Loyalty Strips come in and there might be a mole among you.
Sixty minutes on the clock, plus the final vote and the scores. One room is one evening: play one and keep the rest for other nights.
Silly, never mean. Sing the last thing you said, opera style. Balance a book on your head until the next lock. Speak with an accent the group chooses. You get one for a wrong code, for every hint you read, and everybody gets one at the halfway point.
It's made for exactly those nights: Christmas Eve, the days between Christmas and New Year, a party with friends. And there's a seventh bonus room set at Christmas.
Adults and teenagers. The jokes and the puzzles are written for grown-ups, and it works just as well with friends, couples or family.
Every puzzle has three hints: a nudge, more help, then the answer. Each hint costs a penalty, so it's up to you how stubborn you want to be.
No. There's no murder to solve: you have locked doors, codes and a clock. If you've played our case files, this is the lighter, louder night. You don't need anything else to play it.
