Hieroglyphics Hustle: Ancient Egypt Escape Room Puzzle Challenge
This Ancient Egypt-themed escape room puts students in a collapsing tomb, where they must translate 12 hieroglyphic tablets, quickly research details about Egyptian culture, and solve cryptic puzzles before they become a mummy themselves.
This download includes:
- 12 illustrated hieroglyphics tablets
- Student instruction sheet with five fun rankings based on completion time
- Hieroglyphics decoding sheet
- Teacher guide and keys for all the puzzles
- Includes a link to a themed background with a timer for the challenge (requires Google Docs)
YOU ARE TRAPPED IN THE MUMMY’S TOMB! Everything was going so well. You had discovered the long-lost tomb of some forgotten Pharaoh. Just as you and your team had expected, it was filled with treasure, stacks of papyrus records, and, of course, sarcophagi. But all of a sudden, you heard laughter fill the room, a deep boom rang out, and the walls begin closing in. Now your only chance to escape is to decipher the mysterious messages hidden in the chamber and trigger the door switch before time runs out and this becomes your tomb as well.
WANT TO ESCAPE? YOU BETTER HUSTLE!
- Use your hieroglyphics key to decipher the 12 mysterious tablets hidden around the chamber. Be careful! If your torches go out, you will have to find alternate sources of light.
- Use your knowledge of ancient Egypt or whatever resources you have available to answer the questions that the messages ask. Better hope this tomb gets Wi-Fi!
- When you have solved all the puzzles, use the code on your answer sheet to decipher the final question.
- Only that final answer will open the tomb door and allow you to escape from the mummy’s tomb.
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