I made the game specifically for my kids, and we invited some neighbors/friends/siblings of friends to play too. Online purchases I made, or had made in the past.Puzzle 4 – A potion, a cryptex, and a physical puzzle.Puzzle 2 – Searching through a cauldron for a lock and combination.Hopefully this post can help or inspire you as you create your own dragon, wizard, or Harry Potter escape room! Index It also serves as a bit of a model to how you might create your own DIY escape room using the techniques I lay out in my book, The DIY Escape Room Book, so check that out if this intrigues you. What follows is a detailed (and lengthy, sorry) explanation of everything: how I set up the game, how running it went, and the clues I created (which you can download for free). It was a ton of fun, for me and for the kids! They’re into the Harry Potter and Wings of Fire book series, so I did a dragon/wizard theme. This summer I decided to do one for my kids and their friends. Writing escape rooms for my friends and family is fun because it isn’t so restrictive.

I want to only use supplies that are relatively cheap or easy to get, I need to be able to replicate and explain the game easily, and I can’t use any standard measurements (darn Imperial/metric system dichotomy). So I love writing the escape rooms I sell on my website, but designing them can be a little restrictive sometimes.

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