About The School’s Secret Cellar
The School’s Secret Cellar is an escape room for kids aged 9+ and their grown-ups. After the school party, the class finds a little door behind the stage curtain. It leads down to the cellar – and then it slams shut. Down here, old Mr Holm the caretaker once hid a treasure and his key to the door.
You need to explore the boiler room, the archive and the PE store. First the lights have to be switched on with a tricky fuse box, where you have to think logically using the caretaker’s rules. Then you need to work out a year, find the right yearbook, crack a colour code with the periodic table, play the school’s old chant on the drums and read the caretaker’s map of the school.
It’s a little spooky, but never dangerous: the lights flicker, the radio crackles, and something white is hiding in a dark corner. The game is made to be solved together around one iPad or on the TV, and the help button gives three levels of hints. The puzzles change every time you play.
How to play
- Choose how many of you there are, and head down the stairs. Read the caretaker’s letter on the workbench.
- Switch between the boiler room, archive and PE store with the buttons below the picture. Tap anything that looks interesting.
- Tap an item in the bag to select it. Then tap a spot in the room to use it, or another item to combine them. Papers can be read with the Look button.
- Switch on the lights, find the yearbook, open the filing cabinet, play the drums and follow the map to the treasure.
- Use Help if you get stuck. Each step has three hints, and the last one is the solution.