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Engaging escape rooms and mysteries for ages 7+
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Printable Escape Rooms You Can Download and Play at Home
Bring the excitement of an escape room straight to your living room, classroom, or party with our printable escape rooms. These ready-to-play PDF escape games are designed for families, teachers, group events, and puzzle lovers of all ages. Simply download, print, set up, and enjoy a complete escape room experience without any special equipment or prep. Perfect for birthdays, rainy days, team-building, and last-minute activities.
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Meet Alice!
Creator of PaperBox Escape Rooms. After working in education for years and suffering burnout after burnout, I started putting my leftover embers into designing puzzles and mysteries. I grabbed some paper and a pencil, and after a lot of hard work, PaperBox was born!
🖤 Instant Downloads
Our printable escape games are available immediately after purchase. Meaning you can go from printing to playing in no time!
🕰️ What's Included?
- Clear instructions
- Themed puzzles & clues
- Printable props & decorative clues
- Code breakers & cyphers
- A final puzzle or 'big reveal' ending
- Answers and explanations
Easy Set Up
🗝️ NO LOCKS NEEDED
You won’t need any extra locks or a cryptex (unless you wish to add them yourself).
Everything you need is included in your download!
📜 NO SPECIAL PAPER REQUIRED
Use whatever you have on hand, regular printing paper to card stock, whatever you prefer to make your experience perfect.
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PaperBox FAQs
What is a printable escape room?
A printable escape room is a game you download as a PDF and play using printed clues, puzzles, and challenges. Players work together to solve riddles, crack codes, and uncover the final solution — just like in a real escape room, but at home or school. All you need is a printer, household items like scissors and tape, and a sense of adventure.
How does it work after I purchase?
Once you purchase a printable escape room from PaperBox, you'll receive the downloadable PDF immediately. From there you can print using your home printer or select your preferred printing service.
How long does an escape room take?
Here at PaperBox, we dislike the dreaded time limit. Unlike real-life escape rooms, printable escape rooms can be completed in your own time, at your own pace! If you want to add a time limit or competition element, you can!
How many can play?
Games work with a range of group sizes
- Solo player? - Drop the device and start flexing those little grey cells.
- A couple? What could make a better date than working together (or declaring yourselves sworn enemies) to solve the puzzles and escape the game in the nick of time.
- Small group? Whether you’re 11 or 77, playing a printable escape room in your own comfy home is like playing Monopoly - super fun until someone tries to cheat.
- Larger group? Split into teams! Challenge yourselves and set up a prize for the quickest team to solve the puzzles and escape with their sanity intact.
How do you print a print-and-play escape room?
Printable Escape Rooms are designed for quick and easy printing at home.
1. Download Your Escape Room File
- Open the PDF file you received after purchase.
- Save it somewhere easy to access (Desktop, Downloads, or a dedicated 'Escape Rooms' folder).
2. Choose Your Paper
Most escape rooms print perfectly on:
- A4 or Letter size
- Standard printer paper (80–100gsm)
3. Check Your Printer Settings
Before printing, set:
- Scale: 100% (not 'fit to page' unless the file requests it)
- Colour mode: Colour
- Double-sided printing: OFF
- Print quality: Standard or High for best clarity
- Most escape rooms look best on normal quality, so no need to use ink-heavy settings.
4. Print Only What You Need
Escape rooms include:
- instruction pages
- puzzle sheets
- answer sheets
- hint pages
- decorative extras
You can print:
- everything, or
- just the puzzle components, saving ink and paper
- This is especially useful if you want to reuse the activity.
Do I have to print in colour?
Yes. This is our only true rule. Many clues are based around colour, so printing in black and white might mean you never escape! Uh oh.
What age range are printable escape rooms for?
PaperBox escape rooms are differentiated in skill level and are designed for all ages from 7+
You'll find our escape rooms arranged to suit ages 7-11, 11+, and adults. They can also be filtered as easy, medium, and hard.
Can I use props and locks to enhance the experience?
Absolutely! Adding extra layers of complexity always adds that extra special touch. You can add extra theming, such as props and displays to immerse players in the game.
Most of the games are designed to be fully self-contained and playable immediately, but if you would like to DIY numerical codes or word codes into locks and cryptexes that you have available, go for it!
If I set up the game, can I still play?
Yes! The host can still play along with the game after setting up. Each escape room is designed so that the puzzle answers are unclear until completion. (As long as you don’t sneak a look at the answer pages.) So have fun!
How do printable escape rooms support learning?
Printable escape rooms support curriculum learning by turning academic content into engaging, puzzle-based challenges that reinforce key concepts and promote higher-order thinking. They're interactive, memorable, and aligned with classroom goals.
Printable escape rooms and themed games encourage collaboration, communication, and persistence while making lessons more motivating through gamification. Because they are easy to differentiate and require little prep, teachers can use them to review or assess understanding across subjects, or simply as a golden time reward.
Refunds aren’t available on digital items, what if I don’t enjoy the game?
Don’t love the game? PaperBox offers a 100% Satisfaction Guarantee that includes a free replacement or full refund.
How can I contact you if I have a problem?
Feel free to use our contact page if you have any questions or queries.
Customer Reviews
Overall rating: 4.9 / 5 from 40 reviews.
At first, I was a bit confused. I had to really study every aspect of it, but finally it clicked. The seller does not give a lot of step-by-step directions and if you have done other types of escape rooms in classrooms, it is not the same format as many. However, I was very successful at forming 4 groups, placing the clues and hints all over the room. There were a couple of pages I wished I had duplicated a copy of, like the page with the picture and letter key and the last clue to get into the Queen's garden. Also, I would recommend multiple working copies of the maze. Nothing has to be solved in any particular order, and the kids will go back and forth around the room. They were told to keep quiet so as to not let other groups here them. My class loved the challenge and didn't want to stop until they solved it. Thanks!
Bought this for a teen birthday party. Everyone loved it. The pieces/clues were beautiful and set up was very easy. I will definitely be purchasing another game in the future.
Mystery on the Orient Express Escape Room - for Team Building & Events
Leider hat die Lieferung lange gedauert, wahrscheinlich war der Zoll schuld, aber der Kundenservice war toll.
Mystery on the Orient Express Escape Room - for Team Building & Events
My husband and I do a lot of escape rooms in person but this was our first downloadable one. We were pleasantly surprised and really enjoyed it. Very good design and theme! We wished it was a little harder but overall a good experience
Mystery on the Orient Express Escape Room - for Team Building & Events
Very fun. Great for any Swifty. I recommend it.
Top-notch escape game, very well done, it's a shame there's no French version 😁
Great! My class enjoyed it.
Very fun series of challenges! I think that the explanations/guide for the host could have been more clear, but otherwise great. That said - because the pdfs are so pretty (and have a bunch of stuff on them), they will take a whileeeee for your printer to process and print.
Alice helped me so much with this order, even resending the most up to date version without any extra cost!
Fab design. Even the biggest swiftie in the house needed to think more which made for a fun birthday challenge. Had ages 8-48 taking part and all enjoyed it.
This looks very thorough. I think my Swiftie tween and her friends will have so much fun with this at her birthday party. I love that it incorporates all the eras (except the very recently released album - understandable). Thanks for a great product!
Very good but not in use at the moment
Super fun escape room style puzzles!
Bought this to use with an S3 class for an end of term treat - they loved it! Really easy to set up and challenging enough to keep the. Interesting while being achievable when they worked together!
great game would highly recommend!!
It was fun, some good puzzles.
My daughter enjoyed setting this up for her and her friends at her sleepover Alice in wonderland themed birthday party
Clear instructions and beautifully designed materials.
Great activity for the pre-teens!
Great escape room at a good price. Kept the kids quite for a bit age 7-10
Easy to print and use straight away
Some of this wizard escape room was really cute, but it proved very difficult to print out. The pdf had some technical issues and the pages took a long time to process (and kept crashing my printer driver). I had this for an 11 year old's birthday party, and overall it frustrated the kids and they did need a lot of assistance to solve this. It was still fun, and if you can manage getting it printed and don't mind helping your kids, it's fun.
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Wonderful product! My daughter and her friends had so much fun with it at her party.
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This was a fun escape room, and my kids enjoyed it quite a bit. Love the graphics as they added to the element of fun and with the game.
Print it out super easy and instructions were clear. Highly recommend as it is quite fun to play!
Awesome! beautiful artwork. Thank you
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Game easy to install and works well
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Firstly, the appearance is phenomenal and the level of detail and care is obvious. We had a great time completing and didn’t want to kill each other by the end so a fantastic experience all round!!
Great game, well thought out and not too difficult to loose interest. Highly recommend