Escape Rooms

Printable Adventures for All Ages

Welcome to our PaperBox Escape Rooms collection, home to a diverse range of escape room challenges and escape room themes you can download, print, and play anywhere. From classic mysteries to magical quests, our printable escape rooms let you set up immersive experiences without the need for locks, props, or special equipment — simply download, print, and play!

What Makes Our Escape Room Challenges Great?

In a world where we are constantly bombarded with increasing Ai slop, misinformation, Ads, and a whole lot of doom-scrolling, it’s nice to be able to sit back, relax, and enter a world where your mind can take over. 

Printable escape rooms are built for just that! They let you set up an immersive space where you feel connected to the content, to the family and friends around you, and to the power of the human brain!

Our escape room challenges are crafted to be fun, engaging, and mentally stimulating. Each game contains a series of interconnected puzzles, riddles, and clues designed to:

  • Build critical thinking and problem-solving.
  • Promote teamwork and communication– perfect for families, classrooms, parties, or team-building.
  • Offer adjustable difficulty from easy to medium to hard. Suitable for beginners and puzzle aficionados alike.
  • Work at your own pace. Unlike traditional escape rooms with strict time limits, you choose your tempo and challenge level.

Explore a Variety of Immersive Escape Room Themes

Our collection includes plenty of unique escape room themes, each with its own story and adventure plot!

Age-Appropriate Fun for Everyone

Our games are tagged to help you find the perfect challenge for your group:

  • Kids & Families (Ages 7–11): Great introductory escape rooms for beginners, but also fun for all ages with varied challenges and beloved themes.
  • Teens & Adults (11+ & Adults): More complex logic, cryptic clues, and multistep deductions with deeper storylines for experienced players who like to fully immerse.

You can also filter by difficulty level (Easy, Medium, Hard) to match your group’s skill and preferred challenge intensity.

Why Choose Printable Escape Rooms?

Printable escape rooms are perfect for:

  • Home entertainment: Rainy day activities, family nights, or birthday parties
  • Classrooms: Cross-curricular learning that builds logic, teamwork, and literacy skills
  • Team building: Group challenges that encourage collaboration and creative thinking
  • Date night: Ditch the boring dinners and dancing and test your partner’s skills on the puzzle floor!

Each escape room challenge includes clear instructions, beautifully designed puzzle sheets, and answer guides to ensure setup is fast and frustration-free.

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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.