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Put your child’s world geography knowledge to the test with this themed escape room activity. Your
child needs to solve clues to find out where to insert the key in the giant globe so they can escape.
Each puzzle is different and will give your child a number. These numbers will be crucial to crack the
code at the end of the activity.
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look at our Geography activities over at the Parents’ Hub. They
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World Geography
a p e Room G
E s c a m
You find yourself in a dark, moonlit room. A distant howl can be heard. Then, outside
the window, you can see various monsters wandering around. Some look harmless, but
some look terrifying. You try to open the door to escape, but it’s locked. Quick! You need
to find the key to unlock this door!
Solve each of these puzzles to find out where to insert the key so you can get out.
Make this even more challenging by setting yourself a time limit for each puzzle,
so it’s a race against the clock.
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World Geography
You will need: Instructions:
• Clues One to Six
1. Follow the instructions to solve each of the clues.
• Cracking the Code This should give you six numbers. Make sure you
• scrap paper write them down somewhere.
• pencil or pen 2. Use the Cracking the Code page to find the
symbols that match those numbers.
• timer (optional)
3. Then, find the letters that match the symbols.
4. Unscramble the letters to figure out where the
key fits. Insert the key, unlock the door and run!
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Clue One How many people can you
find in this scene?
There are people in this scene.
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Read the clue and write the answer; put
Clue Two one letter in each box. Reveal the hidden
letters in the blue circles and rearrange
them to spell a number.
What is the capital city of New Zealand?
Name the largest rainforest in the world. What is the tallest mountain in the world?
In which country is Angel Falls located?
Which country, that borders the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, lies partly in
Europe and partly in Asia?
Which continent is the driest of all the continents?
What letters did you find?
What number could these letters spell?
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Fill in all the empty boxes so that:
• each row contains the numbers 1 to 6;
Clue Three • each column contains the numbers 1 to 6;
• each 2 x 3 square contains the
numbers 1 to 6.
6 5
4 3 2
6 4
3 4 5
What number is in the blue box?
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Clue Four
Can you fit all the words into the grid?
Identify the blue letters and unscramble them
to make a number.
3-letter words 6-letter words 7-letter words 9-letter words 12-letter words
AFRICA WEATHER
SEA AUSTRALIA NORTH AMERICA
ARCTIC CLIMATE
4-letter words 10-letter words SOUTH AMERICA
CANYON PACIFIC
ASIA ANTARCTICA
VALLEY 8-letter words
5-letter words
INDIAN ATLANTIC
OCEAN
EUROPE
What letters did you find?
What number could these letters spell?
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Clue Five
Solve the calculations to reveal a hidden
picture. Each answer has a corresponding
colour. Colour in the picture as you go.
0 to 20 = grey 31 to 40 = yellow
21 to 30 = blue 41 and above = white
9x5 20 x 3 12 x 8 5x2 2x6 7x5 8x5 8x7 6x9
11 x 6 9x6 4x3 8x2 10 x 2 2x2 6x6 12 x 3 11 x 5
7x7 7x2 9x2 3x6 3x5 4x3 2x3 8x4 5x9
4x4 2x4 5x2 2x7 5x4 3x3 6x3 8x2 4x5
12 x 10 9x7 12 x 4 10 x 7 50 x 2 9x8 5 x 11 12 x 7 10 x 5
7x3 8 x 12 4x7 8x8 9x3 8x6 6x4 30 x 3 5x5
9x9 7x6 8x7 11 x 4 12 x 5 8 x 11 3 x 25 7x9 10 x 9
4 x 11 5x6 25 x 2 4x6 7 x 12 7x4 6x7 10 x 3 11 x 10
10 x 6 12 x 6 8x9 9x9 11 x 9 7x7 2 x 50 6 x 12 7x8
11 x 8 10 x 10 3x9 9x9 6x5 11 x 7 3x7 12 x 9 10 x 8
How many squares did you colour blue?
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Clue Six
Grab a ruler, a pencil or pen
and an atlas or online map to
help you solve this puzzle.
First digit Plot the location of Montreal (Canada) with a small cross. Now, plot the
location of Santiago (Chile) with a small cross. Use your ruler to join these up.
What is the first digit?
Second digit
Plot the location of Rome (Italy) with Plot the location of Cape Town (South
a small cross. Now, plot the location of Africa) with a small cross. Join Dubai to
Helsinki (Finland) with a small cross. Join Cape Town.
these two up with a ruler.
Finally, plot the location of Perth
Next, plot the location of Dikson (Russia) (Australia) with a small cross. Join Cape
with a small cross. Join Helsinki to Dikson. Town to Perth.
Now, plot the location of Ulaanbaatar
What is the second digit?
(Mongolia) with a small cross. Join Dikson
to Ulaanbaatar.
What is the number? __
Next, plot the location of Dubai (UAE) with What is the number?
a small cross. Join Ulaanbaatar to Dubai.
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Cracking
Use the answers to each of your clues to crack
the code. Your numbers should match to the
symbol and the symbols match to letters.
the Code Where will the key fit to unlock the exit?
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
Write down the six symbols your numbers correspond to:
a b c d e f g h i j k l m
n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Now, write the six letters your symbols correspond to:
Can you unscramble them to find out
where to insert the key?
Quick! Insert the key, unlock
the door and run!
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Clue One
There are 24 people in this scene.
Clue Two
What is the capital city of New Zealand?
WELLINGTON
Name the largest rainforest in the world.
AMAZON
What is the tallest mountain in the world?
EVEREST
In which country is Angel Falls located?
VENEZUELA
Which country, that borders the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, lies partly in
Europe and partly in Asia?
TURKEY
Which continent is the driest of all the continents?
ANTARCTICA
What letters did you find?
WNTEYT
What number could these letters spell?
TWENTY
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Clue Three
1 6 2 5 4 3
5 4 3 1 2 6
3 1 4 6 5 2
6 2 5 3 1 4
4 5 6 2 3 1
2 3 1 4 6 5
Clue Four
o c e a n s o u t h a m e r i c a
o e u n
a f r i c a a s i a d
t p t i
h a r a
a r c t i c a t l a n t i c
m i l l
e f i i
e u r o p e i a m
i c a
c v w e a t h e r
a n t a r c t i c a e
l
What letters did you find?
l
FUTRTOWENY
e
c a n y o n What number could these letters spell?
TWENTY FOUR
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Clue Five
9x5 20 x 3 12 x 8 5x2 2x6 7x5 8x5 8x7 6x9
11 x 6 9x6 4x3 8x2 10 x 2 2x2 6x6 12 x 3 11 x 5
7x7 7x2 9x2 3x6 3x5 4x3 2x3 8x4 5x9
4x4 2x4 5x2 2x7 5x4 3x3 6x3 8x2 4x5
12 x 10 9x7 12 x 4 10 x 7 50 x 2 9x8 5 x 11 12 x 7 10 x 5
7x3 8 x 12 4x7 8x8 9x3 8x6 6x4 30 x 3 5x5
9x9 7x6 8x7 11 x 4 12 x 5 8 x 11 3 x 25 7x9 10 x 9
4 x 11 5x6 25 x 2 4x6 7 x 12 7x4 6x7 10 x 3 11 x 10
10 x 6 12 x 6 8x9 9x9 11 x 9 7x7 2 x 50 6 x 12 7x8
11 x 8 10 x 10 3x9 9x9 6x5 11 x 7 3x7 12 x 9 10 x 8
How many squares did you colour blue? 12
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Clue Six
First digit
What is the first digit? 1
Second digit
What is the second digit? 2
What is the number? 12
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Cracking the Code
Write down the six symbols your numbers correspond to:
24 =
20 =
4 = mermaid
24 = toadstool
12 = fairy 3
12 =
Now, write the six letters your symbols correspond to:
NLDNOO
Can you unscramble them to find out where the key is?
LONDON
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