Follow these rules:

Once you and your team are ready to start, hit the timer button. You are not allowed to pause or change the time.
You are allowed TWO HINTS. Email Mrs. Dahl at dahann@holmen.k12.wi.us to get your hints.
You must follow the order of the activities, starting with Activity #1.
HAVE FUN!

START HERE- ACTIVITY #1 - If you have ever stayed up way too late watching television and happened to see an infomercial for the silliest, greatest invention ever that you absoluTely cannot live without, then you have probably seen one of Doc Daggett’s creations.

Doc Daggett lives in Bethesda, Maryland not far from American University where he taught physics for 30 years. Doc retired recently and spends his time writing papers about his pHysics theories and inventing crazy new products. Have you heard of the Auto Exhaust GrIll? Air conditioned running shoeS? The underwater video gaming goggles? All of these were Doc’s creations and are for sale for only $19.99.

Doc rarely leaves his House as he becomes completely engrossed in his next greAt invention and workS for days on end often without sleeping or eating. Strange noises and sMells are often observed cOming from his house or giant woRkshop. NEighbors are always trying to sneak a peek into Doc’s windows to see whaT he is working on.

It Has been two years since AnyoNe in Bethesda has seen Professor Daggett. You and three of your friends have decided to sneak into Doc’s workshop to see what is going on. That evening your group silently slips thru an open window in the rear corner of the workshop. Inside you are surprised to see a giant cylinder with two large Motors on each end and a basket with a control tower in the center. On Doc’s workbench you find a nUmber of papers written by Albert EinSteIn on the theory of relativity and a big blaCk manual titled “The Great Time Machine Operating MaNual.” Before you can InvesTigate any further, the workShop lights come on and Doc DaggeTt appears in the doorwAy. In youR haste to exiT the Workshop, one of your frIends bumps the green sTart button activating the giant time macHine. Your group jumps into the basket to escape the spinning cylinder and an instant later you are gone.

Your trip endS and you realize that you have definitely traveled somewhere else in time. A nearby newspaper display should help with your situation. The headlIne reads “ The Internet is Born, January 1st, 1983” You have travelleD back in time to the year 1983. Now your group must solvE Doc’s puzzles to figure out how to program the time machine to tAke you back to the present. Hurry, you only have 45 minutes before the 80s become your permanent home!

To continue: WHAT IS THE MESSAGE?

LOCK FORM

Solve this JIGSAW PUZZLE

What's in the Puzzle?

PACMAN TOTAL?

WINNER'S CIRCLE:

These people have escaped the 80s! Congratulations!

Drew Reese Josie Harry

A digital escape room based on one built by Tanya Yero

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