Escape from Fairy Tale Land:
Rapunzel's Tower
A digital escape room created by Julie Dries, Harrison Township Public Library, MI, 2020
You open an ancient Fairy Tales book that you found at the library, and WHOOSH!!!! You are immediately sucked into its pages!
You find yourself in a circular room with stone walls. Peering out the window, you realize that you’re very high in the air, overlooking rolling green hills, small villages, and wooded areas. A quick glance around the room reveals a small living area and a bed. It is only then that you realize that you are not alone; there is a young woman on the bed, huddled in the corner, looking at you with wide eyes. Her massive amount of golden hair is piled into a heap around her.
It’s Rapunzel.
Which means you’re trapped here in the tower with her.
You’ve had to quarantine inside your own home for a few months, due to Coronavirus social distancing, but that’s nothing compared to the years that this girl has spent locked in here alone.
You briefly wonder what her toilet paper supply is like, and then bring your thoughts back to the problem at hand: How are you going to get out of here?
You apologize profusely for invading her space. Rapunzel quickly gets over the shock of your sudden appearance and then proceeds to talk your ear off, obviously grateful for your company. She tells you her whole story, ending with a rant against how awful her sorceress guardian is.
“She’s so mean! She has imprisoned me behind 7 locks! She taunts me by bragging that she’s hidden clues that will open them, but says I’m not smart enough to figure them out. But really, I’m so weighed down by all this hair that I get exhausted whenever I try hunting around to find anything.”
You now realize that you could just climb down Rapunzel’s hair—like in the story—and escape out the window, but you feel bad for her and decide that you’re going to get her out of here, too.
Rapunzel is overjoyed that you want to help her! She hands you a paper that has been enchanted with the power to open the locks when the correct information has been entered on it.
You begin to investigate...
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Directions
NOTE: THIS IS A POINT-AND-CLICK ESCAPE ROOM IS BEST PLAYED ON A COMPUTER WITH A MOUSE, NOT A PHONE OR TABLET.
Your goal is to find and/or figure out the codes for all seven locks. Each of the seven "locks" will be either a word or a number that is hidden in the room.
Scroll down to see the room. And make sure to read through the Enchanted Lock Form beneath the room first, so that you know what you're looking for.
Click around the room to reveal hidden clues! When you find clues and/or solve puzzles, type the words or numbers in the appropriate spaces in the Enchanted Lock Form. (Hint: Your cursor will change from an arrow to a pointer finger when you hover over a clue).
When you click on a clue, it may pop up in another browser tab. You may want to keep these tabs open to click amongst them. You may also want paper and pencil /pen to jot down notes.
Important: For any locks that require words, you must spell them correctly and type them in ALL CAPS. Make sure you notice whether the locks require a word or digits (a number). Digits should not have any spaces between them.
Once you have correctly entered all the lock codes, click the Next button at the bottom to escape!