BERMUDA TRIANGLE ESCAPE ROOM
MATERIALS
- tagboard
- posters of airplane instruments panels or cockpit images
- black poster board
- paint: white, yellow, red and orange
- 5 digit word lock and lockbox, example: Puzzle Pod Cryptex, Brain Teaser Puzzle and Coin Bank
- lockbox with padlock with key and/or wooden secret compartment brain teaser puzzle box"
- invisible ink pen and blacklight
- magnifying glass
The Bermuda Triangle is a space in the North Atlantic where ships, planes, and people have allegedly gone missing. Roughly, its borders run from Florida to Bermuda to Puerto Rico. Set up your own Bermuda Triangle Escape Room, and challenge your patrons to make it through! Modify clues with more or less complexity for different age groups. Puzzles (from CSLP manual) created by Kara Reiman of Maine State Library, Augusta, ME. Suggested runtime: 60 min.
Sasha explains how the escape room experience can be expanded with additional puzzles/clues. She shares tips and tricks which she also details in the handout .
BOOK LIST
Non-fiction
- Bermuda Triangle: Enduring Mysteries by K. Karst (Children's)
- The Bermuda Triangle: X Science by J. Gorman (Children's)
- Where is the Bermuda Triangle? by M. Stine (Children's)
- Flight 19: Lost in the Bermuda Triangle (Paranormal Mysteries). by C. Bowman (Children's)
- Into the Bermuda Triangle: Pursuing the Truth Behind the World's Greatest Mystery by G. Quasar (Adult)
Fiction
- Emily Windsnap and the Monster from the Deep by L. Kessler (Children's)
- Last Resort: An Action-Packed Supernatural Thriller (The John Decker Supernatural Thriller Series Book 9) by A. Strong (Adult)
PRINTABLES
- maps-world.net: Caribbean Map
- teachengineering.org: Caribbean Latitude and Longitude Map
- pixabay.com: go button image Pixabay License
- pngimg.com: Compass image License - Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
RESOURCES
- CSLP manual: Multigenerational, page 337-340
- Sasha's Instructional Handout
- history.com
- britannica.com
- history.navy.mil
- juliantrubin.com for background information
