Feelings Game: The Mood Detective Agency
Teen A2 learners become mood detectives and read clues about faces, actions and situations to work out how people feel. Each solved case gives one letter of the secret code.
A free Escape Room for Teens at CEFR A2 level. Topic: Feelings check-in: working out how people feel.
You are new detectives at the Mood Detective Agency. This morning, the boss locked the office door and left a note: 'Good detectives can read people's feelings.' To get out, you must solve five feelings cases and find the secret code. Look at faces, actions and words, and work out how people feel!
Solve five feelings cases to collect five letters, then use the letters to spell the secret code and unlock the office door.
Puzzles
- 🔍 Case 1: The New Phone: Mia got a new phone for her birthday. She smiled, jumped up and down and laughed. How did Mia feel?
- 😬 Case 2: The Big Test: Tom has a big maths test tomorrow. His hands are shaking and he can't sleep. How does he feel? Unscramble this word: suovern
- 🧩 Case 3: Feelings File: Match each feeling to the situation that explains it.
- 🔐 Case 4: The Secret Message: Sam's best friend got a cool new bike. Sam wanted the same bike, and he felt a bit unhappy when his friend rode it. Decode the feeling (A=1, B=2, C=3...).
- 🕵️ Case 5: The Quiet Friend: Read the story. Are the sentences true or false?
Printable worksheet
This Escape Room comes with a free printable worksheet: 1 part for students to do after the game, and an answer key for the teacher. It prints at three levels (Support, Core and Challenge); this is the Core sheet. Sign in free to print the whole sheet.
What's on the worksheet
- Escape on paper · Open every lock. Write each answer.
Part 1: Escape on paper
Open every lock. Write each answer.
- 🔍 Case 1: The New Phone Mia got a new phone for her birthday. She smiled, jumped up and down and laughed. How did Mia feel? a) scared b) angry c) happy d) bored
- 😬 Case 2: The Big Test Tom has a big maths test tomorrow. His hands are shaking and he can't sleep. How does he feel? Unscramble this word: suovern U N S V O R E
- 🧩 Case 3: Feelings File Match each feeling to the situation that explains it. tired bored proud worried Your dog is lost and you don't know where it is. You won a prize and your family clapped for you. You went to bed very late and you want to sleep. There is nothing to do and the film is very…