The Halloween Mystery at Maple Street
A spooky but friendly escape room where teen A2 learners discover key Halloween words through reading, matching, unscrambling, decoding and a short mystery story.
A free Escape Room for Teens at CEFR A2 level. Topic: Halloween mystery.
It is Halloween night, and you are at an old house on Maple Street for a party. Suddenly, the lights go out and the front door locks with a loud CLICK! A note on the door says: 'Solve my Halloween puzzles to find the secret word and open the door.' Can you and your friends escape before midnight?
Solve all five Halloween puzzles, collect one letter from each, and spell the secret 5-letter word to unlock the door.
Puzzles
- 🎃 Trick or Treat?: Halloween is on October 31st. On Halloween night, children wear costumes and go from house to house. They knock on doors and say 'Trick or treat!' What do people usually give them?
- 🦇 Halloween Creatures: Match each Halloween word with its meaning.
- 👻 Party Clothes: On Halloween, people wear special clothes to look like a monster, a witch or a superhero. Unscramble this word: mutsoce
- 💀 The Secret Number Code: A strange message is written on the wall in numbers. Use the code A=1, B=2, C=3 ... Z=26 to find a Halloween word.
- 🕯️ The Missing Pumpkin: Read the story. Decide if each sentence is 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.
- 🎃 Trick or Treat? Halloween is on October 31st. On Halloween night, children wear costumes and go from house to house. They knock on doors and say 'Trick or treat!' What do people usually give them? a) books b) homework c) shoes d) candy
- 🦇 Halloween Creatures Match each Halloween word with its meaning. witch bat pumpkin ghost a white spirit of a dead person that you can see through a woman with magic powers and a tall pointed hat a big orange vegetable a small black animal that flies at night
- 👻 Party Clothes On Halloween, people wear special clothes to look like a monster, a witch or a superhero. Unscramble this word: mutsoce S C E O U T M