The Nerve Center Lockdown
A five-puzzle escape room where adult B1 learners review vocabulary about sensory receptors in the nervous system, including touch, taste, pain, and pressure.
A free Escape Room for Adults at CEFR B1 level. Topic: the nervous system vocabulary.
You are a team of lab assistants trapped inside a neuroscience research center after a power failure. The exit door is controlled by a computer that only responds to a secret code. To find the code, you must solve puzzles about how the human body senses the world around it. Work quickly, the backup…
Solve all five puzzles about sensory receptors to collect five letters and unlock the exit door with the master code.
Puzzles
- 🍋 Puzzle 1: The Flavor Sensor: Which type of receptor detects information about taste, like sweet or sour flavors in food?
- 🔍 Puzzle 2: Find the Outsider: Three of these words name a type of sensory receptor in the body. One does not belong. Which word is the odd one out?
- 🧩 Puzzle 3: Match the Receptor: Match each receptor type with what it does in the body.
- ☕ Puzzle 4: Hot or Cold?: Your ______ receptors help you feel the difference between a hot cup of coffee and a cold glass of water.
- 🔐 Puzzle 5: The Final Code: Decode the message using A=1, B=2, C=3... to find a receptor that helps you feel weight or force pushing on your skin.
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 Challenge sheet. Sign in free to print the whole sheet.
What's on the worksheet
- Escape on paper · Open every lock. Fewer options to choose from this time.
Part 1: Escape on paper
Open every lock. Fewer options to choose from this time.
- 🍋 Puzzle 1: The Flavor Sensor Which type of receptor detects information about taste, like sweet or sour flavors in food?
- 🔍 Puzzle 2: Find the Outsider Three of these words name a type of sensory receptor in the body. One does not belong. Which word is the odd one out? a) Touch b) Umbrella c) Pressure d) Sound
- 🧩 Puzzle 3: Match the Receptor Match each receptor type with what it does in the body. Thermal receptor Pain receptor Stretch receptor Tickle receptor Warns the body about injury or harm Responds to light, moving touch on the skin Detects changes in temperature, like heat or cold Senses when…