15 Virtual Escape Rooms and Games Your Family Will Love
Your kids will love solving riddles and answering trivia to crack the clues in these virtual escape the room games.
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Ages: 13 and older
Players: 2-8
Cost: $15 per player
You can choose from 4 virtual escape rooms to play live online, including opening a pizza place on time, sneaking backstage at a Bruce Springsteen concert, escaping a shipwreck, and getting a boat back to shore before the storm hits.
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Free, Virtual Escape Room-Inspired Games
Bank Heist
Ages: 10 and older
Players: 1-4
Cost: Free
Created by the owners of Expedition Escape, an escape room in Philadelphia, this escape is simple, yet surprisingly satisfying to solve. You’re a member of the most successful crime syndicate in America, and today you’re attempting a heist at Valley Isle Bank. Solve the puzzles to crack the safe—but you only have 20 minutes.
Hogwarts Digital Escape Room
Ages: 8 and older
Players: Unlimited
Cost: Free
Created by Sydney Krawiec, a youth services librarian at Peters Township Public Library in McMurray, PA, this Harry Potter-themed digital escape room is hosted on Google Forms. You’re a first-year at Hogwarts, have been sorted into your dream house, and enjoyed dinner. You head to your common room, when the house prefect announces a team-building activity that’s all the rage with muggles: solving puzzles to escape a locked room without using magic.
Minecraft Escape Room
Ages: 8 and older
Players: 1-4
Cost: Free
Created by Laura Escamilla, a youth services librarian at the Regency Park Library in New Port Richey, FL, this Minecraft-themed virtual escape room is a perfect brain teaser for your Minecraft enthusiast! Bonus: It’s hosted on Google Forms, so it can be accessed at any time and there is no time limit.
Shrek Themed Escape Room
Ages: All
Players: 1-4
Cost: Free
This simple, yet satisfying escape game throws it back to the popular animated movie from 2001. In the game, you’re a magical creature, and as such, have been banished to live in an ogre hut. But Lord Farquaad accidentally leaves clues behind to unlock the hut so you can gain your freedom.
Oscar’s Stolen Oscar
Ages: 8 and older
Players: 1-4
Cost: Free
Something fishy is going on at the National Aquarium! Oscar, the fish from Shark Tale, is missing his Academy Award and needs your help to find it! By answering a series of trivia questions about various aquatic life, you’ll proceed through the puzzle to solve the caper. The game is hosted on Google Forms, so it can be accessed at any time and there is no time limit.
Unlock Disney World
Ages: 8 and older
Players: Unlimited
Cost: Free
Created by Elizabeth Wilson, this escape Disney World game is perfect for Disney-lovers of all ages! Hosted on Google Slides, the premise of the game is, you fell asleep in Country Bear Jamboree and were locked in the amusement park. In order to get out, you have to (virtually) visit different attractions—including Pirates of the Caribbean, Haunted Mansion, and Splash Mountain—and answer trivia questions, solve puzzles, and more to unlock six locks and gain your freedom.
Welcome to the Snow Ball
Ages: 13 and older
Players: 1-4
Cost: Free
In this Stranger Things-themed virtual escape room, hosted on Google Form, you and your friends are trapped in the gym during the dance, and in order to escape, you have to solve the riddles, answer trivia questions, and more.
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