Six teams. One classroom. Six different escape rooms. Forty-five minutes.
Type your lesson. Type your theme — Halloween, Treasure Island, Space Station, Reformation Day — anything. Click Generate. Ninety seconds later every team in your room is in their own themed escape room, built around your curriculum.
No $150 kits. No printing. No teachers rotating between stations. Curriculum IS the puzzle.
Running escape rooms used to mean picking one of three bad options.
Breakout EDU boxes at $150+ each. Fixed puzzles. One team at a time. 24 kids = six kits = $900+ of plastic locks you store in a cupboard. No way to theme them, no way to swap the lesson, no reports.
Google / Lock-Paper-Scissors templates. The puzzles are generic riddles, not your curriculum. You spend a weekend hand-adapting it to the chapter you're actually teaching. Next unit, start over.
Google Slides, Forms, conditional logic, QR codes, printable artifacts. Three weekends of your life. The one teacher who nails it gets Instagram-famous. Nobody else can copy it.
Curriculate makes every lesson escape-room-able. Any theme. Six parallel teams. Zero prep. The curriculum is the puzzle.
From "what should we play?" to a running escape room.
Describe the lesson
One line — 'Fractions for grade 4' or 'Civil War for grade 7'. Paste your key vocabulary (10–20 terms). The generator uses them as the lock requirements and the fragment story.
Pick the theme
Tick 🔐 Make this an escape room. The theme field pre-fills with today's season — Reformation Day in late October, Nativity in December, Resurrection in spring. Override with anything else: Mars Colony, Egyptian Tomb, Haunted Library.
Run the room
Projector shows the room code + a scan-to-join QR. Six teams scan in. Each team's HUD shows their keys, fragments, and the vault input. The first team to synthesize the cipher digits escapes.
Keys → Locks → Fragments → The Vault.
The four primitives behind every escape room. Same engine every room runs on.
Keys
Earned by completing curriculum tasks. One task might grant a Shepherd's Staff or a Monk's Ink Pot. Keys are the proof of learning.
Locks
Gated by the keys they need. Each lock has a themed narrative (the Printing Press Plates, the Scriptorium Scroll) and a curriculum hint — not a party-trick riddle.
Fragments
Revealed when a lock opens — cipher digits etched on brass tiles or carved into cliffs. Teams accumulate them in position order.
The Vault
The final synthesis lock. Enter the digits in order. First team home wins. Named 'He Is Risen' / 'The Castle Church Door' / 'From Your Valentine'.
Lock 1 — "The Witch's Fraction Cauldron": students put the spell steps in order to turn 9/4 into a simplified mixed number. Earn the Spiderweb Cipher Tile (digit 4).
Lock 2 — "The Haunted Fraction Hall": by candlelight, decide if each ghostly fraction clue is true or false. Earn the Pumpkin Lantern Cipher (digit 2).
Lock 3 — "The Candlelit Vault": match equivalent fractions before the clock strikes. Earn the Black Cat Cipher (digit 7).
Final — "The Haunted Library Door": enter the digits in order — 4-2-7 — to escape before the candles go out.
The five things nobody else packages together.
Each one individually is possible. All five, in 90 seconds of teacher time, isn't.
Parallel teams, same room
Six teams of four each in their own escape room, in the same classroom, on their own devices. No $900 of plastic kits. No rotation. No queue.
Curriculum is the puzzle
The hint on Luther's padlock is 'simplify 12/16', not a cryptogram. Teachers can count the time toward learning, not toward puzzle-solving.
Any theme, any lesson
Type Halloween, Treasure Island, Mars Colony, Reformation Day. Lock titles, keys, fragment narratives and task prompts all read as the same fiction.
Seasonally pre-filled
Open the generator the week of a holiday and the theme is already there — Reformation Day in late October, Nativity in December, Resurrection in spring.
Reports anyway
The escape room runs on the same gradebook pipeline as any Curriculate taskset. Session ends → parent-ready recap, Bloom's coverage, per-student grades.
Zero prep
90 seconds in the generator. No printing, no cutting, no laminating, no plastic locks arriving by post. Launch from the Teacher Dashboard with one click.
Open the demo. Scan the QR with your phone.
No sign-up. The Treasure Island demo is running right now at set.curriculate.net/demo. You'll see the exact UX a classroom sees — projector + HUD + the vault at the end.