Escape Room Calling – Timed ESL Escape Game for Kids | 9 Rooms + Team Race + Room Maker | Classroom Whiteboard Game + Printables

Can your class escape before the clock runs out? Escape Room Calling is an exciting, kid-friendly escape room game for children and ESL / EFL learners (A1–B1). Solve reading, listening, spelling and grammar puzzles, collect the keys and open the door! Max the Explorer Monkey, our friendly guide, reads every instruction aloud and cheers the children on. Exciting, never scary.

It opens in any web browser and works offline on interactive whiteboards, computers, tablets and phones. No app store, no sign-in and no internet needed. You can also play online at https://escape-room-calling.pages.dev.

What's inside

• 9 colorful escape rooms in 3 levels – Level 1 (A1): Toy Factory, Candy Kingdom, Jungle Temple · Level 2 (A2): Pirate Ship, Wizard's Library, Science Lab · Level 3 (B1): Space Station, Giggle Ghost Castle (friendly ghosts!), Dinosaur Museum
• 50 puzzles, 4–6 in every room, mixing 10 skills: mixed-up words, letter padlocks with turning wheels, listening codes (numbers and colors – a new code every game), read-and-find notes that lead to hidden keys in the room picture, mini crosswords, picture matching and word meanings, choose-the-word grammar, riddles and odd one out, sentence order and secret picture codes
• Every solved puzzle gives a key. Collect them all and enter the code on the door: Level 1 number locks, Level 2 secret-word locks, Level 3 backwards codes
• A big countdown clock: 5, 10, 15 or 20 minutes or no timer, pause, +1 minute for the teacher, a ticking last minute and a friendly "Time's up!" with extra time or try again
• Beat-the-clock star rating (★★★) and best times saved for every room
• Hints and "Show me" help that cost time – and wrong answers that never do (Max just says "Try again!")
• Team Race for 2–4 teams: Take turns (one room, points, steal a puzzle after two wrong answers) or Time trial (each team plays in turn – best time wins), with a big scoreboard
• Audio included for all built-in instructions, notes, questions, words and sentences, plus original sound effects and music (each can be turned off)
• Room Maker for teachers: choose a room picture and level, type your own words, questions, sentences and notes for 4–6 puzzles, then save, play, export and import your rooms
• Escape celebration with confetti and a printable "I Escaped!" certificate with the child's name, escape time and stars
• Printable 23-page A4 teacher companion (PDF): how to play, classroom team modes and tips, 3 paper escape rooms (Toy Factory, Pirate Ship, Space Station) with puzzle sheets, door-lock code sheets and key cards to cut out, answer keys for all 9 rooms, a team timer sheet and certificates

Perfect for

• ESL / EFL classrooms and language schools
• Primary classes and whole-class whiteboard games
• End-of-unit review, holiday lessons and team competitions
• Homeschool, tutoring and family game time

How you get it

This is a digital download. Nothing is shipped. After purchase, download the zip file and unzip it. Double-click index.html – the game opens in your browser. No installation and no internet needed once downloaded.

On a phone or tablet: open https://escape-room-calling.pages.dev, or unzip the download and open index.html in your browser. Choose Play or Team Race, pick a room, set the timer and press Start. Print the companion from the yellow button at the top right of the game.

Please note

Works in Chrome, Edge, Safari and Firefox on Windows, Mac, Chromebook, iPad and Android.

Teacher-made rooms, best times and settings are kept in the browser on your device. Teacher-made rooms are read aloud by the device's own voice.

The pictures are colorful emoji-style icons, credited in the included ATTRIBUTION file.

For personal and single-classroom use. Please do not share or resell the files.

You can also open the web version at https://escape-room-calling.pages.dev.

Richard Sim ©