Escape the Museum

This page contains hints for the puzzles contained in the game Escape the Museum.

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Art Exhibition

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The dates for the exhibition are important.

There are five dates the exhibition can be seen, these are key.

Each of the dates gives you a letter from the month.

The 1st September gives S, the 2nd of Septemeber gives e. Continuing to pick out letters from the month (given by the day number) You spell seven.

Astronomy

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Instructions are hidden in the main, non-bold text of the article.

The first letter of each row in the non bold text tells you what to do.

Taking the first letters of each line gives "steps of ten give the answer". Go back through the text and take every 10th word.

Taking every tenth word gives "from seven plus four then to it add eleven now take eight". Completing this calculation gives 14.

Exploring Space

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Focus on the right hand side of the ticket.

Some of the text looks a bit strange.

Rotate to read the text before May 2024.

The text before May 2024 reads "eight x nine" which is 72.

Field Museum News

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There is a subtle hint in the second paragraph.

The answer lies in the picture of the stone rubbing.

A tomb containing the first two fallen warriors..

By taking the first two letters of the text in the image you get "three times fourteen" which is forty two.

Julius Caesar

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The image contains a cipher.

A hint to the cipher key can be found in the text.

The second to last paragraph tells you how he signed his name, use this as a key to decode the message.

You are told he often signed his name "GAIVS IVLIVS CAESAR". The text in the image is signed but it has been shifted. JDLYV LYOLYV FDHVDU = "GAIVS IVLIVS CAESAR". The text has been shifted forward by 3 (G has become J). Undo this by shifting each letter back three in the alphabet to get "two lots of nine" which is 18.

Keepping Time

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The image in key, there is a hint in the paragraph "Roman soliders...".

The shape of each shield is key to picking out a letter.

The number of sides of each shield tells you which letter to take from the roman soliders name.

The first shield has one side so take the letter G, the second shield has 4 sides so take the letter I and so on. This gives the letters "gieht". Rearranging these gives eight.

Mesmerizing Experince

Need a hint?

Focus on the bottom of the leaflet.

The follow tag gives the key.

Use the follow tag with with phone number to reveal a word.

In the follow tag the 2 = i and 8 = o. These are also the second and eighth letters of the tag. Looking at the phone number, 9 = f, 8 = o, 6=r, 4 = t and 7 = y. This gives forty.

Museum Today

Need a hint?

Complete the word search.

Focus on the left over letters.

Read the left over letters, starting bottom right.

Reading the bottom letters backwords, starting bottom right gives "to work out the solution just calculate three times twelve then add twenty four now subtract three". This gives 57.

Newsletter

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The first clue can be found bottom right. There is also a clue in The Before Times.

The first letter of each sentence bottom right spells "Morse". The Before Times also refers to horticulture.

The article in the before times refers to dots being short marks and dashes being long marks. Look carefully for mentions of long and short in the main newsletter text.

Picking out all mentions of long and short from the main text of the horticulture article (taking care to look across words, e.g. "is horticultural" contains the word short) give the morse code to translate. Each paragraph gives a letter spelling four.