Escape Room: Ransom Note, Cat Themed 30 Minute Group Team Building Activity & Icebreaker Party Game, Printable PDF

Ransom Note is a cat themed escape room game perfect for a team building activity, icebreaker challenge, or party game. This timed activity can be played several ways...as a traditional escape room in which participants must complete the challenge before the clock runs out (30 minutes)...or as a competitive group against group (or individual against individual) challenge where whoever finishes first wins! You decide how you want to play!

Read aloud the included story sheet to setup the context of the game. You arrive home from work to discover your apartment has been broken into and your beloved cat, Mr. Whiskers, is missing. There's a ransom note that has been left on the table for you to find. It is up to your group to solve puzzles in order to unlock the items needed to solve the final code and pay the ransom. Can you figure it out in time and save Mr. Whiskers?

This challenge includes 6 puzzles as well as a final word that must be solved before time runs out. This game can be played with any amount of players, but it is recommended to break up into small groups for the best play experience.

Play completion will vary depending on group age, skill level, and experience with puzzle solving. This activity is intended for a young adult or adult audience looking for a fun and unique team building activity or icebreaker challenge that will take approximately 30-40 minutes. The timed portion of this game is 30 minutes.

The activity is setup so that players will ONLY need to write on the provided recording sheets, rather than any of the puzzle sheets. This allows you to print off a majority of the activity sheets only once (or for however many groups you want to play with) and keep re-using them again and again...saving you time, ink, and paper. Printing on thicker paper like cardstock or laminating the re-usable sheets will make them last even longer.

▼WHAT'S INCLUDED▼
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A total of 33 PAGES organized into 5 PDFs for printing. Everything is sized to print on regular 8.5x11 inch paper:

1x Escape Room Ransom Note PDF with Facilitator Sheets including Instructions, Story Intro, Story Endings, Overview, FAQs, and Terms
1x Escape Room Ransom Note PDF with Facilitator Puzzle Guide
1x Escape Room Ransom Note PDF with Lockboxes
1x Escape Room Ransom Note PDF with Recording Sheets
1x Escape Room Ransom Note PDF with Ransom Letter and Puzzles

▼HOW TO PLAY▼
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-Determine how many groups will be playing
-Follow the Instructions to prep for the game
-Setup lockbox sheets on a table for groups to see and prep copies of puzzle sheets (these will be handed out as groups solve puzzles and progress through the game)
-Break into small groups
-Read aloud the Story Intro sheet and distribute items when prompted
-Start the 30 minute countdown clock
-Facilitate the activity until a group has solved all the puzzles and finished the challenge

▼HOW TO DOWNLOAD & USE▼
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-Etsy will send you a link to the downloads after purchase in your receipt email
-You can also access links to downloads within your Etsy orders section if you're on a desktop computer
-After downloading, open with a PDF reader such as Adobe Acrobat (download for free at www.get.adobe.com/reader)
-Print on your home computer or take your files to a print shop.

▼IMPORTANT INFORMATION▼
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-This is a digital download, no physical item will be shipped
-Customization is not offered for this product
-These files are for personal use only and not to be edited.
-This activity contains a mixture of commercial use graphic elements, public-domain graphic elements, and graphic elements created with AI.

Enjoy!
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