Music Escape Room Game Grades 3-5, Note Pyramid Workshop, Self-Checking Browser + PDF

Designed by Creouts Publishing using original prompt(s) and AI (Claude by Anthropic). Illustrations made with AI image tools. Every puzzle is computer-checked to have exactly one answer.

Self-checking: every right answer unlocks the next step, so kids know at once if they're right, with hints when stuck and no grading for you.

NOTE PYRAMID WORKSHOP, a music escape room game for Grades 3 to 5 (a browser game with sound, plus a printable PDF)
On Woodnote Isle, across the water from a golden pyramid, stands an instrument workshop. Tonight is the Sunset Concert, and the star of the show is the Note Pyramid: a tall stand of rainbow bars that plays rhythm tiles. But a gust of sea wind blew through the workshop and scattered every rhythm. Tockatoo the palm cockatoo, who taps a steady beat on the palm trees every morning, needs your help. Fix the eight benches, find the eight lost tiles and rebuild the island song.

LEARN IT, THEN USE IT
Every bench opens with a Learn card that teaches its one rhythm skill, with its own examples, before any puzzle uses it. Two Music Basics pages (notes, rests, measures, time signatures, dots and ties) stay near for the whole game. A friendly start for beginners, or lively practice for students who already read music.
- Whole, half, quarter and eighth notes, and the note pyramid (1 whole = 2 halves = 4 quarters = 8 eighths)
- Rests: whole, half, quarter and eighth
- Measures and bar lines; 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 time; counting "1 and 2 and"
- Dotted half and dotted quarter notes; ties
- US note names, with the UK names too (semibreve, minim, crotchet, quaver)

HOW SELF-CHECKING WORKS
- In the game, every step is checked the moment you enter it. A right answer locks in and plays; a wrong one gets a message that names the likely mistake, such as "This measure has 4½ beats. 4/4 holds 4 beats."
- Every puzzle's answers spell a code word, on screen and on paper, so a wrong answer shows up as a word that doesn't work
- Hints when stuck: a nudge, then the method, then one step shown (in the PDF: two hint steps and a full answer key)
- Stars for every puzzle (three with no hints), a workshop map, the island song finale and a printable certificate

THIS IS A DIGITAL GAME FOR A WEB BROWSER, PLUS A PRINTABLE PDF. It is not a book and nothing is shipped.
- The interactive game is the HTML file. It opens in a web browser after unzipping, checks your answers, plays the rhythms and saves your progress on your device. It works offline: no internet, no account, no ads.
- The PDF is a printable paper version of the same adventure. It is not interactive: you solve with a pencil, and the code words check your answers. It works completely by itself.

HOW IT PLAYS
- Eight workshop benches, from Grade 3 to Grade 5: the Marimba Bench, the Wood Block Shelf, the Shaker Rack, the Chime Tower, the Kalimba Corner, the Bamboo Path, the Paint Table and the Sunset Stage
- Each bench: a Learn card, two practice puzzles and a Lock. The Lock earns one lost rhythm tile
- The finale: place your eight tiles in the island song (8 measures of 4/4). In the game, the whole band plays it
- Sound made in code: every right row plays its rhythm, a count-in click comes before it, and each bench adds its instrument to the band (marimba, wood block, shaker, chimes, kalimba, rain stick, drum). Sound is never needed to solve; there is a mute button on every screen

7 KINDS OF MATH PYRAMID, ALL MADE OF NOTES (rhythm pyramids)
Beat Bricks (add the beats up the pyramid), Note Pyramid (every row is one full measure), Tile Rack (with rests), Odd Brick Out (find the brick that doesn't add up), Measure Maze (a pyramid maze: one path fills the measures exactly), Dot Fix (one dot in every row) and Mystery Marks (work out which note hides under each mark). Plus Bar Lines puzzles and the island song.
- 24 puzzles in the game and the PDF, from easy to tricky, plus 7 Backstage bonus puzzles
- Every puzzle is new and has exactly one answer, reached step by step without guessing

GRADES
Benches 1 to 3 suit Grade 3, benches 4 to 6 suit Grade 4, benches 7 and 8 suit Grade 5. Great for music class, homeschool music, a sub day or a rainy afternoon.

WHAT YOU GET (instant download, 3 files)
- Note-Pyramid-Workshop.zip: the game (one offline HTML file), both PDFs and a short START HERE note
- The print-and-play PDF again as separate files, US Letter and A4 (51 full-color pages each)
- Free bonus folder (QR code and link in the PDF): Backstage (7 expert puzzles with answers), a note value poster, 20 rhythm flash cards and ink-saver editions of the booklet

HOW TO OPEN THE GAME
1. Unzip the download (Windows: right-click the ZIP, then Extract All; Mac: double-click it)
2. Double-click Note-Pyramid-Workshop.html; it opens in your web browser
3. Play, with touch, mouse or keyboard

PLEASE CHECK YOUR DEVICE
- Windows, Mac and Chromebook: yes, in a current web browser (Chrome, Edge or Firefox work best)
- Android phones and tablets: yes, open the file with Chrome
- iPad and iPhone: Apple's Files app does not run games from a file. You would need a file-viewer app with its own browser, or a computer. The printable PDF works on every device.

GOOD TO KNOW
- Digital download only: nothing is shipped.
- Every answer was checked by our verification software, and every puzzle was solved from the pages alone by separate AI sessions. Not tested with a class.
- All notation is drawn in code from a real music font: real notes, rests, beams, dots, ties and time signatures.
- The game never goes online. Nothing is collected or sent; progress stays on your device.
- Woodnote Isle, Tockatoo and the story are made up. Palm cockatoos are real: the males make their own drumsticks from sticks or seed pods and tap a steady beat on hollow trees.
- A kind story: every instrument is made of wood, bamboo, seed pods and metal, and nobody is harmed.

PERSONAL USE LICENSE
For your own family or a single classroom. Print as many copies as you need. No resale, sharing, uploading or claiming as your own; no AI training.

Digital files cannot be returned.