Open the first door of Santa's workshop, then make the whole escape room yours.
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Door 1 of 4 · The tree in the hall
🎄 Santa's coat, then the tree, then the star on top, then the snowman's nose. Hang four baubles in that order.
Choose a sequence of 4 colors
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A Christmas escape room your class or family plays on a phone
A Christmas escape room is a chain of small locks: each riddle opens the next door, and the last one hides the surprise. This one has four doors in Santa's workshop, about 15 minutes, played from one link or QR code with no app and no account for the players.
Door 3: the stockings
A two-digit code · the full game plays the doors in order
Door 3 of 4 · The stockings
🧦🧦🧦 Each stocking holds 4 sweets. 🎄 The little tree holds 12 baubles. How many in all?
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How it works
Start from the template
Open the Christmas escape room in the builder: four doors, their riddles, hints and wrong-answer lines are already written.
Make it yours
Change a riddle, a code or a door, and put your own surprise behind the last one: a message, a photo, a link or where the present is hidden.
Share one link
Send the link or print the QR code. Players open it in a phone's browser, with no app and no account, and the doors open one after the other.
Designed down to the last detail
Style every pixel of the lock, and watch it open on film.
Nothing on the screen is fixed. Pick a theme, choose a filmed object that fidgets while the lock holds and opens on video, with sound, when the code is right, then a celebration for the moment it opens. Set the typeface and size, and end on your own reveal. Your players see exactly the screen you designed.
Everything you can design on a lock →Colours
51 themes, and more in the builder. Each one paints the lock, its keys and its button.
Video animations
57 filmed objects that fidget while the lock holds and open on video, with sound, when the lock gives way.
Typeface and size
37 typefaces and 6 text sizes, from a phone in hand to a screen across the room.
Or your own two pictures
Upload a closed and an open picture: the parcel as wrapped, then what was inside.
Every theme, filmed animation, celebration and typeface can be tried on the live preview before you publish.
- 51
- themes
- 57
- filmed animations
- 37
- typefaces
- 36
- celebrations
- 15
- lock types
- 7
- player languages
The four doors, end to end
The template exactly as it ships, so you know what your players will meet.
- Door 1
- The tree in the hall. Colours lock: hang four baubles in the order of a rhyme (red, green, yellow, orange).
- Door 2
- The sleigh. Direction lock: follow the reindeer tracks, up, up, right, down.
- Door 3
- The stockings. Number lock: 3 stockings of 4 sweets plus 12 baubles makes 24.
- Door 4
- The wrapping room. Written answer: what is wrapped in paper and waits under the tree? A gift.
- Length
- About 15 minutes. Each door has a hint and its own wrong-answer line.
- Players
- On their own phones or on one class screen. No app, no account.
- The surprise
- Behind the last door: "The workshop is open! Christmas is saved." Replace it with your own.
Christmas escape room ideas
Ways people set it up, for a class, at home or for a team.
Last day before the holidays
Project the four doors on the board and let teams shout the answers. The last door reveals the holiday homework, or that there is none.
Christmas Eve at home
Send the link to the family chat after dinner. The last door says where the real present is hidden.
A QR code on each door
Print one QR code per room of the house or the school, so players walk from the tree to the fireplace.
Teams racing
Two halves of the class play the same link on two tablets. The first team through the wrapping room wins.
For colleagues
Swap the riddles for office jokes and put the party details behind the last door.
One riddle a day
Prefer a riddle every morning of December? Build a puzzle advent calendar instead: one lock per day, each opening on its own date.
Who it is for
An elementary class
Colours, arrows, a small sum and one word: children from about seven solve it, alone or in teams.
Older students
Make it harder: longer codes, a cipher on door 2, a riddle in the language you teach.
A family
Grandparents, cousins and children on their own phones, from the same link.
Far away
The link travels by message: someone abroad plays the same doors on Christmas Day.
A party
Show the QR code on the TV and let guests race to the last door.
Next year
Nothing is deleted. Change the riddles in December and send the link again.
Lock Challenge Pro. One plan, everything included.
Building and previewing the whole escape room is free, with the look, the filmed snow globe and the snow celebration. You pay only when you publish it.
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Create
Any lock, any reveal
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Customize
Themes, fonts, filmed opening, sound
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Share
Link or QR code, on any device
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Play together
Team Battle, live ranking, advanced controls
Christmas escape room questions
What is a Christmas escape room?
A Christmas escape room is a game of chained locks with a Christmas story. Players read a riddle, type the code, and the next door appears, until the last one reveals the surprise. On Lock Challenge it is one link: players open it on a phone or a class screen, with nothing to install.
Can I try it before making one?
Yes. Open the first door above, or play all four doors of the Christmas escape room in your browser, without an account.
Is it right for a classroom?
Yes. The riddles are short and visual (colours, arrows, a sum and a word), each door has a hint, and students need no account or app: they open a link or scan a QR code. It takes about 15 minutes.
Can I change the riddles and the surprise?
Yes. The template opens in the builder with every riddle, answer, hint and wrong-answer line written. Change any of them, add or remove doors, and put your own message, photo or link behind the last one.
What about an advent calendar?
A Christmas escape room is one game played in one sitting. For one riddle a day in December, see the puzzle advent calendar: 24 small locks, each opening on its own date.
What does it cost?
Creating and previewing is free. Publishing is paid. Players never pay and need no account. See current plans on the pricing page.
More ways to reveal something
Four doors before Christmas Eve
Open the template, change what you like, and send the link when December comes.
Make your Christmas escape room →