Space Station Safety Power Play
Power Play is an “escape room” style game where you must use your cunning and intellect to figure out the puzzles. But these puzzles can be tough to figure out! Most of the puzzles have little to no instructions on how to solve them. It’s up to you and your friends to analyze the puzzle and see if you can figure out what’s going on. Think hard, work together and do your best!
Puzzle #1
What players will see:
Explanation
This solution can be found by figuring out that you should follow the path of the red wire, as Bile shared a clue when he mentioned the “red” planet in his postcard.
Hints
Hint #1: Follow the path, but which one?
Hint #2: Didn’t Bile mention the “red” planet on the postcard to his cousin?
Solution
Combination
Puzzle #2
What players will see:
Explanation
This solution can be found by figuring out that the jumble of letters can be decoded by using the decoder wheel. Each of the lower-case letters has an upper-case equivalent. The answer is WIRES.
Hints
Hint #1: Those letters look like some sort of code. Maybe each letter stands for another letter!?
Hint #2: Look at the circular decoder. Look up the lower-case letters to find the upper-case letters that will spell the word.
Solution
Combination
Puzzle #3
What players will see:
Explanation
This solution can be found by figuring out that some of the letters in the numbered list are actually shapes. The student must enter the shapes as they appear in order in the list.
Hints
Hint #1: So much to do, but the solution must lie on one of these lists!
Hint #2: Only one list is numbered. Some of the letters in that list look like shapes.
Solution
Combination
Puzzle #4
What players will see:
Explanation
This solution can be found by figuring out that the numbers above the console correspond to the number of each of the differently colored lights. There are seven blue lights, three green lights, nine yellow lights, two red lights and five orange lights.
Hints
Hint #1: That’s good information about electricity, but what about those lights? Does that number below the lights mean anything?
Hint #2:How many blue lights are there? How many green lights? Keep going!
Solution
Combination
Puzzle #5
What players will see:
Explanation
This solution can be found by figuring out that the order of the planets in our solar system corresponds to a planet in Bile’s list. The student must enter the planet’s “number” from the sun in the order in which it appears in the list.
Hints
Hint #1: So many numbers and letters. Neptune says, “Let’s start here.”
Hint #2: Neptune is which planet from the sun?
Solution
Combination
