The National Museum of Computing: Escape Room Challenge: 1940s

Faced with a series of perplexing puzzles and challenges inspired by computing technology across the decades, you must gather your wits, problem-solving and team-working skills to beat the ticking clock in a thrilling race to the finish line to determine your fate. Prepare to be confronted with alien tools and technology from decades past - paper tape, punched cards and floppy disks to name a few. Designed to please even the most discerning Escape Room hobbyist, our Escape Room Challenges boast the added bonus of educating our escapees on the history of Computing along the way!

1940s: Would you have made it as a successful code breaker at Bletchley Park during WWII? It’s time to find out! Use an Enigmatix, a single wheel poly-alphabetic encryption system which mimics a rotor from the original Enigma machine, to decrypt puzzles and tackle cryptography 1940’s style.