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Muckraker Secret Agent Escape

High School

Created on October 7, 2025

Students will investigate clues based on the issues of muckrakers during late 1800s/early 1900s.

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MUCKRAKERS

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ESCAPE ROOM Muckraker Secret Agent

Mission 01

THIS IS YOUR STORY: You are a novice journalist aspiring to become a professional muckraker to expose corruption and dangerous living and working condition. To achieve this, you must infiltrate the underworld and solve the missions that appear on the map. Make sure to have a notebook handy to jot down the clues you will be collecting. If you gather all the clues, you will obtain the combination that opens the briefcase with your reward.Good luck!

Open the letter

Form the code

I got it!

Drag the letters into this space and form the answer to the previous riddle.

Password?

Knock on the door, enter the previous code, and you will get the first number you need to open the briefcase.

"Without a password you cannot enter"

Enter the password

map/missions

you have completed mission 1, don't forget the number you just discovered!

Mission 02

Mission 01

You find some factory owners having a hushed conversation about how they are doing business. Listen in. You might be able to hear something useful.

Spy carefully

- Do you think that they will complain?

- If they want a paycheck they won't complain about...

Continue

- ... the locked doors?

- The locked doors and the rat poison

- Should we be worried?

- Nah. If they do, there are 10 more to take their place...

Pay attention to the conversation to get the answers to the questions in the next mission

First question

What could be lost if 'they' complain?

C Benefits

B Housing

A A paycheck

Second question

What are the speakers concerned about being shared?

C locked doors and rat poison

B Paychecks and replacement workers

A Bribes and monopolies

Congratulations! You now have your second secret number to open the briefcase,write it down and keep investigating

Continue

Correct

New number obtained

I have discovered you...

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You have completed mission 2, YOU ARE VERY CLOSE TO OPENING THE BRIEFCASE!

Mission 01

Mission 02

Mission 03

Sort the scenes

Do you have it?

2nd

1st

3rd

4th

Drag to find out the order of the letters you need.
Congratulations! You now have your last secret number to open the briefcase,write it down and move forward

Continue

New number obtained

Correct

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You are almost there! You can almost see your article on the front pages of newspapers across the country!

Mission 01

Mission 02

Mission 03

Final Mission

Password?

What is the password?

Enter the correct numbers

Mission accomplished!

Date: 20XX

First Last Name

press

M.U.C.K.

You have been hired as lead investigative journalist! Congratulations!

Are you giving up?You were very close to becoming a lead investigative journalist.

If you leave, you will have to start over again Are you sure you want to leave?

Continue

Exit

It seems that someone is following you...

Go ahead

Riddle

I freeze moments in time, yet I keep them alive. What am I?

Don't forget!

Write down the numbers that accompany each letter in order to obtain your secret code.

Keep going