Escape Room
Powers, Puzzles and Prescience is an Escape Room for Demystifying Death Week
Undertaken by teams of 3-5 people, participants are challenged to unravel a super-hero themed mystery by finding clues and solving puzzles.
Along the way teams will encounter family dynamics, future care planning, caring responsibilities and aging in the 21st century.
Run the escape room in your local community
If you’re in Scotland, Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief can send you everything you need to run Powers, Puzzles and Prescience, free of charge. Alternatively, there is a website where you can download and print all the necessary resources.
This includes…
- All the escape room puzzles and clues, including diary entries, letters, photographs, police reports and newspaper articles.
- Instructions of how to set up the escape room and ideas for how to make the experience as immersive as possible.
For Demystifying Death Week we are running a competition for the best escape room photo - find out more here: Escape Room - Photo Prizes
What will you need?
The room takes around 1 hour to complete, and is solved by one team at a time. You’ll need to provide..
- Your enthusiasm as host, and a team of people to solve the mystery
- A laptop or smartphone with internet access
- A space to transform into your Escape Room.
- Ideally you’ll need two separate spaces for the two different sections of the escape room, but it can be done in just one room.
Any space will do – whether it is an office, a meeting room, a church hall, or a bedroom – as long as there is privacy, and space to lay out, and sometimes hide, the puzzles and clues we send you.
If you like, you can use props like furniture, tablecloths, crockery or ornaments to create a more immersive experience for teams.
Interested?
Order an Escape Room Pack
To receive an Escape Room pack through the post, fill in this form: Powers, Puzzles and Prescience - Order a GLGDGG Escape Room kit
We do a mailing once per month so make sure you order your pack well in advance of when you’ll need it. Unfortunately we are only able to distribute packs within Scotland.
Download the resources from our website
Register here and we will send you a password to enable you to download all the escape room resources free of charge from our website: Register to access downloadable resources
If you have already registered and received the password you can access the escape room resources here: Escape Room Downloadable Resources
Contact us
If you have any other queries, please get in touch with samara@palliativecarecotland.org.uk
Terms, Conditions & Copyright
Powers, Puzzles & Prescience was created by Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief and the Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care (SPPC). It is part of our work to support more death literacy and grief literacy in Scotland.
The Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care makes these resources available free of charge on the condition that:
- no one is charged a fee for participating in the Escape Room.
- the resources are used in full and only for the purpose of this Escape Room – no part should be replicated, amended or repurposed.
Powers, Puzzles & Prescience is the original work of the Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care, copyright SPPC 2025. Its creation was inspired by a workshop at PHPCI International Conference 2024 describing the Stay Room™ developed by the ATLANTES Global Observatory of Palliative Care of the University of Navarra, Spain in 2021. Reigada, C., Sandgren, A., Rivas, S. et al. Palliative care stay room – designing, testing and evaluating a gamified social intervention to enhance palliative care awareness. BMC Palliat Care 22, 46 (2023).
