FIVE WAYS OUT: ONLINE EDITION

Five escape-room adventures. Choose your path. Crack every lock. Play the whole book in your browser.

A mansion. A reef. A tomb. A dying station. A locked ward.

You are the thief in a sleeping country house, the raider of a pirate fortress, the burglar loose in a museum after dark, the last soul aboard a failing space station, and the intruder in a shuttered asylum. Five nights, five impossible escapes, and always one wrong move from being caught.

Every escape is a maze of 120 sections. Choose your door at the end of each one. A wrong turn springs a trap and sends you back to the last safe checkpoint. A locked door hands you a puzzle: a shift cipher, a mirror cipher, a jumble of letters, a keypad that yields only to logic. Crack the code, type it into the lock, and the door swings open.

WHAT YOU GET

- The complete Five Ways Out, playable online on a computer, tablet or phone

- 5 escapes, 600 sections and 65 locks

- Tap to choose your path, type codes straight into each lock

- A hint for every lock, and the answer if you really need it

- Safe checkpoints, a Back button and a notebook for the numbers you need to remember

- Your progress saves automatically on your device, so you can stop and come back

HOW IT WORKS

After you pay, you will receive a link and an access code. Open the link, enter the code, and choose your first escape. No download or app needed.

By Amanda Nash.