Comic Caper: Factors Escape Room – GCSE Maths

Printable maths escape room for GCSE Foundation: teams race to open locks on factors, primes and highest common factor. 6 sets and worked answers.

Mr Babel’s French comics are locked in the Chokey, the old cupboard at the back of the room. Ms Fromage locked them in and forgot about them, the key went in the bin, and Estates are taking the cupboard away today. She’s just outside the door, telling a colleague about her cruise. Three combination locks, one lesson.

Teams open three locks (counting factors, primes, highest common factor), then crack a final padlock: combine their three answers using + − × ÷ to hit a target number. Whole numbers, nothing above 100, no calculator needed.

In the pack (36 pages, A4, prints in black and white):
• 6 lettered sets (A–F), each with different numbers, so the team next to you can’t copy
• Teacher run sheet and read-aloud scripts
• Score sheet: tick each lock as it opens and record wrong answers and hints. You set the time penalties.
• Answer key with every answer worked through, plus the common wrong answers to look out for
• Hint cards and a winners’ certificate

About 15 minutes of maths. Works with a cover teacher: everything you need is in the pack.

The online version of this room is free on MaffsGames, if you’d rather play it on screens.