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Great Expectations escape rooms

6 self-checking escape rooms on Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, one for each section. Every answer comes from the text, so each room checks reading as well as recall, and they work with any edition. For grades 9–12, classical homeschoolers and literature classes.

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Room by room

• Chapters 1–10: Stopped Clocks. Pip's meeting with the convict on the marshes, the stolen food, Christmas dinner at the forge, the soldiers' hunt, Pip's first visit to Miss Havisham and Estella, his tall tales, Biddy's lessons, and the stranger with the file.
• Chapters 11–19: The Lawyer's News. Miss Havisham's hopeful relations, the rotting bride-cake, the fight with the pale young gentleman, Pip's apprenticeship to Joe, Orlick, the attack on Mrs Joe, Biddy at the forge, Mr Jaggers's announcement, and Pip's departure for London.
• Chapters 20–29: A Gentleman in London. Mr Jaggers's office in Little Britain, Wemmick, Barnard's Inn and Herbert Pocket, Miss Havisham's story, the Pockets at Hammersmith, Wemmick's castle at Walworth, dinner at Mr Jaggers's, Joe's visit, and Pip's meeting with the grown-up Estella.
• Chapters 30–39: A Stormy Night. Trabb's boy, Mr Wopsle's Hamlet, Estella in London and Richmond, Newgate, the Finches of the Grove, Mrs Joe's funeral, Pip's coming of age, his secret help for Herbert, Bentley Drummle's toast, and the visitor who climbs the stairs on a stormy night.
• Chapters 40–49: The Hidden Uncle. The convict disguised as Provis, his life story and his enemy Compeyson, Estella's choice of Drummle, Wemmick's warning note, the hiding place at Mill Pond Bank, the man at the theatre, the housekeeper's wrists, and Miss Havisham's remorse and the fire.
• Chapters 50–59: Down the River. The secret of Estella's parents, Orlick's trap at the sluice-house, the escape on the river and its failure, Wemmick's wedding, Magwitch's trial and death, Pip's illness and Joe's care, Joe and Biddy's marriage, and Pip's return years later.