There are those who use Google forms to create virtual escape rooms

From the idea of ​​a librarian, a community of puzzle creators based on the Big G platform and inspired by Harry Potter or Star Wars has been created

Google Forms hosts many digital Escape Rooms created during the lockdown period ( image: Screenshot of the Harry Potter themed escape room) The passion of a librarian has transformed Google Forms from a platform for creating surveys and collecting information into a tool to open digital escape rooms.

Many people during the period lockdowns had to adapt to the unusual situation. This was the case also for Sydney Krawiec, employed in the Peters Township public library in Pennsylvania: the physical spacing measures have frozen her plan for an escape room. Then he looked for a platform that could host the fruit of his imagination and created a Harry Potter-themed escape room on Google Forms.

The series of challenges, puzzles and puzzles based on the English wizard novel has become viral in no time and inspired new escape rooms. According to the creators reached by The Verge, these new digital challenges have become a tool for home teaching and education, and have reconfirmed themselves as an alternative team building exercise.

In addition to the escape room a Harry Potter theme, Google Forms is home to many from other famous book sagas, such as Percy Jackson. Others are drawn from the worlds of Marvel, Jurassic World and Star Wars. Digital allows you to get help from Google and other search engines to collect information useful for solving puzzles.

Not everything goes smoothly: Google Forms is in fact held strictly account uppercase and lowercase letters in the answers or, even worse, does not save the progress of the participant and if he were to accidentally close the form. In which case it would be necessary to start again your adventure.