The escape room
Every trace comes in a different form: one blinks, one sounds, one is written. Only together do they give the key.
An escape room is a chain of puzzles whose answers converge at the end. That is more than a list of tasks: the last step can only be solved if the earlier ones were genuinely solved rather than skipped.
That is also where the learning sits. Morse code appears in three forms - as light, as sound, and as written dots and dashes. Most people can do one of them and stumble over the others; here each comes up once, and the finish demands all three.
The two rooms
The locked radio room: a four-digit lock and four traces in the room. A lamp at the window blinks a digit, one comes from the loudspeaker, one is scratched into the desk and one is at the back of the logbook. The combination is the order in which you found them.
The lighthouse: three findings - a word from the beacon, two digits from the foghorn, a word from the wall. The keeper left the instruction "read it backwards" with them, and that is where most people fail on the first attempt.
Why digits are the hardest trace
Every digit is five elements long and they differ only in order. Until the last element it is not decided which one it will be - with letters, half the field is usually ruled out after two elements.
The construction is regular and easy to hold: 1 is one dot and four dashes, and with each number the boundary moves one place to the right until 5 is five dots. Then it flips: 6 is one dash and four dots, and it works back the other way. The full list is under numbers.
When blinking is not an option
Anyone who has set "reduce motion" in their system gets no blinking panel - the Morse sequence appears written instead. That is not a fallback but the only way to keep the step solvable: a puzzle that works only through blinking would be a locked door for part of the visitors.
For the same reason no tone plays during the light step. A room where the lamp blinks and the loudspeaker joins in is no longer setting a task.
Frequently asked questions
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How long does a room take?
Ten to twelve minutes once the characters are solid. Without secure digits considerably longer - then it is less a puzzle than a look-up exercise, and the learning path is the better start.
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Can I skip a step?
The hint appears by itself after two wrong attempts and can be requested at any time. There is no real skipping - the final puzzle would need the answer anyway.
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Will there be new rooms?
The rooms sit in the same data file as the missions, only with a different cut. A new one is a matter of text.