Casefiles for escape-room newcomers, regular teams and amateur hosts — answers stay sealed until you ask.

VorkadScandiPuzzle
The Editors

Who Assembles the Casefiles

A small independent desk of players, game-night hosts and puzzle writers who believe the best clue is the one you could have seen all along.

Three editors at a long table reviewing printed drafts and handwritten puzzle sketches in daylight

What we do

VorkadScandiPuzzle publishes method guides for escape rooms and mystery challenges: how to observe, decode, deduce and design. We write for three readers at once — the nervous first-timer, the team that plays monthly and wants to get better, and the host building a game at home.

Every guide returns to one idea: keep observation, interpretation and proof apart. It is the habit that turns guessing into solving, and it is the same habit that makes a designer's clue chain fair.

The site is published by Vorkad Casefile Media Ltd, a small independent company registered in England and Wales.

How we write a practice puzzle

Each one is drafted, then solved cold by an editor who has not seen it. If they need a guess or outside knowledge, the puzzle goes back. Hints are written in tiers — a nudge, a connection, then the answer — and checked so no early hint gives the game away.

Our sources and corrections

Historical notes — from Suetonius on Caesar's cipher to the work at Bletchley Park and the origins of SCRAP's Real Escape Game in Kyoto — are checked against published histories and museum material. Safety guidance points to public regulations rather than our own opinion.

If you spot an error, a puzzle with two valid answers or a hint that reveals too much, please leave us a note. Corrections are made promptly and dated.