🌿 Escape room: The Sukkah and the Wind

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A Sukkot escape room for kids 7–9 and families: gather the four species, sort the decorations and count the meals in the sukkah.

Kids 7–9 and families
Easy
15 minutes
5 story stations

The story

A strong wind blew in the night, scattered the decorations and blew the four species into the neighbor’s crate, which then locked! Solve the riddles, open the crate and bring the holiday back to the sukkah.

Run it at home or in class

What to prepare

Sukkah decorations
A crate or box with a code lock
Printed station sheets
Branches or pictures of the four species

Tips for the facilitator

Run the room inside the sukkah itself.
At station 2, hang a real chain in a pomegranate-star-star pattern.
Let the children touch and smell the four species before station 4.

Difficulty level

The story clues stay the same on every level; harder levels add more locks in between. You can ask for a hint at every stage.

0 of 6 stages solved · Easy · 15–25 minutes

Stage 1: The four species

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On Sukkot we say a blessing over the four species. Every set has: one lulav (palm branch), one etrog (citron), three myrtle branches and two willow branches.

How many items are in one set of the four species?

Run it in real life too

Print a facilitator kit for the easy level: a sheet with the opening story, the setup and every answer, plus a big card for each of the 6 stages.

🌿 The Sukkah and the Wind: facilitator kit

Kids 7–9 and families · 15–25 minutes · Level: Easy · 6 stages

Opening story: A strong wind blew in the night, scattered the decorations and blew the four species into the neighbor’s crate, which then locked! Solve the riddles, open the crate and bring the holiday back to the sukkah.

Setup

Sukkah decorations
A crate or box with a code lock
Printed station sheets
Branches or pictures of the four species
Print the 6 stage cards and put them in order, or hide each card around the room so every answer leads to the next one.
Read the opening story to the group and start a timer.
When the group gets stuck, give one hint from the table, one at a time.
Run the room inside the sukkah itself.
At station 2, hang a real chain in a pomegranate-star-star pattern.
Let the children touch and smell the four species before station 4.

Answers and hints (facilitator only)

Stage	Answer / code	Hints
1. The four species	7	1 + 1 + 3 + 2.
2. The decoration chain	6	Every 3 decorations have 2 stars. · How many times does the pattern repeat in 9 decorations?
3. Meals in the sukkah	14	7 days times 2 meals.
4. The hiding species	myrtle	The name starts with M. · You hold three of them in every set.
5. Warm-up route · The symbols on the lock	4	Every symbol is a number. What is one symbol worth? · Add: 2 plus 2.
6. The neighbor’s crate	714	The number of items in a set, then the number of meals.

Read at the end: The crate is open and the four species are home! The neighbor brought a cake to say sorry, and now there’s one more guest in the sukkah.

🌿 The Sukkah and the Wind · Stage 1 of 6

The four species

On Sukkot we say a blessing over the four species. Every set has: one lulav (palm branch), one etrog (citron), three myrtle branches and two willow branches.

How many items are in one set of the four species?

✍️ Our answer:

🌿 The Sukkah and the Wind · Stage 2 of 6

The decoration chain

The decoration chain is built in a repeating pattern: pomegranate, star, star, pomegranate, star, star, and so on.

🍎⭐⭐ 🍎⭐⭐ 🍎⭐⭐

How many stars are in the first 9 decorations of the chain?

✍️ Our answer:

🌿 The Sukkah and the Wind · Stage 3 of 6

Meals in the sukkah

Sukkot lasts 7 days. The family eats 2 meals in the sukkah every day.

How many meals will the family eat in the sukkah over the whole holiday?

✍️ Our answer:

🌿 The Sukkah and the Wind · Stage 4 of 6

The hiding species

One of the four species is hiding behind the sukkah. It has small, sweet-smelling leaves, and you hold three of its branches. Unscramble the letters T, L, E, M, Y, R to find its name.

T L E M Y R

What is the hiding species called?

✍️ Our answer:

🌿 The Sukkah and the Wind · Stage 5 of 6

Warm-up route · The symbols on the lock

On the way to the last clue of “The Sukkah and the Wind” you find another corridor of locks. Every 🌿 is worth 2. Add two symbols.

🌿 + 🌿 = ?

Which number opens the lock?

✍️ Our answer:

🌿 The Sukkah and the Wind · Stage 6 of 6

The neighbor’s crate

The crate code is the answer from station 1 followed by the answer from station 3. For example, if the answers were 5 and 20, the code would be 520.

What is the code?

✍️ Our answer:

Facilitator guide: 🌿 The Sukkah and the Wind

What the room practices

Adding a set, repeating patterns, multiplication and unscrambling a word.

The 5 stations (without the answers)

The four species: How many items are in one set of the four species?
The decoration chain: How many stars are in the first 9 decorations of the chain?
Meals in the sukkah: How many meals will the family eat in the sukkah over the whole holiday?
The hiding species: What is the hiding species called?
The neighbor’s crate: What is the code?

Age and group size

Best with teams of 3–5 children. In a class or a big party, print a kit per team and run the room in parallel.

Giving hints in this room

Online the hints open one at a time; in the printed kit they sit in the facilitator table next to each answer. Give the first hint after a couple of minutes of silence, not at the first wrong guess.

Questions and answers

What age is “The Sukkah and the Wind” for, and how long does it take?

It was written for kids 7–9 and families, at easy difficulty, and usually takes 15 minutes. It has 5 story stations, and online you can choose between three difficulty levels that add more locks.

What do I need to run “The Sukkah and the Wind”?

A printer and these props: Sukkah decorations; A crate or box with a code lock; Printed station sheets; Branches or pictures of the four species. The printable kit includes a facilitator sheet with every answer and a card for each stage.

What if the players get stuck?

Every stage has graded hints. Online they open one at a time; in the printed kit they sit next to each answer on the facilitator sheet. The first hint never gives the answer away.

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