Escape games that turn evenings at the library into real page-turners.
You can get lost in a good book. You can get completely lost at a Locked Library.
Locked Library is Jetpack’s ongoing series of massive escape games that have challenged players — as many as 1300 playing simultaneously — to solve an elaborate series of puzzles before time runs out.
Jetpack produces every aspect of the games in-house — from the puzzles and print materials, to the voiceovers, videos, and animation. We’ve made the games available to license by libraries for community and fundraising events.
If you run a town or city library and you’re interesting in licensing a Locked Library game for your fundraising event, we’d love to hear from you!
Locked Library: Crime Scene
Two hours. That’s how long your team of crime scene investigators have to puzzle through the evidence on every level of Calgary’s Central Library. You'll have to analyze clues, piece things together, and follow forensic trails to solve all of the cases before time runs out. This is a new edition of Locked Library, with proceeds supporting the Calgary Public Library Foundation.
Get tickets for the April 11, 2025 debut.
Once upon a time, in a city library…
During the first season of our original game series, Treasure League, we hid a small treasure chest for our players to find behind some timeworn sci-fi novels on the 4th floor of Calgary’s old central library.
Mid-month, we learned that not only was a team from the library playing our game, they were meeting to solve our clues in a room just 30 feet from the hidden chest. They figured out the location just one hour too late. We announced the winners with a message that “the library is always full of treasure.”
Shortly after, the library foundation’s CEO, Paul, invited us for coffee, and we thought we were getting our library cards torn in half.
Paul asked if we thought an open world game like Treasure League could be adapted to be played inside a library. We thought it could — and one month later, we presented our new game — Locked Library — in a format they could host as part of their Library After Dark event series.