Room Escape Artist

If you’ve puzzled long enough, you’ve seen nautical flags. In escape rooms, they tend to show up as a basic substitution cipher. I thought that they were unremarkable… and oh boy was I wrong.

Nautical flags are complex and insanely cool. I found this out via an illustrated Rabbit Waves explainer that dramatically broadened my understanding of the concept.

I then went on to read more at SeaMag.

The Key Takeaway For Escape Room Designers

There is depth in nautical flags. You can absolutely make better puzzles with these. Please do so as this stuff is nifty.