Escape from the Castle

Skippy and Anna are imprisoned in a castle and need to find their way out of five locked rooms to escape. 

To unlock each room, they need to find the solution to a problem. In each case, the solution provides the key to that room.

Can you help them to get out?

 

The first room:

There is a pile of dice.

Three of them are put in a row. The numbers on the top of these three add to 8.
What do the hidden numbers on the bottom add to?

This number is the first key.

The second room:

Skippy and Anna have the first key number. They have gone through the first locked door.

There are ten cards numbered from 0 to 9. Five of these are face down in a row on the table.

The numbers on the first two cards add to the first key number.
The numbers on the second and third cards add to 9.
The numbers on the third and fourth cards add to 11.
The numbers on the fourth and fifth cards add to 16.

What number is on the last card? This number is the second key.

The third room:

Skippy and Anna have the second key number. They have gone through the second locked door. Here there is a diagram.

There are two overlapping circles inside a rectangle. The rectangle is the second key number of centimetres long and 5 centimetres high.

How far apart are the centres of the two circles?

Square this answer and subtract one. This will give you the third key number.

The fourth room:

Skippy and Anna have the third key number. They have gone through the third locked door.

On the floor there is a strange diagram and the numbers from 1 to 8 on eight cards. The diagram is a square with eight boxes arranged round it.

Skippy and Anna have to arrange the numbers in the boxes so that each side of the square adds to the third key number.

To find the fourth key number, add the numbers on all the corner boxes and then subtract 10.

The fifth room:

Skippy and Anna have the fourth key number. They have gone through the fourth locked door.

On the table there are some jam tarts.

The tarts were baked in two identical trays. The trays hold the fourth key number of tarts each.

There are enough tarts to fill one tray but not enough to fill the other one as well.

If the tarts are counted in fours there are three left over.

If they are counted in threes there is one left over.

How many tarts are there altogether? This number is the fifth and last key.

The last question:

Before they can leave the castle you must answer a last question.
What is Skippy's real name?
Using the code 1 = A, 2 = B, 3 = C, ... 26 = Z translate all the key numbers into letters.

These letters will give you an anagram of Skippy's real name. When you have worked this out, Skippy and Anna will be free!