About Lumen & Lock

Lumen & Lock was created by a husband and wife team from Guildford. We've spent years playing escape rooms in all their forms, from physical rooms to online games, and some of our favourite evenings have been spent working our way through them together.

The experience we kept searching for online was the one we loved most in physical escape rooms. The kind where you're standing in a space, working out how it fits together, and solving your way through it with the people next to you. Where progress comes from observation, collaboration, and discovery rather than simply answering a series of puzzles. We wanted to recreate that feeling.

We also have a young daughter, and over the years we became increasingly frustrated by how often escape rooms forced a choice: properly challenging games for adults, or simplified ones aimed at children. Very few seemed designed for families to enjoy together.

As a result, two ideas became central to Lumen & Lock: recreating the collaborative experience we loved in great escape rooms, and making it something families and groups could genuinely enjoy together.

Whether we're designing online escape rooms or printable ones for the home, our goal is always the same: carefully crafted challenges that reward curiosity, observation, and teamwork, while remaining clear, fair, and satisfying to solve. Every game we create is something we'd genuinely look forward to playing with our own family and friends.