Escape the Backrooms Escape the Backrooms reference
Find verified elevator codes, passwords, and puzzle routes for Escape the Backrooms without losing progress to a missed clue.
Quick-reference puzzle desk
Use this page as a route companion. Fixed passwords and elevator codes are called out directly, while randomized tasks explain what to observe so you can solve your current run instead of forcing an answer from a different session.
Before you enter anything
Elevator and computer values on this page are fixed only when the matching keypad or terminal is confirmed. Object counts, wire layouts, toy cars, and mailbox clues can change between runs, so use the route description to locate the puzzle and solve the version in front of you. If the room itself is the problem, check the map and landmark notes before trying another input.
Level 0 — The Lobby
Collect items
Search the opening halls for four ladder fragments. Repair the ladder, climb to collect the key, then carry it to the wooden door that advances the level. Treat the central intersections as reset points so the repeating wallpaper does not pull you off route.
Read the Level 0 route →Puzzle
When you return from Level 8, use the miniature area’s light switch. Each short blackout reveals another symbol over a wall number. Enter the symbols in this order: Square → Circle → Arrow. The locker provides the chainsaw used to clear boards in the Manilla Room.
Level 1 — The Habitable Zone
Color lock
Behind the red door, count the colored toy cars. Press each keypad color as many times as its matching cars appear. The combination is generated from the room, so count your own set rather than copying a previous run.
Key objective
Find four keys in desks, closets, and drawers. Place them in the four vault keyholes, then turn every key together before the timed locks reset. A coordinated team should assign each player a keyhole before starting.
Search
Check the possible elevator areas across the three similar floors. A locked door marks a location that can host the elevator, but the active spawn changes between runs. Search methodically instead of assuming the first floor is always correct.
Level 3 — Electrical Station
Zone 1
Activate three fuse boxes by setting their switches to the working position. Opening the entrance bars gives you access to Zone 2.
Zone 2
This section is darker and more hostile. Find three more fuse boxes, keep a flashlight ready for Hounds, and use the opened bars in the main room to reach Zone 3.
Zone 3
Triway Puzzle: rotate the hexagonal connectors until matching red, blue, or green fuses face one another. Colored Wires Puzzle: pair every left-side wire with the same-color terminal on the right.
The Hub
Level 4 — Abandoned Office
Count objects
Find the locked room with four vending machines. Count the chairs, tables, water coolers, and book stacks in the room, then select the matching number button on each machine. Correct counts open the way forward.
Stealth
Use the Reset Cameras control at the far end of the cubicle room before moving through the camera route. A detected player triggers an alarm and locks the Level 5 door; use the hallway vent route with a crowbar to reset a failed attempt.
Level 5 — Terror Hotel
Painting puzzle
Press the four portrait buttons from the youngest person to the oldest: child, young adult, middle-aged adult, then elderly adult. The correct sequence opens the Main Hall route.
Collect items
Use bug spray on three Male Deathmoth clusters to make Moth Jelly. Send each jelly through the dumbwaiter to receive a key, then use all three keys on the glass-door locks to reveal the elevator hall.
Room 235
Return the loose papers to their matching open mailboxes. They point you to look at the ceiling, where the room code appears. The possible Number Lock values are 17564, 05938, or 89472.
Level 8 — Cave System
Other Levels
Level 94 — Motion
PASSWORD
Read the Level 94 route →Level 3999
ESCAPE
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