Better Book It! Textbook Puzzle Solutions and Purchases

Three glass cases, three clever solves—and your shopping list can still be unfinished. In Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School, opening a textbook display does not buy the book. For Better Book It!, the textbook task on your orientation checklist, you must solve each lock and then pay for each book. The Academy charges for homework, naturally.

Find the bookstore and budget for your books

1. Return to the main building’s lobby and head down to the first floor.
2. Take the door outside to the courtyard. Cross the courtyard and enter the bookstore; check the building map if you lose your bearings.
3. Find the three glass textbook displays near the front of the store. Look for Ciphers from B to A, Hiding and Seeking, and A Book of Lockpicks.

Each textbook costs three Escape Bucks, the Academy’s spending money. You need nine Escape Bucks total for all three. Treat every display as two jobs: unlock the case, then purchase its book.

Ciphers from B to A

Hint: Look at the letters on the cover, then read the title as an instruction. What change turns B into A?

Reasoning: The cover reads FVSFLB. Move each letter back one place in the alphabet. Keep the letters in their original order; only change which letter each one represents.

Answer: F → E, V → U, S → R, F → E, L → K, B → A. Enter EUREKA on the display’s letter lock. Once it opens, purchase the book for three Escape Bucks.

Hiding and Seeking

Hint: The colored eyes on the cover are looking at something. Follow each pupil’s direction toward a shape.

Reasoning: Each eye points toward its matching shape. The eye’s color tells you which colored section of the lock should use that shape. That turns a page of scattered symbols into four clear pairs—the satisfying little click this school does best.

Answer: Set the lock using these matches:

After the display opens, purchase Hiding and Seeking for three Escape Bucks. With a partner, have one person call out the eye-color pairs while the other sets the lock.

A Book of Lockpicks

Hint: Inspect the author’s name on the cover. Look at the shapes within and between the letters.

Reasoning: The lettering hides directional arrows. Read them from left to right. Pay special attention to the gap between the K and I: it forms a left-pointing arrow that is easy to overlook.

Answer: The seven hidden arrows give ↑ ← ↑ ↓ ← ↑ ↓. Press up, left, up, down, left, up, down on the directional lock. Then purchase A Book of Lockpicks for three Escape Bucks.

Short on Escape Bucks?

First, check whether you collected the three Escape Bucks inside your own locker. Pick up loose bills you find while exploring the main building. These are direct pickups; Extra Credit quests are student side tasks you can choose to earn more money.

If you need another earning route, tackle an Extra Credit task, then return to buy the remaining textbooks. Keep the next goal simple: pay for all three required books. If you opened a case but left without buying its book, return to that display and complete the purchase before leaving.