Head to Head and A Surprising Start: Reach the Rooftop

You’ve found your locker, tracked down your dorm, and cracked the bookstore displays. Now the Academy has put another locked door between you and class. Before you start another lap of campus, check the orientation tasks below. In Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School, opening a book display and buying its book are separate jobs.

Head to Head: Visit Solange’s Office

Check your orientation checklist, the task list for getting settled at the Academy. Make sure you have:

• Found and opened your own locker.
• Reached your personal dorm.
• Purchased all three textbooks: Ciphers from B to A, Hiding and Seeking, and A Book of Lockpicks. Each costs three Escape Bucks, for nine total.

1. Return to the main building’s lobby. Climb the lobby stairs to the third floor and enter Headmaster Solange’s office.
2. Answer the telephone inside. Solange is away from her office. The call directs you to the tower roof and establishes your next objective.
3. Leave the office and open the door into the stairwell. Pass through the next stairwell door, then follow the stairs upward to the locked roof-access door. Examine its lock: it needs two four-letter words.

A Surprising Start: Solve the Stairwell Lock

Hint

Turn away from the rooftop door and walk down the stairwell. Check each level for a clue. The messages work together, so gather all four before trying to finish the phrase:

• One message draws attention to ST in “STarts STrong.”
• Another says the phrase contains three As.
• The second word contains a U—then the message tells you to double it.
• The two words finish with the same letter.

Say the U clue aloud. That little change is where the scattered messages start clicking together. If you’re playing with a partner, have one person read the clues while the other checks the lock’s letter choices. Solo, jot down the four rules before heading back up.

Reasoning

The emphasized letters give you ST at the start of the first word. Count three As across the entire phrase, rather than three in each word. “Double U” sounds like the letter W, so the second word needs a W. Finally, both words must share their last letter. Use the letters available on the lock to build a phrase that meets all four rules.

Answer

Open the Route to the Roof

Open the unlocked door, go through, and climb the remaining stairs to the rooftop entrance. Stop before interacting with the door that starts That Rings a Bell, the next escape room. You’ve cleared the access puzzle; its room puzzles come next.

Tip: If the route is still blocked, revisit any unfinished orientation task first—especially an unlocked textbook you never purchased. If those tasks are complete but you have no rooftop objective, return to Solange’s office and answer the telephone. Check those steps before treating the blockage as a technical fault.