Space Escape Room: Printable Planet Puzzle Game for Kids

Locked in on a space station, and the shuttle home won’t start! This printable escape room game has five puzzles, eight planet data cards and a launch code to crack before the shuttle has to leave. Every planet number in the game is real, taken from NASA’s Planetary Fact Sheet.

How it works:

- Print the game, cut out the data cards and put each puzzle in its own envelope (about 10 minutes)

- Players read the data cards to solve each puzzle. Each answer opens a lock on the lock board, and the game master hands over the next envelope

- Puzzle 5 leads to the launch code

The five puzzles:

1. Line Up the Planets: put all eight planets in order from the Sun

2. Hot and Cold: sort five planets from hottest to coldest

3. The Station Count: count the planets with rings, the planets with no moons and the moons of Mars

4. The Giant Planet: how many Earths fit across Jupiter?

5. The Star Code: decode a message written in space symbols

The eight data cards: Saturn, Mars, Neptune, Earth, Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus and Venus. Each card gives the distance from the Sun, width, length of a day, length of a year, average temperature, number of moons, whether it has rings, and a “Did you know?” fact.

Also included: game master guide, mission briefing to read aloud, lock board, 10 hint cards, an escape certificate and an answer key.

Suggested ages 7 to 12, for 1 to 6 players per copy. It takes about 45 to 60 minutes to play. Great for a space party, a rainy afternoon or a classroom.

Files: one zip with the A4 PDF (15 pages), the US Letter PDF and a read-me.

Printing: print at 100% / actual size. Colour looks best, but everything works in black and white.

Where the facts come from: NASA’s Planetary Fact Sheet (nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov), page last updated 18 March 2025, checked 3 November 2026. Moon counts change as new moons are found; the cards use the counts on that page. The space station and its commander are made up. Not endorsed by NASA.

The story, puzzles, drawings and layouts are REALLYBYTE’s own work.

Licence: print as many copies as you need for your own family or your own class or group. Please don’t resell, re-upload or share it publicly.

Made by REALLYBYTE, the team behind planets.im. Questions: info@reallybyte.com

This is a digital download: no physical item will be shipped.