Hogwarts Sorting Escape Room

It's so exciting! You finally turned 11 and received your letter to learn magic at the Hogwarts School of Magic and Wizardry! <img src="letter.jpg" alt="Hogwarts Letter" width="800" height="600"> You can't wait to get to Hogwarts and: (link: "Make new friends")[(set: $hufflepuff to it + 1)(go-to: "Platform 9 3/4")] (link: "Connect with the future leaders of the Wizarding World")[(set: $slytherin to it + 1)(go-to: "Platform 9 3/4")] (link: "Learn all about magic!")[(set: $ravenclaw to it + 1)(go-to: "Platform 9 3/4")] (link: "Explore Hogwarts and try new things")[(set: $gryffindor to it + 1)(go-to: "Platform 9 3/4")]

Suddenly, a student notices the boats seem to be rising. The chamber is somehow being flooded! <img src="flood.jpg" alt="Rising Water" width="405" height="540"> You rush to: (link: "Calm the panicking students down")[(set: $hufflepuff to it + 1)(go-to: "Stairs up")] (link: "Search the cavern for another way out")[(set: $ravenclaw to it + 1)(go-to: "Stairs up")] (link: "Try to force the door into the castle open")[(set: $gryffindor to it + 1)(go-to: "Stairs up")] (link: "Take charge and direct the students not doing anything useful to those who are")[(set: $slytherin to it + 1)(go-to: "Stairs up")]

Hogwarts Letter - By <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/aerust/">Alexandra E Rust</a> - <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/aerust/9633092829">Acceptance letter, opened</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY 2.0</a> Hogwarts Express - By <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/79172203@N00">HarshLight</a> from San Jose, CA, USA - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/harshlight/43281945832/">Hogwarts Express</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0" title="Creative Commons Attribution 2.0">CC BY 2.0</a>, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=70935501">Link</a> Hogwarts - By <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Breakfast221" title="User:Breakfast221">Breakfast221</a> - Own work, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" title="Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49291221">Link</a> Water - By <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:%D0%AE%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="User:Юкатан">Юкатан</a> - Own work, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0" title="Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6522770">Link</a> Stairs - By <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Alvarosevilladesign" title="User:Alvarosevilladesign">David Adam Kess</a> - Own work, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0" title="Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23316872">Link</a> By Roger Jones, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0" title="Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29851001">Link</a> Great Hall - By <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/imagezen/">Moon Lee</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/">CC BY-NC-SA 2.0</a>, <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/imagezen/59071265">Link</a> Slytherin - By Benjamin D. 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A few hours later, you arrive at Hogwarts and (link: "look up at your new home for the next seven years in awe")[ (t8n:"dissolve")[ <img src="Hogwarts.jpg" alt="Hogwarts" width="840" height="400"> ] As a first-year, you board the boats and travel under the school via the lake. Professor McGonagall instructs you to wait until someone comes to sort you. You're so excited you can barely stand still! [[But wait, what's that?->Water Rising]] ]

You turn up at Platform 9 3/4, and board the Hogwarts Express! <img src="HogwartsExpress.jpg" alt="Hogwarts Express" width="810" height="540"> While on the train, you make sure you don't forget to: (link: "Catch up on your reading")[(set: $ravenclaw to it + 1)(go-to: "Hogwarts")] (link: "Learn who else is attending this year that's worth knowing")[(set: $slytherin to it + 1)(go-to: "Hogwarts")] (link: "Share food from the snack cart with your new schoolmates")[(set: $hufflepuff to it + 1)(set: $gryffindor to it + 1)(go-to: "Hogwarts")]

You hear someone shout, "Over here!" They've found narrow stairs heading up. <img src="stairs.jpeg" alt="Stairs" width="375" height="500"> All the students surge up the stairs, and emerge onto the grounds of Hogwarts. (link-reveal: "Just as everyone calms down,")[ <img src="willow.jpg" alt="Whomping Willow" width="640" height="395"> {(live: 1s)[ (align: "=><==")[(t8n: "flicker")[(either: "Bang!", "Crack!", "Whoosh!", "Shwip!", "//Watch out!//")]] ] } Out of nowhere, one of the trees start attacking the students! What should you do now? (link: "Grab one of the closest students and pull them away bodily")[(set: $hufflepuff to it + 1)(go-to: "Whomping Willow")] (link: "Get out of there, you're no use to anyone injured!")[(set: $slytherin to it + 1)(go-to: "Whomping Willow")] (link: "Jump in and try to protect the others!")[(set: $gryffindor to it + 1)(go-to: "Whomping Willow")] (link: "You've read about this tree, it's a Whomping Willow, we just need to move out of it's range!")[(set: $ravenclaw to it + 1)(go-to: "Whomping Willow")] ]

Thankfully, everyone gets away from the Whomping Willow without any damage. Thoroughly more shaken now, the group of students make their way across the grounds, but groan when the front door is //also// locked. Will you never make it into Hogwarts? An argument breaks out amongst the group about what you should do next. You join in and argue: (link: "The smartest thing to do when lost is to stay in one place. We're safe now, and should wait for the teachers to find us")[(set: $ravenclaw to it + 1)(go-to: "Into Castle")] (link: "Actually, you think this argument is bad enough already, it doesn't need yet another participant")[(set: $hufflepuff to it + 1)(go-to: "Into Castle")] (link: "Everyone should split up to find the best way in!")[(set: $gryffindor to it + 1)(go-to: "Into Castle")] (link: "For whatever side seems to be winning")[(set: $slytherin to it + 1)(go-to: "Into Castle")]

(align: "=><=")[<img src="gryffindor.svg" alt="Gryffindor" width="25%" height="25%"> You are in Gryffindor, the house of the brave and determined! (link: "Thank you for playing! Would you like to play again?")[(go-to: "Title Page")] (css: "font-size: 75%;")[Sources of images found [[here->Credits]] ] ]

(align: "=><=")[<img src="hufflepuff.svg" alt="Hufflepuff" width="25%" height="25%"> You are in Hufflepuff, the house of the loyal and hard-working! (link: "Thank you for playing! Would you like to play again?")[(go-to: "Title Page")] (css: "font-size: 75%;")[Sources of images found [[here->Credits]] ] ]

(align: "=><=")[<img src="ravenclaw.svg" alt="Ravenclaw" width="25%" height="25%"> You are in Ravenclaw, the house of learning and wisdom! (link: "Thank you for playing! Would you like to play again?")[(go-to: "Title Page")] (css: "font-size: 75%;")[Sources of images found [[here->Credits]] ] ]

<img src="greathall.jpg" alt="Great Hall" width="800" height="531"> You all walk into the great hall to a wall of applause! It turns out that you were never in any real danger, this was all part of your sorting. Normally, this is done just by the Sorting Hat rummaging through your head, but it wanted to try something different this year! It's been watching everything that was going on, and has already decided on the right house for every student. With a flourish, your clothes change color, and you realize { (if: $gryffindor > $slytherin and $gryffindor > $hufflepuff and $gryffindor > $ravenclaw)[ [[You have been put into...->Gryffindor]] ] (else-if: $slytherin > $gryffindor and $slytherin > $hufflepuff and $slytherin > $ravenclaw)[ [[You have been put into...->Slytherin]] ] (else-if: $ravenclaw > $slytherin and $ravenclaw > $hufflepuff and $ravenclaw > $gryffindor)[ [[You have been put into...->Ravenclaw]] ] (else-if: $hufflepuff > $slytherin and $hufflepuff > $gryffindor and $hufflepuff > $ravenclaw)[ [[You have been put into...->Hufflepuff]] ]  (else-if: $gryffindor is $slytherin and $gryffindor > $hufflepuff and $gryffindor > $ravenclaw)[ (link: "You have been put into...")[(go-to: (either: "Gryffindor", "Slytherin")) ]]  (else-if: $gryffindor > $slytherin and $gryffindor is $hufflepuff and $gryffindor > $ravenclaw)[ (link: "You have been put into...")[(go-to: (either: "Gryffindor", "Hufflepuff")) ]]  (else-if: $gryffindor > $slytherin and $gryffindor > $hufflepuff and $gryffindor is $ravenclaw)[ (link: "You have been put into...")[(go-to: (either: "Gryffindor", "Ravenclaw")) ]]  (else-if: $gryffindor is $slytherin and $gryffindor is $hufflepuff and $gryffindor > $ravenclaw)[ (link: "You have been put into...")[(go-to: (either: "Gryffindor", "Slytherin", "Hufflepuff")) ]]  (else-if: $gryffindor is $slytherin and $gryffindor is $hufflepuff and $gryffindor is $ravenclaw)[ (link: "You have been put into...")[(go-to: (either: "Gryffindor", "Slytherin", "Ravenclaw", "Hufflepuff")) ]]  (else-if: $gryffindor < $slytherin and $slythering is $hufflepuff and $slytherin > $ravenclaw)[ (link: "You have been put into...")[(go-to: (either: "Hufflepuff", "Slytherin")) ]]  (else-if: $slytherin > $gryffindor and $slytherin > $hufflepuff and $slytherin is $ravenclaw)[ (link: "You have been put into...")[(go-to: (either: "Ravenclaw", "Slytherin")) ]]  (else-if: $slytherin is $gryffindor and $slytherin > $hufflepuff and $slytherin is $ravenclaw)[ (link: "You have been put into...")[(go-to: (either: "Ravenclaw", "Slytherin", "Gryffindor")) ]]  (else-if: $slytherin > $gryffindor and $slytherin is $hufflepuff and $slytherin is $ravenclaw)[ (link: "You have been put into...")[(go-to: (either: "Ravenclaw", "Slytherin", "Hufflepuff")) ]]  (else-if: $ravenclaw > $gryffindor and $ravenclaw is $hufflepuff and $ravenclaw > $slytherin)[ (link: "You have been put into...")[(go-to: (either: "Ravenclaw", "Hufflepuff")) ]] }

{(set: $gryffindor to 1) (set: $ravenclaw to 1) (set: $hufflepuff to 1) (set: $slytherin to 1)}

(align: "=><=")[<img src="slytherin.svg" alt="Slytherin" width="25%" height="25%"> You are in Slytherin, the house of the cunning and ambitious! (link: "Thank you for playing! Would you like to play again?")[(go-to: "Title Page")] (css: "font-size: 75%;")[Sources of images found [[here->Credits]] ] ]

The group eventually decides to continue on as a group and try to find the Great Hall themselves, and you manage to find an entrance into the castle, into a random hallway. <img src="insidecastle.jpg" alt="Inside Castle" width="800" height="600"> None of you have ever been to Hogwarts before, now what? (link: "//Hogwarts: A History// mentioned that the portraits could guide you, try to find a portrait")[(set: $ravenclaw to it + 1)(go-to: "Travel")] (link: "The most important thing is to make sure everyone stays together and doesn't wander off, Hogwarts is famous for being confusing")[(set: $hufflepuff to it + 1)(go-to: "Travel")] (link: "Any direction is as good as another if you're already lost, let's set off!")[(set: $gryffindor to it + 1)(go-to: "Travel")] (link: "Surely some of the students whose parents and siblings went here have heard stories, see what they say")[(set: $slytherin to it + 1)(go-to: "Travel")]

Your group travels up and down what seem like endless stairs and hallways, not finding a single other soul or portrait to help you on your way. <img src="stairsinside.jpeg" alt="Inside Stairs" width="481" height="720"> Something finally happens when a little man in outlandish clothes and a bell-covered hat floats through the wall. It's Peeves the Poltergeist! His eyes light up in glee. "Ah! Little firsties! What are you doing wandering the castle? I know exactly what you need," he cackles, before rushing off. You all look uncertainly at each other, before ducking for cover as he returns with loads of water balloons he proceeds to throw down on all the students. What do you do? (link: "Give as good as you get with verbal taunts")[(set: $gryffindor to it + 1)(go-to: "Final Test")] (link: "Wait to see what direction he goes when he leaves. Maybe he's going to find other people to annoy and they can help you")[(set: $ravenclaw to it + 1)(set: $slytherin to it + 1)(go-to: "Final Test")] (link: "Help up those who fell from dealing with Peeves")[(set: $hufflepuff to it + 1)(go-to: "Final Test")]

Between those following Peeves because they're angry at him, those following him in the hopes he'll lead them to people, and those making sure the group doesn't splinter and students get lost, every student body stumbles to a halt in front of some impressive doors. <img src="doors.jpg" alt="Doors" width="461" height="709"> [[You push the doors open and walk in->Great Hall]]