Python Escape Room

A game for learning Python concepts through six increasingly challenging puzzles. Each room presents broken code — fix it to unlock the door.

Setup

Requires Python 3.11+ and uv.

uv sync

Run without building

uv run app.py

Build the macOS app

Claude added the other major OSes, but was too lazy to test 🤷 ☘️

uv run build.py

Produces dist/PythonEscapeRoom.app. Drag it to Applications or double-click to play.

Rooms

#	Title	Concept
0a	The Override	Subclassing — override a base class method
0b	The Contract	Abstract base classes (ABC, @abstractmethod)
1	The Waiting Room	asyncio.gather — run coroutines concurrently
2	The Memory Vault	Generators — yield instead of building a list
3	The Spider's Web	Async generators — async def + yield
4	The Final Lock	Twisted DeferredQueue + gatherResults (how Scrapy works under the hood)

Project structure

app.py          — tkinter UI
build.py        — builds PythonEscapeRoom.app via PyInstaller
rooms/
  __init__.py   — public interface (ROOMS, Room, RunResult, run_room)
  base.py       — Pydantic models (Room, RunResult)
  runner.py     — code execution engine and AST helpers
  room_0a.py    — The Override
  room_0b.py    — The Contract
  room_1.py     — The Waiting Room
  room_2.py     — The Memory Vault
  room_3.py     — The Spider's Web
  room_4.py     — The Final Lock