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ORBPUZZLES / MADE FOR ROOM MAKERS

Your room.
Your story.
Every second.

ORBPuzzles gives your escape room a screen that feels part of the game. Timers, hints, sounds and live room controls — on a Raspberry Pi or the computer you already have.

Set up your screen Take a closer look

Public guides. No account. No checkout. Just get building.

YOUR NEXT ROOM, CONNECTED.
Actual ORBPuzzles game screen: a navy background, yellow Welcome heading, white message area and large yellow 59:48 countdown.
Actual ORBPuzzles game screen · click to view full size
Small board. Big atmosphere.Powered by Raspberry Pi. Controlled by you.
ONE SCREEN. PLENTY OF POSSIBILITIES.Raspberry PiWindowsLinuxmacOSYOUR BROWSER IS THE CONTROL ROOM ↗

01 / THE EXPERIENCE

Keep the immersion.
Lose the juggling.

From the first briefing to the final countdown, bring your display and game-master controls together.

01

A screen with character.

Set your title, colours, logo and background. A big, clear countdown keeps the team in the story, not looking at a generic stopwatch.

DISPLAY + TIMER
02

Stay behind the scenes.

Send hints, play sounds, pause the timer and adjust time from an admin browser on the same trusted network. The screen updates live.

LIVE ROOM CONTROLS
03

Make it physical.

On Raspberry Pi, connect a puzzle-complete button or configure GPIO outputs through suitable interface hardware. Small inputs, memorable moments.

OPTIONAL PI GPIO

THE VIEW FROM BEHIND THE SCENES

Their adventure.
Your control room.

While the team watches the game screen, you run the session from ORBPuzzles’ admin panel. Check remaining and elapsed time, send announcements and saved hints, pause the game, or mark the room complete.

Actual admin screenshot. Monitor power is shown as unavailable on a non-Pi computer.

Get your control room running
Actual ORBPuzzles admin panel with remaining and elapsed timers, announcement and saved-hint controls, complete and fail room buttons, and pause controls.
STAFF VIEW / TIMER + HINTS + ROOM CONTROLS View full size ↗

MAKE THE DISPLAY YOURS

Set the scene.
Not just the timer.

Change the heading, welcome and result messages. Pick your background and accent colours, upload artwork and a logo, and set the next game’s starting duration — all from the display settings.

Explore game screen customisation
ORBPuzzles customisation settings for display text, result messages, timer duration, background and accent colours, background artwork and logo.
YOUR SCREEN / YOUR TEXT, COLOURS & ARTWORK Read the guide ↗

INSIDE ORBPUZZLES

More than
a countdown.

Clues, atmosphere, physical interactions and recorded results — explore the actual app screens.

ORBPuzzles Hint library with title, category, text/image/video/audio types, caption, media upload and full-screen option, alongside saved image and text hints.
01 / ACTUAL APP SCREEN

Preset hints

Keep text, image, video and audio clues in a searchable, categorised library.

Explore the controls
ORBPuzzles Event sounds settings with separate notification, room-completed and room-failed sound uploads and a Save sounds button.
02 / ACTUAL APP SCREEN

Event sounds

Give notifications, completed rooms and failed runs their own audio.

Explore the controls
ORBPuzzles GPIO settings on a non-Pi host: pause events, link a BCM input to an event, configure an output trigger, view linked pins and recent activity. Hardware is shown as unavailable.
03 / ACTUAL APP SCREEN

GPIO & room interaction

Link physical inputs to game events and create staff buttons for suitable GPIO outputs.

Explore the controls
ORBPuzzles Live home screen preview dialog over the admin panel, showing the navy and yellow player display, a 59:43 timer and a Close button.
04 / ACTUAL APP SCREEN

Live screen preview

See the current player display from the staff panel without leaving your control room.

Explore the controls
ORBPuzzles Room statistics with completion rates for all time and the last 7, 30 and 365 days, plus a searchable leaderboard showing sample completed and failed teams.
05 / ACTUAL APP SCREEN

Leaderboard & statistics

Review recorded results, completion rates, hints and penalties, with team filters and sorting.

Explore the controls

MAKE YOUR FIRST RUN A CONFIDENT ONE

Know the controls.
Stay in the story.

A screenshot-led guide from preparing your clues to saving the team’s result.

Read the room guide

02 / FROM BENCH TO ROOM

One Pi.
One display.
A proper setup.

Start small, then connect the pieces. Our guides take you from a fresh SD card to a screen that starts itself.

Build your Pi kiosk

Prefer a laptop? There’s a guide for that, too.

A room screen connects to Raspberry Pi by HDMI. A game-master laptop connects over the trusted local network for browser administration and SSH maintenance. Optional buttons and a suitable relay interface connect to GPIO.
THE ROOM, AT A GLANCE / HDMI + LOCAL NETWORK + OPTIONAL GPIO

03 / PICK YOUR STARTING POINT

Tonight’s test.
Tomorrow’s room.

You don’t need a Pi to try it. Run the screen on Windows, Linux or macOS, open the admin panel, and get a feel for your next game.

Choose your install guide