"Crack the Code" is an escape room style activity for use in your forensics classroom or as part of any unit on fingerprinting. It contains 9 puzzles (plus a handful of bonus puzzles), covering the basic concepts of fingerprinting. Students must find hidden keys, use decoder wheels, and discover hidden messages to "Crack the Codes" and catch the crook! Solving the puzzles requires a knowledge of the basic types of fingerprints, ridge pattern characteristics ("minutiae" like bifurcations, enclos