Escape Academy What Lies Below Walkthrough: All Puzzle Solutions & QUANTY's Word Games

Escape Academy What Lies Below: Level Overview

QUANTY has seized the Academy, the Headmaster is locked up, and the only exit runs through a five-room exam built to fail you. Escape Academy What Lies Below is the final escape room in Coin Crew Games' co-op puzzler, and it fuses a color-sequencing dance floor, a BioShock-style power grid, Morse code columns, and chemical deduction into a single gauntlet. This Escape Academy What Lies Below walkthrough covers every answer in order, including the locker combination, the Testing Sheet letters for each room, and the five word puzzles that finally shut QUANTY down.

The level is built around one persistent item: the Testing Sheet. Every room you clear adds letters to it, and those letters carry forward into the finale, so a wrong entry stalls your run until you correct it. Community reports and published walkthroughs agree this is the hardest room in the game, so expect to slow down and read every screen.

If you want to review the base game before diving in, the official Escape Academy Steam page lists the full room list and co-op details.

Quanty's Exam: The Testing Sheet and Locker Puzzle

Walk forward until the cutscene ends and QUANTY forces you into his exam. Head up the stairs on the left, pass through the chair-filled room, and turn right into the locker hall.

Get the Headmaster's Glasses first

Open every locker you can reach. One — Student 00 — stays sealed, and that's your target. Before you solve it, turn around and inspect the middle bust; it's the Headmaster, and interacting with it grants the Headmaster's Glasses.

These are permanent, passive, and essential. They reveal hidden purple messages painted around the Academy, including the ones you'll need for the late-game sabotage section. If you skip the bust, you will get stuck later.

The Student 00 locker combination

The open lockers reveal a dial sequence. Enter it on the Student 00 padlock:

Inside you'll find the Testing Sheet and the Headmaster's Pin. The Pin opens the grate in the green corridor later, so don't lose track of it.

Enter your first answer

Look past the lockers for a wall screen reading "ONLY AN ACE MAY ENTER." Next to it is the Testing Machine, where you slot the sheet and pick from the letters A through E — multiple selections allowed.

Following the clue, enter ACE and move on, remembering to pick the sheet back up each time.

Color Dance Floor and Power Grid Solutions

The dance floor: follow the colors

Climb the steps and stop at the screen. Each displayed sequence describes a path of colored tiles that ends at a lettered terminal. Step on the tiles in the order shown — the sequences get progressively longer, and the final one requires doubling back on yourself.

Once all five terminals are powered, smoke starts venting near each one. Check the circle beneath each letter: a filled circle means the letter belongs on your Testing Sheet, an empty circle means it doesn't.

Enter B, C, D and head through.

The power grid: light it up

This room is a tile-swapping conduit puzzle. Connect the live source on the right to the outlet on the left using your limited supply of loose tiles, routing power through the fixed A–E tiles along the way.

• A letter tile glowing green belongs on the Testing Sheet.
• A letter tile glowing white does not.
• Tiles only illuminate when power reaches both ends, so you'll need to rebuild the circuit once per letter.

Player experience suggests testing one letter at a time rather than trying to solve the whole grid. The letters that turn green are A, D, E.

Before you leave, look for the power node to the left of the stairs. Use the Battery (Dead) on it to charge it — you'll need that 12V battery in the sabotage section.

Morse Code Columns and Chemical Tanks

Place the columns by Morse signal

Past the green corridor with the purple eye icon over the grate, you'll reach a yellow room. The back wall shows A–E in Morse code as a reference: a dot is a short blink, a dash is a long blink. Each movable column blinks its own letter, and you must slide it onto the matching floor tile.

The columns only travel along fixed tracks, so you'll shuffle others out of the way first. Solve it and every lid flips open, revealing your next Testing Sheet entry: B, D.

Deduce which tank holds water

The chemical room hands you five canisters, A through E. The wall chart lists candidates — yellow is fluoride (F₂), blue is cobalt oxide (CoO), red is bromine (Br₂), white is water (H₂O) — and the mixing station lists reaction colors:

• Br₂ + CoO = purple
• F₂ + CoO = green
• Br₂ + Br₂ = red
• Br₂ + H₂O = red

The Testing Machine's screen asks which tank(s) contain water. Tanks never run dry, so mix freely and compare results.

Enter D as your final Testing Sheet answer. The exam "ends," QUANTY orders you into containment, and you refuse.

Sabotage: Destroying Terminals and Shutting Down QUANTY

Retrace your steps to the green corridor and use the Headmaster's Pin on the grate to crawl through. Three terminals need to go.

Next, return to the yellow Morse room, stand in the center, turn around, and look up at the purple marker. Stack the columns against the wall track like a staircase, tallest first, then climb to the ledge. Backtrack to the drop-down ladder and you're in the console room.

QUANTY throws five word puzzles at you. Each uses a different trick: rotating letters, opposites, numbering letters in order, shifting letters along the alphabet, and finally combining all four.

Enter SHUT DOWN on the Prime Directive screen, and QUANTY is gone for good. That completes the campaign.

FAQ

How long does Escape Academy What Lies Below take to finish? Published walkthroughs and player experience put a clean run at roughly 50 minutes. First-timers who explore every side room should budget closer to an hour, since the power grid and chemical puzzles involve deliberate trial and error.

Is What Lies Below harder than the other rooms? Yes. Most guides rate it 5/5, the highest difficulty in Escape Academy. The challenge comes from chained persistence — your Testing Sheet answers from earlier rooms feed directly into the sabotage finale, so a single missed letter can send you back.

Can you play Escape Academy What Lies Below in co-op? You can. The room works with one or two players, and the dance floor in particular is easier with a second person calling out the color sequences while the other walks the tiles.

Do I need the Headmaster's Glasses to beat it? Absolutely. The glasses reveal the purple hidden messages, including the marker that shows where to build the column staircase. Skip the bust in the locker hall and the final ascent becomes unsolvable.

What's the final answer to QUANTY's last puzzle? SHUT DOWN. The clue first resolves to OPEN UP, but the entire line sits in brackets that invert it — so the true entry is the opposite.