"Crack the Code" is an escape room style activity for use in your forensics classroom or as part of any introductory forensics unit. It contains 27 puzzles in total (plus a handful of bonus puzzles), covering the basic concepts of physical evidence like Locard's exchange principle, individual and class characteristics, hairs and fibers, tool mark comparison, ridge pattern characteristics ("minutiae" like bifurcations, enclosures, and ridge endings), methods of developing latent prints, matching