More than 150 young and old friends of riddles tried out the ProLOEWE-Escape Room “Mars Mission“ at the reopening of the “Wissenschaftsschloss Darmstadt”. The mission: The Mars station’s AI is going crazy and threatens to destroy the Earth. Only the emergency stop button can help now, but the box containing the button is locked. To get the key, puzzle pieces need to be found and put together, secret symbols on agar plates must be deciphered and electronic locks have to be cracked. Lots of fun, not just for science nerds, which requires teamwork. The LOEWE projects ALLEGRO and SMolBits from the University of Kassel as well as LOEWE-FLOW FOR LIFE and the Centre for Synthetic Biology from TU Darmstadt are engaged. Special thanks to Mrs. Michaela Becker-Röck from FLOW FOR LIFE for organizing this event.