[Spray Paint

Spray paint found in the back closet during the art class puzzle.

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Spray Paint is a quest item in Escape Academy, picked up during the art-class puzzle level. You obtain it from the closet in the back of the room, and it becomes the key item used to finish the level by tagging the Hall of Fame. This guide covers where to find the spray paint, how to reach it, and how to use it to complete the puzzle.

Overview

Spray Paint is obtained from the back closet during the art class puzzle. It is not optional flavor — the walkthroughs treat it as a required pickup that you carry to the final step of the level and use to tag the Hall of Fame [src-cc415a0c9f][src-59f8d3957c]. The level itself is themed around the "Spray Paint the Monument" art-class scenario, where you leave your mark on the historic Monument of Escape before the Headmaster catches on [src-9c282bac46][src-40c7c1c77f].

How to Obtain Spray Paint

Spray Paint is found in the back closet of the art-class room. To reach it, you first need to open the locked door that guards the closet area:

1. Locate the door with the shape lock. You need the correct sequence of shapes to open it.
2. Input the shapes: diamond, yellow pentagon, and green circle [src-cc415a0c9f].
3. When the correct shapes are entered, the door opens.
4. Inside, pick up the newspaper — the walkthrough stresses you need every newspaper in the game for a separate achievement [src-cc415a0c9f].
5. Open the closet in the back of the same room to find the spray paint [src-cc415a0c9f].

One guide labels this room the "teacher's office" and notes the newspaper for the Escape Artist achievement sits on the desk in the room where you find the spray paint [src-f825a4961b]. Either way, the spray paint and the newspaper are in the same back area — grab both before moving on.

Do not try to use the spray cans on the key doors or statue puzzles. One walkthrough explicitly warns against attempting to put the spray cans in where keys belong — they are only for the final tagging step [src-59f8d3957c].

Step-by-Step Walkthrough

After collecting the spray paint, work your way back to the middle of the level and continue the puzzle chain. The walkthrough proceeds as follows:

1. Return to the central door and interact with it to place the sculpture piece in the middle [src-cc415a0c9f].
2. Adjust the face: click the mouth to make it medium open, click both eyes twice so they look down and to the right, and slant both eyebrows upward. Then knock on the nose to open it [src-cc415a0c9f]. A second walkthrough describes the same face — eyes looking down-right, mouth half open in the middle position [src-59f8d3957c].
3. Inside, pick up the two keys — the five key and the two key. They add up to seven, so use the door marked seven [src-cc415a0c9f][src-59f8d3957c].
4. In the statue room, set the statues to look left, right, left, right: click the first once, the second twice, the third once, and the fourth twice [src-cc415a0c9f][src-59f8d3957c].
5. This opens the next door. Collect the three keys — seven, four, and three — and use the seven and three keys on the ten door [src-59f8d3957c].
6. In the alternating-statue room, activate the first, third, and fifth statues to open the door holding key number one [src-59f8d3957c].
7. For the final ordering puzzle, arrange the figures by height: hat guy on top, bald guy next, the woman without glasses at the bottom, the man with glasses second from bottom, and the woman with glasses in the middle [src-59f8d3957c]. Another walkthrough gives the same top-to-bottom logic: glasses and long hair third, bald guy fourth, hat person fifth [src-cc415a0c9f].
8. Walk through the opened door to reach the Hall of Fame.

Using the Spray Paint

At the Hall of Fame, interact with the tagging spot and use the spray paint you picked up earlier to tag it [src-cc415a0c9f][src-59f8d3957c]. Tagging the Hall of Fame completes the puzzle. According to one walkthrough, doing so finishes the level with roughly 25 minutes left over and unlocks the Escape Artist achievement [src-cc415a0c9f].

Tips

• Grab the newspaper in the same back room as the spray paint — you need all newspapers for a separate achievement [src-cc415a0c9f].
• Don't waste time trying to insert the spray cans into key slots; they only work at the final tagging step [src-59f8d3957c].
• The face puzzle can be finicky — if the eyes don't register, click them again to confirm they're looking down and to the right [src-59f8d3957c].
• If you want the sprinting achievement (400 m total), you can run in circles in this level before continuing [src-cc415a0c9f].

Rewards

Using the spray paint to tag the Hall of Fame completes the art-class puzzle and unlocks the Escape Artist achievement [src-cc415a0c9f]. Finishing cleanly — without hints — also earns you an A+ grade for the level [src-cc415a0c9f].

Details

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Spray paint obtained from the back closet.

Sources

• Escape Academy on Steam
• Escape Academy Walkthrough | ALL Achievements / Trophies
• Steam store page — Escape Academy
• Escape Academy - All Achievements/Trophies Walkthrough - 100% Puzzle Solution Guide (Xbox Game Pass)
• 100% Achievement Guide - Escape Academy