The Infinite Escape Room

Very nearly the quickest solve we've ever had! In the final regular episode from our Nottingham AirBnB recording, Jon takes the helm and delivers, without notes, what he believes to be a deceptively simple yet fiendish death trap puzzle...only for Jamie to figure it out within seconds. It isn't the fastest solve we've had but it came damn close. Puzzle Maestro: Jon Saunders Solvers: Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan Episode Art: Dom Jordan Editor: Jon Saunders TLDR: The solvers find themselves inside a suspended cage, accompanied by dozens of rats. To leave means death, but the only means of escape is outside the cage. Come and chat to us on Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky and LinkedIn. Or join our Patreon programme for perks, early access episodes and bonus content.The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island-style humour sprinkled over the top.

Join us deep within Robin's Hole, where it's time to pull up a cozy armchair and discuss this week's pubisode topic: When should escape rooms retire? We reflect on some of the recent real-life escape rooms we've played together in Nottingham and discuss the lifecycle of an escape room. How long should an escape room be open for? When should it be updated? When should it be retired? And how might an escape room's life be increased? If you're an owner, when do you retire your rooms? As always, here are your recommendations for this month. Jamie - Tears of Metal (videogame), think Dynasty Warriors, a comic book art style but set in medieval Scotland. Mairi - The Fall (film), a trippy fairy tale of an adventure film. Jon - The documentaries of Adam Curtis, and in particular, HyperNormalisation. Mike - Knitting! In the background of whatever you're doing... And I quote: "It keeps your naughty hands busy" Hosts: Mike Collins, Mairi Nolan, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs Editor: Jamie Gibbs Come and chat to us on Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky and LinkedIn. Or join our Patreon programme for perks, early access episodes and bonus content.The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island-style humour sprinkled over the top.

*blip blip blip beeeep* Somewhere in the labyrinthine corridors of a recording studio, the solvers find themselves back and with a bigger challenge than ever: Find the cassettes and solve the puzzles to put on the ultimate BBC Radio 4 "kitchen drama". What else could possibly save the BBC from it's ten trillion pound debt, afterall? Also Jack Foley is locked in a cupboard. This is a room which just proves that in the end, everything really is just foley. Puzzle Maestro: Mike Collins Solvers: Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan Episode Art: Dom Jordan Editor: Mike Collins TLDR: The Infinite Escape Room returns, the solvers use a variety of foley items to put on a BBC drama. Come and chat to us on Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky and LinkedIn. Or join our Patreon programme for perks, early access episodes and bonus content.The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island-style humour sprinkled over the top.

In this new series, we put our professional puzzle design experience to good use and look at escape rooms in film and TV as if they were real escape rooms. In this podcast we're looking at the escape room episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, "The Gang Escapes". Follow Mairi, Jamie, and special guest Alex Hylands-White as they put the room through its paces and discuss what improvements they'd make to make it a better escape room. Alex brings a wealth of escape room experience through his work as a designer at Clockwork Dog and Marketing Director at COGS. COGS is a show control software and hardware platform used to create and manage interactive live experiences like escape rooms, haunted houses, and immersive theater. It allows operators to easily design automated puzzles, control effects such as lights and sounds, and manage hardware like sensors and locks through a user-friendly interface, all without requiring complex programming skills. Hosts: Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan Special Guest: Alex Hylands-White, Marketing Director of Clockwork Dog and COGS Editor: Jamie Gibbs Come and chat to us on Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky and LinkedIn. Or join our Patreon programme for perks, early access episodes and bonus content.The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island-style humour sprinkled over the top.

Safely returned from their doorless room, with a hairbrush in hand, the team are left with only one VHS tape, adorned with images of graves. It sends them to a London Garden Park, with a curious statue guarding the gate, it's amazing what they call Art these days... Puzzle Maestro: Jon Saunders Solvers: Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan Special Guest: Keith Dozois of USB Escape Episode Art: Dom Jordan -Dom Jordan Illustration Editor: Jon Saunders TLDR: The third episode in the VHS Nightmare arc follows the team and special guest Keith Dozois in an escape room set in a London graveyard. Come and chat to us on Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky and LinkedIn. Or join our Patreon programme for perks, early access episodes and bonus content.The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island-style humour sprinkled over the top.

After missing their one-flight-a-day from the Australian desert, the gang decide to shelter for the night in an abandoned shack deep in the outback. Inside they find a VHS player, and three tapes. But this is no ordinary VHS player, as the moment the tape goes in the world shimmers in static and we find ourselves transported to... A sewer. There's distant crying coming from the darkness and a creepy red balloon hovering in the air. But there's no time for clowning around when there's a puzzle to solve. If you're playing along with the puzzle, check out this visual asset when Jon finds the compass. Puzzle Maestro: Jamie Gibbs Solvers: Mairi Nolan, Jon Saunders Special Guest: Keith Dozois of USB Escape Episode Art: Dom Jordan Editor: Jamie Gibbs TLDR: The first episode in the VHS Nightmare arc follows the team and special guest Keith Dozois in a maze-like sewer system inspired by Stephen King's IT. Come and chat to us on Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky and LinkedIn. Or join our Patreon programme for perks, early access episodes and bonus content.The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island-style humour sprinkled over the top.

Pull up a stool in the Northern northern northern Australian outback! At this near-empty Pub the team wrangle over the concept of difficulty in Escape Rooms, what it is, whether it is simply a feature of good or bad design, whether it is changing and, inevitably, what even counts as an Escape Room anymore at all! As always we come to you with humble recommendations to ease you into Autumn. Jamie - Thank Goodness You're Here! Cartoon style Steam game set in Northern England in which you help out the locals entirely by slapping things. Mike - Dungeon Crawler Carl books. Unapologetically trope-ridden fast food adventure books for when you'd like to read, but not to think. Jon - I Who Have Never Known Men. Utterly bleak dystopian sci fi novel, translated from French, that follows the first hand account of a young woman trapped in a cage with 39 other women for reasons none of them understand. You will be sad, but also know more. Jon (AGAIN) - Superliminal. Incredibly straightforward yet shockingly mind bending puzzle game that is all about changing your perspective. Think Stanley Parable if it looked better and were more optimistic. Genuinely moving and uplifting. Hosts: Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs, Mike Collins Editor: Jon Saunders Come and chat to us on Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky and LinkedIn. Or join our Patreon programme for perks, early access episodes and bonus content.The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island-style humour sprinkled over the top.

With the team's outback getaway driver KO-ed outside the toilet, the team find themselves stranded in the outback, 45 minutes before their flight from "Australia Airport" leaves. Time is of the essence, and in this special the solvers will have a shared 45-minutes to solve across both parts of the Outback Odyssey arc. But before they can get back on the road they'll have to get through dozens and dozens of gnomes... in various state of undress (Jamie's exact words, not mine). Somewhere among these gnomes the key to escape lies. It's time to lock in and- "Gnome more Mr. Nice Guy". Puzzle Maestro: Jamie Gibbs Solvers: Mike Collins, Jon Saunders Episode Art: Dom Jordan Editor: Mike Collins TLDR: The first episode in the Outback Odyssey arc takes place in a field of gnomes in the Australian outback, featuring anagrams, rude gnome gestures, and a locked toilet. Come and chat to us on Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky and LinkedIn. Or join our Patreon programme for perks, early access episodes and bonus content.The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island-style humour sprinkled over the top.

This is the start of our two-week summer break, where we recharge our puzzle batteries. But we won't leave you empty handed - here's a director's cut edition of a classic episode with new editing, music, SFX and commentary. Sometimes, an episode as such an impact on us that we talk about it months or even years later. Groundfarce is one of those episodes. What started out as a simple spatial puzzle quickly devolved into a mud slinging match with zingers such as "Left isn't a cardinal direction!" and "I've left the shed and my eyes appear to have stopped working". We cut a fair amount from the episode in the original airing because things got a little heated. But as a special treat, here's the whole thing with additional commentary from me (Jamie). Grab your trowel and bring a map as Jon takes us through a surprisingly complex English garden puzzle. Special thanks to Patreon supporters Brett, Bettina and Matthew for making this episode possible. Puzzle Maestro: Jon Saunders Solvers: Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs, Dom Jordan Editor: Jamie Gibbs If you want to listen to the original episodes, you can find them here: Puzzle episode Pubisode Come and chat to us on Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky and LinkedIn. Or join our Patreon programme for perks, early access episodes and bonus content.The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island-style humour sprinkled over the top.

In the most long overdue cross-over since Eastenders made a Bastard episode with Neighbours (true story), we finally welcome our natural ancestors from Escape This Podcast and take them... to their own studio. But all is not well, they are locked out, Jon has beaten them to it and is about to takeover the (podcast) world. Join Mairi, Jamie, special guests Dani and Bill from Escape This Podcast and a very, very special cameo, as they try to take down the plummy giant, Lilliput style. Puzzle Maestro: Jamie Gibbs Solvers: Mairi Nolan, Dani Siller, Bill Sunderland Episode Art: Dom Jordan Editor (and self impersonator): Jon Saunders Visual handouts to play along Mixing desk Poster Notepad Check out Escape This Podcast on their website, or wherever you get your podcasts usually! Come and chat to us on Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky and LinkedIn. Or join our Patreon programme for perks, early access episodes and bonus content.The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island-style humour sprinkled over the top.

Join us in the once watery depths of the former English Channel, now a desertified wasteland! The team discuss whether live actors have a place in Escape Rooms at all, chew over their best and worst experiences of this ever popular feature, and whether the rooms that feature them heavily even count as Escape Rooms at all. As ever, we come to you with some recommendations for the month ahead. Bailey - The Tiny Chef Show (Stop motion tiny chef. Adorable and wholesome in equal measure) Mairi - Jet Lag The Game (Imagine some comedians playing Hide and Seek...using continents.) Jamie - Tom Bates (Very British animation about a tiny man and his horse called Nigel) Jon - Going for a walk in the woods and leaving your phone in the car (because a lot of the modern world just sucks) Hosts: Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan, Emma Bailey, Jon Saunders Editor: Jon Saunders Come and chat to us on Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky and LinkedIn. Or join our Patreon programme for perks, early access episodes and bonus content.The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island-style humour sprinkled over the top.

On the hunt for some water to help power our only means of escape: an old ice cream truck, the team take refuge inside a toilet block. Again..? Yes! Look, we like toilet blocks on this podcast. But this toilet block turns out to be used for something quite unexpected. Get in, get the water, and get out. Just don't, whatever you do, use a black light in here. Puzzle Maestro: Jon Saunders Solvers: Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan, Bailey Episode Art: Dom Jordan Editor: Jamie Gibbs Come and chat to us on Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky and LinkedIn. Or join our Patreon programme for perks, early access episodes and bonus content.The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island-style humour sprinkled over the top.

Join us all at The Drunk Druid for a chat on all things Puzzles vs Narrative in game design. For this episode, we're joined by the fantastic Nathan and Marcus who are hosts of the Aurelius Whitlock's Murder Museum podcast, and designers on hugely popular video game, Rise of the Golden Idol. Enjoy! As always the team have recommendations for your better enjoyment. This month, they are! Jamie Death and other detailsMandy Patinkin being Poirot on a cruise ship. What's not to like. Mike James Lee - How I think CreativelyYT video - Frankly terrifying Youtuber giving advice on creativity as if he's cast himself in Sin City. Nathan Blue PrinceHonestly the entire team lost their minds so completely as soon as this game got mentioned that I was sick a little in my mouth. Marcus Elyot - 30 Puzzle Design LessonsAnother YT video - Frankly obscenely wide ranging and deep (and I mean deep, like, Oceangate deep) on puzzle design. Mairi Uketu Strange PicturesAN ACTUAL BOOK. ACTUAL PROPER CULTURE. THANK YOU MAIRI, THANK YOU. Oh wait it's by a Youtuber. However, a Youtuber that wrote a book that Mairi polished off in a single sitting. And, frankly (my word of the day), I have never met someone as easily distracted so, hats off Uketu. You broke Mairi. Recommendations summarised by the editor, Jon; who was, by the end, so utterly enraged by having this entire set of show notes accidentally deleted that he really went off on one and then began writing about himself in the third person. What a guy. Hosts: Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan, Mike Collins Guests: Nathan and Marcus of Aurelius Whitlock's Murder Museum Editor: Jon Saunders Come and chat to us on Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky and LinkedIn. Or join our Patreon programme for perks, early access episodes and bonus content.The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island-style humour sprinkled over the top.