The Infinite Escape Room

Does adapting escape rooms to audio make them more accessible … or more exclusive? Join Jamie, Mairi and special guests Dani and Bill from Escape This Podcast as we discuss accessibility in game design and what it means for creating escape rooms of the ears, the eyes, and all the senses.

Why a hotel? Turns out Australia has an interesting drinking culture around hotels, but you'll just have to listen to find out more about that.

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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 the...

In this episode, Jamie joins forces with two very special guests in order to take on a rogue Mike and Jon who are concocting a podcasting takeover of epic proportions. Their target - the enormous Escape This Podcast skyscraper that dominates the Sydney skyline. The date - the Australian national podcasting festival. Expect improv, terrible puns, and a cameo from a man pretending to be the Mayor of Sydney.

In this episode we're join...

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 moti...

With water (for coolant) and petrol (for fun) secured, the team need only the ice cream van keys to see them on their merry way. Surely the Ice Cream Man will have them, and, oh look, he's just over there...

• Puzzle Maestro: Mairi Nolan

• Solvers: Jamie Gibbs, Jon Saunders, Bailey

• Episode Art: Dom Jordan

• Editor: Jamie Gibbs

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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, Ba...

After being a little too successful at getting the sun to rise, Great Britain has turned into a scorching hot warzone of the delicious ice-cream-y kind. As the group head south to the beach, they soon encounter the aftermath of a great fight. Tanks retrofitted to fire lollies litter the street, unexploded cookie sandwich mines lay in wait, and there... Tucked away under a small patch of shade... Is one final ice cream van.

Will we ...

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 details Mandy Pat...

Having begun the ritual to bring about the rising of the Sun, the team must now complete it. To do this, they step, in pairs, into the most hallowed structure of the ancient Druidic religion, the Portaloo. Maybe leave your UV torches at home, folks.

In this episode, we're joined by Marcus Richardson and Nathan Hicken, the fantastic hosts of the murder mystery podcast Aurelius Whitlock's Murder Museum.

• Puzzle Maestro: Mairi No...

The sun is setting at Stonehenge, and we must bring it back with out wits, a wasp and a jam sandwich!

Part 2 in the Summer Solstice series finds the gaggle of puzzlers at Stonehenge just in time for the sun to rise. The only problem is, if they don't perform the ritual correctly, the sun might not rise at all. In this brain-melting, time travel twisting episode, we'll have to master the past, present, and future if we want to make ...

The gang find themselves on the summer solstice in Wiltshire, at Stonehenge no less! There's a great festival happening to celebrate the longest day, but before they can get there they'll have to enter through the gift shop. Before the night is up, they'll have to perform the ritual to get the sun to rise again. Easier said than done!

In this episode, we're joined by Marcus Richardson and Nathan Hicken, the fantastic hosts of the m...

This week's episode is Part 3 in our special "London Jolley" series. After a weekend of escape rooms, Mike gave us the challenge of each designing an improvised 10 minute escape room on the spot, and hosting it for the other three solvers. The location? A legally distinct, formerly independent coffee chain in the heart of London. The doors are chained shut, but will we be able to escape..?

• Puzzle maestros (in order): Jon Saun...

In the second episode of our special, in-person London series, we took a quick break for a drink at the Dirty Dicks - yes, that really is it's name, and it's great!

In this episode we do Two Truths and a Lie, discuss Cold vs Hot openings in escape rooms, and give our recommendations for this month.

This month's recommendations are:

Jamie - The Code Book by Simon Lehna Singh Jon - Notes From an Execution by Danya Kukafka Mairi - T...

In this special episode, we're reporting from our first all-producers, in-person trip to London! For the first time, all four of The Infinite Escape Room hosts were in the same space at the same time.

Over this and the next few episodes you'll hear all about our puzzle thoughts on some of the games we played, including:

• The Emerald Phantom at Secret Studio
• Phantom Peak
• Escape Arcade at Enigma Quests
• Clays Bar

Listen out ...

You have been eaten alive by an irradiated Koala. What a day. But don't worry, there's a pub in here! Join Jamie, Aled, Mike and Bailey as they reflect on a question that should haunt the dreams of more Escape Room designers than it probably does - What is a puzzle?

AND THAT'S NOT ALL. A prize draw. A real one. With a real prize. Well, two, actually, but one of them will probably go a bit funny before it reaches the winner.

Also, o...

This week's episode is Round 3 of The House of Death Games, where the team have to escape Ozman Richards' dungeon together, but it's everyone for themselves in solving his sinister challenges - Wonky Biscuit, Seven Deadly Films and Rhyme Crime!

Jamie opens the episode by strapping a ball gag into his mouth, the team re-enact the Vicar of Dibley soundtrack but substituting The Lord for Cocaine and Bailey cracks her knuckles and abso...

This week's episode is Round 2 of The House of Death Games. Here, Bailey has us playing a sadistic game of celebrity Obama Llama to get points in Ozman Richards' (similar to but legally distinct Richard Osman) post-apocalyptic House of Death Games .

Who's in the running to escape with their life? And who's destined for the digestive tract of a radioactive koala?

• Puzzle maestro: Emma Bailey

• Solvers: Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs...

The gang has been kidnapped! Again.

This time, Australia's post-apocalyptic warlord Ozman Richards (similar to but legally distinct from Richard Osman) has challenged our puzzlers to compete in his House of Death Games.

To the winner? Their life is spared.

Everyone else? They pass through the digestive tract of a radioactive koala.

This episode covers Round 1 - Just A Minute - where contestants have to speak on a topic for 60 secon...

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.

Our inaugural episode looks at the escape room episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine - Karen Peralta (Season 3 Episode 14).

This is the episode where Captain Holt, Gina, Hitchcock and Scully 'work' together to escape a nuclear bunker.

Follow Mike, Jamie and Mairi as they put the room th...