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Puzzle Creators React: Hey Duggee
11 oktober 2026 · 46 min
In this 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. Lees meer
In this podcast we're looking at the escape room episode of Hey Duggee, "The Puzzle Badge". This episode is the 44th episode of Season 3. Follow Jamie, Mike, and special guest Will Bain as they put the room through it's paces and discuss what improvements they'd make.
Hosts: Jamie Gibbs, Mike Collins
Special Guest: Will Bain
Editor: Jamie Gibbs
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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.
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World's Okayest Escape Room
4 oktober 2026 · 51 min
Welcome to Perdition Games, voted best small business in this particular shopping center three years running - and these lucky TIER chaps have just bagged a Groupon discount to play! Don't forget to give them 5 stars on TripAdvisor! Lees meer
What follows are some of the classic escape room tropes: Old gramophones, pipes on the walls, grandfather clocks, curiosity cabinets, and so on. But as the rooms go deeper and deeper, it's escape room-ception all the way down.
Puzzle Maestro: Jamie Gibbs
Solvers: Jon Saunders, Mairi Nolan
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Jamie Gibbs
TLDR: A repeating sequence of rooms with small details changing every time, in the world's most okay escape room.
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Jurassic Lark (with Guest Host Will Bain)
27 september 2026 · 1 uur 5 min
Jamie and Mike are joined by special guest host Will Bain who puts them through their paces in a storm-soaked dinosaur park. Along the way they must piece together a map, scavenge for supplies, and navigate the T-rexcellent world Will put together. Lees meer
Will they make it to the Visitor Centre, or will Mike throw Jamie to the raptors?
TIER uhh... Finds a way.
Puzzle Maestro (and Special Guest): Will Bain
Solvers: Jamie Gibbs, Mike Collins
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Mike Collins
Handouts for this episode
TLDR: A Jurassic Park themed escape room hosted by Will Bain
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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.
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Pubisode: Challenge Arcades with Chris Dickson
13 september 2026 · 34 min
Join us in this week's pubisode...(when Jon finally gets the intro right) the Jersey Republican, where robots sip their oily brews and poke captive humans with sticks. Lees meer
This week we are joined by Chris Dickson of www.challengearcades.com, a connoisseur of this growing subset of the industry. Chris takes us on a journey through the history of the genre to the present day resurgence, along with some spirited discussion about all the ways in which the internet is terrible and has merely exposed our human desire for good olde human connection.
Next month: sex parties.
Guest: Chris Dickson
Hosts: Jon Saunders, Mike Collins, Mairi Nolan
Editor: Jon Saunders
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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.
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TIERberpunk 2099
6 september 2026 · 49 min
TIER are once again joined by a very special guest, Chris Dickson of Challenge Arcades as this time they're thrown into the distant future of the year 2099... Lees meer
/Cue epic synthwave music/
Armed with the Sonic Quantum Unlikely Interference Reconstruction Thingy (or SQUIRT device for short - thanks for that Mike), the team solve a series of corrupted transmissions and repeatedly press the 🔥 emoji which is definitely, totally, maybe a safe thing to do.
It's a case of audio distortion and... Potato based cryptography.
Puzzle Maestro: Mike Collins
Solvers: Jon Saunders, Mairi Nolan
Special Guest: Chris Dickson
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Mike Collins
Handouts:
https://www.pedagodzilla.com/tier99-keypad/
https://www.pedagodzilla.com/tier-squirt-device/
TLDR: In a cyberpunk future, TIER solve a series of rebus puzzles in order to extract a potato which will save the world.
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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.
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Gener8 Global Games
30 augustus 2026 · 1 uur 19 min
Join the TIER gang with special guest Chris Dickson of Challenge Arcades as they tackle a challenge arcade unlike any other... No, literally. This one is legally distinct from any other you might have heard of. It's GENER8 GLOBAL GAMES time! Lees meer
In this episode, the team are representing the UK and must compete for the most points in the four challenge rooms:
The Floor Is Lava (But Worse)
Shoot Your Shot
Alphabet Soup
Thats My Trolley!But as with all puzzle games, things are not quite as simple as they seem.
Let the games begin!
Puzzle Maestro: Mairi Nolan
Solvers: Jon Saunders, Mike Collins
Special Guest: Chris Dickson
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Jamie Gibbs
TLDR: A challenge arcade series of puzzles including basketball, shopping trolly, alphabet, and floor is lava.
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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.
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Pubisode Discussion: British Kids TV Shows
16 augustus 2026 · 45 min
Join us in this week's pubisode, in the "local pub" which has been taken over by a massive brewery corporation, and so now also serves coffees. Following on from Jon's double bill of TIERtubbies, we're discussing the British Kids TV Shows of our childhoods. Lees meer
As always, here are your recommendations for this month.
Jon - Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (book), about an artificial friend called Klara that is bought by a woman for her daughter
Mairi - Jordan Bolton (artist) who makes short panel comics of thoughts on life and friendships and relationships and death, especially Scenes from Imagined Films.
Mike - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (game), unashamedly French with excellent voice acting, plot, graphics, the lot.
Jamie - Undertone (film), a horror film themed around a podcast that touches upon dark kids nursery rhymes. No jump scares, but unnerving sinisterness throughout.
Hosts: Jon Saunders, Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan
Editor: Jamie Gibbs
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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.
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...Mairi and Jamie come to play!
9 augustus 2026 · 42 min
In part 2 of Jon's Kid's TV arc, Mairi and Jamie step into the Superdome, where they meet a harried TV producer and recieve their mission. They have 40 minutes, 4 characters, and the delicate standards of the BBC to uphold! Lees meer
Puzzle Maestro: Jon Saunders
Solvers: Mairi Nolan, Jamie Gibbs
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Jon Saunders
Assets used in the puzzle solving can be found here
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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.
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Over the hills and far away...
2 augustus 2026 · 35 min
...I won't spoil it, but if that title twigged something from your childhood, you're on the right track. In this episode the team find themselves in an idyllic countryside landscape, home to a cuddly rabbit and dominated by a strange windmill, locked by a very strange device. Lees meer
The puzzle is simple and so are the players.
Puzzle Maestro: Jon Saunders
Solvers: Mike Collins, Mairi Nolan, Jamie Gibbs
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Jon Saunders
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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.
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Big Brain, Bigger Problems
26 juli 2026 · 51 min
In this episode the gang encounter Big Brain who (and you'll never guess this) is a really, really big brain, trying to sort out the problems of the world. In it, we explore puzzles around neuroplasticity, the various functions of the brain, and stimulation of the hypothalamus and cerebral cortex... Lees meer
...Or in other words, Jamie, Jon and Mairi see how much they can "poke the giant brain".
It's big brain, big puzzle, big problems.
Puzzle Maestro: Mike Collins
Solvers: Jon Saunders, Mairi Nolan, Jamie Gibbs
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Mike Collins
Handout Resources:
https://www.pedagodzilla.com/in-case-of-emergency/
https://www.pedagodzilla.com/brian-service-diagram/
TLDR: Puzzles about brain functions, ciphers, and each player has a unique ability.
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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.
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Pubisode Discussion: The best escape room themes nobody has ever done
12 juli 2026 · 34 min
Join us in this week's pubisode where we sip a tipple at The Sax and Trumpet, the coolest jazz bar /slash/ pub /slash/ cafe bistro /slash/ trendy vintage record shop in these parts. Lees meer
In this month's pubisode we're discussing all the escape rooms we've never done. That's right: Puzzley escape room themes we haven't seen done by anyone yet. From games too scary to run, to games they probably couldn't legally do, to sci-fi franchises and IPs we'd love to puzzle in.
As always, here are your recommendations for this month.
Jamie - Real Vikings (podcast) a history podcast narrated by Iain Glen
Mike - What Have I Done? (book) an autobiography by Ben Elton, and Upstart Crow (TV series) comedy following the life of William Shakespeare
Mairi - Project Hail Mary (film + book) Ryan Gosling in space, love it
Hosts: Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan
Editor: Mike Collins
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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.
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You're SSACT!
5 juli 2026 · 43 min
Have you heard? Aliens have made first contact with us! Lees meer
...And who better to decipher the message from the stars than a seasoned podcasting trio who are experts in not only puzzle solving, but also audio communication and perhaps most importantly: diplomacy. Thanks to the Super Sophisticated Alien Communication Terminal (or SSACT for short).
These beings have travelled billions of lightyears to impart an important message... I wonder what it'll be?
In this episode, you can also play along on your own SSACT device here.
Puzzle Maestro: Mairi Nolan
Solvers: Jon Saunders, Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Jamie Gibbs
TLDR: A language-deciphering and communication episode about talking to aliens.
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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.
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His Majesty's Secret Sandwich
28 juni 2026 · 39 min
His Royal Majesty is on his way to the legally distinct underground sandwich shop for his daily favourite footlong. But this week's solvers will first need to figure out exactly what that sandwich is, and how to make it. Lees meer
The stakes quite literally could not be higher.
So join in, lettuce investigate...
Puzzle Maestro: Jamie Gibbs
Solvers: Jon Saunders, Mike Collins, Mairi Nolan
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Jamie Gibbs
TLDR: The solvers must reconstruct the king's favourite sandwich in a logical deduction puzzle about finding the right ingredients.
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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.
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Pubisode Discussion: Is escaping enough any more?
14 juni 2026 · 36 min
Join us in this week's 'cafe-isode' at Squeaky Cream's Artisanal Fromagery and Coffee Roastery, where instead of coffee foam they serve cappuccinos with a dollop of gorgonzola. Lees meer
Here we'll be reflecting on a big question in the escape room industry: Is escaping "enough" anymore? Or do you have another core central mechanic? How about inserting other mechanics into rooms, such as achievements and side games? What makes a room memorable?
As always, here are your recommendations for this month.
Jamie - The Rest is Science (podcast), an accessible and fun science podcast that tackles questions of life and the universe.
Bailey - Museum of Pop Culture with Josh Widdicombe (podcast) that is about exactly that - moments in pop culture history!
Mike - Ade Edmondson's Beserker! (book), a fantastic read from a national treasure.
Hosts: Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs, Emma Bailey
Editor: Jamie Gibbs
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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.
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Not Another D&D Episode
7 juni 2026 · 47 min
Another in-person recording from Jamie's home in the Welsh hills, with Jamie hosting and Mike and Emma (Bailey) solving. Lees meer
Here, the gang wander into a fantasy tavern called The Weary Wyvern. Straight out of a D&D adventure opening, the orc innkeeper has a problem. What follows is an epic adventure, all in the name of the ultimate prize: a free pint.
No quest? No problem! Lets hope it's natural 20s all round.
Puzzle Maestro: Jamie Gibbs
Solvers: Mike Collins, Emma Bailey
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Jamie Gibbs
TLDR: The team use a massive D20, a wardrobe full of adventuring fear, and a magically sealed door to rescue the innkeeper's husband and escape.
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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.
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Removing the Gallstones
31 mei 2026 · 48 min
This very special episode of The Infinite Escape Room is brought to you from Jamie's house in Wales... Lees meer
...Or rather, Year 10 work experience at a local hospital! A somewhat universal experience for British kids.
Their surgeon mentor promptly injects himself with anaesthetic, collapses on the operating table, and leaves them locked in the surgery room with only one way out: perform a laparoscopic cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal) to escape.
It's only a puzzling podcast, we're not saving lives here. Or are we?
Puzzle Maestro: Mike Collins
Solvers: Jamie Gibbs, Emma Bailey
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Mike Collins
TLDR: The solvers perform a gallbladder removal using surgical tools including a laparoscope and forceps and solve a puzzle with musical notes.
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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.
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Escape to Nottingham - Travelogue edition!
17 mei 2026 · 1 uur
The black box recording of our faltering stumble through some of Nottingham's finest Escape Rooms. Jamie, Mike, Mairi and Jon are here to separate the wheat from the chaff, and leave you nothing but the finest flour to bake your Escape Bread with. Lees meer
Or, we would've done, if things hadn't gone a teeny bit wrong.
With discussions and spoiler-free reviews of our recent TIER trip to Nottingham, UK to play six escape rooms:
Robin of Lockskey, Escapologic
Curio, Escapologic
The Butcher, Escapologic
Immaterium, Escapologic
Monuments, Cave Escape
Carfax, Cave Escape
There's also a little chat about Warhammer World, the site of pilgrimage for wargaming nerds across the globe.
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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.
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Release the rats!
10 mei 2026 · 20 min
Very nearly the quickest solve we've ever had! Lees meer
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.
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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.
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The Secret Wine
3 mei 2026 · 43 min
Somewhere in this room there's a secret! Go get up and find it! Lees meer
Or as I like to call it: The one in which Jamie hosts an audio escape room set in an airBNB, whilst recording from the airBNB, in which we have to get up and find actual hidden things in the airBNB. It's airBNBception in here.
Will the solvers untie the knots in Notts in time? (K)not likely!
Puzzle Maestro: Jamie Gibbs
Solvers: Mike Collins, Jon Saunders, Mairi Nolan
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Jamie Gibbs
TLDR: The solvers find a physical locked box covered in knots, and have to solve the puzzles to open the box and recover the secret wine.
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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.
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Pubisode Discussion: When should escape rooms retire?
19 april 2026 · 44 min
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? Lees meer
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
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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.
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A Series of Purrfectly Normal Rooms
12 april 2026 · 48 min
The solvers find themselves in a series of strange caves deep underneath Nottingham. But they quickly realise these are no ordinary spaces as they seem to shift and transform on a whim. Lees meer
Jamie, how big is the space?
Mike, where is the door located?
Jon, what are the walls made of?The size of a key or the size of a football pitch? The door is on the ceiling and of course the walls are made of purrfectly normal materials. Right. Right?!
Puzzle Maestro: Mairi Nolan
Solvers: Mike Collins, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Mike Collins
TLDR: The players walk through a series spaces and can choose the size, the material on the walls, and the way out.
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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.
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Foley Moley, what a drama!
5 april 2026 · 1 uur 5 min
*blip blip blip beeeep* Lees meer
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.
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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.
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The Infinite Escape Room Season 2: We're Back!
22 maart 2026 · 4 min
Howdy you bunch! Lees meer
The mead has been replenished, and we've finally remembered the password to log back into this account. Which can only mean one thing: The new season is right around the corner! Here's a little preview from Mike as to what to expect, when to expect it, and how excited we all are to be coming back.
The Infinite Escape Room will return for the Patreon Feed at the end of March, and for all listeners in April.
We'll see you very soon 👋
Much love
Mike, Jon, Jamie and Mairixxxx
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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.
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Puzzle Creators React: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
9 november 2025 · 43 min
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. Lees meer
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
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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.
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Horror in Escape Rooms? - At the Brush, Nose and Bone
2 november 2025 · 42 min
The Witching Hour is upon us in this Halloween special, it's time to pull up a rickety, mouldy stool at the near-empty pub, the Brush, Nose and Bone. In this episode, we're joined by a master of horror, Keith Dozois of USB Escape to discuss all things horror in escape rooms. How does horror affect puzzles? What are our best (and worst) experiences with horror? And how do you make horror good in an escape room? Lees meer
As always, here are your recommendations for this month.
Jamie - Ice Nine Kills (band), a metalcore whose recent output has been centred around iconic horror films, and was a big inspiration for Jamie's episode this arc.
Mairi - Strange Jigsaws (game by fleb), a short digital puzzle game about solving 50 or so rather strange jigsaws. The prequel (20 Small Mazes) is free, if you want to see what sort of thing you're getting yourself into.
Jon - Never Let Me Go (novel by Kazuo Ishiguro), a slow gentle book about a trio of young folks in the British countryside but they attend a very unusual school and are on an unusual life trajectory.
Keith - Scarlet Envelope for their fantastic puzzle games (yay), and Curios' Albrecht Manor Letters, an epistolary horror experience through writing letters. Two fantastic Canada-based game creators.
Hosts: Mairi Nolan, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs
Special Guest: Keith Dozois
Editor: Jamie Gibbs
TLDR: The final episode in the VHS Nightmare arc has the four hosts chatting about all things horror game, and puzzle game design at a spooky pub.
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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.
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VHS Nightmare - The Graveyard Smash
29 oktober 2025 · 56 min
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... Lees meer
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.
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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.
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VHS Nightmare: The Thing in the TV
20 oktober 2025 · 1 uur 7 min
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. Lees meer
Last week the team tried to play a VHS tape and were transported to a sinister sewer to face a laughing clown, this week they find themselves stood in a room with no windows or doors, lit only by the pale glow of a television showing static. Until it doesn't.
With 999 possible channels for the team to uncover, this won't be an easy task.
Puzzle Maestro: Mairi Nolan
Solvers: Jamie Gibbs, Jon Saunders
Special Guest: Keith Dozois of USB Escape
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Jon Saunders
TLDR: The second episode in the VHS Nightmare arc follows the team and special guest Keith Dozois in a Ring inspired escape room.
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VHS Nightmare: The Sobbing Shaft
12 oktober 2025 · 53 min
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. Lees meer
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.
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Puzzle Creators React: Inside No 9: CTRL, ALT, ESC
5 oktober 2025 · 42 min
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. Lees meer
In this podcast we're looking at the escape room episode of Inside No. 9, "CTRL ALT ESCAPE". 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: Mairi Nolan, Jamie Gibbs
Special Guest: Alex Hylands-White, Marketing Director of Clockwork Dog and COGS
Editor: Jamie Gibbs
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Are Escape Rooms Getting Easier - At the Toasty Post Life Ghosty Posty
28 september 2025 · 43 min
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! Lees meer
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
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Outback Odyssey: The Tin Horse Highway
21 september 2025 · 28 min
With just twenty two minutes and thirty seconds remaining before our flight from Australia Airport leaves, the team have no choice but to solve Jon's puzzle puzzle at the crossroads. Somewhere off Australia Road (which by the way, is the road in Australia, in case you were wondering), the airport awaits... Lees meer
But which way?
"Struth Ruth, Bruce is coming babe."
Puzzle Maestro: Jon Saunders
Solvers: Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Jamie Gibbs
Visual handouts to play along
Tin Horses
TLDR: The second escape room in the Outback Odyssey arc centres on a postman called Bruce, the Tin Horse Highway, and many letters without addresses.
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Outback Odyssey: There’s No Place Like Gnome
14 september 2025 · 34 min
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. Lees meer
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.
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The Desert of Wee Reborn
7 september 2025 · 1 uur 9 min
This is the final week 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. Lees meer
This episode initially aired a little later than normal due to some technical gremlins, which meant it didn't get a fair shake before the following week's episode came in and pushed it out of the feed (people love that fresh content, yo).
And it's a particularly fiendish puzzle from Mike that also uses a hefty amount of learning theory. Mike pulled a sneaky on us and had us doing a team building exercise (le gasp!).
The original recording was 2 hours long. So as a special treat, here's a re-edited version along with the puzzle debrief and additional commentary from me (Jamie).
Grab a glass of warm urine and join us as we attempt to escape the desert with a surprisingly Northern sounding Bear Grylls. Will we select the correct five items to enable our escape? And what's with that Morse Code, anyway?
Special thanks to Patreon supporters Rachel, Howlfin and Will for making this episode possible.
Puzzle Maestro: Mike Collins
Solvers: Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs, Dom Jordan, Annekos
Editor: Jamie Gibbs
If you want to listen to the original episodes, you can find them here:
Puzzle episode
Pubisode
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GroundFarce Reborn
31 augustus 2025 · 1 uur 2 min
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. Lees meer
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
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Accessibility in Audio Escape Rooms - At The Consume This Beer-dia Hotel feat. Escape This Podcast
24 augustus 2025 · 51 min
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. Lees meer
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.
As always, we come to you with some recommendations for the month ahead. They are:
Mairi - Signing up to vote in this year's TERPECAs. Or just using the site to find some cool escape rooms near you.
Bill - Novelty Automation in London, UK. A museum collection of satirical, home-made arcade machines.
Dani - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and in particular pay attention to it's clever feeding of information in character dialogue.
Jamie - Another podcast: Today in History! Which does exactly what it says on the tin. Short, snappy episodes about what happened on that day in history.
Hosts: Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan
Guests: Bill and Dani of Escape This Podcast
Editor: Jamie Gibbs
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No, YOU escape THIS Podcast: The Recording Studio feat. Escape This Podcast
17 augustus 2025 · 53 min
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. Lees meer
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
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No, YOU escape THIS Podcast: Takeover the Tower feat. Escape This Podcast
10 augustus 2025 · 1 uur 15 min
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. Lees meer
In this episode we're joined by special guests Dani and Bill from Escape This Podcast.
Puzzle Maestro: Mairi Nolan
Solvers: Jamie Gibbs, Dani Siller, Bill Sunderland
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Mike Collins
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Live Actors in Escape Rooms? At the Straits Of Dover
3 augustus 2025 · 50 min
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. Lees meer
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
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Ice Cream Wars: The Burnt Beach
27 juli 2025 · 54 min
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... Lees meer
Puzzle Maestro: Mairi Nolan
Solvers: Jamie Gibbs, Jon Saunders, Bailey
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Jamie Gibbs
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Ice Cream Wars: H2Oh No
20 juli 2025 · 48 min
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. Lees meer
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
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Ice Cream Wars: Cone of Conflict
13 juli 2025 · 43 min
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. Lees meer
Will we be able to escape into the ice cream van in time?!
Puzzle Maestro: Jamie Gibbs
Solvers: Jon Saunders, Mairi Nolan, Bailey
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Mike Collins
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Puzzle vs Narrative feat. Aurelius Whitlock’s Murder Museum
6 juli 2025 · 43 min
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. Lees meer
Enjoy!
As always the team have recommendations for your better enjoyment. This month, they are!
Jamie Death and other details
Mandy Patinkin being Poirot on a cruise ship. What's not to like.Mike James Lee - How I think Creatively
YT video - Frankly terrifying Youtuber giving advice on creativity as if he's cast himself in Sin City.Nathan Blue Prince
Honestly 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 Lessons
Another YT video - Frankly obscenely wide ranging and deep (and I mean deep, like, Oceangate deep) on puzzle design.Mairi Uketu Strange Pictures
AN 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
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Summer Solstice: The Lav of the Land feat: Aurelius Whitlock’s Murder Museum
29 juni 2025 · 38 min
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. Lees meer
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 Nolan
Solvers: Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs, Marcus Richardson and Nathan Hicken
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Jon Saunders
Check out Aurelius Whitlock's Murder Museum on:
Apple Podcasts
Spotify
...and wherever you get your podcasts usually!
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Summer Solstice: Time Stands Still at Stonehenge feat. Aurelius Whitlock’s Murder Museum
20 juni 2025 · 37 min
The sun is setting at Stonehenge, and we must bring it back with out wits, a wasp and a jam sandwich! Lees meer
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 it out in time.
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: Mike Collins
Solvers: Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan, Marcus Richardson and Nathan Hicken
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Jamie Gibbs
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Apple Podcasts
Spotify
...and wherever you get your podcasts usually!
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Summer Solstice: Rock Bottom Prices feat. Aurelius Whitlock’s Murder Museum
15 juni 2025 · 52 min
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! Lees meer
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 Nolan
Solvers: Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs, Marcus Richardson and Nathan Hicken
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Mike Collins
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Apple Podcasts
Spotify
...and wherever you get your podcasts usually!
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London Jolley: There’s A-Latte Trouble Brewing
8 juni 2025 · 49 min
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..? Lees meer
Puzzle maestros (in order): Jon Saunders, Mairi Nolan, Jamie Gibbs, and Mike Collins
Solvers: Mike Collins, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs, and Mairi Nolan
Episode art: N/A
Editor: Mike Collins
Note: There'll not be an unedited version of this recording, as there wasn't a lot we cut out!
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London Jolley: Cold Opens and Cold Drinks at the Dirty Dicks
1 juni 2025 · 48 min
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! Lees meer
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 - The Electrifying Incident (2025) by Draknek & Friends
Mike - Slow Horses by Mick Herron, and Prey (2017) by ArkaneNote: There'll not be an unedited version of this recording, as there wasn't a lot we cut out!
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London Jolley: Travelog and Secret Studio Interview
25 mei 2025 · 1 uur 27 min
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. Lees meer
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 in this episode, where we've also got a very special interview with two of the excellent creators of The Emerald Phantom, Oscar and Andrew, who you can find out more about at Secret Studio.
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What is a puzzle?
18 mei 2025 · 53 min
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? Lees meer
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, our recommendations for this month:
As always, we closed out the episode with some handpicked recommendations from the team:
Bailey – TreeApp
Plant a tree a day for free by watching short ads—an easy way to support global reforestation.Aled – Piper Alley
Bagpipe covers of metal songs. Yes, it's weird. Yes, it's brilliant.Mike – Hardspace: Shipbreaker
A relaxing puzzle-like space salvage sim with corporate dystopia vibes. Great on Steam Deck.Mike – Slow Horses by Mick Herron
A witty, gritty spy thriller about MI5’s least wanted. Also a TV series starring Gary Oldman.Jamie – Maniac (Steam)
GTA-style, top-down bullet hell chaos. Perfect for blowing off steam in 20-minute bursts.Hosts: Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs, Emma Bailey, Aled Hughes
Editor: Jon Saunders
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Ozman Richard’s House of Death Games: Bingo Lingo!
11 mei 2025 · 39 min
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! Lees meer
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 absolutely slaughters the rest of the team. But will it be enough to bring her victory in Ozman Richards' (similar to but legally distinct Richard Osman) post-apocalyptic House of Death Games?
Pop another Koala on the Barbie Bruce!
Puzzle maestro: Jamie Gibbs
Solvers: Mike Collins, Emma Bailey, Aled Hughes
Episode art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Jonathan David Charles Saunders III
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