The Infinite Escape Room

This week, Mike, Jon and Jamie are joined by Emma as they come face to face with the embalmed head-in-a-jar of Ronald Reagan (who can somehow still manage to smoke cigars ...). Ronald has charged the gang with saving cinema by powering up a battered replica DeLorean from Back to the Future and locating the elusive 'Ski pads'. --- For more audio escape shenanigans, go check out https://linktr.ee/theinfiniteescaperoom Any questions, comments, indignant remarks or just want to chat puzzles and podcasts? You can email us, or say hi on Facebook, Instagram or Bluesky. And if you want to support the podcast and get fun bonuses like early access to episodes, watch live recordings and get in on our Discord channel, join our Patreon. --- Puzzle Master: Mike Collins Solvers: Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs, Emma Bailey Episode art: Dom Jordan --- Music from freepd.com Happy Whistling Ukulele - Rafael Krux Honour Bound - Bryan Teoh Beginning of Conflict - Rafael Krux   SFX from freesound.org Polite coughing - Turbofool Synth Sparkle - komit.wav Short fart - Dsisstudios Pressing Stop on An Old Tape Machine - djlprojects FabricRipping2Stereo.wav - somewhatimmoral Sci Fi HUD Screen Select FX 1 - deadrobotmusic DeLorean DMC-12 (V6 PRV engine) - SkyernAklea Sci_Fi_Machine_Spin_Up 0 - SieuAmThanh Bang_003.mp3 - cydon

Having saved Christmas from geographically diverse criminal gangs, we kick back in the Legless Elf pub to sup some mead, shoot the breeze about the rooms we solved, and share some of our recommendations for the month.

In the finale to our Christmas special, the last of the world's most regionally diverse mafias set the gang on a hunt across the maps. Google Maps to be precise. Will Santa be able to call in a surgical strike from low earth orbit, or will it be mandatory Welsh coal for all the kiddies this Christmas? Join Mike, Mairi and Jamie as they battle internet vandal Jon's fiendish doings.

Having...solved... Jamie's Kiwi Confederacy the gang face off against Mairi's eldritch horror of the Yorkshire Nanas. Never fear though, they've got plucky, capable and ... disposable ... elves to help them through. Original art for each episode is by Dom Jordan. You can check out more of his art over at https://domjordanillustration.com/

It's the first in our 2024 Christmas series, where the gang try and stop internationally typecast mafias from destroying Christmas. This week, Jamie presents Mike, Jon and Mairi with a nail biting conundrum - are the New Zealand Mafia really bad enough to go on the naughty list, or is all fair in love and garotte wire? Original art for each episode is by Dom Jordan. Check out more of his stuff at https://domjordanillustration.com/

This is the final episode in our Grumbledown series, in which the team successfully assassinated the predatory schoolmasters of Grumbledown's Preparatory Something or other for the whatsits...we never did quite figure out the name. Having dispatched the Latinmaster, we adjourne to the pub, The Post Plutius. Jon attempts to blind himself, Mike makes excuses for getting his Latin wrong, Jamie makes it all look easy and we all take some time to enjoy Ben's greatest hits. This is Ben's final episode of The Infinite Escape Room, certainly as a producer, though I'm sure we'll tempt him back as a solver some day! This episode features: Ben, Mike, Jamie and Jon

With two School Masters down the team are assaulted by an old flatulent man wielding a Gladius-Blunderbus. It can only be the Latin Master. Listen along as they wrestle not only with a dead language, but the incompetence of their Puzzle Master as well. There is a cannon and at the end of all this someone is getting fired out of it. This episode features: Jon, Mike, Ben and Jamie. Puzzle by: Mike (A+ for style, D- accuracy) Editor: Jon Nominated Latin Speaker: Ben

Last week the team dispatched the Latin master at Grumbledowns Preparatory School For the Monetarily Advantaged. No sooner has his Peppermint Poisoned corpse hit the ground then the team dive into the Chemistry Lab to dispatch their next school master. Much hinges in this episode, as so often in history, on the placement of a comma, and the interpretation therof!   And cheese. Lots of cheese.   This episode features: Jon, Mike, Ben and Jamie. Puzzle by: Ben Editor: Jon Withering commentary: Mike. Attack of Gout: Jamie.   Credit for Sound Effects: Hellfire.aif by Sepp Ultura -- https://freesound.org/s/66933/ -- License: Attribution 3.0 Wilhelm Splash by TiredHippo -- https://freesound.org/s/318189/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

After benefitting from early release at Timpson's prison, the team embark on their new carrers as Teaching Assistants, the infantryman of the school world (quite literally in some places). There first job is a placement at Grumbledown's Acadamy for the something something, home to quivering school boys and predatory teachers. Join them as they attempt to murder the headmaster by unusual means.   This episode features: Jon, Mike, Ben and Jamie. Puzzle by: Jamie Editor: Jon Episode art: Dom Jordan Withering commentary: Mike.

Wanted in out of the cold and put your orders in - our gang of four look back over the past three episodes. We spend some time talking about what Mairi is currently up to, and then segue into the ses spit that is X, formerly known as Twitter. Ending, as ever with some recommendations, and a little ditty. Hosts: Jamie Gibbs, Mike Collins, Mairi Nolan, Jon Saunders Editor: Ben Lavery-Griffiths Episode art: Dom Jordan Come and say hi: Facebook Instagram

Be quick and be quiet! You're on the run from a drove a sunburnt gammon headcases and you attempt to find some solace in the library. You had previously skipped passed the canteen and didn't have the chance to devour a jam roly-poly, however you quickly discover someone who has, and they aren't in the best of states... When all is said and done, sometimes the answer is inside you all along... This episode comes with a visual handout - head over to www.theinfiniteescaperoom.com to get it. Puzzle design: Jamie Gibbs Solvers: Mike Collins, Mairi Nolan, Jon Saunders Editor: Ben Lavery-Griffiths Episode art: Dom Jordan Come and say hi: Facebook Instagram

Out of the processing room and into the prison, as the old saying goes - that's where you begin this weeks puzzle. Timpson's Prison has a peculiar layout, you are split up and must not only find each other but discover how you can escape this place. Quick thinking, awkward neck bending, and a well placed utterance is just some of what's needed... This episode comes with a visual handout - head over to www.theinfiniteescaperoom.com to get it. Puzzle design: Jon Saunders Solvers: Mike Collins, Mairi Nolan, Jamie Gibbs Editor: Ben Lavery-Griffiths Episode art: Dom Jordan Come and say hi: Facebook Instagram Support us on Patreon!

Welcome back to part one of the exciting second instalment of our new format! Having escaped the rotary club you make your way to your new council house, when you wind up becoming accidental eco activists and are incarcerated at the new Timpson's Prison. Of course you begin in the processing room, which you must progress through before a hoard of 500 sunburnt gammon headcases come crashing in behind you. Your only obstacles are a furry felon and an innocuous looking door...   Puzzle design: Mike Collins Solvers: Jon Saunders, Mairi, Jamie Gibbs Editor: Ben Lavery-Griffiths Episode art: Dom Jordan Come and say hi: Facebook Instagram Support us on Patreon!

Join us as we pull up a chair and pull back the curtain on the last few episodes. We also get into why apple cake and custard is delicious, and go on a little rant about the size of IKEA beds. Hosts: Mike Collins, Ben Lavery-Griffiths, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs Editor: Jamie Gibbs Come and say hi: Facebook Instagram SFX from freesound.org Bell ringing: Techienanna

The thrilling conclusion to the gang's descent into depravity as they try desperately to become members of the Rotary Club. This week, Mike sends them down into the sex dungeon, to try and find out who killed the corpse on the table ... and with what? There's a plethora of sexually depraved devices from which to choose, but will they choose wisely?   Puzzle design: Mike Collins Solvers: Ben Lavery-Griffiths, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs Editor: Jamie Gibbs   Come and say hi: FacebookInstagram Music from freepd.com Happy Whistling Ukulele by Rafael KruxHorror Mystery by Rafael Krux SFX from freesound.org Spooky sound: HaraldDeLucaFart: DSISStudiosFiling cabinet: MattRuthSoundFire alarm: SpliceSoundFalling scream: Robinhood76

The gang continues their journey through the Rotary Club village hall - this week they're stuck in the kitchen. To escape, they must ... bake an apple pie? Surely there's more to it than that? Well, Ben's back behind the wheel so you know there are a few surprises in store. This episode comes with a visual handout - head over to www.theinfiniteescaperoom.com to get it.   Puzzle design: Ben Lavery-Griffiths Solvers: Mike Collins, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs Editor: Jamie Gibbs Come and say hi: Facebook Instagram Support us on Patreon! Music from freepd.com Happy Whistling Ukulele by Rafael Krux Isolation Waltz by Bryan Teoh Funky Energy Loop by Kevin MacLeod SFX from freesound.org Rummaging: daveincamas Match lighting: kitchen sounds Fire: Foleyheaven Wood falling: akennedybrewer Falling bag: F.M. Audio Ding: 5ro4 Gears: draelent Satisfied sound: 1LOVE 56cd6858f832e4a29c3044265608443bc88a1b84

Welcome to the first episode of our exciting new format (which feels remarkably like our original format)! This week, the gang finds themselves trapped in a village hall commandeered by the mysterious and sexually deviant local Rotary Club. To escape, they must crack Jon's intricate, almost Masonic puzzle and recite the elusive Rotary Club oath.   Puzzle design: Jon Saunders Solvers: Mike Collins, Ben Lavery-Griffiths, Jamie Gibbs Editor: Jamie Gibbs Come and say hi: FacebookInstagramSupport us on Patreon! Music from freepd.com Happy Whistling Ukulele by Rafael Krux City Sunshine by Kevin MacLeod SFX from freesound.org Cell phone vibration: MrAuralization Knocking: awrecording.it Creaking door: SkyernAklea Door slam: adriann Safety lock: Robinhood76 Clock chime: phantastonia Creaky floorboard: Soundbysimmons Hammering nails: InspectorJ

Having spent all of their money on a single nights rent the team go out to celebrate their right to exist...in the park, because they can't afford to go anywhere else. Join Jon and Anna as they pick apart Mike's thinly veiled satire of the housing crisis. Digressions include Mike's book, why Mike thinks writing books is easy but putting them together is hard, the absolute Kafka esque hell of the rental sector in the UK and Anna's love of Severance.

In this week's cataloguing of our national decline the team is arrested outside the leafy setting of The Great British Bake Off and returned to their rightful place, a cramped mould ridden maisonette administered by a sadistic estate agent and the sort of landlord that sees the death of one of their tenants as "a real headache." And like any flatshare, the team are invited to the "house WhatsApp" on their arrival. But why? And what dastardly villain would come up with such an unrelentingly bleak concept for an escape room? Mike. Mike would. And he'd do all the voices, too.

Jamie is joined at the Soggy Bottom's Up by Gord and Liz at Review the Room for a chat about last week's episode. We also get into: Colourblindness in puzzle games Which city is the best for escape rooms Why stakes matter when playing an escape room Which one of them has superhero semen vision   Our list of cool shit to check out includes: Sasquatch Sunset (Gord) Squatty Potty (Liz) Powerwash Simulator  (Jamie)