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The Infinite Escape Room
by Mike Collins, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan
The escape room podcast where we make and solve homemade audio escape rooms. One part escape room, one part role-playing game, a sprinkle of point-and-click adventure, and a whole lot of laughs. New episodes every Sunday!Hosted by Mike Collins, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs and Mairi Nolan.
Episodes
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Puzzle Creators React: Hey Duggee
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. 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...
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World's Okayest Escape Room
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! What follows are some of the classic escape room tropes: Old...
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Jurassic Lark (with Guest Host Will Bain)
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. Will they make it to the Visitor Centre, or will...
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Pubisode: Challenge Arcades with Chris Dickson
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. This week we are joined by Chris Dickson of www.challengearcades.com, a connoisseur of this growing subset of the industry. Chris...
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TIERberpunk 2099
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... /Cue epic synthwave music/ Armed with the Sonic Quantum Unlikely Interference Reconstruction Thingy (or SQUIRT device for short - thanks…
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Gener8 Global Games
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! In this episode, the team are representing the UK and...
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Pubisode Discussion: British Kids TV Shows
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. As always, here are your…
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...Mairi and Jamie come to play!
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! Puzzle Maestro: Jon Saunders Solvers: Mairi Nolan, Jamie Gibbs Episode…
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Over the hills and far away...
...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. The puzzle is simple...
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Big Brain, Bigger Problems
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...
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Pubisode Discussion: The best escape room themes nobody has ever done
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. In this month's pubisode we're discussing all the escape rooms we've never done. That's right: Puzzley escape room...
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You're SSACT!
Have you heard? Aliens have made first contact with us! ...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…
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His Majesty's Secret Sandwich
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. The stakes quite literally could not be higher. So join in, lettuce...
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Pubisode Discussion: Is escaping enough any more?
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. Here we'll be reflecting on a big question in the escape room industry: Is escaping "enough" anymore? Or do you have...
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Not Another D&D Episode
Another in-person recording from Jamie's home in the Welsh hills, with Jamie hosting and Mike and Emma (Bailey) solving. 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…
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Removing the Gallstones
This very special episode of The Infinite Escape Room is brought to you from Jamie's house in Wales... ...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...
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Escape to Nottingham - Travelogue edition!
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. Or, we would've done, if things hadn't gone a…
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Release the rats!
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…
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The Secret Wine
Somewhere in this room there's a secret! Go get up and find it! 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…
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Pubisode Discussion: When should escape rooms retire?
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...
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A Series of Purrfectly Normal Rooms
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. Jamie, how big is the space? Mike, where is the door located? Jon, what are the walls made of? The size of a…
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Foley Moley, what a drama!
*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…
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The Infinite Escape Room Season 2: We're Back!
Howdy you bunch! 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…
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Puzzle Creators React: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
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...
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Horror in Escape Rooms? - At the Brush, Nose and Bone
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…
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VHS Nightmare - The Graveyard Smash
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...
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VHS Nightmare: The Thing in the TV
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. Last week the team tried to play a VHS tape and were transported to a sinister sewer to face a...
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VHS Nightmare: The Sobbing Shaft
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…
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Puzzle Creators React: Inside No 9: CTRL, ALT, ESC
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 Inside No. 9, "CTRL ALT ESCAPE". Follow Mairi, Jamie, and special guest Alex...
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Are Escape Rooms Getting Easier - At the Toasty Post Life Ghosty Posty
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…
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Outback Odyssey: The Tin Horse Highway
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...
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Outback Odyssey: There’s No Place Like Gnome
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…
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The Desert of Wee Reborn
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. This episode initially aired a little later than normal due to some...
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GroundFarce Reborn
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…
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Accessibility in Audio Escape Rooms - At The Consume This Beer-dia Hotel feat. Escape This Podcast
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...
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No, YOU escape THIS Podcast: The Recording Studio feat. Escape This Podcast
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...
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No, YOU escape THIS Podcast: Takeover the Tower feat. Escape This Podcast
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...
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Live Actors in Escape Rooms? At the Straits Of Dover
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…
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Ice Cream Wars: The Burnt Beach
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...
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Ice Cream Wars: H2Oh No
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…
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Ice Cream Wars: Cone of Conflict
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,...
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Puzzle vs Narrative feat. Aurelius Whitlock’s Murder Museum
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.…
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Summer Solstice: The Lav of the Land feat: Aurelius Whitlock’s Murder Museum
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...
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Summer Solstice: Time Stands Still at Stonehenge feat. Aurelius Whitlock’s Murder Museum
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…
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Summer Solstice: Rock Bottom Prices feat. Aurelius Whitlock’s Murder Museum
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…
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London Jolley: There’s A-Latte Trouble Brewing
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...
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London Jolley: Cold Opens and Cold Drinks at the Dirty Dicks
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…
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London Jolley: Travelog and Secret Studio Interview
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…
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What is a puzzle?
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...
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Ozman Richard’s House of Death Games: Bingo Lingo!
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...
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The escape room podcast where we make and solve homemade audio escape rooms. One part escape room, one part role-playing game, a sprinkle of point-and-click adventure, and a whole lot of laughs. New episodes every Sunday!Hosted by Mike Collins, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs and Mairi Nolan.
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The escape room podcast where we make and solve homemade audio escape rooms. One part escape room, one part role-playing game, a sprinkle of point-and-click adventure, and a whole lot of laughs. New episodes every Sunday!Hosted by Mike Collins, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs and Mairi Nolan.
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