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 Nolan Solvers: Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs, Marcus Richardson and Nathan Hi...
Jun 29, 2025•38 min•Ep. 379
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 it out in time. In this episode, we're joined by Marcus Richardso...
Jun 20, 2025•37 min•Ep. 378
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 murder mystery podcast Aurelius Whitlock's Murder Museum. Puzzle M...
Jun 15, 2025•52 min•Ep. 377
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 Saunders, Mairi Nolan, Jamie Gibbs, and Mike Collins Solvers: Mike Collins,...
Jun 08, 2025•49 min•Ep. 376
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 - The Electrifying Incident (2025) by Draknek & Friends Mike - Slo...
Jun 01, 2025•48 min•Ep. 373
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 in this episode, where we've also got a very special interview with two of t...
May 25, 2025•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 372
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, our recommendations for this month: As always, we closed out the e...
May 18, 2025•53 min•Ep. 375
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 absolutely slaughters the rest of the team. But will it be enough to ...
May 11, 2025•39 min•Ep. 374
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, Aled Hughes Episode art: Dom Jordan Editor: Jamie Gibbs All links to ou...
May 04, 2025•29 min•Ep. 371
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 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation. Easier said than ...
Apr 27, 2025•34 min•Ep. 369
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 through its paces and discuss how they'd make it a better escape ro...
Apr 20, 2025•39 min•Ep. 362
This week, Jamie and Mairi are joined by author and game designer Eloise Corvo who chats with us about her new book, Off the Beaten Path, as well as her love of Michigan, cozy murders and designing mystery games. Say hi to Eloise: Website Instagram
Apr 13, 2025•44 min•Ep. 367
This week we're joined by author and game designer Eloise Corvo who's presented us with a mystery set in the world of her cozy murder Stone's Throw Mystery novel, Off the Beaten Path. Think Parks and Rec meets Clue, and you're pretty much there. Will Jamie and Mairi manage to find the missing tomatoes before Pop's big fundraiser starts? And just how chewy is the beer in this place, anyway? Get the visual handouts and game document at https://eloisecorvo.com/spaghettisabotage In a cool twist of f...
Apr 06, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 366
In this wrap-up Pubisode for our Nursery Crimes Arc, the team delve into the thorny subject of Improvisation and its place in All Fun Things. Whether you live life off script (hello Jon) or are a paid up member of the Order Of The Flow Chart, your strong opinion is invited!
Mar 30, 2025•49 min•Ep. 370
This is the final episode of our Nursery Crimes arc, in which the time try to appease Grandfather Story by getting off the Farmer's Wife (me neither!?) in order to avoid being flayed alive. Standard fare for the Infinite Escape Room! The real treat in this room is a trio of fiendish puzzles from Dom, who wrongfoots our experienced puzzlers at every turn. Delicious Listening! This episode contains visual handouts. Head over to https://www.theinfiniteescaperoom.com/e/nursery-crimes-the-king-the-qu...
Mar 23, 2025•47 min•Ep. 368
It's the second in our series of Nursery Crimes, as the gang try and navigate the murky murderous world of Grandfather Story and solve the murder of the three blind mice. This week, Mairi takes Dom and Mike to the most exclusive restaurant in town, where they find themselves serving a very hungry customerpillar. Part of the Nursery Crimes series, released in time for World Book Day.
Mar 16, 2025•49 min•Ep. 365
This week Mike leads Mairi and Dom into Grandfather Story's adorable watercolour world...to solve a murder most gruesome and avoid a fate most cannibalistic. This is how we got ants. That and the egg everywhere, as the gang try and piece together what happened to Humpty Dumpty, and why they should be so bothered about the emotional state of a stick... This episode is releasing a few days early to coincide with World Book Day. Because cuteness.
Mar 06, 2025•34 min•Ep. 364
A few months ago we were guests on the Escapuzzled podcast with Corey and Helena. The original, booze filled episode was over 2 hours long (the recording was twice that again!). Here's the second half of that interview, where we go into the puzzle making process, designing games for audio and generally how we embrace chaos in all we do. Enjoy! Say hi to Escapuzzled: Spotify Apple Podcasts Instagram...
Mar 02, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 363
This week, Mike poses the question: Is player cognitive load a help or a hindrance when designing escape rooms? We also chat about Mairi's secret connection to the Chocolate Orange fortune, and round out the night with our recommendations for books, games and other podcasts. Hosts: Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan, Emma Bailey Editor: Jamie Gibbs All links to our social media profiles and our Patreon programme over at https://linktr.ee/theinfiniteescaperoom...
Feb 23, 2025•45 min•Ep. 361
It's America's Got Talent meets Crufts in this week's escape room from Mairi. Mike, Jamie and Bailey don their sequined leotards and prove that you can teach an old human new tricks as they puzzle their way to the stage to impress the intimidating Simon Howl. Puzzle Master: Mairi Nolan Solvers: Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs, Emma Bailey Episode art: Dom Jordan Editor: Jamie Gibbs All links to our social media profiles and our Patreon programme over at https://linktr.ee/theinfiniteescaperoom...
Feb 16, 2025•43 min•Ep. 360
It's Planet of the Apes! Except with dogs instead of apes. They wear clothes and have jobs and everything. This week, Mike, Mairi and Bailey are confined to the People Park before their imminent destruction for crimes against the Canine Imperium. But one of their fellow humans has left a clue that could help them make their escape... Puzzle Master: Jamie Gibbs Solvers: Mike Collins, Mairi Nolan, Emma Bailey Episode art: Dom Jordan Editor: Jamie Gibbs All links to our social media profiles and ou...
Feb 09, 2025•40 min•Ep. 359
Having narrowly escaped the opening and closing scenes of Gravity, the gang sit down for a lovely chat at the pub with Corey and Helena from Escapuzzled. They'll show us how to answer quick fire questions quickly and on fire, talk about the Escapuzzled project, and chat puzzles and escaping in their experience and the wider industry.
Feb 02, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 358
We're joined once more by Corey and Helena from Escapuzzled , as we try to get through Mike's shonkily equipped lab to the AliExpress ISS escape pod. Can the gang figure out Mike's fiendish pollution based puzzle, and uncover the true identity of PunPun the Panda? Not without some EditorMike apologies along the way...enjoy!
Jan 26, 2025•57 min•Ep. 357
In this week's episode, Jamie hosts an interstellar disaster movie as we tackle an escape room set on the AliExpress International Space Station, post invasion of intergalactic Lutoners. We're joined by the fabulous Corey and Helena from the Escapuzzled podcast , who are inexplicably still speaking to us after we gave them twenty seven hours of editing on their own podcast.
Jan 19, 2025•42 min•Ep. 356
Shrug off your double denim and join us for a cold brewski at The Ski Pad, where we chat about designing the rooms in our Ronald's Revenge series: 1. Great Scott! 2. Yippee Ki-Yay, Mr. Falcon 3. E.T. Get Clue --- For more audio escape shenanigans, go check out https://www.theinfiniteescaperoom.com/ 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 fu...
Jan 12, 2025•50 min•Season 4Ep. 20
Tumbling from the heights of Nakatomi Plaza, the gang land in an awfully familiar 1980s suburban house, in which sits a familiar little long-necked extra-terrestrial turd... Will they manage to save cinema and please the embalmed-yet-still-living-head of Ronald Reagan? --- For more audio escape shenanigans, go check out https://www.theinfiniteescaperoom.com/ Any questions, comments, indignant remarks or just want to chat puzzles and podcasts? You can email us, or say hi on Facebook , Instagram o...
Jan 05, 2025•39 min•Season 4Ep. 19
Aled, Jamie, and Mike spent a day in Tonypandy, a small town in South Wales, just outside Pontypridd. While there, we took on Rhondda Escape Rooms and had a blast! This isn’t sponsored content, but we had a mic in our pocket (fnar) thought it’d make a cheeky New Year's bonus episode. If you enjoy this escape room travelogue, let us know, and we might do more in the future. Happy New Year! ---- For more audio escape shenanigans, go check out https://www.theinfiniteescaperoom.com/ Any questions, c...
Jan 01, 2025•30 min•Ep. 355
On the run from the sudden appearance of a cyber yeti, the gang are forced to crawl through the vents of Nakatomi Plaza in their crisp white vests, all for the benefit of the Ronald Reagan head-in-a-jar's quest to save cinema. But there is a small bit of treachery afoot, as they soon find out ... --- For more audio escape shenanigans, go check out https://www.theinfiniteescaperoom.com/ Any questions, comments, indignant remarks or just want to chat puzzles and podcasts? You can email us, or say ...
Dec 29, 2024•35 min•Season 4Ep. 18
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 podc...
Dec 22, 2024•46 min•Season 4Ep. 17
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.
Dec 15, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 4Ep. 16
