It's our two year anniversary special! Heston Blumenthal's back, and the time travelling gastro-criminal has got a job for Anna, Dom, Chris, Ben Jon and Mike! The gang will need to steal the crown jewels with little more than a wedding cake and a birthday card - while battling the mole in the midst... So yeah - tuck in! We think it's one our most exciting episodes yet. Also, if you want to make our day, why not head join our Patreon, or hit us up on the Twitters or the Facebook?...
Oct 11, 2020•41 min•Season 2Ep. 158
This week Aled Laura Mike And Tony face off against a squad of Jon's Robo-Police. Why is Tony hiding behind Aled? Why can't the Robots pronounce Aled's name? Who's this Aled guy anyway? Tune in, find out! Oh yeah, here's the sneaky ASCII puzzle stuff - use your brain muscles to translate these to robotic policeman placements: Initial Positions ------------R1------------------R4------------ ----------------R2---------R3---------------- -----------L------M-----A------T------- And then after a litt...
Oct 04, 2020•33 min•Season 2Ep. 157
This week Aled, Ben, and Joey squelch through one of Chris' puzzles. What do those lines on the floor mean? Why is there muscle relaxant? And who made that smell!? To find out the answers to these questions, any be left with many more questions: Tune in to The Infinite Escape Room!
Sep 27, 2020•24 min•Season 2Ep. 156
This week Laura, Mike, and Tony land in Lunar Lullaby FM and listen to Ben's puzzle. Resurrecting the venerable MiniDisk, join our escapees flick through some masterful (an in some cases quite tropical) soothing bedtime tunes. Whose greasy fingers have been tampering with the playlists? Is the moon really made of cheese? Can you stay awake to solve these puzzles? Tune in to find out some of the above, as well as Mike's thoughts on pizza vomit in space!
Sep 20, 2020•23 min•Season 2Ep. 155
Join Ben and Jamie...with special guest, Tommy Honton , Escape room designer, raconteur, immersive experience immersifier, as they escape a highly suspicious barn of donkeys! Shiver in fear at the links to the KGB! Bray loudly at thier terrible donkey schemes! Metagame the shit out of your puzzles my dog (You might want to check our twitter feed for a clue). Special thanks go out to iZoptope who kindly provided us with a copy of their new RX8 audio cleanup software , which helped remove many an ...
Sep 13, 2020•55 min•Season 2Ep. 154
This week, Aled, Jamie and Laura escape Mike's fiendish celebrity kitchen! Will Heston Blumental's fiendish creation ruin Gordon Ramsay's sideboards? Will the puns come thicker that Jamie Oliver's cockney accent? Will we discover dark truths about Turkey Twizzlers? Tune in, find out! And as ever, if you want to make our day, why not head join our Patreon, or hit us up on the Twitters or the Facebook ....
Sep 06, 2020•24 min•Season 2Ep. 153
This week Laura, Mike and Ben emerge safe and sound from their doomed plane, only to become trapped in Jon's unassuming church. Why is the Church made of wood? How did Laura become so good at flying twin-engined aircraft? Will all those years of Welsh language schooling finally come in handy? Tune in and find out!
Aug 30, 2020•39 min•Season 2Ep. 152
This week Aled leads Mike, Ben and Alan through a spooksome house of mirrors where not all is as it seems... Where is the Fez Label? Why does Window's bluetooth muck up every five minutes? Can dogs feel ennui? Tune in, find out! And as ever, if you want to make our day, why not head join our Patreon, or hit us up on the Twitters or the Facebook ....
Aug 23, 2020•32 min•Season 2Ep. 151
David and Lisa Spira from Room Escape Artist join Mike in trying to escape a cabin in the woods. After escaping the barn by plane last week, the three find themselves running low on fuel. Thankfully they've all be putting in extra hours of Kerbal Space Program and the landing on a dirt road is surprisingly painless. Coming to a stop they find themselves outside of a cabin that happens to have a fuel pump. Can they operate the fuel pump? Will they get into the cabin? How many Room Escape Artist r...
Aug 16, 2020•43 min•Season 2Ep. 150
In another Glassless Chaps, Dom shares a cheeky cocktail to cool you off as our roasting planet gently slips in to the surface of the sun. When not sampling an occasional tipple, Dom illustrates at domjordanillustration.com If you like these cheeky minis, let us know on the Twitters , or at Facebook .
Aug 12, 2020•6 min•Season 2Ep. 149
This week Chris, Jamie, and Sam find themselves on top of a barn! How on earth did Ben wrangle them out from Robot-Hitler's V2 rocket!? Listen as the gang go through the trials and tribulations of interacting with stuff in a barn. Will Chris be tempted to rummage through poo? Will Jamie get the metal detector working? Does Sam's wish of driving a tractor come to fruition!? And what on Earth is Lovage...? Find out most of the above by tuning into this weeks episode of: The Infinite Escape Room!...
Aug 09, 2020•27 min•Season 2Ep. 148
Hooo boy, did we record this episode in the fittingly pissing rain? Yes we did. I hope you like ASMR, and listening to the lengths we'll go to to maintain social distancing. Join Anna, Laura and Dom as they escape Mike's totally accurate depiction of the English countryside! Will they wicker the escape man? Will they observe the country code? Will there be enough pringles? Tune in! Find out! Also go check out https://www.realityescapecon.com/ if you haven't already. It sounds pretty cool. And as...
Aug 02, 2020•35 min•Season 2Ep. 147
This week Ben, Chris, and Mike rummage around the robes of a man that Jon killed off. An puzzle wrapped up in a bunker, wrapped up in a consiracy, wrapped up in a perfectly reasonable explanation thank you very much, guv'na! P.S. If you like escape rooms, and we think you probably do, check out RECON - The Reality Escape Convention: https://www.realityescapecon.com/ P.P.S. Persons partaking in puzzling at ones personal pace will require the following visual clues: Yes, we reminded Jon that we're...
Jul 26, 2020•34 min•Season 2Ep. 145
It's another cheeky bonus mini for your lovely earholes, you gorgeous people you. In this episode of Glassless Chaps, Dom shares his honeymoon period with Norrlunds Guld, and the dread discovery that followed it. Dom's a pretty sweet illustrator by the way. You can check out his art and get in touch with him at domjordanillustration.com If you like these cheeky minis, let us know on the Twitters , or at Facebook ....
Jul 23, 2020•5 min•Season 2Ep. 146
'Alright mate, where to? Sorry about the sick on the seat. Used to be all h'aaarses around 'ere' No cockney banter was harmed as Mike, Ben and special guest Peih-Gee Law escape Tony's deadly runaway hackney carriage. Robots! Puns! Sausages! Two of those three things are in this episode. We mention a fantastic online few rooms in the episode, they come with Peih-Gee's stamp of approval so why not check them out? Ready Mayor One The truth about Edith Miss Jezabel (this one sounds right up our stre...
Jul 19, 2020•43 min•Season 2Ep. 144
This week Aled, Jon, and Mike find themselves stuck in the middle of a desert with little more than a book, a space helmet atop a cactus, and a phonebox to help them escape. Join them on a prickly quest involving numbers, screw drivers, and frustration. Will they escape the desert? Would you escape the desert? Let us know if you play along at home!
Jul 12, 2020•34 min•Season 2Ep. 143
In another Glassless Chaps mini, Mike shares his not-quite-love of his not-quite-favourite beer that he still drinks-not-quite-not-infrequently, Asahi. As always, these aren't sponsored - but Mike's integrity is on the market, and at a very reasonable price. If you like these cheeky minis, let us know on the Twitters , or at Facebook .
Jul 08, 2020•6 min•Season 2Ep. 140
It's a super special mega episode! Longest episode everish! Most solvers everish! Mike, Ben, Aled, Bailey, Alan and Laura are escaping from a guest room - kindly supplied by Walter Miska, from his fabulous book Escape Passages Volume 1! Listen as we don our American Jock personas to retrieve our faithful mascot, Kong, from those horrid Hordenwood Hornets and their locker room of hormones and LIES! This episode is genuinely a window in to what it's like to solve a real life escape room with us. I...
Jul 05, 2020•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 142
This week, Ben, Dom and Jamie find themselves trapped in Mike's under-laned bowling alley! Balls! Ponder the fuel efficiency of chip fat! Question Spongebob's sexuality! Laugh at how small some people's shoes are! Also bowling. If you like the episode, the podcast in general, and supporting indie podcasts, we're now on Patreon ! Why not check out our different TIER Tier rewards, and chuck us a squid?. You can also let us know what you think of the podcast, and where you'd like us to escape next ...
Jun 28, 2020•39 min•Season 2Ep. 139
Here at The Infinite Escape Room we love a snifter, and this series of irregular, bonus, mini episodes, we'll take a break from puzzling to wax lyrical about the drinks we love. In this first, pilot episode - I'll be getting misty eyed over Golden Glory. My favorite beer ever. Just to reassure you, this is not sponsored content, but brown envelopes full of cash are still welcome. The Mix Up podcast, whose No Country for Old Albums format influenced this show, can be found here . Shout out to Kyl...
Jun 24, 2020•7 min•Season 2Ep. 137
Charlie and James from Deadlocked Escape Rooms join Ben in escaping Jamie's concoction of backstage CosmoDeath themes puzzles! What hell shall be raised at the sound desk? What is that potato sack sized sack of M&Ms for!? And what is is like to crowd surf? Tune into this very special escape room, to find out! Charlie can be found @misscharliebond , while James can be found @Volvi and Both of them run Deadlocked Escape Rooms . Many thanks to Jamie, a.k.a. @armchairescape P.S. You may like to ...
Jun 21, 2020•30 min•Season 2Ep. 136
Aled, Chris, and Tony follow a robot called Merv to Ben's puzzle. Who's shooting at them? Why is there a space suite in a body fridge? Any why on earth is the robot panting!? Tune in and find out on the ever evolving The Infinite Escape Room! P.s. Next episode we're joined by the folks who run Deadlocked Escape Rooms . Listen to the end of this episode for more info!
Jun 14, 2020•28 min•Season 2Ep. 135
Tremble in fear as Mike, Ben and Jon are confronted with Danny's horrifying chamber of Geometry! Shiver at the angles! Shudder at the vertices! Get a bit worried about adults who can't do 3d shapes... Miss the obvious clues in this cheeky little image: If you like the episode, the podcast in general, and supporting indie podcastgs, we're now on Patreon ! Why not check out our different TIER Tier rewards, and chuck us a squid?. You can also let us know what you think of the podcast, and where you...
Jun 06, 2020•41 min•Season 2Ep. 134
Far out maaan, this week Mike, Alan and Bailey find themselves trapped in Dom's totally whacked out Hippie Van. Will Alan forage some groovy threads? Will Bailey get stumped by Dom's gnarly puzzule? Will Mike run out of hippie related phrases to put in episode shownotes? And then spend a little while having fun making psychedelic soundscapes to accompany Dom's story bookends? Tune in, and give those government agencies something really good to stick in their bong pipe things and smoke. Presumabl...
May 31, 2020•31 min•Season 2Ep. 131
To celebrate our 100th episode, Aled, Ben, Chris, Jon, and Mike take up the original format to bring you five celebratory puzzles. How many of our gang copied puzzle from the back catalogue? Who will turn a childhood game into a nightmare? Why was there almost no cake? Tune into to find out! P.S. If you want to hear Ben's alternative puzzle for the episode, subscribe to our Cheeky Philanthropist tier or higher on Patreon ....
May 24, 2020•48 min•Season 2Ep. 129
This week Aled, Ben, and Tony find themselves in Chris' puzzling clockwork room. Will our puzzlers get lost in time forever? Or will they make time stand still? Tune in to find out in the episode dubbed "The one that almost got canned"! * * Why? Because: Aled was asleep and we had to call him to get him on the recording Tony's internet failed half an hour before recording, so we communicated with him over the phone Chris has a new microphone setup which generated some buzzing (but he managed to ...
May 17, 2020•27 min•Season 2Ep. 128
Cheeky bonus episode! Boom! We got sent a digital escape game to review - so we did! We recorded this right after we'd finished the room, and rather enjoyed our first ever lockdown digital escape room. There's also a giveaway at the end for a lucky listener to have a bash themselves, courtesy of https://store.theescapegame.com/ NB: No brown paper envelope full of money changed hands, just Val being sweet enough to send us the codes. NBB: Cherry bakewells are delicious but probably not the ideal ...
May 14, 2020•17 min•Season 2Ep. 127
This week, Mike, Katie and Danny escape from Jamie's fiendishly well informed archaeology dig! Will they uncover lost roman treasures, or spend an alarming amount of the episode talking about poo? Tune in to find out! In the meantime, here's some cheeky clues to get your whistles wet... By the way, we're now on Patreon ! Why not check out our different TIER Tier rewards, and chuck us a squid if you like the podcast. You can also let us know what you think of the podcast, and where you'd like us ...
May 10, 2020•35 min•Season 2Ep. 125
This week Mike, Ben, Alan and special guest Errol find themselves trapped in a lonely lighthouse, with nothing but wine and wits to save them from a spooksome demise. Will they figure out the ballad of Sharon the Shmuggler? Will they break the curse of the Fresnel lens? Will we discover how to make a shadow puppet narwhal? Will they forget to solve the mystery of what happened to the lighthouse keeper? Tune in! Find out! If you'd like to hear more of Errol's dulcet tones, you can find him over a...
May 03, 2020•50 min•Season 2Ep. 121
This week Tony takes Danny, Sam, and Ben into one of The Infinite Escape rooms many wine cellars! What carnage will they make of wine names? Will we find a more exotic phrase for the common "ingénue"? And what do you call a microwave that doesn't heat things!? As ever, Tune In to Find Out! P.S. You may find the following wine list of use if you're playing along at home!
Apr 26, 2020•30 min•Season 2Ep. 120
