The Infinite Escape Room

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 Solvers: Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan Special Guest: Keith Dozois of USB Escape Episode Art: Dom Jordan - Do...

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 laughing clown, this week they find themselves stood in a room with no windows or doors, lit only by the pal...

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 we find ourselves transported to... A sewer. There's distant crying coming from the darkness and a cree...

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 Hylands-White as they put the room through its paces and discuss what improvements they'd make to make it a...

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!   As always we come to you with humble recommendations to ease you into Autumn. Jamie...

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... But which way? "Struth Ruth, Bruce is coming babe." Puzzle Maestro: Jon Saunders Solvers: Mi...

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. But before they can get back on the road they'll have to get through dozens and...

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 technical gremlins, which meant it didn't get a fair shake before the following week's episode came in...

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 months or even years later. Groundfarce is one of those episodes. What started out as a simple spatial puzzl...

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 hotel? Turns out Australia has an interesting drinking culture around hotels, but you'll just have to lis...

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. Join Mairi, Jamie, special guests Dani and Bill from Escape This Podcast and...

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...

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. As ever, we come to you with some recommendations for the month ahead.   Bai...

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 Jordan Editor: Jamie Gibbs   Come and chat to us on Facebook , Instagram , BlueSky and LinkedIn . Or joi...

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 get out. Just don't, whatever you do, use a black light in here. Puzzle Maestro: Jon Saunders Solvers: J...

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... I...

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. Enjoy! As always the team have recommendations for your better enjoyment. This month, they are!   Jamie Deat...

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 Mus...

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, pres...

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 H...

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...

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 Exe...

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 Ques...

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 be...

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...