The Infinite Escape Room

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...

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...

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 ha...

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, Jami...

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 Come and chat to us on Facebook , Instagram , BlueSky and LinkedIn . Or join our Patreon programme for perks, early access episodes and bonus content....

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 t...

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! Come and chat to us on Facebook , Instagram , BlueSky and LinkedIn . Or join our Patreon programme for perks, early access ep...

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...

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. Come and chat...

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...

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 Instagra...

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 a...

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...

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,...

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. Come and chat to us on Facebook , Instagram , BlueSky and Linked...

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! Come and chat to us on Facebook , Instagram , BlueSky and LinkedIn . Or jo...

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.  Come and chat to us o...

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...

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 rema...

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!   ---- F...

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 questio...

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/th...

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. Come and chat to us on Facebook , Instagram , BlueSky and LinkedIn . Or join our Patreon programme for perks, early access episodes and bonus content. The Infinite Escape Room is a c...

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. Come and chat to...