The Infinite Escape Room (Mike Collins, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan)

This week we join Danny, Jon, Ben and Alan as Mike takes them through a seamless transition in The Infinite Escape Room, where absolutely nothing goes wrong and everything is fine, and did you sign the waiver on the way in? You did? Brilliant. We'll just keep hold of those next of kin details for just in casies alright? The Infinite Escape Room is definitely safe and absolutely not slowly shearing apart at the seams.

Also you might wonder what it is the boys are referring to. Here's a wee collage of all the different images they received:

(you can download the image here)

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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!

Join Bailey, Mike, and Tony as they delve into the depths of a coal mine, prodding and poking every nook and cranny.

• What otherworldly creatures lurk for folk who don't have all of the information?
• Why are there so many knickers down here?
• Can our team work out how to get Trefor's motor going?

Get ready for some belly laughs, and slight peeks behind the production throughout - only on this weeks episode of The Infinite Escape Room!

Well well well. After 95 years, the OG Mickey Mouse is in the public domain. So of course we see just how close we can get to bringing the fury of the House of Mouse upon us as quickly as possible. What a way to start 2024.

Anna and Bailey were excellent solvers, and it was great to have them back on the pod after so many months.

 

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Game design by Jamie Gibbs (@armchairescapist)

This week Katie, Mike, and Ben explore a quaint family run cinema only to find they are trapped inside!

Will Ben's knowledge of ice cream companies come to the rescue?

Will Katie be able to crank out some focus?

What will Mike find with a UV torch in the screening room?

Find out and learn much more in this weeks episode of The Infinite Escape Room!

You know what's great? FRIENDS. The having of them, and the homages to. If either of those prospects tickle your biscuit then this tasty new episode from Tony is going to be right up your cul-de-sac. Why not join us as we:

• Marvel as Jon missing the blindingly obvious references!
• Wonder at Sam's sound and plumbing setup!
• Nod knowingly at Bailey's James Earl Jones knowledge!
• Giggle sympathetically at Tony's noble efforts to keep the recording on track!

And as always, if you want to make our day, why not head join our Patreon, or hit us up on the Twitters or the Facebook? You know you want to.

P.s. Mike edited this, and found the experience surreal but very pleasant, as it's the first time he's edited something he hasn't been in. He's really hoping he didn't chop anything important out.

Can you count to 4?

Can you count to 4 backwards?

Can you count 4 numbers in the order that they're written?

If you answered yes to all of the above, you didn't go to Art School.

 

Feeling completely lost? Tune in to find out...

 

The gang continues their journey through the Rotary Club village hall - this week they're stuck in the kitchen.

To escape, they must ... bake an apple pie? Surely there's more to it than that? Well, Ben's back behind the wheel so you know there are a few surprises in store.

This episode comes with a visual handout - head over to www.theinfiniteescaperoom.com to get it.

 

Puzzle design: Ben Lavery-Griffiths

Solvers: Mike Collins, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs

Editor: Jamie Gibbs

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Music from freepd.com

• Happy Whistling Ukulele by Rafael Krux

• Isolation Waltz by Bryan Teoh

• Funky Energy Loop by Kevin MacLeod

SFX from freesound.org

• Rummaging: daveincamas

• Match lighting: kitchen sounds

• Fire: Foleyheaven

• Wood falling: akennedybrewer

• Falling bag: F.M. Audio

• Ding: 5ro4

• Gears: draelent

• Satisfied sound: 1LOVE

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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. 

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(this episode has gone out two days late due to a COVID related muck-up overlapping with a trip to New Orleans! Apologies! ~Mike)

Join Dr Mark Childs of the @pedagodzilla podcast and Professor Rebecca Ferguson as they fight skip goop and the tyranny of physics in order to avoid splattering....on the mooooon!

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:

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This week, Mike, Ben and special guest Step Lockyer from Enigmailed join forces to save the Internet's most beloved gorilla from certain death, thus averting the final apocalypse of the 21st century.   We've got a little Q&A with Step at the start of the show before getting into the puzzle itself.   If you're not already following Enigmailed you can do so on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok.   And if you want to get news of when Enigmailed's Kickstarter campaign for Notable remains goes live, you can sign up for updates on the campaign page.   And don't forget, if you enjoy the episode, why not chuck us a quid via Patreon for extra perks, or hit us up on Twitter or Facebook to say nice things about us.    

Laura and Aled are thrust into the hot and stressful environment of a television studio kitchen, to topple one of the culinary giants.

• Can Aled brute force his way in?
• Will Laura remember all of the metaphorical open doors?
• What happens when you turn an oven on?

Join the gang as they whip up solutions, beat minor puzzles, and mentally stew in this week's episode!

It's been suggested by some that my episodes are unecessarily bleak. To remedy this, I give you Escape The Car Crash, featuring Michael Buble.

 

Will Mike recover from being a Cyclist?

Will Jamie make a good Poultergeist?

Will Aled ever forgive me?

 

Tune in and find out.

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

This week, Dom, Anna and Laura find themselves at the behest of Mike's Mars Bar wielding Elon Musk.

In order to complete his total domination of social media, they'll need to infiltrate Facebook HQ and get the platform cancelled! But watch out for the Zuck's stinger!

Is it one of Mike's tightest puzzles? Possibly not. Did he have a lot of fun doing the voices? Yes he did.

Also Jamie cameo's in this episode in one of our most/least copyright infringing characters depending on if he's wearing a shirt. See if you can spot it.

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This week, Mike and Ben are joined by Amanda, Errol, Mike (a different Mike) and Ruby from the Room Escape Divas podcast, escaping from Andrew Lloyd Webber's threats in a hip and trendy cat cafe!

Will Errol get a cup of coffee, or will it be matcha?

Will Amanda break something with a cupcake?

Will Mike and Ruby manage to solve a puzzle while also being fab parents?

TIFO!

P.S. The theme for this episode was requested by our first Escape Boss Tier patreon, Ryann. Hope you liked it Ryann!

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Also - here's the bits you might need to solve the puzzles in this episode:

Menu

Hot Drinks

Price

Allergen information

Meowchiatto

£3.95

(TWST)

Catpurrchino

£3.20

(THN)

Ameowricano

£2.50

(TP)

Meowcha

£4.20

(CPCK)

Hot Chocacat

£4.00

(TH)

 

Regulars favourites

Mr RTT: Catpurrchino

Miss G: Meowcha

Mr D: Hot Chocacat

 

 

In today's lesson...

Terrifying Dreams of Dissappointed Biscuit Babushkas.

How to talk to Fascists about Hell (without saying it)

King Charles Impersonations

And How much it is sensible to drink before attempting an Escape Room.

 

You'll learn a lot today children.

Iiiit's Part 1 of our Dungeons and Dragons Special!

We've been making escape rooms for over two years now, so we jumped at the opportunity when the lovely Jamie Gibbs from the Armchair Escapist offered to give us a fortnight off to play a short escaperoom adjacent D&D campaign, with puzzles, goblin abductions, and nice bread.

So join...

• Jamie - Our noble GM and master of a thousand rustic voices
• Tony - Experienced D&D player, consumer of birthday beer, and the Masonry obsessed Dwarf Rogue Caskell Marwen
• (Emma) Bailey - D&D newbie, baker of banana bread, and the faces to the wall half ork Barbarian Bailinator Jones
• Ben - D&D newbie, awful punsmith, and Forquare Quendian, the Halfling Wizard
• Mike - D&D agnostic, hungover, and the dinner and dicking focused Bard, Clam Strumlington

...as we find ourselves trapped in this new world, slammed in to new personalities, and attempting to escape the crazy fantasy world. Oh yeah and don't worry - there's still a good old escape room puzzle in there you lucky folk.

Here's the resource you'll need by the way for the puzzle...

If you like the episode, and want us to do more weird and whacky stuff like this, then why not let us know via the Twitters or the Facebook? Alternatively you might be too busy being the coolest motherfucker alive, in which case you should probably head straight across to our Patreon.

 

(By the way - we recorded this miniseries in two monster recording sessions. We're going to break them in to smaller chunks for the episodes themselves to keep it all sensible and listenable. So Part 1 is the first half of the first recording, and Part 2 will be published a few days later. Due to the length of the recordings, we've not been able to give these quite as much attention to detail as we'd normally try to, so do please forgive us if you hear any unedited farts.)

It's been really, really hot in the UK recently.

This episode happened. It's a good one.

Join the Ben and the Jamie.

They escape Mike's hot little location.

At one point a man sweats out his guts. Here's what it looks like:

Send 99p flakes.

What do you call a gang of one? This week I call it Jamie! Join him on his adventure as he vanquishes a giant herring, encounters eider ducks and sausages, and eats croutons.  

• How can a salad be so useful and yet so overlooked?
• Why did the potatoes not sound like a brass instrument?
• What monster climbs a mountain of dogs?

  Strap up, hold on, and tune in to find out!  

PS - The scrambled text on the plaque reads:

Af uskw gx shgusdqhkw

Prmmifbp clo qeb bka lc qfjb

Geffekiw qeoi ibgippirx kyevhmerw

   

Join the gang as they meander through the history of musical instruments, the history of luddism, the history of history - and then finally a very sad story from Jon.

his episode contains spoilers for our previous episode - Fallen Monks and Robotic Beer Tasting - if you haven't heard that episode yet, please do go and given it a listen first.   We're joined again by Gord and Liz of Review the Room to pick their brains on the best UK city for escape games and what separates a good escape room from a great one. They've done over 400 escape rooms, so they know their stuff. Check them out on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter   Don't forget, you can get a sweet The Infinite Escape Room enamel pin and puzzle postcard to impress your friends and shame your enemies. Check it out! And as always, please reach out to us on Facebook and Twitter

In this week's cataloguing of our national decline the team is arrested outside the leafy setting of The Great British Bake Off and returned to their rightful place, a cramped mould ridden maisonette administered by a sadistic estate agent and the sort of landlord that sees the death of one of their tenants as "a real headache."

And like any flatshare, the team are invited to the "house WhatsApp" on their arrival. But why?

And what dastardly villain would come up with such an unrelentingly bleak concept for an escape room?

Mike. Mike would. And he'd do all the voices, too.

Join us as we pull up a chair and pull back the curtain on the last few episodes. We also get into why apple cake and custard is delicious, and go on a little rant about the size of IKEA beds.

Hosts: Mike Collins, Ben Lavery-Griffiths, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs

Editor: Jamie Gibbs

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• Bell ringing: Techienanna

Shiggedy whatnow? We're trying out a crazy new format in a six part miniseries! For the next six episodes we'll be presenting a nifty all-in-one room, each of which will join to the next with freaky story stuff! Will it work? Lord knows 0_0

Join Mike, Ben, Jon and Aled as they start their finite adventure in the belly of Gerry Anderson's masterpiece - Thunderbird 2.

Will they knacker the second most useless thunderbird?

Will they forget how 3D space works?

Will anyone remember Fireball XL5?!

Engage your earholes, and find out!

Also let us know what you think of this experimental format via the twitters @TIER_Podcast.

Ever had that dream? You know, the one where a giant four year old decides to play dressup with you after setting an arbitrary thirty minute Escape Timer? Yeah, me too. And now, so have Dom, Mike and Aled.

Will Mike make a good Baby? 

Will Dom ever sound happy on the inside? 

Will Aled leave Mike hanging? 

Tune in, find out!

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Join Jon as he ventures out into the real world for a sit down with CTRL+ALT+ESC of Margate, one of our favourite rooms! Apologies for the tardyness here, folks, editor Jon has spent the last few days intensively rehearsing, and then being Andy Warhol at a charity Gala Ball. Why? No idea. But someone offered him money to do it. So he did.

 

aka escape the Upside Down trailer  

This episode is brought to you by our wonderful Patreons Jade Shaw, Tonje Beate Halvorsen and Maggie B. Thank you!

  This episode Jamie is joined by puzzlers extraordinaire David Spira and Peih-Gee Law from Room Escape Artist / Reality Escape Pod / Reality Escape Convention.   Join David and Peih-Gee as they puzzle their way through a trailer park trailer that's definitely looking a bit ... Stranger. Don't at me, Duffer Brothers.   Cue a time-travelling apple, a cursed Elmo doll and the newest hit event coming soon to all escape rooms near you - The Hunt For The Hidden Bed Cheese.   You can also listen to the playlist in the episode on Spotify. It's pretty cool.   I created the creepy Elmo doll using an Elmo AI voice generator, which is pretty terrifying.  

PS This is my game that David mentioned during the episode. I'm not normally one to plug it here but when RoomEscapeArtist says it, who am I to argue?

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aka Escape Santa's Workshop

This week's episode is made possible by our wonderful Patrons, including Jade Shaw and Dave LeCompte

This week Tony and Chris attempt to kickstart Christmas with the help of a surly elf, some non-existent cocoa beans and the Naughtiest Boy On Earth.

Can they get Santa's Workshop up and running again before The Fat Man himself returns from seal clubbing pilates?

Tune in and see how they got on!

And as always, please reach out to us on Facebook and Twitter to tell us how nice we are.

This is the final episode in our Grumbledown series, in which the team successfully assassinated the predatory schoolmasters of Grumbledown's Preparatory Something or other for the whatsits...we never did quite figure out the name.

Having dispatched the Latinmaster, we adjourne to the pub, The Post Plutius. Jon attempts to blind himself, Mike makes excuses for getting his Latin wrong, Jamie makes it all look easy and we all take some time to enjoy Ben's greatest hits.

This is Ben's final episode of The Infinite Escape Room, certainly as a producer, though I'm sure we'll tempt him back as a solver some day!

This episode features: Ben, Mike, Jamie and Jon

No star spangled flags were harmed in the recording of this episode.

It's a cheeky all in one listener request! Can Danny, Jon, Bailey and Alan escape Donald Trump's impeachment, and in turn The Oval Office?

Well we know at least one of those people got away with it, cos the bugger was acquitted a day before we recorded! Blinking fliperooni

Features hitherto unknown levels of fuff, tuff and toss in a not quite circular room. Also features West Country Trump:

If you've got a belting idea then hit us up via the twitters @TIER_Podcast.

 

Escape the mentalist's Book Nook

We're joined by Step Lockyer from Enigmailed who's running the puzzles for us this week!

Step took us through an audio version of one of his upcoming Kickstarter projects - Escape the Book Nook. 

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Check out Escape the Book Nook on Kickstarter! 

 

This episode was brought to you by The MOON, as well as our patrons Christopher Cherng, Ryann Sparrow, Dave Shaw and Maggie B.

We also now have MERCH!

You can get a sweet The Infinite Escape Room enamel pin and puzzle postcard to impress your friends and shame your enemies. Check it out!

Please let us know what you think of the new format on Facebook and Twitter.

This week's solvers were Laura, Jon, and Jamie. Your Games Maestro and puzzle creator was Step Lockyer.

Continue listening to Alan, Aled, and Dom escape this mind boggling house!   Why on earth are there so many Scrabble tiles? When is Uncle Bob's birthday? Do any of the gang actually have an Uncle Bob? And is that a return of the whimsical padlocks?   Part 2 of Escape The Post-Vaccination House awaits with answers, and more questions!

aka Escape the Boston Tea Party This episode is brought to you by our wonderful Patreons Dave Shaw and Karen Cate. Thank you!   Much like Nicolas Cage, we're on a mission to uncover some forgotten American treasures. But unlike Nicolas Cage, we're doing it with a little more tact and a lot less insanity.   Join Mike, Laura and Ben as they infiltrate the Boston Tea Party Museum to find the last remaining tea chest from the Boston Tea Party.

• Will Mike and Ben find a tri-corner hat that actually fits?
• How does Ben unlock the podcast's secret God-Mode?
• Is fruit tea really tea or just an infusion?

Find out now in this Independence Day special episode!   If you're playing along at home, you'll need this map of the islands around Boston harbour.   If you want to get a hold of these episodes before the general public and get extra Discord perks, consider supporting the podcast on Patreon. You can also whisper sweet nothings to us over on Facebook and Twitter.   And for those who celebrate it, have a most excellent Independence Day!

This week listen to Alan, Aled, and Dom escape what is presumably their bedrooms... They've all had their COVID vaccinations and wake up feeling groggy.

Why is Alan wearing brown, velcro brogues to bed?

Will you hear Aled sing the Welsh national anthem?

And is that a ballcock in Dom's pocket or is he just happy to see you?

Come one and all to listen to Part 1 of...Escape The Post-Vaccination House!

After benefitting from early release at Timpson's prison, the team embark on their new carrers as Teaching Assistants, the infantryman of the school world (quite literally in some places). There first job is a placement at Grumbledown's Acadamy for the something something, home to quivering school boys and predatory teachers. Join them as they attempt to murder the headmaster by unusual means.

 

This episode features: Jon, Mike, Ben and Jamie.

Puzzle by: Jamie

Editor: Jon

Episode art: Dom Jordan

Withering commentary: Mike.

Bam! It's the last episode of the Gavin Saga! And boy oh boy is it a cracker! It's also an accidental Easter - yippee!

Tune in to find out how the gang handles big organs, divine the future, and foil the machinations of Rabbit Satan!

It's also the end of our new format pilot! We've had a blast with it, so we'll be sticking with it for the forseeable! We'll do a little retrospective on it soon so stay tuned for that. Let us know what you've thought of the Gavin Saga, and our new format, on Facebook or Twitter (@TIER_podcast) :)

Also here's the picture we mention in the episode, it's really handy if you need to know the anatomy of a demonic bunny:

This week, Mike, Sam and Aled are escaping from Tony's fiendishly well researched and non-copyright infringing dino safari park!

Will coleslaw appease the three-horned-good-boys?

Will maths fox three 'adults'

Are spinosaurus horrifying?

Tune in! Find out!

Also we talk about fundraising for NKH in this episode through the medium of chicken nuggets and ultramarathons. If you'd like to put some dolla towards the cause (and by golly you'd be one cool cat if you did) then head on over to the JustGiving page for Team Mikaere / Joseph's Goal.

Oh yeah and last but not least, hit us up via the twitters @TIER_Podcast. if you'd like to tell Tony what a mad sexy voice he has.

Everyone loves a cliff hanger. Last week left the team trapped in a Bus, surrounded by zombies. How will the story end?

 

Will Bailey reveal her real name?

Will Aled save Wales?

Will Chris be able to draw a circle?

Will you? (It's actually quite hard, try it now).

 

 

Tune in with your host Jon and find out!

 

And as always, if you want to make our day, why not join our Patreon, or hit us up on the Twitters or the Facebook? You know you want to.

Escape the demonic corpse of Gavin the Rabbit!

We're joined by Mairi, Ash and Al from The Escape Roomer and Escaping The Closet in an Easter-iffic escape to ensure the demonic bunny Gavin stays down.

You don't need to have heard the previous Gavin appearance, but if you want to understand the full suite of references, check it out.

This episode was brought to you by The Bullets for Broncos campaign - the militant sub-division of The Donkey Sanctuary, as well as our patrons J Cameron Cooper, Ryann Sparrow, Richard Leggett, Colin Walker, Tonje Beate Halvorsen and Maggie B.

We also now have MERCH!

You can get a sweet The Infinite Escape Room enamel pin and puzzle postcard to impress your friends and shame your enemies. Check it out!

Please let us know what you think of the new format on Facebook and Twitter 

This week's solvers were Mike, Mairi, Ash and Al. Your Games Maestro and puzzle creator was Jamie Gibbs.

Is this our shortest episode ever? It could well be - join Aled, Laura and Jamie as they storm through Dom's sneaky post-it production line puzzle.

Also Mike briefly shows up to say the hellos, and then pisses off downstairs for what he thought would be a lovely quiet beer.

And if you enjoy our nonsense, why not chuck us a quid via Patreon, or hit us up on the Twitters or the Facebook? 

It's not what you think. Also it's filled with utterly horrible puns.

If you cringed so hard your jaw inverted then why not join our Patreon, or hit us up on the Twitters or the Facebook? Nothing clears up skin conditions like a good cringe.

   

Escape The Smuggler's Tunnel Beneath The Temple of Mood!   We're joined by Gord and Liz of Review the Room to uncover the secrets that are a-brewing beneath the Temple of Mood. Check them out on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter   This episode was brought to you by The Portable Vatican: Get Good With God™, as well as our patrons Jade Shaw, Laura Vance, Dave LeCompte and Chris Mikesell. We also now have MERCH! You can get a sweet The Infinite Escape Room enamel pin and puzzle postcard to impress your friends and shame your enemies. Check it out! And as always, please reach out to us on Facebook, Twitter and on Discord (exclusive to you fabulous Patreons!) This week's solvers were Aled Hughes, Gordon Soutar and Liz Soutar. Your Games Maestro and puzzle creator was Jamie Gibbs.

Don't let the title fool you. Jon does his best to be dark and creepy while the others consistently undermine him with gags about buttocks, scarecrows, and the many ways in which an abandoned car with a birds nest growing in it might no longer be road worthy. Oh and there's bodies. Lots of bodies.

 

This episode included a sound effect used under the Creative Commons License. The License can be found here. The sound effect can be found here. It was created by Aris621. Thanks Aris, it's a good 'un!

Remember Dick Dasterdly? Remember Mutley? Remember Penelope Pitstop? If any of these names mean anything to you then you were either a) a child in 1968 or b) a child after 1968 watching re-runs of a very curious little specimen of a cartoon.

This week the team hit the track in the Wacky Races. Their task is simple, make sure the race goes ahead without a hitch. Or a death. Or a crime against humanity.

Their host is Jon, so this should be easy...

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This episode featured several sound effects used under the Creative Commons attribution licence. They can be found on freesound.org. Many thanks to...

Omar Alvarado for his cannons, found here, 

Tim.Kahn, for his crowd of Boo-ers, found here,

lonemonk, for his drag racing cars, here,

ikbenraar for his racing BMW M3s, here,

Debsound for yet more rally cars, here

and finally okieactor, for the gunshot, found here.

Thanks guys!

Happy New Year!

 

We're back! Slightly older, slightly weirder, slightly drunker, but not slighter. We pickup where we left off with the team approaching an inoccent looking Railway Station, just in time to catch the last train home. If only they had enough money for tickets...

This episode features a new solver, Annekoos! (Honor-Coast without the "t" at the end"). She was sadly limited to a laptop mic, so apologies for the audio quality on her track, we'll get her setup properly in time for her next outing.

So without, further ado, lets get stuck in!

We're joined this week by Cici and Brandon from ESCAPETHEROOMers; an Escape Room focused youtube channel and review site, based out of New York. Jon picks their brains about their show, the industry more generally and their favourite UK room, then we get down to the good stuff and give them a room to solve!

Will Cici use Delilah in the right orifice?

Will Brandon make it through the show with that much whisky inside him?

Has Jon considered the consequences of giving his solvers access to the miracle of Fire?

 

Tune in and find out!

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.

An alternative title for this episode is 'escape Danny's fever dream'. This is not a drill. This episode was genuinely inspired by Danny's covid fuelled fever dream. There was a bit where he saw angels and departed relatives, but we cut that out because he might have come a little too close to crossing the river, and we don't want to alarm anyone.

So yes! Join us as we find ourselves warped beyond imagining and try to bring our fever wracked minds back in to the real.

Also this was recorded all together all cozy like using Mike's lovely new local recording setup. Isn't that nice?

And as ever, if you dig thisthen check our our Patreon, or hit us up on the Twitters or the Facebook.  

This week Mike, Bailey, Alan find themselves stuck down Dom's broken wishing well!

Will Bailey solve a hard puzzle really quickly?

Will Mike then convince her she's wrong because of patriarchy?

Will Alan wish he'd got his wish in earlier?

Will everyone be shaking tiny bones out of their clothes for weeks?

Tune in! Find out! Also play along at home with this nifty mosaic:

 

Merry Christmas Folks!

Wowza, what a year it's been. as you'll hear from the intro to this one - 2021 has given us one last kicking on its way out. We've decided not to rush something out to fill the gap, and instead be a bit more forgiving with our Christmas break than we usually are. We do hope you understand.

Rather than leave the feed fallow, we've decided to remix our 2019 advent calendar special, with a bit of extra commentary betwixt the episodes, accidentally making this the longest episode to date. If you'd like something whittering in the background of your own Christmas celebrations, then maybe this will fit the bill for you.

 

We love you lots, and we'll see you next year on The Infinite Escape Room

Mike, Ben, Jon and Jamie

Mike's back! And what an absolute hellscape he's returned to! He joins Annekoos, Aled, and Bailey as they wrangle another Jon shaped disaster of misdirection. Tune in and listen to them slowly go mad as they try to figure out who's on top, and what top is, exactly.

Hello and welcome to The Infinite Escape Room! This is what you can expect from the podcast.

 

 

It's July and the TIER gang are going on holibobs! But don't fear, we shan't leave you high and dry - you're going to get a four part mini-series! This week, bask briefly in the sun before learning how our four presenters get locked into a beach hut. Jon leads the puzzling by putting us in a potentially explosive predicament.  

• Which one of us will wield the power of attraction?
• Who can see the bigger picture?
• Are any of us left flagging...?

  Answers and yet more questions lie in this weeks episode of TIER!

This week, Dom crafts a delightful puzzle where Ben and Jamie have to escape from Nitflex - the streaming service with a delightful set of portals we can jump into.   Dom also did a fantastic job at hosting this one, too. Tell us if you think he should host more often :) His alliteration skills were also on point.   Visuals for your delight     SFX used in this episode Trombone sound - https://freesound.org/people/HootOwl/sounds/468909/ Jump scare = https://freesound.org/people/TheSoundFXGuy_YT/sounds/534218/

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. 

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'.

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Puzzle Master: Mike Collins

Solvers: Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs, Emma Bailey

Episode art: Dom Jordan

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Music from freepd.com

Happy Whistling Ukulele - Rafael Krux Honour Bound - Bryan Teoh Beginning of Conflict - Rafael Krux

 

SFX from freesound.org Polite coughing - Turbofool Synth Sparkle - komit.wav Short fart - Dsisstudios Pressing Stop on An Old Tape Machine - djlprojects FabricRipping2Stereo.wav - somewhatimmoral Sci Fi HUD Screen Select FX 1 - deadrobotmusic DeLorean DMC-12 (V6 PRV engine) - SkyernAklea Sci_Fi_Machine_Spin_Up 0 - SieuAmThanh Bang_003.mp3 - cydon

 

 

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.

Bam! We're in Brussels, we're tiny - and we're stuck in the MOOF (Museum of Original Figurines) where things are a bit...lively. Because of mushrooms. And recurring gastronomic celebrity villains.

If you want to play along at home, you might find this useful for the Gaul's puzzle:

Join the TIER team for episode two of their holiday mini-series.  Follow Jamie, Jon, and Ben this week as we turn to Mike's lovely view out of a window.

Does Jamie have a stomach of steel?

What will Ben try with a small pump?

After everything that we've tried to censor in the past, what hill will Jon die on?

Questions, answers, and probably more questions are to be found in this episode of the TIER holiday special!

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 little shuffle...

------T------R1------------------R4----L-------- --------A--------R2----------R3-----M----------

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. 

It's the pubisode, where Mike and Jamie are joined by James Charnock and Nic Whitton to:

• debrief last week's Home Guard room
• chat about why working in Universities is weird
• discuss the best kind of conference (spoiler, it's Playful Learning)

It's a good natter, grab a brew and join us.

 

NOTE: This episode initially uploaded with a huge silence at the top. Editor Jon has now finished flaggelating himself and trimmed it properly. If you have the duff episode, refresh your feed and redownload. It should be fine.

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This week the team must escape Elon Musk's moon base and return to earth via a convenient space ship. All they have to do is get through an airlock...whilst passing a Turing Test...as Donald Trump...Using only his tweets.

Is Trump Human? Is Christ Trump? How does Jamie think Gravity works?

 

Tune in, find out.

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. 

Featuring Anna Lysova & Lisa Levina of Scarlet Envelope   This week, Jamie and Mike are joined by Anna & Lisa of Scarlet Envelope - a Canada-based puzzle company that offers mysteries by mail.   Check out their Christmas puzzle cards!

 

The gang find themselves trapped in a time loop, and need to get themselves out of this particular jam before they get themselves Spaghettified.

  Featuring:

• Way more suggestions of arson as puzzle solutions
• A scathing critique of the British Empire
• Several time loop Easter eggs for your enjoyment

Handouts if you want to play along:

• Note found in globe
• Numbers on deposit boxes

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This week's solvers were Mike, Anna & Lisa. Your puzzle maker and host was Jamie Gibbs.

You are in a state of crisis, the puzzle pieces before you make no sense. No answers come to you, no logic pervades, no inspiration. What do you do?

Well if this episode is anything to go by, you pee on it. And then expectantly ask the GM whether that "does anything."

With teams like these, who needs enemies.

 

This episode features Annekoos, Ben and Jon.

 

Special thanks this episode to Lena Orsa, for the Epic Cinematic Music that Jon glorifies amateurism to at the top of the show.

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was the other novel-

 

It's that time of year again! And boy do we have a show for you. Or rather three shows. For we have faithfully recreated Charles Dickens' classic Christmas tale "A Christmas Carol." We have our Scrooge(s), we have our Ghost*. Join us as Tony, Alan, Bailey and Anna get taught the error of their ways!

 

Will Bailey find a use for the chamber pot?

Will Anna remember how to pronounce her own beer?

Will Alan ever manage to tempt that donkey?

 

Settle down with a Mince Pie, and find out!

 

If you like the episode, hit us up on the Twitters or the Facebook. Or if you're mega cool and want to help us out with our hosting and software, head along to Patreon.

 

*When Jon remembers

Gather ye round, settle down, grab a beer and listen in as I chat with David Spira and Peih-Gee Law of Reality Escape Pod about last week's episode - The Wicker Plan.

We also touch on why David and PG enjoy leaving one another for dead, we chat about the difficulties of switching you brain between game mode and story mode in an escape room, and we get a little insight into how they make REPOD.

Check out Reality Escape Pod and say hi to David at @roomscapeartist and Peih-Gee at @peihgee.

This week, Jon, Mike, and Ben find themselves in a classic British newsagents.

Will Ben find a use for that plunger?

Will Jon's extensive knowledge of smutty mags aid in their escape?

And does Mike win a dream holiday for seven to Bognor Regis on the scratch cards?

Tune your wirelessly connected podcasting machines in to find out!

Join Laura, Aled, and Alan as they try to escape a motorway service station!   On entering the station to relieve yourselves, a man comes running up to you. Before he is of much use "something" gets him! Watch out, because they are patrolling and will hinder you!   What accent gets mangled this week? Who gets greased up? Does anybody try to cheat?   Hopefully someone will stay calm and collected in this weeks The Infinite Escape Room!  

Thomas is a very helpful engine. Can he help the gang solve a grisly murder within his carriage innards?

Join Ben, Jamie and Bailey as they burn, kick, rob and molest their way through Mike's frightful puzzle.

If you're playing along at home, you'll need something from Rupert's carriage. Here it is:

And as ever, if you enjoy the episode, why not chuck us a quid via Patreon, or hit us up on the Twitters or the Facebook.  You good eggs you.

 

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 metric for scoring escape rooms...because Ben and I don't want to share them.

 

It's into the last half of the holiday, and as everyone does we've become rather comfortable by this point. Jamie, Jon, and Mike go through Ben's  picnic hamper, what will they find inside?   What does Mike clamp between his thighs?   Who does Jon spy on the receipt?   Will anybody listen to Jamie?   Tune in to find out what dreadful puns Ben has in store!      

Every now and then on TIER, something goes wrong.   Usually a quick flick of the editor's hand can remedy such things, such that you, dear listener, are never troubled by them.   Sometimes, though, they go so wrong, for so long, that no amount of Snip'n Drag will hide the damage.   So, here's how Not to run an escape room. A tragedy in Two Parts.    

And here's the second and final part of this year's RPG special - stay tuned for a pubisode next week, and then back to our normal format :D

Join Laura, Anna and Dom as they escape Mike's heavenly garden of Eden, and even more heavenly collection of stupid bloody voices.

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!

There's a point in a friendship when you think you really know someone, that they can no longer surprise you, that the bounds of their creativity are established and you've got them figured out. Then you invite them on to a podcast and without warning they come out with the weirdest attempt at a solution since the Saxons tried using cow dung for disinfecting wounds.

Belt up. Alan has a surprise for you.

The conversation took a few turns, starting from a recommendation for French radio and taking SEVERAL left turns to end up with the line, "I bet Jeff Goldblum's got more cum in him."   In context, it makes perfect sense I swear.   Also, hit us up if you fancy going head to head on Escape Simulator some time.

This week, the gang find themselves smaller and more plastic than normal, as they navigate a non intellectual property infringing Pego driving school.

Marvel as they struggle with basic driving manouvers!

Wonder as they keep forgetting there's a time limit!

Shiver as they uncover a new taxonomy of filth!

Also, the map! 

If you enjoy the show and want to support it, why not join our Patreon, or hit us up on the Twitters or the Facebook? Gwaaaan.

 

aka Escape the TIER Backrooms

This week, Ben and Aled are guided by a rather sinister Clippy to get meta and reboot the universe.

• MARVEL as Aled tries to destroy your livers with the Red Herring drinking game!
• RECOIL as Ben extols the virtues of Ribena with milk!
• SYMPATHISE with Jamie's withering patience as Aled tries to brute force a 5-letter word lock by naming every object he sees!

If you're keen to understand some of the in-jokes and want even more banter, consider joining our Patreon for full, unedited episodes, episode scripts and more!

And as always, please reach out to us on Facebook, Twitter and now on Discord (exclusive to our fabulous Patreons!)

Unusually starting this episode with a PSA. The subject matter of this room hinges on a suicide attempt which some listeners might, understandably, not want to make light of in any way. While I hope we handle it sensitively, it may not be for everyone.

Hopefully helpfully, if this troubles you in a serious way, you may want to talk to someone about it.

The Samaritans offer a listening service that can be reached on the following numbers:

UK: 116 123

U.S: (877) 870-4673 (HOPE)

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This week the team find themselves locked in a self-driving Van with everything they posess and the ominous number 5.

Will Ben be able to pronounce his own name?

Will Anna murder another slug?

Will Jamie make it to his second Jab?

Would Dom make a good Poultergeist?

And finally, when Jon meets St Peter at the Pearly Gates, will he ever be forgiven for this...

 

Join us at The Golden Streak where Dom, Ben and I chat about last week's episode, try to name a Jason Statham film Ben's actually seen, and chat about the current trend for bullshit documentaries.

 

This week's recommendations (gods help me)

• Bodies (Netflix)

• Stainless steel (you heard that right)

• The act of swimming (yup, it's one of those episodes)

This week Jamie is joined by Gord and Liz from Review the Room to desecrate several British national treasures in quick succession.

There's copious sampling of unknown white powders in this one - completely unintended, promise.

The title says it all, really.

 

Merry Christmas

Jon

 

Special thanks to a few Freesound.org users for some crucial sound effects used in this episode:

 

2kool4school - BattleScene backing track, used for Today's Sponsor.

qbodup - Tomahawk missile launch, self explanatory

mikhalin1992 - Plane Crash

And finally Noisecollector - Jingle Bells, which, which a little pitch edit, absolutely made the opening of this episode.

 

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For those following this show closely, there's a puzzle element that is briefly described, but not in full. So, here it is in full, should you want to Solve-Along.

The picture is of Santa and his reindeer. Santa stands in the middle with the reindeer gathered around him for the shot. The reindeer have all been labeled with their names and some numbers: 

 

Cupid - DP70 L20 - White legs, grey body 

Rudolph - DP0 L0 - White, Red Nose

Vixen - DP20 L5 - Grey with white head

Prancer -. DP25 L10 - Brown

Blitzen - DP80 - L10 - Brown with white spots on hind legs 

Donner -- DP 10 L10 - Very dark grey 

Dancer - DP40 L30 - Brown with white fore legs   

Dasher - DP40 L30 Grey all over -

Comet - DP30 L70 Black all over - 

Happy new year! Or at least ... New Year! The world may still be teetering on the brink of collapse, but heck we're still publishing episodes so it can't all be bad right?

Join Mike, Chris, Jon and Bailey as they escape sneaky Danny's mind bending Roomyroomyroomroom!

Can you figure out the twist? We certainly can't...embarrassingly.

And as always, if you want to make our day, why not head join our Patreon, or hit us up on the Twitters or the Facebook? You know you want to.

With two School Masters down the team are assaulted by an old flatulent man wielding a Gladius-Blunderbus. It can only be the Latin Master. Listen along as they wrestle not only with a dead language, but the incompetence of their Puzzle Master as well.

There is a cannon and at the end of all this someone is getting fired out of it.

This episode features: Jon, Mike, Ben and Jamie.

Puzzle by: Mike (A+ for style, D- accuracy)

Editor: Jon

Nominated Latin Speaker: Ben

Whoah, has an evil future gym teacher dude made most non-non-heinous android copies of Mike and Laura, killed them - all to avert a utopian future based on being excellent to one another?

No, that's the plot to Bill and Ted you silly billy. Instead, Dom has trapped Mike and Laura in a room with a terrible choice - Scrabble, darts, chess, or Mortal Kombat?

If you'd like to play along at home, you might need this mysterious sigil:

and the value of Scrabble tiles:

This is a goodun this one. I think you'll enjoy it. Join Danny, Alan and Jon as they escape the clinical confines of one of Pfizer/Biontech's finest and most evil testing centres.

Marvel as they 'murfff' their way out of tube purgatory!

Wonder as they catch up on popular figures of hate!

Feel superior as they ignore metal bars and forget what centrifuges are!

By the way - vaccines are great, and probably aren't going to let shadowy billionaires control your mind. They've already got the tabloids for that.

And as ever, if you want to make our day, why not join our Patreon, or hit us up on the Twitters or the Facebook? You know you want to.

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 join us at the "We've put a flag in it, so it's ours" pub, where Jamie, Mairi and Helen chat about last week's episode - The Museum Anti Heist. 

 

We also have a brief chat about weird-flavoured beers, get into just how much stuff the British Museum has stolen over the years, and Jamie leads a call to reclaim Stonehenge for the Welsh.

 

Cool stuff to check out:

• A coincidental mammoth meat connection - Cave Escape Nottingham: Project Iceman
• Case Closed Edinburgh
• Quizzy Dan's Twitch stream
• Cerebral Puzzle Showcase (Steam)

Also, our own Mike Collins has co-written a bloody book! Check out the Pedagodzilla book for pop culture and learning deliciousness.

This week, Aled and Chris find themselves on the wrong side of everyone's favorite nonagenarian documentarian, David Attenborough - as Mike takes them through some 2000s indie goings on in the heart of the Congo basin.

Now something you should know, is that you're going to hear about this Gorilla called Clint. He's pretty cool, and he wears a cowboy hat. You might be interested to know what gestures he's making with his gorilla hands. They look a little like this:

The sequence is important. I hope you don't forget that. Chris and Aled did.

Also who remembers the Gorillaz?

As ever, if you enjoy the episode - then hit us up on the Twitters or the Facebook. And if you really really enjoyed it, like a whole bunch, then why not chuck us a squid on Patreon?

It's the first in our 2024 Christmas series, where the gang try and stop internationally typecast mafias from destroying Christmas.

This week, Jamie presents Mike, Jon and Mairi with a nail biting conundrum - are the New Zealand Mafia really bad enough to go on the naughty list, or is all fair in love and garotte wire?

Original art for each episode is by Dom Jordan. Check out more of his stuff at https://domjordanillustration.com/

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!

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You know the malaise between scoffing the last turkey & stuffing sandwich, and looking inwards to try and come up with New Year resolutions?   Join Dom, Laura, and Mike as they navigate through such a state of puzzle solving!

• What will Mike do with the ceiling and floor sphincters?
• Can Dom describe something that hasn't happened yet?
• Did Laura really say butt licks?
• What will Ben do next?

To find out these all important questions, tune in!

This week, Dom, Mike and Laura are trapped in glass cases of emotion, armed with only their wits and a convenient aux cable.   Marvel at how badly Jamie can butcher several popular songs (deliberately) and the Australian accent (not deliberately).   And see the whole thing unravel as he commits several goofs in the design.   Stick around until the very end to hear a cheeky little bit of audio from between recordings. It's like an MCU post-credit scene but with a much lower budget.   Don't forget to bag yourself some Infinite Escape Room MERCH!   You can get a sweet The Infinite Escape Room enamel pin and puzzle postcard to impress your friends and shame your enemies. You also get access to a secret bonus episode. Check it out!   Please get in touch and chat with us on Facebook and Twitter (or whatever Sesame Street sponsor Musk is using to call it).   This week's solvers were Dom, Laura, and Mike. Your Games Maestro and puzzle creator was Jamie Gibbs.  

Jamie, Jon, and Mike find themselves in a bit of a bind after running into Martin of Krivolaky and his mob!

• Can Jamie just reach they key to escape?
• Will Jon find anything of great length?
• Does Mike's tugging bring any joy?

All this and more in this week's episode!

Moonwalk with Laura, Aled, and Dom as they attempt to escape a hoard of space hillbillies!

• Can Laura crack the sweet puzzle?
• Does Aled use that funny voice for the whole episode!?
• Will Dom destroy the moon...?

There's only one way to find out, and peering down your arm for five hours isn't it!  

Join Mairi (@mairispaceship), Mike and Tony as they have to create history's first tabloid newspaper and escape Gutenberg's printing press workshop!   - Marvel at how Mairi and Tony seem to have the entire periodic table memorised! - Stifle your giggle at Mike's squirty toot into a pneumatic tube - Roll your eyes in fake surprise at the custom shape they create to personalise the paper   A map of the room and all visuals are attached if you want to play along. - Map - List of banned books - Wall rack   Game design by Jamie Gibbs (@armchairescapist)   Enjoy!