The escape room podcast where a bunch of friends make and solve homemade audio escape rooms for each other. One part escape room, one part role-playing game, a sprinkle of point-and-click adventure, and a whole lot of laughs. New episodes every Sunday! Hosted by Mike Collins, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs and Mairi Nolan.
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Ozman Richard's House of Death Games: Celebrity Obama Llama
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29:13This 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 radi…
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Ozman Richard's House of Death Games: Just a Minute, You Drongo
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33:30The 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 cov…
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Puzzle Creators React: Brooklyn Nine-Nine
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39:22In 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' toge…
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Stone's Throw Mysteries: Pop's Bar with Eloise Corvo
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44:23This 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 InstagramBy Mike Collins, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan
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Spaghetti Sabotage! feat. Eloise Corvo
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1:13:29This 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 ho…
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An Improvised drink at the Cat and Fiddle
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48:50In 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!By Mike Collins, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan
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Nursery Crimes: The King, The Queen and The Knave.
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46:49This 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…
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Nursery Crimes: There was an old lady who swallowed a truffle
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48:43It'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, r…
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Nursery Crimes: Humpty Dumpty splat off the wall
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33:57This 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…
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Embrace the chaos: Mike, Jon & Jamie on the Escapuzzled podcast
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1:07:00A 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 …
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Discussing Player Mental Load in Escape Rooms
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45:28This 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 G…
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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: Do…
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Planet of the Dogs: Who Let The Humans Out?
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40:12It'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:…
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A pint at the ISS Eisley Cantina (Pubisode - ft. interview with Escapuzzled)
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1:06:54Having 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.…
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AliExpress ISS: Is there a panda in the lab? Bearly
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56:55We'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!…
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AliEspress ISS: Shenanigans in engineering
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41:32In 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 edit…
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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…
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