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PODCAST

The Infinite Escape Room

Mike Collins, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan

The escape room podcast where a bunch of friends make and solve homemade audio escape rooms. 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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42:54

Ice Cream Wars: Cone of Conflict

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2025/07/13

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... Is one final ice cream van.Will we be able to escape into the ice cream van in time?! Puzzle Maestro:

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43:18

Puzzle vs Narrative at The Drunk Druid feat. Aurelius...

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2025/07/06

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 reccomendations for your better enjoyment. This month, they are! Jamie Death and other details Mandy Potemkin being Poirot on a cruise ship. What's not to like. Mike James Lee -

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37:39

Summer Solstice: The Lav of the Land feat: Aurelius...

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2025/06/29

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 Museum. Puzzle Maestro: Mairi Nolan Solvers: Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs, Marcus Richardson and Nathan

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36:40

Summer Solstice: Time Stands Still at Stonehenge...

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2025/06/20

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, present, and future if we want to make it out in time. In this episode, we're joined by Marcus Richardson

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51:43

Summer Solstice: Rock Bottom Prices feat. Aurelius...

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2025/06/15

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 Hicken, the fantastic hosts of the murder mystery podcast Aurelius Whitlock's Murder Museum. Puzzle

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49:24

London Jolley: There's A-Latte Trouble Brewing

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2025/06/08

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 maestros (in order): Jon Saunders, Mairi Nolan, Jamie Gibbs, and Mike Collins Solvers: Mike Collins,

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47:38

London Jolley: Cold Opens and Cold Drinks at the...

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2025/06/01

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 Execution by Danya Kukafka Mairi - The Electrifying Incident (2025) by Draknek & Friends Mike - Slow

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01:27:20

London Jolley: Travelog and Secret Studio Interview

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2025/05/25

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 Quests Clays Bar Listen out in this episode, where we've also got a very special interview with two of the

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53:03

What is a puzzle?

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2025/05/18

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 before it reaches the winner. Hosts: Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs, Emma Bailey, Aled Hughes Editor: Jon

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38:49

Ozman Richard's House of Death Games: Bingo Lingo!

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2025/05/11

This week's episode is Round 3 of The House of Death Games. 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 Bailey cracks her knuckles and absolutely slaughters the rest of the team. But will it be enough to bring her victory?Pop another Koala on the Barbie Bruce! Puzzle maestro: Jamie Gibbs Solvers: Mike Collins, Emma Bailey, Aled Hughes Episode art: Dom Jordan Editor: Jonathan David

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29:13

Ozman Richard's House of Death Games: Celebrity Obama...

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2025/05/04

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: Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs, Aled Hughes Episode art: Dom Jordan Editor: Jamie Gibbs All links

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33:30

Ozman Richard's House of Death Games: Just a Minute,...

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2025/04/27

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 have to speak on a topic for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation. Easier said than done

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39:22

Puzzle Creators React: Brooklyn Nine-Nine

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2025/04/20

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, Jamie and Mairi as they put the room through its paces and discuss how they'd make it a better escape room

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44:23

Stone's Throw Mysteries: Pop's Bar with Eloise Corvo

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2025/04/13

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

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01:13:29

Spaghetti Sabotage! feat. Eloise Corvo

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2025/04/06

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 the visual handouts and game document at https://eloisecorvo.com/spaghettisabotage In a cool twist of

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48:50

An Improvised drink at the Cat and Fiddle

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2025/03/30

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!

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46:49

Nursery Crimes: The King, The Queen and The Knave.

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2025/03/23

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!

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48:43

Nursery Crimes: There was an old lady who swallowed a...

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2025/03/16

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.

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33:57

Nursery Crimes: Humpty Dumpty splat off the wall

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2025/03/06

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 coincide with World Book Day. Because cuteness.

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01:07:00

Embrace the chaos: Mike, Jon & Jamie on the...

The Infinite Escape Room ·

2025/03/02

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 puzzlemaking process, designing games for audio and generally how we embrace chaos in all we do.Enjoy!

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