The Infinite Escape Room

The Infinite Escape Room

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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June 20, 2025 36 mins

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 ...

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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 m...

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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 Saun...

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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 - T...

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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:

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May 17, 2025 53 mins

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.

Also, o...

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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 Bailey cracks her knuckles and abso...

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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...

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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 secon...

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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 th...

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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.

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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 documen...

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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!

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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 visual handouts. Head over to https...

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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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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. Becau...

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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.

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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 ht...

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February 16, 2025 42 mins

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 social media profiles and our Patre...

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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, Emma Bailey

Episode art: Dom Jorda...

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