Escape Hamilton

Wait, what's that??? In the woods??? Down by that creepy old cabin... could it be... ANOTHER ESCAPE ROOM???

There's nothing more terrifying that Jim and Kirsty continuing to break the premises they set up for each season, so they go back to Aotearoa for another visit to Xcape. Find out what this all has to do with uni asssignments, turning the middle side topwise, and floppy, floppy prongs.

Caretaker on the Xcape website

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Mount thy steed and don thine armour as we head to the majestic world of Camelot! We're joined by Maddie Parker (and later by John) for a medieval room at Expedition in Sydney. Along the way we discuss suggestive duelling positions, disposing of bodies, pendulous sword mounts, and what rhyming is.

See Jim and Maddie in Crash Test Dummies at Sydney Fringe

Kingdom Besieged on the Expedition website

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It's time to get out your invisible ink, because this week we're returning to... wait, where did I leave that invisible ink? It must be around here somewhere... this is exactly why I try and leave it in the same spot, because otherwise I... Oh never mind. We're doing spy things! Find out why the Espionage room at Cipher Room in Sydney is a pivotal moment for Jim and Kirsty (but don't grill us too closely on it), and marvel at our abilities when it comes to counting to four. We'd be fantastic spies, promise.

Espionage on the Cipher Room website

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For our second episode in our season of escape rooms in Sydney, we go to a room in... Melbourne! Truly excellent commitment to a theme.

We visit the Melbourne branch of Escape Hunt to do a room all about WW2 spying, and necessarily discuss our feelings on the Grease Megamix.

Machinarium on the Escape Hunt Website

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Season 3 begins by resolving one of the biggest mysteries from Season 2. We find the new Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo. We perform a factory reset. We tackle everyday sexism and get introduced to a big group of people at a party. AND we dive into the criminal underworld of Sydney's past.

Assassin In The Pub on the Escape Hunt Sydney website

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New Episode. New City. New Country. New News. One old escape room to talk about!

The Rotofobia website

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Happy New Year! We kick off our third year of podcasting with a party, featuring three brilliant friends. Matt, Jen and Emma joined us for three sessions of Escape Room / Immersive Theatre / Augmented Reality Game / Puzzle Hunts called Isklander over several weeks in late 2021, and we reconvened at the start of this year to talk about it all. 

Find out more on the Isklander website

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We are indoor people now. Our lockdown here in Hamilton has continued, so we have brought the escape room into our house, in the form of the jigsaw puzzle game Secret of the Scientist! In this episode, learn the variety of different ways of pronouncing 'corpse', have your cardboard-based ASMR set off, and hear our exciting and catchy new jingle!

Secret of the Scientist on the Escape Room: The Game website

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What better way to round off our second Halloween season than by being handcuffed and chained up in the freezer of an axe-murdering chef? I don't even know if that's a rhetorical question. We go back to Rotofobia in Rotorua to tackle a slasher horror and to investigate a crucial mystery: #WHEREARETHEEYEBALLS?

Content note: There is some discussion of cannibalism in this episode

One Hell of a Kitchen on the Rotofobia website

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We were solving cryptic questions in a cocktail baaarrrr! Well, we did it a few weeks back when we recorded this episode. And then we went into a lockdown. So enjoy the youthful, playful flavour of two people who had been outside for fun to go to a place with other people. Enjoy the booth booth booth booth booth, the sassy cop, and the 51-piece puzzle from hell.

Cryptic Quiz Nights on Confinement's website

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