Halloween season has returned... from THE GRAVE! That's right, it's the most wonderful time of the year, featuring hauntings, frights, horrors, and your two favourite thots (That Halloween-escape-room-podcaster Over There).

We start with Escapist's new witchy room Tabby Lane. Can we save our cat? Is Agatha our aunt? What's that in the top right corner of the post-it note? Will we ever get more biscotti?

Tabby Lane on the Escapist website

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"Do you expect us to talk about something that isn't an escape room?"

That's right, we're doing a videogame! Agent A is a delightful new(-ish) creation from studio Yak & Co that blends both videogame and escape room alike. We play a spy at the top of his game (not necessarily at the top of ours) trying to escape the top-secret bunker of a rival agent. It's all good clean fun.

Note: This episode features a BRAND NEW SEGMENT!

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Agent A's website

There's been a MURDER! Was it Royal? No! It was Royale!

Sam Wade and Irene Nicola join us to untangle a crime most foul, sorting through forensic evidence, kicking down doors, visiting Upper Babcock, and inventing a really rather unpleasant executive desk toy.

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Murder Royale on Puzzleverse's website

After a brief hiatus, we reconvene with two friends, Ellie Featherston (of Out Of Our Vulcan Minds) and previous guest Sophia Halpin, to discuss Escape Hamilton's first international room, involving a heist at the Bank of Australia in Sydney. In 1920! And a failure to identify where keys go. In 2021! Plus: which way is the one way in a one-way mirror?

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Bank of Australia Heist on Escape Hunt's website

It's been a few weeks since last had the chance to do an escape room together, but that doesn't mean we haven't been busy. We take a moment to sit down and fill each other in on what we've been doing, in Wellington and... Hinterland? Wait, is that possible? Our hard-hitting interviews cover the dangers of clipboards, hills, and the ineffable legacy of the movie TRON.

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Mutiny on the High Seas on the Xcape website

Hinterland website

More Escape Hamilton coming soon! But in the meantime, check out Jim's new podcast project I Get That A Lot!

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Music by Louie Zong ('A Radish Beat' from Vegetable Soul)

Podcast art by Sam Wade

Production support by Martin Gallagher of Echidna Audio

Are we John Denver? Because we're Flying On A Jet Plane, baby! Sort of. This week Jim and Kirsty put the 'Nyoom' into 'Nyoom List' by doing the plane-themed room Airforced at Trapd in Matamata. This marks the first time Jim and Kirsty have finished all the rooms at a company outside of Kirikiriroa Hamilton, and to celebrate, this episode contains discussions of The Great Muppet Caper, smack bars, a Selkie's chains of water, teaching children to swear, and the Stump Hill Gang Cinematic Universe.

Airforced on the Trapd website

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After a brief hiatus, Season 2 continues by returning to a room from Season 1! The team at Confinement have revised, refreshed and retackled their murder mystery room Murdoch Manor, and we were thrilled to have a chance to see what they've done with the place. But most importantly, this episode marks our entry into competitive food eating. No, really.

Murdoch Manor on the Confinement website

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We head BACK to Rotorua for some R&R (Redwoods and Reclining-in-a-spa) before trying a Toy Store themed room inside Escape Masters inside an amusement arcade. It's like a regular set of Babushka dolls over here! We discuss the sounds of screams, sandwich snakes, and most importantly we sit in the corner and hit ourselves over the head with rocks.

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Yeeee-haw! Well howdy there folks, won't you gather round while Jim and Kirsty tell you the tale of how they escaped the clutches of the wiley ol' sheriff who was tryna lock them up in the town's saloon? They have a good ol' fashioned chinwag about callie bawlies, Finnish swears, and make a grand promise about a lump of cordite.

Secret Saloon on the Trapd website

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