This is the final week of our two-week summer break, where we recharge our puzzle batteries. But we won't leave you empty handed - here's a director's cut edition of a classic episode with new editing, music, SFX and commentary.

This episode initially aired a little later than normal due to some technical gremlins, which meant it didn't get a fair shake before the following week's episode came in and pushed it out of the feed (people love that fresh content, yo).

And it's a particularly fiendish puzzle from Mike that also uses a hefty amount of learning theory. Mike pulled a sneaky on us and had us doing a team building exercise (le gasp!).

The original recording was 2 hours long. So as a special treat, here's a re-edited version along with the puzzle debrief and additional commentary from me (Jamie).

Grab a glass of warm urine and join us as we attempt to escape the desert with a surprisingly Northern sounding Bear Grylls. Will we select the correct five items to enable our escape? And what's with that Morse Code, anyway?

Special thanks to Patreon supporters Rachel, Howlfin and Will for making this episode possible.

Puzzle Maestro: Mike Collins

Solvers: Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs, Dom Jordan, Annekos

Editor: Jamie Gibbs

If you want to listen to the original episodes, you can find them here:

Puzzle episode

Pubisode

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The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms for one another. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island humour sprinkled over the top.

This is the start of our two-week summer break, where we recharge our puzzle batteries. But we won't leave you empty handed - here's a director's cut edition of a classic episode with new editing, music, SFX and commentary.

We cut a fair amount from the episode in the original airing because things got a little heated. But as a special treat, here's the whole thing with additional commentary from me (Jamie).

Grab your trowel and bring a map as Jon takes us through a surprisingly complex English garden puzzle.

Special thanks to Patreon supporters Brett, Bettina and Matthew for making this episode possible.

Puzzle Maestro: Jon Saunders

Solvers: Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs, Dom Jordan

Editor: Jamie Gibbs

If you want to listen to the original episodes, you can find them here:

Puzzle episode

Pubisode

All links to our social media profiles and our Patreon programme over at https://linktr.ee/theinfiniteescaperoom

The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms for one another. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island humour sprinkled over the top.

Does adapting escape rooms to audio make them more accessible … or more exclusive? Join Jamie, Mairi and special guests Dani and Bill from Escape This Podcast as we discuss accessibility in game design and what it means for creating escape rooms of the ears, the eyes, and all the senses.

Why a hotel? Turns out Australia has an interesting drinking culture around hotels, but you'll just have to listen to find out more about that.

As always, we come to you with some recommendations for the month ahead. They are:

Hosts: Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan

Guests: Bill and Dani of Escape This Podcast

Editor: Jamie Gibbs

All links to our social media profiles and our Patreon programme over at https://linktr.ee/theinfiniteescaperoom

In the most long overdue cross-over since Eastenders made a Bastard episode with Neighbours (true story), we finally welcome our natural ancestors from Escape This Podcast and take them... to their own studio. But all is not well, they are locked out, Jon has beaten them to it and is about to takeover the (podcast) world.

Join Mairi, Jamie, special guests Dani and Bill from Escape This Podcast and a very, very special cameo, as they try to take down the plummy giant, Lilliput style.

Puzzle Maestro: Jamie Gibbs

Solvers: Mairi Nolan, Dani Siller, Bill Sunderland

Episode Art: Dom Jordan

Editor (and self impersonator): Jon Saunders

Visual handouts to play along

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Check out Escape This Podcast on their website, or wherever you get your podcasts usually!

In this episode, Jamie joins forces with two very special guests in order to take on a rogue Mike and Jon who are concocting a podcasting takeover of epic proportions. Their target - the enormous Escape This Podcast skyscraper that dominates the Sydney skyline. The date - the Australian national podcasting festival. Expect improv, terrible puns, and a cameo from a man pretending to be the Mayor of Sydney.

In this episode we're joined by special guests Dani and Bill from Escape This Podcast.

Puzzle Maestro: Mairi Nolan

Solvers: Jamie Gibbs, Dani Siller, Bill Sunderland

Episode Art: Dom Jordan

Editor: Mike Collins

All links to our social media profiles over at https://linktr.ee/theinfiniteescaperoom

Check out Escape This Podcast on their website, or wherever you get your podcasts usually!

Join us in the once watery depths of the former English Channel, now a desertified wasteland! The team discuss whether live actors have a place in Escape Rooms at all, chew over their best and worst experiences of this ever popular feature, and whether the rooms that feature them heavily even count as Escape Rooms at all.

As ever, we come to you with some recommendations for the month ahead.

Bailey - The Tiny Chef Show (Stop motion tiny chef. Adorable and wholesome in equal measure)

Mairi - Jet Lag The Game (Imagine some comedians playing Hide and Seek...using continents.)

Jamie - Tom Bates (Very British animation about a tiny man and his horse called Nigel)

Jon - Going for a walk in the woods and leaving your phone in the car (because a lot of the modern world just sucks)

Hosts: Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan, Emma Bailey, Jon Saunders

Editor: Jon Saunders

All links to our social media profiles and our Patreon programme over at https://linktr.ee/theinfiniteescaperoom

With water (for coolant) and petrol (for fun) secured, the team need only the ice cream van keys to see them on their merry way. Surely the Ice Cream Man will have them, and, oh look, he's just over there...

Puzzle Maestro: Mairi Nolan

Solvers: Jamie Gibbs, Jon Saunders, Bailey

Episode Art: Dom Jordan

Editor: Jamie Gibbs

All links to our social media profiles and our Patreon programme over at https://linktr.ee/theinfiniteescaperoom

On the hunt for some water to help power our only means of escape: an old ice cream truck, the team take refuge inside a toilet block.

Again..? Yes! Look, we like toilet blocks on this podcast. But this toilet block turns out to be used for something quite unexpected. Get in, get the water, and get out. Just don't, whatever you do, use a black light in here.

Puzzle Maestro: Jon Saunders

Solvers: Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan, Bailey

Episode Art: Dom Jordan

Editor: Jamie Gibbs

All links to our social media profiles and our Patreon programme over at https://linktr.ee/theinfiniteescaperoom

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: Jamie Gibbs

Solvers: Jon Saunders, Mairi Nolan, Bailey

Episode Art: Dom Jordan

Editor: Mike Collins

All links to our social media profiles and our Patreon programme over at https://linktr.ee/theinfiniteescaperoom

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 recommendations for your better enjoyment. This month, they are!

Recommendations summarised by the editor, Jon; who was, by the end, so utterly enraged by having this entire set of show notes accidentally deleted that he really went off on one and then began writing about himself in the third person.

What a guy.

Hosts: Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan, Mike Collins

Guests: Nathan and Marcus of Aurelius Whitlock's Murder Museum

Editor: Jon Saunders

All links to our social media profiles and our Patreon programme over at https://linktr.ee/theinfiniteescaperoom