The Infinite Escape Room

Out of the processing room and into the prison, as the old saying goes - that's where you begin this weeks puzzle.

Timpson's Prison has a peculiar layout, you are split up and must not only find each other but discover how you can escape this place.

Quick thinking, awkward neck bending, and a well placed utterance is just some of what's needed...

This episode comes with a visual handout - head over to www.theinfiniteescaperoom.com to get it.

Puzzle design: Jon Saunders

Episode art: Dom Jordan

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Welcome back to part one of the exciting second instalment of our new format!

Having escaped the rotary club you make your way to your new council house, when you wind up becoming accidental eco activists and are incarcerated at the new Timpson's Prison.

Of course you begin in the processing room, which you must progress through before a hoard of 500 sunburnt gammon headcases come crashing in behind you. Your only obstacles are a furry felon and an innocuous looking door...

Puzzle design: Mike Collins

Episode art: Dom Jordan

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Join us as we pull up a chair and pull back the curtain on the last few episodes. We also get into why apple cake and custard is delicious, and go on a little rant about the size of IKEA beds.

Hosts: Mike Collins, Ben Lavery-Griffiths, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs

Editor: Jamie Gibbs

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Bell ringing: Techienanna

The thrilling conclusion to the gang's descent into depravity as they try desperately to become members of the Rotary Club.

This week, Mike sends them down into the sex dungeon, to try and find out who killed the corpse on the table ... and with what? There's a plethora of sexually depraved devices from which to choose, but will they choose wisely?

Puzzle design: Mike Collins

Solvers: Ben Lavery-Griffiths, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs

Editor: Jamie Gibbs

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• Happy Whistling Ukulele by Rafael Krux

• Spooky sound: HaraldDeLuca

The gang continues their journey through the Rotary Club village hall - this week they're stuck in the kitchen.

To escape, they must ... bake an apple pie? Surely there's more to it than that? Well, Ben's back behind the wheel so you know there are a few surprises in store.

This episode comes with a visual handout - head over to www.theinfiniteescaperoom.com to get it.

Puzzle design: Ben Lavery-Griffiths

Solvers: Mike Collins, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs

Editor: Jamie Gibbs

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Happy Whistling Ukulele by Rafael Krux

Isolation Waltz by Bryan Teoh

Funky Energy Loop by Kevin MacLeod

Rummaging: daveincamas

Match lighting: kitchen sounds

Fire: Foleyheaven

Wood falling: akennedybrewer

Falling bag: F.M. Audio

Ding: 5ro4

Gears: draelent

Satisfied sound: 1LOVE

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Welcome to the first episode of our exciting new format (which feels remarkably like our original format)! This week, the gang finds themselves trapped in a village hall commandeered by the mysterious and sexually deviant local Rotary Club.

To escape, they must crack Jon's intricate, almost Masonic puzzle and recite the elusive Rotary Club oath.

Puzzle design: Jon Saunders

Solvers: Mike Collins, Ben Lavery-Griffiths, Jamie Gibbs

Editor: Jamie Gibbs

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Happy Whistling Ukulele by Rafael Krux

City Sunshine by Kevin MacLeod

Cell phone vibration: MrAuralization

Knocking: awrecording.it

Creaking door: SkyernAklea

Door slam: adriann

Safety lock: Robinhood76

Clock chime: phantastonia

Creaky floorboard: Soundbysimmons

Hammering nails: InspectorJ

Having spent all of their money on a single nights rent the team go out to celebrate their right to exist...in the park, because they can't afford to go anywhere else. Join Jon and Anna as they pick apart Mike's thinly veiled satire of the housing crisis. Digressions include Mike's book, why Mike thinks writing books is easy but putting them together is hard, the absolute Kafka esque hell of the rental sector in the UK and Anna's love of Severance.

In this week's cataloguing of our national decline the team is arrested outside the leafy setting of The Great British Bake Off and returned to their rightful place, a cramped mould ridden maisonette administered by a sadistic estate agent and the sort of landlord that sees the death of one of their tenants as "a real headache."

And like any flatshare, the team are invited to the "house WhatsApp" on their arrival. But why?

And what dastardly villain would come up with such an unrelentingly bleak concept for an escape room?

Mike. Mike would. And he'd do all the voices, too.

Jamie is joined at the Soggy Bottom's Up by Gord and Liz at Review the Room for a chat about last week's episode. We also get into:

Colourblindness in puzzle games

Which city is the best for escape rooms

Why stakes matter when playing an escape room

Which one of them has superhero semen vision

Our list of cool shit to check out includes:

Sasquatch Sunset (Gord)

Squatty Potty (Liz)

Powerwash Simulator  (Jamie)

This week Jamie is joined by Gord and Liz from Review the Room to desecrate several British national treasures in quick succession.

There's copious sampling of unknown white powders in this one - completely unintended, promise.