This week, Mike, Jon and Jamie are joined by Emma as they come face to face with the embalmed head-in-a-jar of Ronald Reagan (who can somehow still manage to smoke cigars ...). Ronald has charged the gang with saving cinema by powering up a battered replica DeLorean from Back to the Future and locating the elusive 'Ski pads'.

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Puzzle Master: Mike Collins

Solvers: Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs, Emma Bailey

Episode art: Dom Jordan

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Music from freepd.com

Happy Whistling Ukulele - Rafael Krux

SFX from freesound.org

Having saved Christmas from geographically diverse criminal gangs, we kick back in the Legless Elf pub to sup some mead, shoot the breeze about the rooms we solved, and share some of our recommendations for the month.

In the finale to our Christmas special, the last of the world's most regionally diverse mafias set the gang on a hunt across the maps. Google Maps to be precise. Will Santa be able to call in a surgical strike from low earth orbit, or will it be mandatory Welsh coal for all the kiddies this Christmas?

Join Mike, Mairi and Jamie as they battle internet vandal Jon's fiendish doings.

Having...solved... Jamie's Kiwi Confederacy the gang face off against Mairi's eldritch horror of the Yorkshire Nanas. Never fear though, they've got plucky, capable and ... disposable ... elves to help them through.

Original art for each episode is by Dom Jordan. You can check out more of his art over at https://domjordanillustration.com/

It's the first in our 2024 Christmas series, where the gang try and stop internationally typecast mafias from destroying Christmas.

This week, Jamie presents Mike, Jon and Mairi with a nail biting conundrum - are the New Zealand Mafia really bad enough to go on the naughty list, or is all fair in love and garotte wire?

Original art for each episode is by Dom Jordan. Check out more of his stuff at https://domjordanillustration.com/

This is the final episode in our Grumbledown series, in which the team successfully assassinated the predatory schoolmasters of Grumbledown's Preparatory Something or other for the whatsits...we never did quite figure out the name.

Having dispatched the Latinmaster, we adjourne to the pub, The Post Plutius. Jon attempts to blind himself, Mike makes excuses for getting his Latin wrong, Jamie makes it all look easy and we all take some time to enjoy Ben's greatest hits.

This is Ben's final episode of The Infinite Escape Room, certainly as a producer, though I'm sure we'll tempt him back as a solver some day!

This episode features: Ben, Mike, Jamie and Jon

With two School Masters down the team are assaulted by an old flatulent man wielding a Gladius-Blunderbus. It can only be the Latin Master. Listen along as they wrestle not only with a dead language, but the incompetence of their Puzzle Master as well.

There is a cannon and at the end of all this someone is getting fired out of it.

This episode features: Jon, Mike, Ben and Jamie.

Puzzle by: Mike (A+ for style, D- accuracy)

Editor: Jon

Nominated Latin Speaker: Ben

Last week the team dispatched the Latin master at Grumbledowns Preparatory School For the Monetarily Advantaged. No sooner has his Peppermint Poisoned corpse hit the ground then the team dive into the Chemistry Lab to dispatch their next school master. Much hinges in this episode, as so often in history, on the placement of a comma, and the interpretation therof!

And cheese. Lots of cheese.

This episode features: Jon, Mike, Ben and Jamie.

Puzzle by: Ben

Editor: Jon

Withering commentary: Mike.

Attack of Gout: Jamie.

Credit for Sound Effects:

Hellfire.aif by Sepp Ultura -- https://freesound.org/s/66933/ -- License: Attribution 3.0

Wilhelm Splash by TiredHippo -- https://freesound.org/s/318189/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

After benefitting from early release at Timpson's prison, the team embark on their new carrers as Teaching Assistants, the infantryman of the school world (quite literally in some places). There first job is a placement at Grumbledown's Acadamy for the something something, home to quivering school boys and predatory teachers. Join them as they attempt to murder the headmaster by unusual means.

This episode features: Jon, Mike, Ben and Jamie.

Puzzle by: Jamie

Editor: Jon

Episode art: Dom Jordan

Withering commentary: Mike.

Wanted in out of the cold and put your orders in - our gang of four look back over the past three episodes.

We spend some time talking about what Mairi is currently up to, and then segue into the ses spit that is X, formerly known as Twitter. Ending, as ever with some recommendations, and a little ditty.

Hosts: Jamie Gibbs, Mike Collins, Mairi Nolan, Jon Saunders

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