The Infinite Escape Room

This very special episode of The Infinite Escape Room is brought to you from Jamie's house in Wales...

...Or rather, Year 10 work experience at a local hospital! A somewhat universal experience for British kids.

Their surgeon mentor promptly injects himself with anaesthetic, collapses on the operating table, and leaves them locked in the surgery room with only one way out: perform a laparoscopic cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal) to escape.

It's only a puzzling podcast, we're not saving lives here. Or are we?

Puzzle Maestro: Mike Collins

Solvers: Jamie Gibbs, Emma Bailey

Episode Art: Dom Jordan

Editor: Mike Collins

TLDR: The solvers perform a gallbladder removal using surgical tools including a laparoscope and forceps and solve a puzzle with musical notes.

 

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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. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island-style humour sprinkled over the top.

The black box recording of our faltering stumble through some of Nottingham's finest Escape Rooms. Jamie, Mike, Mairi and Jon are here to separate the wheat from the chaff, and leave you nothing but the finest flour to bake your Escape Bread with.

Or, we would've done, if things hadn't gone a teeny bit wrong.

With discussions and spoiler-free reviews of our recent TIER trip to Nottingham, UK to play six escape rooms:

Robin of Lockskey, Escapologic

Curio, Escapologic

The Butcher, Escapologic

Immaterium, Escapologic

Monuments, Cave Escape

Carfax, Cave Escape

There's also a little chat about Warhammer World, the site of pilgrimage for wargaming nerds across the globe.

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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. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island-style humour sprinkled over the top.

Very nearly the quickest solve we've ever had!

 

In the final regular episode from our Nottingham AirBnB recording, Jon takes the helm and delivers, without notes, what he believes to be a deceptively simple yet fiendish death trap puzzle...only for Jamie to figure it out within seconds. It isn't the fastest solve we've had but it came damn close.

Puzzle Maestro: Jon Saunders

Solvers: Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan

Episode Art: Dom Jordan

Editor: Jon Saunders

TLDR: The solvers find themselves inside a suspended cage, accompanied by dozens of rats. To leave means death, but the only means of escape is outside the cage.

 

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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. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island-style humour sprinkled over the top.

Somewhere in this room there's a secret! Go get up and find it!

Or as I like to call it: The one in which Jamie hosts an audio escape room set in an airBNB, whilst recording from the airBNB, in which we have to get up and find actual hidden things in the airBNB. It's airBNBception in here.

Will the solvers untie the knots in Notts in time? (K)not likely!

Puzzle Maestro: Jamie Gibbs

Solvers: Mike Collins, Jon Saunders, Mairi Nolan

Episode Art: Dom Jordan

Editor: Jamie Gibbs

TLDR: The solvers find a physical locked box covered in knots, and have to solve the puzzles to open the box and recover the secret wine.

 

 

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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. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island-style humour sprinkled over the top.

Join us deep within Robin's Hole, where it's time to pull up a cozy armchair and discuss this week's pubisode topic: When should escape rooms retire? We reflect on some of the recent real-life escape rooms we've played together in Nottingham and discuss the lifecycle of an escape room. How long should an escape room be open for? When should it be updated? When should it be retired? And how might an escape room's life be increased? If you're an owner, when do you retire your rooms?

As always, here are your recommendations for this month.

Jamie - Tears of Metal (videogame), think Dynasty Warriors, a comic book art style but set in medieval Scotland.

Mairi - The Fall (film), a trippy fairy tale of an adventure film.

Jon - The documentaries of Adam Curtis, and in particular, HyperNormalisation.

Mike - Knitting! In the background of whatever you're doing... And I quote: "It keeps your naughty hands busy"

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

Editor: Jamie Gibbs

 

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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. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island-style humour sprinkled over the top.