Mike, Jon, Jamie & Mairi | The Infinite Escape Room podcast

Listen to special guest Alex Hylands-White from COGS talk about his initial reaction to watching the CTRL, ALT, ESC episode of Inside No. 9.

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"The most accurate depiction of an escape room in British media".

In this week's Puzzle Creator's React we're looking at the episode CTRL, ALT, ESC from Inside No. 9 by Reece Shearsmith and @sjpemberton.bsky.social

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"A bad puzzle makes the creator feel smart. A good puzzle makes the players feel smart".

Jamie spitting truths in this week's deep dive debate on whether escape rooms are getting easier.

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The escape room industry has been around in earnest for around a decade now but has the challenge of the escape waned in favour of the more cinematic moment?

This week Mike, Jon and Jamie debate that very topic!

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As well as being an illustrator extraordinaire, Dom is also one of our fellow puzzlers and is also responsible for crafting one of the most unique episodes of The Infinite Escape Room - Gusset Gum and the Temple of Mood (highly recommend you check it out, it's an absolute banger).

It's been around a year since we started getting our awesome episode artwork from @domjordan.bsky.social, and here are some of our favourites in all their glory!

Check out Dom's artwork over at domjordanillustration.com

🧠 Puzzle designer / GM: Jon Saunders
🔍 Solvers: Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs
✂️ Editor: Jamie Gibbs
🎨 Episode art: Dom Jordan
🙏 Brought to you by our Patreons supporters Tonje, Camilla and Rebecca

This week, Mike and Jamie have to solve the ghostie postie's last round on Australia's Tin Horse Highway to make sure his dear Ruth is well looked after

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This week, Mike and Jamie school Jon on the Australian phenomenon of budgie smugglers while they inspect a series of rather familiar looking gnomes.

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🧠 Puzzle designer / GM: Jamie Gibbs
🔍 Solvers: Mike Collins, Jon Saunders
✂️ Editor: Mike Collins
🎨 Episode art: Dom Jordan

The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms for one another.

This week, the gang needs to get to Australia's only airport in time to catch their once a year flight out of the country. But first, someone needs to pee rather urgently.

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Eagle eared listeners of the most recent episode might have heard a slight hiccup with the audio sync.

I've now fixed it so you get to hear our epic mud-slinging match as it was meant to be heard.

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In this week's sneak peek, listen to Bill Sunderland from @escapethispodcast.bsky.social talk about how good characters helps you naturally seed in diegetic puzzle elements

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"Everything's a cupboard."

This week, Jamie and Mairi are joined by Bill and Dani from @escapethispodcast.bsky.social where they debate the question, "Does the audio format make escape rooms more accessible ... or more exclusive?"

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This was the moment @mairispaceship.com as well as Dani and Bill from @escapethispodcast.bsky.social got a surprise voice cameo from top puzzle maestro @nphstuff.bsky.social (thanks again Neil!)

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🧠 Puzzle Maestro: @armchairescapist.bsky.social
🔍 Solvers: @mairispaceship.com, Dani Siller, Bill Sunderland
🎭 Special voice cameo by @nphstuff.bsky.social
✂️ Editor: Jon Saunders
🎨 Episode art: @domjordan.bsky.social

Mairi is joined by Dani and Bill from @escapethispodcast.bsky.social where they must break into their own studio and subdue Jon before he can announce his hostile takeover.

There are biscuit crumbs over everything. The mini fridge has no alcohol in it. And who's left that tuxedo lying around?

🧠 Puzzle Maestro: @mairispaceship.com
🔍 Solvers: @armchairescapist.bsky.social, Dani Siller, Bill Sunderland
✂️ Editor: @mikecollins.bsky.social
🎨 Episode art: @domjordan.bsky.social

It's a hostile takeover of @escapethispodcast.bsky.social!

Jamie, Dani, and Bill try to stop a podcast takeover by rogue Mike and Jon at the Australian National Podcast Festival. Improv, puns and the Mayor of Sydney abound.

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"You're the difficulty level here!"

Jon shares his thoughts on actors in escape rooms, and how they unintentionally change the difficulty of the room by their mere presence.

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Only if they're really going for full immersion in those serial killer / zombie rooms

Do live actors work in escape rooms?

This is what debating this week - join Jon, Jamie, Mairi and Bailey as we get stuck into the topic of live actors in escape rooms and debate whether rooms should use them more ... or less.

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"Can you imagine a rabid seagull?"

The gang take a momentary diversion from solving the increasingly hot puzzle this week to share some Opinions about these vicious flying rats.

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Our friends at Scarlet Envelope have launched a Kickstarter for a new, medieval puzzle game, and there's ONLY 5 DAYS LEFT to support it! ⏰

The campaign was fully funded in under an hour and it's still going strong! 💸

👉 Check out the campaign at taplink.cc/scarlet.env

🧠 Puzzle designed by: @mairispaceship.com
🔎 Solvers: @armchairescapist.bsky.social, Jon Saunders, Emma Bailey
✂️ Edited by: Jon Saunders
🎨 Episode art: @domjordan.bsky.social

In the thrilling conclusion to our Ice Cream Wars arc, the gang head to the Bournemouth Beachfront in search of a set of ice cream van keys. 🔑

But things are a little more Pompeii than they'd bargained for... 🔥

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🔍 Bailey shows the rest of us up with her superior observation skills. Honestly, if this were a real escape room we'd be fumbling around blind for almost the full hour.

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🧠 Games Master: Jon Saunders
🔍 Solvers: @armchairescapist.bsky.social, @mairispaceship.com, Emma Bailey
✂️ Editor: @armchairescapist.bsky.social
🎨 Episode Art: @domjordan.bsky.social

🚽 We're back in the toilet and we're looking for some life-giving liquid.
But we find more than we bargain for in *this* particular toilet!
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