Episodes

  • Ozman Richard's House of Death Games: Just a Minute, You Drongo
    Apr 27 2025

    The gang has been kidnapped! Again.

    This time, Australia's post-apocalyptic warlord Ozman Richards (similar to but legally distinct from Richard Osman) has challenged our puzzlers to compete in his House of Death Games.

    To the winner? Their life is spared.

    Everyone else? They pass through the digestive tract of a radioactive koala.

    This episode covers Round 1 - Just A Minute - where contestants have to speak on a topic for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation. Easier said than done when your lives are on the line ...

    • Puzzle maestro: Mike Collins

    • Solvers: Jamie Gibbs, Emma Bailey, Aled Hughes

    • Episode art: Dom Jordan

    • Editor: Jamie Gibbs

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

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    34 mins
  • Puzzle Creators React: Brooklyn Nine-Nine
    Apr 20 2025

    In this new series, we put our professional puzzle design experience to good use and look at escape rooms in film and TV as if they were real escape rooms.

    Our inaugural episode looks at the escape room episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine - Karen Peralta (Season 3 Episode 14).

    This is the episode where Captain Holt, Gina, Hitchcock and Scully 'work' together to escape a nuclear bunker.

    Follow Mike, Jamie and Mairi as they put the room through its paces and discuss how they'd make it a better escape room experience

    Hosts: Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan

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    39 mins
  • Stone's Throw Mysteries: Pop's Bar with Eloise Corvo
    Apr 13 2025

    This week, Jamie and Mairi are joined by author and game designer Eloise Corvo who chats with us about her new book, Off the Beaten Path, as well as her love of Michigan, cozy murders and designing mystery games.

    Say hi to Eloise:

    • Website

    • Instagram

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    44 mins
  • Spaghetti Sabotage! feat. Eloise Corvo
    Apr 6 2025

    This week we're joined by author and game designer Eloise Corvo who's presented us with a mystery set in the world of her cozy murder Stone's Throw Mystery novel, Off the Beaten Path. Think Parks and Rec meets Clue, and you're pretty much there.

    Will Jamie and Mairi manage to find the missing tomatoes before Pop's big fundraiser starts? And just how chewy is the beer in this place, anyway?

    Get the visual handouts and game document at https://eloisecorvo.com/spaghettisabotage

    In a cool twist of fate, our escape pod friends Dani and Bill of Escape This Podcast recently played this same room! See how they got on (and give them some friendly heckling from us)

    Say hi to Eloise:

    • Website

    • Instagram

    • Order Off The Beaten Path

    Puzzle Master: Eloise Corvo

    Solvers: Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan

    Episode art: Dom Jordan

    Editor: Jamie Gibbs

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

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • An Improvised drink at the Cat and Fiddle
    Mar 30 2025

    In this wrap-up Pubisode for our Nursery Crimes Arc, the team delve into the thorny subject of Improvisation and its place in All Fun Things. Whether you live life off script (hello Jon) or are a paid up member of the Order Of The Flow Chart, your strong opinion is invited!

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    49 mins
  • Nursery Crimes: The King, The Queen and The Knave.
    Mar 23 2025

    This is the final episode of our Nursery Crimes arc, in which the time try to appease Grandfather Story by getting off the Farmer's Wife (me neither!?) in order to avoid being flayed alive. Standard fare for the Infinite Escape Room!

    The real treat in this room is a trio of fiendish puzzles from Dom, who wrongfoots our experienced puzzlers at every turn. Delicious Listening!

    This episode contains visual handouts. Head over to https://www.theinfiniteescaperoom.com/e/nursery-crimes-the-king-the-queen-and-the-knave/ to view them.

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    47 mins
  • Nursery Crimes: There was an old lady who swallowed a truffle
    Mar 16 2025

    It's the second in our series of Nursery Crimes, as the gang try and navigate the murky murderous world of Grandfather Story and solve the murder of the three blind mice.

    This week, Mairi takes Dom and Mike to the most exclusive restaurant in town, where they find themselves serving a very hungry customerpillar.

    Part of the Nursery Crimes series, released in time for World Book Day.

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    49 mins
  • Nursery Crimes: Humpty Dumpty splat off the wall
    Mar 6 2025

    This week Mike leads Mairi and Dom into Grandfather Story's adorable watercolour world...to solve a murder most gruesome and avoid a fate most cannibalistic. This is how we got ants.

    That and the egg everywhere, as the gang try and piece together what happened to Humpty Dumpty, and why they should be so bothered about the emotional state of a stick...

    This episode is releasing a few days early to coincide with World Book Day. Because cuteness.

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    34 mins
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