This is the final week of our two-week summer break, where we recharge our puzzle batteries. But we won't leave you empty handed - here's a director's cut edition of a classic episode with new editing, music, SFX and commentary.
This episode initially aired a little later than normal due to some technical gremlins, which meant it didn't get a fair shake before the following week's episode came in and pushed it out of the feed (people love that fresh content, yo).
And it's a particularly fiendish puzzle from Mike that also uses a hefty amount of learning theory. Mike pulled a sneaky on us and had us doing a team building exercise (le gasp!).
The original recording was 2 hours long. So as a special treat, here's a re-edited version along with the puzzle debrief and additional commentary from me (Jamie).
Grab a glass of warm urine and join us as we attempt to escape the desert with a surprisingly Northern sounding Bear Grylls. Will we select the correct five items to enable our escape? And what's with that Morse Code, anyway?
Special thanks to Patreon supporters Rachel, Howlfin and Will for making this episode possible.
Puzzle Maestro: Mike Collins
Solvers: Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs, Dom Jordan, Annekos
Editor: Jamie Gibbs
If you want to listen to the original episodes, you can find them here:
Puzzle episode
Pubisode
 
All links to our social media profiles and our Patreon programme over at https://linktr.ee/theinfiniteescaperoom
 
The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms for one another. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island humour sprinkled over the top.

This is the start of our two-week summer break, where we recharge our puzzle batteries. But we won't leave you empty handed - here's a director's cut edition of a classic episode with new editing, music, SFX and commentary.
Sometimes, an episode as such an impact on us that we talk about it months or even years later. Groundfarce is one of those episodes. What started out as a simple spatial puzzle quickly devolved into a mud slinging match with zingers such as "Left isn't a cardinal direction!" and "I've left the shed and my eyes appear to have stopped working".
We cut a fair amount from the episode in the original airing because things got a little heated. But as a special treat, here's the whole thing with additional commentary from me (Jamie).
Grab your trowel and bring a map as Jon takes us through a surprisingly complex English garden puzzle.
Special thanks to Patreon supporters Brett, Bettina and Matthew for making this episode possible.
Puzzle Maestro: Jon Saunders
Solvers: Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs, Dom Jordan
Editor: Jamie Gibbs
If you want to listen to the original episodes, you can find them here:
Puzzle episode
Pubisode
All links to our social media profiles and our Patreon programme over at https://linktr.ee/theinfiniteescaperoom
 
The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms for one another. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island humour sprinkled over the top.

Does adapting escape rooms to audio make them more accessible … or more exclusive? Join Jamie, Mairi and special guests Dani and Bill from Escape This Podcast as we discuss accessibility in game design and what it means for creating escape rooms of the ears, the eyes, and all the senses.
Why a hotel? Turns out Australia has an interesting drinking culture around hotels, but you'll just have to listen to find out more about that.
As always, we come to you with some recommendations for the month ahead. They are:
Mairi - Signing up to vote in this year's TERPECAs. Or just using the site to find some cool escape rooms near you.
Bill - Novelty Automation in London, UK. A museum collection of satirical, home-made arcade machines.
Dani - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and in particular pay attention to it's clever feeding of information in character dialogue.
Jamie - Another podcast: Today in History! Which does exactly what it says on the tin. Short, snappy episodes about what happened on that day in history.
 
Hosts: Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan
Guests: Bill and Dani of Escape This Podcast
Editor: Jamie Gibbs
All links to our social media profiles and our Patreon programme over at https://linktr.ee/theinfiniteescaperoom

In the most long overdue cross-over since Eastenders made a Bastard episode with Neighbours (true story), we finally welcome our natural ancestors from Escape This Podcast and take them... to their own studio. But all is not well, they are locked out, Jon has beaten them to it and is about to takeover the (podcast) world.
Join Mairi, Jamie, special guests Dani and Bill from Escape This Podcast and a very, very special cameo, as they try to take down the plummy giant, Lilliput style.
Puzzle Maestro: Jamie Gibbs
Solvers: Mairi Nolan, Dani Siller, Bill Sunderland
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor (and self impersonator): Jon Saunders
Visual handouts to play along
Mixing desk
Poster
Notepad
All links to our social media profiles and our Patreon programme over at https://linktr.ee/theinfiniteescaperoom
Check out Escape This Podcast on their website, or wherever you get your podcasts usually!

In this episode, Jamie joins forces with two very special guests in order to take on a rogue Mike and Jon who are concocting a podcasting takeover of epic proportions. Their target - the enormous Escape This Podcast skyscraper that dominates the Sydney skyline. The date - the Australian national podcasting festival. Expect improv, terrible puns, and a cameo from a man pretending to be the Mayor of Sydney.
In this episode we're joined by special guests Dani and Bill from Escape This Podcast.
Puzzle Maestro: Mairi Nolan
Solvers: Jamie Gibbs, Dani Siller, Bill Sunderland
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Mike Collins
All links to our social media profiles over at https://linktr.ee/theinfiniteescaperoom
Check out Escape This Podcast on their website, or wherever you get your podcasts usually!

Join us in the once watery depths of the former English Channel, now a desertified wasteland! The team discuss whether live actors have a place in Escape Rooms at all, chew over their best and worst experiences of this ever popular feature, and whether the rooms that feature them heavily even count as Escape Rooms at all.
As ever, we come to you with some recommendations for the month ahead.
 
Bailey - The Tiny Chef Show (Stop motion tiny chef. Adorable and wholesome in equal measure)
Mairi - Jet Lag The Game (Imagine some comedians playing Hide and Seek...using continents.)
Jamie - Tom Bates (Very British animation about a tiny man and his horse called Nigel)
Jon - Going for a walk in the woods and leaving your phone in the car (because a lot of the modern world just sucks)
 
Hosts: Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan, Emma Bailey, Jon Saunders
Editor: Jon Saunders
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With water (for coolant) and petrol (for fun) secured, the team need only the ice cream van keys to see them on their merry way. Surely the Ice Cream Man will have them, and, oh look, he's just over there...
Puzzle Maestro: Mairi Nolan
Solvers: Jamie Gibbs, Jon Saunders, Bailey
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Jamie Gibbs
All links to our social media profiles and our Patreon programme over at https://linktr.ee/theinfiniteescaperoom

On the hunt for some water to help power our only means of escape: an old ice cream truck, the team take refuge inside a toilet block.
Again..? Yes! Look, we like toilet blocks on this podcast. But this toilet block turns out to be used for something quite unexpected. Get in, get the water, and get out. Just don't, whatever you do, use a black light in here.
Puzzle Maestro: Jon Saunders
Solvers: Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan, Bailey
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Jamie Gibbs
All links to our social media profiles and our Patreon programme over at https://linktr.ee/theinfiniteescaperoom