VHS Nightmare: The Sobbing Shaft

With just twenty two minutes and thirty seconds remaining before our flight from Australia Airport leaves, the team have no choice but to solve Jon's puzzle puzzle at the crossroads. Somewhere off Australia Road (which by the way, is the road in Australia, in case you were wondering), the airport awaits...
But which way?
"Struth Ruth, Bruce is coming babe."
Puzzle Maestro: Jon Saunders
Solvers: Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Jamie Gibbs
Visual handouts to play along
Tin Horses
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TLDR: The second escape room in the Outback Odyssey arc centres on a postman called Bruce, the Tin Horse Highway, and many letters without addresses.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.

With the team's outback getaway driver KO-ed outside the toilet, the team find themselves stranded in the outback, 45 minutes before their flight from "Australia Airport" leaves. Time is of the essence, and in this special the solvers will have a shared 45-minutes to solve across both parts of the Outback Odyssey arc.
But before they can get back on the road they'll have to get through dozens and dozens of gnomes... in various state of undress (Jamie's exact words, not mine). Somewhere among these gnomes the key to escape lies. It's time to lock in and-
"Gnome more Mr. Nice Guy".
Puzzle Maestro: Jamie Gibbs
Solvers: Mike Collins, Jon Saunders
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Mike Collins
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TLDR: The first episode in the Outback Odyssey arc takes place in a field of gnomes in the Australian outback, featuring anagrams, rude gnome gestures, and a locked toilet.
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.

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
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After being a little too successful at getting the sun to rise, Great Britain has turned into a scorching hot warzone of the delicious ice-cream-y kind. As the group head south to the beach, they soon encounter the aftermath of a great fight. Tanks retrofitted to fire lollies litter the street, unexploded cookie sandwich mines lay in wait, and there... Tucked away under a small patch of shade... Is one final ice cream van.
Will we be able to escape into the ice cream van in time?!
Puzzle Maestro: Jamie Gibbs
Solvers: Jon Saunders, Mairi Nolan, Bailey
Episode Art: Dom Jordan
Editor: Mike Collins
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In the second episode of our special, in-person London series, we took a quick break for a drink at the Dirty Dicks - yes, that really is it's name, and it's great!
In this episode we do Two Truths and a Lie, discuss Cold vs Hot openings in escape rooms, and give our recommendations for this month.
This month's recommendations are:
Jamie - The Code Book by Simon Lehna SinghJon - Notes From an Execution by Danya KukafkaMairi - The Electrifying Incident (2025) by Draknek & FriendsMike - Slow Horses by Mick Herron, and Prey (2017) by Arkane
Note: There'll not be an unedited version of this recording, as there wasn't a lot we cut out!
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In this special episode, we're reporting from our first all-producers, in-person trip to London! For the first time, all four of The Infinite Escape Room hosts were in the same space at the same time.
Over this and the next few episodes you'll hear all about our puzzle thoughts on some of the games we played, including:
The Emerald Phantom at Secret Studio
Phantom Peak
Escape Arcade at Enigma Quests
Clays Bar
Listen out in this episode, where we've also got a very special interview with two of the excellent creators of The Emerald Phantom, Oscar and Andrew, who you can find out more about at Secret Studio.
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Shrug off your double denim and join us for a cold brewski at The Ski Pad, where we chat about designing the rooms in our Ronald's Revenge series:
1. Great Scott!
2. Yippee Ki-Yay, Mr. Falcon
3. E.T. Get Clue
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Hosts: Mike Collins, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs, Emma Bailey

Tumbling from the heights of Nakatomi Plaza, the gang land in an awfully familiar 1980s suburban house, in which sits a familiar little long-necked extra-terrestrial turd...
Will they manage to save cinema and please the embalmed-yet-still-living-head of Ronald Reagan?
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Any questions, comments, indignant remarks or just want to chat puzzles and podcasts? You can email us, or say hi on Facebook, Instagram or Bluesky.
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Puzzle Master: Jon Saunders
Solvers: Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs, Emma Bailey
Episode art: Dom Jordan
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