The Infinite Escape Room podcast
@infiniteescaperoom.bsky.social
The escape room podcast where we make and solve homemade audio escape rooms.
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Hosts: @mikecollins.bsky.social, @armchairescapist.bsky.social, @mairispaceship.com and Jon Saunders
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Hosts: @mikecollins.bsky.social, @armchairescapist.bsky.social, @mairispaceship.com and Jon Saunders
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Hello Bluesky! We are The Infinite Escape Room - the puzzling #podcast where a group of chums come together, have a drink and work together to solve an #escaperoom of the ears.
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Friends and enemies of The Infinite Escape Room,
We’ve made the difficult, but temporary, decision to take a hiatus from making episodes of The Infinite Escape Room podcast.
The reason is that all four of us are in different stages of life than when we started this podcast seven years ago.
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We’ve made the difficult, but temporary, decision to take a hiatus from making episodes of The Infinite Escape Room podcast.
The reason is that all four of us are in different stages of life than when we started this podcast seven years ago.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Friends and enemies of The Infinite Escape Room,
We’ve made the difficult, but temporary, decision to take a hiatus from making episodes of The Infinite Escape Room podcast.
The reason is that all four of us are in different stages of life than when we started this podcast seven years ago.
[1/6]
We’ve made the difficult, but temporary, decision to take a hiatus from making episodes of The Infinite Escape Room podcast.
The reason is that all four of us are in different stages of life than when we started this podcast seven years ago.
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In this episode of Puzzle Creators React we're joined by Alex Hylands-White to put another escape room episode through its paces and review it as though it were a real escape room.
This time it's "The Gang Escapes" from season 13 of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
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This time it's "The Gang Escapes" from season 13 of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
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November 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
In this episode of Puzzle Creators React we're joined by Alex Hylands-White to put another escape room episode through its paces and review it as though it were a real escape room.
This time it's "The Gang Escapes" from season 13 of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
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This time it's "The Gang Escapes" from season 13 of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
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Greetings, boils and ghouls!
We're rounding off our Halloween specials with a deep dive discussion on horror in escape rooms with the master of horror himself, Keith Dozois of USB Escape to discuss all things horror in escape rooms.
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#escaperooms #horror
We're rounding off our Halloween specials with a deep dive discussion on horror in escape rooms with the master of horror himself, Keith Dozois of USB Escape to discuss all things horror in escape rooms.
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#escaperooms #horror
November 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Greetings, boils and ghouls!
We're rounding off our Halloween specials with a deep dive discussion on horror in escape rooms with the master of horror himself, Keith Dozois of USB Escape to discuss all things horror in escape rooms.
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#escaperooms #horror
We're rounding off our Halloween specials with a deep dive discussion on horror in escape rooms with the master of horror himself, Keith Dozois of USB Escape to discuss all things horror in escape rooms.
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#escaperooms #horror
We're joined by Keith Dozois from USB Escape in this quaint London graveyard-turned-garden park where the dead need to be put to rest. And as always, things are never what they first appear ...
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
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#escaperooms #podcast #halloween
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
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#escaperooms #podcast #halloween
October 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
We're joined by Keith Dozois from USB Escape in this quaint London graveyard-turned-garden park where the dead need to be put to rest. And as always, things are never what they first appear ...
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
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#escaperooms #podcast #halloween
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
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#escaperooms #podcast #halloween
Greetings boils and ghouls!
We're continuing with our horror-inspired rooms in the countdown to Halloween with Mairi's homage to The Ring in what we all agreed was one of the all-time greatest puzzles we've played on this podcast.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
#escaperooms #podcast
We're continuing with our horror-inspired rooms in the countdown to Halloween with Mairi's homage to The Ring in what we all agreed was one of the all-time greatest puzzles we've played on this podcast.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
#escaperooms #podcast
October 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Greetings boils and ghouls!
We're continuing with our horror-inspired rooms in the countdown to Halloween with Mairi's homage to The Ring in what we all agreed was one of the all-time greatest puzzles we've played on this podcast.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
#escaperooms #podcast
We're continuing with our horror-inspired rooms in the countdown to Halloween with Mairi's homage to The Ring in what we all agreed was one of the all-time greatest puzzles we've played on this podcast.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
#escaperooms #podcast
"You've lost Gen Z already, Jon!"
The gang offers a short explanation about the main MacGuffin of this year's Halloween episodes - VHS tapes.
Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all good podcast platforms (and probably some of the bad ones, we get about).
#halloween #podcast #escaperooms
The gang offers a short explanation about the main MacGuffin of this year's Halloween episodes - VHS tapes.
Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all good podcast platforms (and probably some of the bad ones, we get about).
#halloween #podcast #escaperooms
October 16, 2025 at 10:14 AM
"You've lost Gen Z already, Jon!"
The gang offers a short explanation about the main MacGuffin of this year's Halloween episodes - VHS tapes.
Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all good podcast platforms (and probably some of the bad ones, we get about).
#halloween #podcast #escaperooms
The gang offers a short explanation about the main MacGuffin of this year's Halloween episodes - VHS tapes.
Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and all good podcast platforms (and probably some of the bad ones, we get about).
#halloween #podcast #escaperooms
The gang end up in a dank sewer smeared with blood, skeletons and the sound of laughter echoing through the tunnels. Do they have what it takes to reverse the curse and face their fears?
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
#escaperooms #podcast #halloween #usbescape #theinfiniteescaperoom
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
#escaperooms #podcast #halloween #usbescape #theinfiniteescaperoom
October 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
The gang end up in a dank sewer smeared with blood, skeletons and the sound of laughter echoing through the tunnels. Do they have what it takes to reverse the curse and face their fears?
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
#escaperooms #podcast #halloween #usbescape #theinfiniteescaperoom
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
#escaperooms #podcast #halloween #usbescape #theinfiniteescaperoom
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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#insideno9 #escaperooms #podcast #theinfiniteescaperoom
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts
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#insideno9 #escaperooms #podcast #theinfiniteescaperoom
October 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts
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#insideno9 #escaperooms #podcast #theinfiniteescaperoom
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts
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#insideno9 #escaperooms #podcast #theinfiniteescaperoom
"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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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
Listen now wherever else you get your podcasts.
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October 5, 2025 at 10:14 AM
"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
Listen now wherever else you get your podcasts.
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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
Listen now wherever else you get your podcasts.
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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.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts
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Jamie spitting truths in this week's deep dive debate on whether escape rooms are getting easier.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts
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October 3, 2025 at 9:43 AM
"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.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts
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Jamie spitting truths in this week's deep dive debate on whether escape rooms are getting easier.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts
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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!
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts:
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This week Mike, Jon and Jamie debate that very topic!
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts:
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September 28, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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!
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts:
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This week Mike, Jon and Jamie debate that very topic!
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts:
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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
Check out Dom's artwork over at domjordanillustration.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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
Check out Dom's artwork over at domjordanillustration.com
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
Listen to The Tin Horse Highway wherever you get your podcasts
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Listen to The Tin Horse Highway wherever you get your podcasts
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September 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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
Listen to The Tin Horse Highway wherever you get your podcasts
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Listen to The Tin Horse Highway wherever you get your podcasts
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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.
Check out the full episode of "There's No Place Like Gnome" wherever you get your podcasts
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Check out the full episode of "There's No Place Like Gnome" wherever you get your podcasts
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September 17, 2025 at 9:02 AM
This week, Mike and Jamie school Jon on the Australian phenomenon of budgie smugglers while they inspect a series of rather familiar looking gnomes.
Check out the full episode of "There's No Place Like Gnome" wherever you get your podcasts
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Check out the full episode of "There's No Place Like Gnome" wherever you get your podcasts
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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.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts (or scan the QR code in the last slide):
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Listen now wherever you get your podcasts (or scan the QR code in the last slide):
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September 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts (or scan the QR code in the last slide):
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Listen now wherever you get your podcasts (or scan the QR code in the last slide):
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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.
Listen to GroundFace reborn wherever you get your podcasts
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I've now fixed it so you get to hear our epic mud-slinging match as it was meant to be heard.
Listen to GroundFace reborn wherever you get your podcasts
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September 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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.
Listen to GroundFace reborn wherever you get your podcasts
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I've now fixed it so you get to hear our epic mud-slinging match as it was meant to be heard.
Listen to GroundFace reborn wherever you get your podcasts
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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
Listen to the full episode "Audio Accessibility in Escape Rooms" wherever you get your podcasts
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Listen to the full episode "Audio Accessibility in Escape Rooms" wherever you get your podcasts
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August 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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
Listen to the full episode "Audio Accessibility in Escape Rooms" wherever you get your podcasts
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Listen to the full episode "Audio Accessibility in Escape Rooms" wherever you get your podcasts
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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?"
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts
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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?"
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts
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August 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
"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?"
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts
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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?"
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts
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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!)
Listen to the full episode of wherever you get your podcasts.
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Listen to the full episode of wherever you get your podcasts.
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August 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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!)
Listen to the full episode of wherever you get your podcasts.
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Listen to the full episode of wherever you get your podcasts.
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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?
There are biscuit crumbs over everything. The mini fridge has no alcohol in it. And who's left that tuxedo lying around?
August 17, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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?
There are biscuit crumbs over everything. The mini fridge has no alcohol in it. And who's left that tuxedo lying around?
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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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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August 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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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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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Jon shares his thoughts on actors in escape rooms, and how they unintentionally change the difficulty of the room by their mere presence.
Check out the full episode of 'Live actors in escape rooms' wherever you get your podcasts linktr.ee/theinfinitee...
August 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
"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.
Check out the full episode of 'Live actors in escape rooms' wherever you get your podcasts linktr.ee/theinfinitee...
Jon shares his thoughts on actors in escape rooms, and how they unintentionally change the difficulty of the room by their mere presence.
Check out the full episode of 'Live actors in escape rooms' wherever you get your podcasts linktr.ee/theinfinitee...
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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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.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts
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August 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts
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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.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts
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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.
Check out the full episode of 'The Burnt Beach' wherever you get your podcasts
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The gang take a momentary diversion from solving the increasingly hot puzzle this week to share some Opinions about these vicious flying rats.
Check out the full episode of 'The Burnt Beach' wherever you get your podcasts
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July 30, 2025 at 10:14 AM
"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.
Check out the full episode of 'The Burnt Beach' wherever you get your podcasts
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The gang take a momentary diversion from solving the increasingly hot puzzle this week to share some Opinions about these vicious flying rats.
Check out the full episode of 'The Burnt Beach' wherever you get your podcasts
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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
The campaign was fully funded in under an hour and it's still going strong! 💸
👉 Check out the campaign at taplink.cc/scarlet.env
July 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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
The campaign was fully funded in under an hour and it's still going strong! 💸
👉 Check out the campaign at taplink.cc/scarlet.env