Escape This Podcast

Movie awards are serious business, so when our guests discover that the true winners' envelopes have been switched out it's up to them to set things right! Our guests this episode are Ariel and Juliana of the Wild Optimists. Aside from being spectacular puzzle and board game designers, they are also previous guests, and supporters of the show! Go and buy Flashback!   You can download the full notes for this Escape Room below to play along, or run a game yourself! Full Room Write Up Supplemental: Seating Chart We have bonus episodes and playtests up on our Patreon! So if you have the ability to support the show, we would love to see you there. And in return we have blog posts, bonus audio, badges, and more! Plus all our patrons have the chance to appear in our rooms as NPC's, including this room's patrons: Manda and Eunice! Check out James Spaid's fantastic text-based adventure versions of our rooms! Have questions, comments, puzzles, or anything else? Send us an email, and follow us on Facebook and Tw

We are joined this episode by another fantastic guest game-master and puzzle designer, Jim Fishwick. Jim has designed a fun, meta take on the Escape This Podcast format, featuring a recording booth, riddles, and a ghostly conundrum. Jim Fishwick is the general manager of Jetpack Theatre, and director of the recent "Art Heist" escape-room-esque event in Sydney. It's easy to find out more about Jim, just check out http://jimfishwick.com/   You can download the full notes for this Escape Room below to play along, or run a game yourself! Full Room Write Up Clip 1 - Jules Clip 2 - Vanessa Von Trapp Clip 3 - Timber Clip 4 - Engineer Clip 5 - New Project Clip 6 - Keith's Cousin Clip 7 - Summer Breeze Clip 8 - Town Historian 3D Escape Room: Frequency We have bonus episodes and playtests up on our Patreon! So if you have the ability to support the show, we would love to see you there. And in return we have blog posts, bonus audio, badges, and more! Plus all our patrons have the chance to appear in our rooms as  N

We are joined this episode by another fantastic guest game-master and puzzle designer, Jim Fishwick. Jim has designed a fun, meta take on the Escape This Podcast format, featuring a recording booth, riddles, and a ghostly conundrum. Jim Fishwick is the general manager of Jetpack Theatre, and director of the recent "Art Heist" escape-room-esque event in Sydney. It's easy to find out more about Jim, just check out http://jimfishwick.com/   You can download the full notes for this Escape Room below to play along, or run a game yourself! Full Room Write Up Clip 1 - Jules Clip 2 - Vanessa Von Trapp Clip 3 - Timber Clip 4 - Engineer Clip 5 - New Project Clip 6 - Keith's Cousin Clip 7 - Summer Breeze Clip 8 - Town Historian We have bonus episodes and playtests up on our Patreon! So if you have the ability to support the show, we would love to see you there. And in return we have blog posts, bonus audio, badges, and more! Plus all our patrons have the chance to appear in our rooms as  NPC's Check out James Spaid

After saving the prince and defeating the evil witch, we sit down to talk to Jonah and Julian about puzzle design, board game design, playtesting, and pacing Our guests this episode are Julian and Jonah from Curly Bros Games. They've just opened a kickstarter for their game "Tremor" that you should check out immediately!  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/curlybrosgames/tremor Curly Bros on: Board Game Geek Facebook Instagram   You can download the full notes for this Escape Room below to play along, or run a game yourself! Full Room Write Up Supplemental: Cauldron Puzzle Supplemental: Cauldron Solution Supplemental: Cupboard We have bonus episodes and playtests up on our Patreon! So if you have the ability to support the show, we would love to see you there. And in return we have blog posts, bonus audio, badges, and more! Plus all our patrons have the chance to appear in our rooms, like this episode's patrons: James Spaid and Shoshana! Check out James Spaid's fantastic text-based adventure version

The life of an adventuring Knight is hard, and being kidnapped by an evil witch doesn't make it any easier! In this episode our brave guests need to find an antidote, and escape a strange hut full of spells, swords, and... saliva. Our guests this episode are Julian and Jonah from Curly Bros Games. They've just opened a kickstarter for their game "Tremor" that you should check out immediately! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/curlybrosgames/tremor Curly Bros on: Board Game Geek Facebook Instagram   You can download the full notes for this Escape Room below to play along, or run a game yourself! Full Room Write Up Supplemental: Cauldron Puzzle Supplemental: Cauldron Solution Supplemental: Cupboard We have bonus episodes and playtests up on our Patreon! So if you have the ability to support the show, we would love to see you there. And in return we have blog posts, bonus audio, badges, and more! Plus all our patrons have the chance to appear in our rooms, like this episode's patrons: James Spaid and

After hosting a really cool room, we talk with Collin about how this room came to be, other at home escape games, troubleshoot a possible sequence break, and talk about the chemistry puzzle's full solutions (pun intended). You can download the full notes for this Escape Room below to play along, or run a game yourself! Full Room Write Up We have bonus episodes and playtests up on our Patreon! So if you have the ability to support the show, we would love to see you there. And in return we have blog posts, bonus audio, badges, and more! Plus all our patrons have the chance to appear in our rooms! Check out James Spaid's fantastic text-based adventure versions of our rooms! Have questions, comments, puzzles, or anything else? Send us an email, and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

In this episode Collin joins us as guest GM and puzzle designer, bringing us an escape room with vents, chemistry, danger, and two bomb-defusal specialists with something to prove! You can download the full notes for this Escape Room below to play along, or run a game yourself! Full Room Write Up We have bonus episodes and playtests up on our Patreon! So if you have the ability to support the show, we would love to see you there. And in return we have blog posts, bonus audio, badges, and more! Plus all our patrons have the chance to appear in our rooms! Check out James Spaid's fantastic text-based adventure versions of our rooms! Have questions, comments, puzzles, or anything else? Send us an email, and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

We talk with Jeff and Ryan about the room they played in the last episode of Escape This Podcast, the changes from the playtest, and how to create immersion through physical interaction. Our guests this episode are Ryan and Jeff from No One Can No About This. This is the second time that they have been on the show, and they are just as quick  and funny as their first episode. Go check them out if you like Final Fantasy, or just good podcasting in general! NOCKAT on: Twitter Facebook The Web   You can download the full notes for this Escape Room below to play along, or run a game yourself! Full Room Write Up Supplemental: Judges Table Supplemental: Photo Finish Supplemental: View from Above We have bonus episodes and playtests up on our Patreon! So if you have the ability to support the show, we would love to see you there. And in return we have blog posts, bonus audio, badges, and more! Plus all our patrons have the chance to appear in our rooms, like this episode's patrons: Ruslana and Devin Check ou

In the third of Dani's rooms for season 5, our guests have had a great time watching the recent athletics championship, only to find that their friend has had her gold medal stolen! Can they solve the thief's clues and reclaim the lost prize? Our guests this episode are Ryan and Jeff from No One Can No About This. This is the second time that they have been on the show, and they are just as quick  and funny as their first episode. Go check them out if you like Final Fantasy, or just good podcasting in general! NOCKAT on: Twitter Facebook The Web   You can download the full notes for this Escape Room below to play along, or run a game yourself! Full Room Write Up Supplemental: Judges Table Supplemental: Photo Finish Supplemental: View from Above We have bonus episodes and playtests up on our Patreon! So if you have the ability to support the show, we would love to see you there. And in return we have blog posts, bonus audio, badges, and more! Plus all our patrons have the chance to appear in our rooms,

We talk with Scott and Molly about their experience designing the Communing With Nature escape room, differences between the playtest and our version of the game, puzzle design principles, and why we were too dumb to finish that book puzzle! If you want to see more of Scott's stuff, including more virtual escape rooms head to Squonkland You can download the full notes for this Escape Room below to play along, or run a game yourself! Full Room Write Up Supplemental: Combo Hint Supplemental: Count the Animals Supplemental: Door Paper Supplemental: Turner Desk Supplemental: Turtle Facts We have bonus episodes and playtests up on our Patreon! So if you have the ability to support the show, we would love to see you there. And in return we have blog posts, bonus audio, badges, and more! Plus all our patrons have the chance to appear in our rooms! Check out James Spaid's fantastic text-based adventure versions of our rooms! Have questions, comments, puzzles, or anything else? Send us an email, and follow us on 

For the second time in season 5, we have a room designed and run by a guest game-master. Scott and his daughter Molly have brought a room full of animals, puzzles, stern bosses, and books. Bill and Dani find themselves as volunteers in a local nature centre, and have one seemingly simple, but endlessly complex job: feed the snake... If you want to see more of Scott's stuff, including more virtual escape rooms head to Squonkland You can download the full notes for this Escape Room below to play along, or run a game yourself! Full Room Write Up Supplemental: Combo Hint Supplemental: Count the Animals Supplemental: Door Paper Supplemental: Turner Desk Supplemental: Turtle Facts We have bonus episodes and playtests up on our Patreon! So if you have the ability to support the show, we would love to see you there. And in return we have blog posts, bonus audio, badges, and more! Plus all our patrons have the chance to appear in our rooms! Check out James Spaid's fantastic text-based adventure versions of our roo

Following on from our latest episode, we talk with Gemma about the escape room we played through last episode. The focus of this discussion centres around goals and objectives in puzzle solving, and how this room changed the way the players need to approach puzzles in an escape room. Check out GM the GM: facebook || stitcher || Apple Podcasts     You can download the full notes for this Escape Room below to play along, or run a game yourself! Full Room Write Up Supplemental: Sweet Menu Supplemental: Savoury Menu Supplemental: Slicer We have bonus episodes and playtests up on our Patreon! So if you have the ability to support the show, we would love to see you there. And in return we have blog posts, bonus audio, badges, and more! Plus all our patrons have the chance to appear in our rooms, just like this room's featured patrons: David C and Ace. Check out James Spaid's fantastic text-based adventure versions of our rooms! Have questions, comments, puzzles, or anything else? Send us an email, and follow

For the first time since episode 1 we have a solo player. We are joined by Gemma Marsh, creator and host of "GM the GM", a podcast about escape rooms from the perspective of a game master. But today she has a different career. Today she is a baker. And someone's baked a bunch of puzzles, crime, and confusion into the bread. Check out GM the GM: facebook || stitcher || Apple Podcasts     You can download the full notes for this Escape Room below to play along, or run a game yourself! Full Room Write Up Supplemental: Sweet Menu Supplemental: Savoury Menu Supplemental: Slicer We have bonus episodes and playtests up on our Patreon! So if you have the ability to support the show, we would love to see you there. And in return we have blog posts, bonus audio, badges, and more! Plus all our patrons have the chance to appear in our rooms, just like this episode's featured patrons: David C and Ace. Check out James Spaid's fantastic text-based adventure versions of our rooms! Have questions, comments, puzzles, or

In this post-show recap, we chat with Amy and Lee about puzzle and narrative design, gameshows, and not knowing ROT13 Lee on twitter: https://twitter.com/RunTheStairs  Amy on twitter: https://twitter.com/mixedmetaphor You can download the full notes for this Escape Room below to play along, or run a game yourself! Full Room Write Up Supplemental: Address Supplemental: Door Supplemental: Applause We have bonus episodes and playtests up on our Patreon! So if you have the ability to support the show, we would love to see you there. And in return we have blog posts, bonus audio, badges, and more! Plus all our patrons have the chance to appear in our rooms. Check out James Spaid's fantastic text-based adventure versions of our rooms! Have questions, comments, puzzles, or anything else? Send us an email, and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

As season 5 continues, we have our first set of guest Puzzle Masters. Amy Williamson and Lee DiGeorge (who were guests during Descent of the Cullodens) return with a room of their own devising, while Bill and Dani get to play together to solve some puzzles! Lee on twitter: https://twitter.com/RunTheStairs  Amy on twitter: https://twitter.com/mixedmetaphor You can download the full notes for this Escape Room below to play along, or run a game yourself! Full Room Write Up Supplemental: Address Supplemental: Door Supplemental: Applause We have bonus episodes and playtests up on our Patreon! So if you have the ability to support the show, we would love to see you there. And in return we have blog posts, bonus audio, badges, and more! Plus all our patrons have the chance to appear in our rooms. Check out James Spaid's fantastic text-based adventure versions of our rooms! Have questions, comments, puzzles, or anything else? Send us an email, and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

We keep chatting with Neil about the last episode, puzzle design, the playtest episode, and why David Burtka is the best husband in the world. We're joined this episode by magician, actor, and puzzle fan Neil Patrick Harris. As big fans of Neil's work, it was wonderful to find out he was a fan of ours, and then punish him by locking him in a small room for an hour. NPH: Amazed: The Game - https://amazedgame.com/ The Magic Misfits - https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/landing-page/the-magic-misfits-series/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/ActuallyNPH Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nph/?hl=en You can download the full notes for this Escape Room below to play along, or run a game yourself! Full Room Write Up Supplemental: Cards We have bonus episodes and playtests up on our Patreon! So if you have the ability to support the show, we would love to see you there. And in return we have blog posts, bonus audio, badges, and more! Plus all our patrons have the chance to appear in our rooms, such as this arc's f

NOTE: The image of the cards used in this episode is linked below, as well as the full room write-up so you can play/run the room yourself! We return to stand-alone rooms with the start of season 5! In this room, two amateur magicians go backstage to meet their magical idol, but soon find themselves trapped in a door-less room filled with tricks, traps, and torment. We're joined this episode by magician, actor, and puzzle fan Neil Patrick Harris. As big fans of Neil's work, it was wonderful to find out he was a fan of ours, and then punish him by locking him in a small room for an hour. NPH: Amazed: The Game - https://amazedgame.com/ The Magic Misfits - https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/landing-page/the-magic-misfits-series/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/ActuallyNPH Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nph/?hl=en You can download the full notes for this Escape Room below to play along, or run a game yourself! Full Room Write Up Supplemental: Cards We have bonus episodes and playtests up on our Patreon!

For those unaware, Dani and Bill have played through a few murder mysteries over on our patreon. In these episodes, Dani takes a public domain murder mystery story and Bill plays through it in the role of the detective. In this episode, Dani has created a completely original murder mystery, and Bill tries his hand at solving it. It's a sort of proof-of-concept episode for what could be a new weekly, freely available show from Escape This Podcast. This episode is quite long, and would likely be edited into 4 weekly release episodes were it its own thing. If you like the show, or have character name suggestions, make sure you tweet @escthispodcast with the hashtag #EscapeThisMurder And if you want to help make this show a reality, sign up for our Patreon: www.patreon.com/consumethismedia

Back in 2018 the lovely people over at Hypotheticast got in contact with us to see if they could play one of our escape games as an episode of their show. We of course said yes, and they released a fantastic playthrough of our second episode: Saving Razorface. And now it's 2019, so please enjoy this strange, layered, podception episode in which we host an episode of another podcast's version of one of our podcasts... Check out Hypotheticast: Website || http://hypotheticast.club/ Twitter || http://twitter.com/hypotheticast  Facebook || https://www.facebook.com/hypotheticast/ The original episode: http://www.escapethispodcast.com/e/etp-2-saving-razorface-ft-bill-sunderland-and-tess-hutley/ Thanks for 100,000 total downloads!

With Descent of the Cullodens finished, we are officially in our mid season gap. Season 5 will be coming soon, but to avoid a big gap, we're filling these weeks with some fun bonus content for you all! This week, Dani and Bill sit down to match wits in a game of Trivial Pursuit (40th Anniversary Edition)!