Escape This Podcast

Season 4 coming soon. Get ready for another connected arc of 10 episodes.

Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas! It's Escape This Podcast's Christmas Extravaganza! Two journalists are hoping to get away from the world on a Christmas holiday in London, only to be caught up in the scoop of the season. They work their way into a yuletide workshop to investigate cases of exploding toys, seasonal sabotage, and a full blown War On Christmas! We're joined this episode by the hilarious Mark Humphries, host of Pointless Australia. Check out Mark's Twitter, Facebook, and Musical Musings You can download the full notes for this Escape Room below to play along, or run a game yourself!Full Room Write UpSupplemental: ShelfSupplemental: Map We have new bonus episodes 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 murder-mystery episodes, 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.

Stop. Collaborate and Listen.That's our policy at Escape This Podcast, perfectly encapsulated in this episode. This episode is part of a collaborative project with Advanced Sagebrush & Shootouts that you should go listen to! We've been guests on their show during their current arc, which features this escape room! The room was designed by Dani, but run by AS&S's resident gamemaster Devin (who you may remember from his priestly guest role during Children of Maesaris).What do you do when you're trapped in a room, kidnapped by the devious puzzle-based-criminal Puzzlo? Why, solve the puzzles and escape the room, that's what! We're joined this episode by Devin, Whitt and Jared from Advanced Sagebrush and Shootouts. Go and check out the start of our journey together. Twitter: Devin | Whitt | Jared | AS&S You can download the full notes for this Escape Room below to play along, or run a game yourself!Full Room Write Up And you can download our Christmas room as well!Full Room Write UpSupplemental: ShelfSupplemental: Map We have new bonus episodes 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 murder-mystery episodes, badges, and more! Plus all our patrons have the chance to appear in our rooms, such as today's featured patron: Zemkat. 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're joined this episode by another guest puzzlemaster, who has brought in a room of their own creation. Bill and Dani are brought into a shifting dreamscape to wake a young girl, joined by a very helpful Cryptexa named T.I.M. Our guest puzzlemaster this episode is Lee-Fay Low. As always, you can download the full notes for this Escape Room below to play along, or run a game yourself!Full Room Write UpSupplemental: Crumpled NoteSupplemental: TreefitiSupplemental: Homework We have new bonus episodes 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 murder-mystery episodes, badges, and more! Plus all our patrons have the chance to appear in our rooms. Have questions, comments, puzzles, or anything else? Send us an email, and follow us on facebook and twitter.

We're joined this episode by a guest puzzlemaster, who has brought in a room of their own creation. After Bill and Dani give an escape room terrible reviews online, they've been invited back for one more try... what could possibly go wrong? (Spoilers: a lot) Our guest puzzlemaster this episode is Dave Anspach, who also ran a game in Season 1!. He also brought with him Errol and Manda from the Room Escape Divas, who supplied some great character work.   As always, 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 new bonus episodes 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 murder-mystery episodes, 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!Episode 1: Alex's BathroomEpisode 2: The SpeakeasyEpisode 3: The Supervillain's LairEpisode 4: The Model HouseEpisode 5: The Witch's Tower Have questions, comments, puzzles, or anything else? Send us an email, and follow us on facebook and twitter.

There's nothing quite like the electrifying thrill of competition, the intense focus and drive of high intensity sport, the true art of professional bowling. As an up and coming star of the bowling world, your only worry is your constant rival, Bradley. But you can't think about that now, you need to get ready for the competition! Hopefully nothing happens that might stop you getting to the game... Our guest this episode is Sarah Rhea Werner from Girl In Space. Check out Girl in Space for a fantastic sci-fi audiodrama. Sarah's twitter || instagramGirl In Space twitter || instagram || itunes As always, you can download the full notes for this Escape Room below to play along, or run a game yourself!Full Room Write Up Supplemental: League Board We have new bonus episodes 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 murder-mystery episodes, badges, and more! Plus all our patrons have the chance to appear in our rooms, such as today's featured patron: Bradley Moose. Check out Bill and Dani on the latest episode of Aussies and Dragons! Check out James Spaid's fantastic text-based adventure versions of our rooms!Episode 1: Alex's BathroomEpisode 2: The SpeakeasyEpisode 3: The Supervillain's Lair Also, here's an aglet! Have questions, comments, puzzles, or anything else? Send us an email, and follow us on facebook and twitter.

It's never good to walk into a service station and find that you're the only people there. It's even worse when you realise you're locked in. It's worse still when you overhear a sinister plan and need to save yourselves, the service station, and a collection of orphans and animals. Our guests this episode are Mary Holland from The Wild Horses and Matt Newell from I'm Too Effing High. Mary and Matt are comedians and improvisers, and you can catch them both at their regular shows at UCB Theatre in LA. Mary's twitter || instagramMatt's twitter || instagram As always, you can download the full notes for this Escape Room below to play along, or run a game yourself!Full Room Write Up  Tense thriller music provided by Bortexx ("Getting Ready" from the Albumn "The Impulse") We have new bonus episodes 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 murder-mystery episodes, badges, and more! Plus all our patrons have the chance to appear in our rooms, such as today's featured patron: Josh Hunt. Have questions, comments, puzzles, or anything else? Send us an email, and follow us on facebook and twitter.

What happens when you mix newly hired security guards, faulty security systems, a power outage, and a nefarious plot? Find out as out two puzle solvers attempt to keep their boss's money locked up tight, solving puzzles along the way! Our guests this episode are Keith from Pop Up Film Cast and Marcus from Popcorn Prattle. Keith and Marcus run two different, but great movie podcasts, so go check them out! Keith's twitter || websiteMarcus's twitter || website As always, you can download the full notes for this Escape Room below to play along, or run a game yourself!Full Room Write Up Supplemental 1: First Laser PuzzleSupplemental 2: Second Laser Puzzle Also, for a new group of people running one of our original episodes, why not check out Hypotheticasts playthrough of Saving Razorface? We have new bonus episodes 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 murder-mystery episodes, badges, and more! Plus all our patrons have the chance to appear in our rooms, such as today's featured patrons: Ariel and Juliana. Have questions, comments, puzzles, or anything else? Send us an email, and follow us on facebook and twitter.

When the phone rings and a young child needs your help to foil their party-pooping prankster parents, how can you say no? Renee and Laura couldn't and so here we are... Our guests this episode are Laura Hutton and Renee Rhodes from the Fate and the Fablemaidens podcast. Make sure you also follow them on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.  As always, you can download the full notes for the room below to play along, or run a game yourself!Full Room Write Up Supplementary: Darts Supplementary: Scrolls We've started a 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 murder-mystery episodes, badges, and more! Plus all our patrons have the chance to appear in our rooms, such as today's featured patron: Patrick Copas. Have questions, comments, puzzles, or anything else? Send us an email, and follow us on facebook and twitter. Escape This Podcast is a mix between escape rooms and table top roleplaying games, with puzzles, story, and adventure. 

As we continue through the new season of stand-alone rooms, we find ourselves at the best dang summer camp in the country, Camp Cedar. We'll have campfires, roast marshmallows, camp out under the stars... as long as those prank-loving Camp Cypress kids don't ruin our fun! Our guest this episode is Alexander Gierholz from Logic Locks. Check out their brick-and-mortar rooms if you're in Amsterdam, or order one of their portable games.  As always, you can download the full notes for the room below to play along, or run a game yourself!Full Room Write Up  We've started a 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 murder-mystery episodes, badges, and more! Plus all our patrons have the chance to appear in our rooms, such as today's featured patron: Samantha Koehler. Have questions, comments, puzzles, or anything else? Send us an email, and follow us on facebook and twitter.

As we continue through the new season of stand-alone rooms, we find ourselves outside the coolest club in town. Of course, it's closed and we've already been kicked out, but when we are given an excuse to get in and explore the place, how could we say no? Our guests this episode are Cole Burkhardt and Michelle Nickolaisen from the Unplaced podcast. You can also find Michelle on her actual play podcast Serendipity City and Cole on their actual play podcast Blue Dawn. Make sure you also keep an eye and ear out during Podmonth for extra table top shows #Iamhear Cole's twitter | Michelle's twitter As always, you can download the full notes for the room below to play along, or run a game yourself!Full Room Write Up Supplementary: Dart Board We've started a 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 murder-mystery episodes, badges, and more! Plus all our patrons have the chance to appear in our rooms, such as today's featured patrons: Molly and Scott Weiss. Have questions, comments, puzzles, or anything else? Send us an email, and follow us on facebook and twitter.

Season three continues! After a harrowing experience with Maesaris, we've returned to finish off the year with stand-alone rooms. For our second room, a pair of agriculture whisperers and barnyard detectives try to solve the riddle of who has been stealing Farmer McLegg's eggs. Our guests this episode are Ryan Kasmiskie and Jeff Eckamn from the Final Fantasy let's play podcast No One Can Know About This. Check them out for brilliantly constructed gameplay and commentary. You can find them on Facebook and Twitter. As always, you can download the full notes for the room below to play along, or run a game yourself!Full Room Write UpSupplementary: Wire Puzzle We've started a 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 murder-mystery episodes, badges, and more! Plus all our patrons have the chance to appear in our rooms, such as today's featured patron: Jennifer Turney. Have questions, comments, puzzles, or anything else? Send us an email, and follow us on facebook and twitter.

Season three has arrived! After a harrowing experience with Maesaris, we've returned to finish off the year with stand-alone rooms. For our first room, Ragamuffin and Thumbolt (aka Bill and Rob) work up a sweat, find a drug dealer, and solve some puzzles in a divided gymnasium!   Our guest this episode is Rob Maythorne, podcaster and founder of the Kaiju network. He hosts both a DnD lore-creation podcast (Loremasters) and a film analysis podcast (The Prestige). So go follow him on twitter!   As always, you can download the full notes for the room below to play along, or run a game yourself!Full Room Write Up   We've started a 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 murder-mystery episodes, badges, and more! Plus all our patrons have the chance to appear in our rooms, such as today's featured patron: Steven Valdez.   Have questions, comments, puzzles, or anything else? Send us an email, and follow us on facebook and twitter.

This episode is a little different than usual, it’s our first ever live episode! In May this year, Dani and I were invited to run an episode at Up The Game in the Netherlands. The conference was spectacular, and we met a lot of cool people, and went to a lot of cool talks. This episode features:Manda Whitney of the Room Escape Divas podcastNick Moran of “Time Run” in London, who now run the only official BBC Sherlock escape game “Sherlock: The Game is Now”. Ethan Rodriguez-Torrent of Escape New HavenKen Ferguson from The Logic Escapes Me   We are now on Patreon! At $1 or more, you’ll get to see our blog posts, and have your name added to the hat from which we name future characters in rooms. At $5 or more, you’ll also get access to additional episodes. The first is up now, in which I act as detective to solve one of the first murder mysteries ever written, “Murders on the Rue Morgue”. At higher tiers you also get access to exclusive merchandise, and even having Dani run a room for you personally before it’s released!  

In this episode, Dani and Bill wrap up the Children of Maesaris Arc. We talk about the triumphs and difficulties of making a 10 episode arc of connected escape rooms, future plans, and our favourite moments from season 2.