Aled, Jamie, and Mike spent a day in Tonypandy, a small town in South Wales, just outside Pontypridd. While there, we took on Rhondda Escape Rooms and had a blast! This isn’t sponsored content, but we had a mic in our pocket (fnar) thought it’d make a cheeky New Year's bonus episode. If you enjoy this escape room travelogue, let us know, and we might do more in the future. Happy New Year!

On the run from the sudden appearance of a cyber yeti, the gang are forced to crawl through the vents of Nakatomi Plaza in their crisp white vests, all for the benefit of the Ronald Reagan head-in-a-jar's quest to save cinema.

But there is a small bit of treachery afoot, as they soon find out ...

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Puzzle Master: Emma Bailey

Solvers: Mike Collins, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs

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Music from freepd.com

• Happy Whistling Ukulele - Rafael Krux
• Funky Energy Loop - Kevin Macleod

SFX from freesound.org

• bell ding - 5ro4
• walkie talkie static - crcavol
• walkie talkie over - miscpractice
• metal piece falling - robinhood76
• fire starter lighter or match - jomungus
• stepping on broken glass - lukacafuka
• air hiss strongest - beerbelly38

This week, Mike, Jon and Jamie are joined by Emma as they come face to face with the embalmed head-in-a-jar of Ronald Reagan (who can somehow still manage to smoke cigars ...). Ronald has charged the gang with saving cinema by powering up a battered replica DeLorean from Back to the Future and locating the elusive 'Ski pads'.

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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.

And if you want to support the podcast and get fun bonuses like early access to episodes, watch live recordings and get in on our Discord channel, join our Patreon.

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Puzzle Master: Mike Collins

Solvers: Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs, Emma Bailey

Episode art: Dom Jordan

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Music from freepd.com

Happy Whistling Ukulele - Rafael Krux Honour Bound - Bryan Teoh Beginning of Conflict - Rafael Krux

SFX from freesound.org Polite coughing - Turbofool Synth Sparkle - komit.wav Short fart - Dsisstudios Pressing Stop on An Old Tape Machine - djlprojects FabricRipping2Stereo.wav - somewhatimmoral Sci Fi HUD Screen Select FX 1 - deadrobotmusic DeLorean DMC-12 (V6 PRV engine) - SkyernAklea Sci_Fi_Machine_Spin_Up 0 - SieuAmThanh Bang_003.mp3 - cydon

Having saved Christmas from geographically diverse criminal gangs, we kick back in the Legless Elf pub to sup some mead, shoot the breeze about the rooms we solved, and share some of our recommendations for the month.

In the finale to our Christmas special, the last of the world's most regionally diverse mafias set the gang on a hunt across the maps. Google Maps to be precise. Will Santa be able to call in a surgical strike from low earth orbit, or will it be mandatory Welsh coal for all the kiddies this Christmas?

Join Mike, Mairi and Jamie as they battle internet vandal Jon's fiendish doings.

Having...solved... Jamie's Kiwi Confederacy the gang face off against Mairi's eldritch horror of the Yorkshire Nanas. Never fear though, they've got plucky, capable and ... disposable ... elves to help them through.

Original art for each episode is by Dom Jordan. You can check out more of his art over at https://domjordanillustration.com/

It's the first in our 2024 Christmas series, where the gang try and stop internationally typecast mafias from destroying Christmas.

This week, Jamie presents Mike, Jon and Mairi with a nail biting conundrum - are the New Zealand Mafia really bad enough to go on the naughty list, or is all fair in love and garotte wire?

Original art for each episode is by Dom Jordan. Check out more of his stuff at https://domjordanillustration.com/

This is the final episode in our Grumbledown series, in which the team successfully assassinated the predatory schoolmasters of Grumbledown's Preparatory Something or other for the whatsits...we never did quite figure out the name.

Having dispatched the Latinmaster, we adjourne to the pub, The Post Plutius. Jon attempts to blind himself, Mike makes excuses for getting his Latin wrong, Jamie makes it all look easy and we all take some time to enjoy Ben's greatest hits.

This is Ben's final episode of The Infinite Escape Room, certainly as a producer, though I'm sure we'll tempt him back as a solver some day!

This episode features: Ben, Mike, Jamie and Jon