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Sep 12, 2026

Chris DicksonGUEST
4:48
I am really interested in the puzzle hunt tradition of the late 20th century and that carries on in a bigger format today.
Chris DicksonGUEST
5:01
That has been commercialized and commercially successful as a form of it has been in terms of escape rooms for most of the 21st century.
Chris DicksonGUEST
5:13
Escape rooms are lovely, but they suffer from the problem that only one team can play them at once for most of them.
Chris DicksonGUEST
5:21
We can go into discussions, pipeline into games and so forth later.
Chris DicksonGUEST
5:25
And they also suffer the issue that once you play them once, it takes a really special game for you to want to go back and play it a second time.
Chris DicksonGUEST
5:34
But this in mind, some people who've made a lot of escape rooms have been playing around with the format in order to try and get something where they can get more people playing at once and they can get people coming back and playing the same game more and more times and trying to get better at improving it.
Chris DicksonGUEST
5:51
And one of the ways they have found to solve this is a genre of games that...
Jon SaundersHOST
5:59
So we're talking about escape arcades here.
John KellyGUEST
13:57
It really is.
Karlyn BatheHOST
13:58
The only drama is nobody wants to go to escape rooms with me.
Karlyn BatheHOST
14:01
Yeah.
John KellyGUEST
14:04
Maybe I'll try it one day, but I'm just not sure if I would like it.
Karlyn BatheHOST
14:35
The best one that I've done that I won't repeat that I have.
Karlyn BatheHOST
14:38
that i can share is in time square there's a room called the yeti so if you just look up the yeti time square it's an escape room and you're literally on like an everest expedition and it's like meant to look like you're like in the mountains in the cold and like one of our first things spoiler you have to throw snowballs to like do a thing to make this thing move to like get into the next room Way off topic.
Karlyn BatheHOST
15:02
I can talk about escape rooms forever.
Karlyn BatheHOST
15:03
She really can.
Tom VaselHOST
48:39
But that's because on my top 100 list, I often don't put one and done games like the legacy games.
Tom VaselHOST
48:45
But I'll tell you what, 2016, 10 years ago, was the birth of the escape room genre.
Tom VaselHOST
48:51
They were amazing.
Tom VaselHOST
48:53
So I put three of the best ones.
Camilla CleghornHOST
48:57
went a whole genre here.
Camilla CleghornHOST
48:58
You didn't even go Exit Series.
Tom VaselHOST
48:59
No, because Escape Room of Box Werewolf is my favorite of all Escape Room games.
Tom VaselHOST
49:04
That's probably my favorite one.
BillHOST
0:00
[upbeat music] Welcome to Escape This Podcast, a show that's a mix between tabletop role playing and escape room puzzles, and we're in our 10th year.
DaniHOST
0:23
Choo-choo.
BillHOST
0:23
This is ...
BillHOST
0:53
It has not made its first stop yet.
DaniHOST
0:54
[laughs]
BillHOST
0:56
Every episode we have an escape room full of fun puzzles, and characters, and stories solved-
DaniHOST
1:00
And we'll get back to mine eventually
BillHOST
1:03
... solved right in front of your ears.
PaulHOST
44:09
supposed to be here but he's not here
MattHOST
44:11
yeah um yeah so uh if you like uh you saw ripoff movies then you're probably gonna love this one and it's for you thanks a lot bye okay fine um and then yeah so we've got this movie called labyrinth which basically is you see a kind of montage of all these kind of people getting kidnapped and put in a room and you think oh it's gonna be it's gonna be a saw movie it's not an out and out saw ripoff because it doesn't really have loads of traps in it it has different other different scenarios like escape room maybe Yeah, totally.
MattHOST
44:47
A bit more like Escape Room because it's more like a few rooms than a labyrinth.
MattHOST
44:53
But Tommy Flanagan is the kind of main, let's say, jigsaw of it all.
MattHOST
44:58
And he's basically talking them through what they've got to do and what the rules are.
Cousin JakeHOST
33:22
Okay.
Cousin JakeHOST
33:22
Escape Rooms, yeah.
Ahmir ThompsonHOST
33:23
So I use Escape the Rooms as kind of a... a low key kind of tester for people.
Ahmir ThompsonHOST
33:32
Like this shows me who they are in terms of how do you work in groups, how do you solve problems, how smart you are, how patient you are, how you strategize.
Bill SunderlandGUEST
2:43
together to sue you for intellectual copyright.
Bill SunderlandGUEST
2:48
You can't be doing escape rooms on lateral.
Bill SunderlandGUEST
2:50
I don't do lateral thinking questions on Escape This Podcast.
Bill SunderlandGUEST
2:53
I mean, maybe, maybe we do.

47 MINS LATER

Tom ScottHOST
50:21
Thank you very much to our players.
Tom ScottHOST
50:23
Where can people find you? What are you up to? We will start with Bill.
Bill SunderlandGUEST
50:26
Yes, you can find more Escape Room content if you want to hear fun guests play audio Escape Rooms, then check out Escape This Podcast.
Bill SunderlandGUEST
50:37
Just Google it, it'll pop up.
Bill SunderlandGUEST
2:00
Well, it's interesting because I didn't necessarily still want to play it like I would an audio escape room.
Bill SunderlandGUEST
2:09
So I was still hesitant to do a vague check.
Bill SunderlandGUEST
2:14
Often with audio escape rooms, a big part of it is you find a barrier, you acknowledge that there's no way to get through the barrier until you have solved some puzzle.
Bill SunderlandGUEST
2:23
And then you go through, you collect every bit of information that you have access to, and then you use all that to try and solve it.
Bill SunderlandGUEST
2:29
And I was sort of loathed to do that in this setting because while that is quite a fun thing to do with escape rooms, it is inherently not necessarily a character driven thing to do.
Bill SunderlandGUEST
2:39
The idea that I'd be like, I really want to get into the captain's quarters.
Bill SunderlandGUEST
2:41
Why don't I go to the front of the ship and check this? Now I'm going to look under here.

16 MINS LATER

TyHOST
18:45
This episode, I think, speaks to how little you can really...
BillHOST
0:02
Thank you.
BillHOST
0:16
Welcome to Podcast This Escape, the podcast where we talk about the escape room we escaped from in the previous episode of this podcast.
DaniHOST
0:23
Catherine, are we a ghost? Am I a squirrel ghost? Normally we get to say we did it, we escaped.
DaniHOST
0:30
We didn't escape, we died in a terrible fire.
KatherineGUEST
1:57
said,
DaniHOST
1:58
it's incredibly balanced.
KatherineGUEST
2:01
I very much have to like, figure that out in all of the escape rooms I do because the ones I do for the library, we're like in the room with them.
KatherineGUEST
2:11
And I don't want them to feel like they're not having the experience, but then also like, I don't want them to get so frustrated that they just don't have fun.
Alex CarrejoHOST
53:59
go
Joe SlionskiHOST
53:59
there's an illusion for that that they could do somewhere yeah that would be funny all right cool stuff i feel like we got a lot of ideas going here we're only two in number three number three this is probably like my biggest um addition in the sense that like they don't have it at all so you'd be have you totally have to add this this is a completely unique kind of a thing um but i think it would be really awesome to create legit harry potter escape rooms that you can do with your friends that are interactive and at different locations in the series and just running off my head escape i know there's a ride escape gringotts bank but you can turn that into an escape room uh malfoy manor locked up in the in the in the dungeon department of mysteries get out of the department of mysteries um you know one of the more i guess child-friendly ones privet drive escape privet drive or escape uh the cupboard under the stairs or harry's bedroom or whatever The burrow, the love good home, grim old place.
Joe SlionskiHOST
55:02
Maybe you get trapped in time and you got to escape time if they want to do something crazy like that.
Joe SlionskiHOST
55:07
But just taking these really popular locations and being able to host a group of however many people in a room and and they need to quote unquote magically escape the room and it doesn't have to be like a full hour like like normal escape rooms are but it could be like a 20 minute thing that can be more than just a room maybe it's multiple rooms like if you were doing the department of mysteries set it up like the department of mysteries with the circular room and the multiple doors and you got to go in you got to go out you got to find your way out Just something that is interactive and, again, like a livable kind of space that makes you feel like you're really in the Wizarding World.
Joe SlionskiHOST
55:49
I think those are the really cool aspects of these parks and why this series is so popular, because it's such an escape.
Joe SlionskiHOST
55:59
And to be able to do something where you feel
Alex CarrejoHOST
56:36
that's a great idea um and i didn't think of anything close to that so i would be so on board to do as many of those as i could
Brent AllenHOST
56:44
my family and i are big big big escape room folks like we struggle finding new ones and around that we haven't done yet and i would love every single one of those I feel like that would be something more at like a city walk, not necessarily inside the parks proper, but you put that building outside, like in city walk.

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