In the most long overdue cross-over since Eastenders made a Bastard episode with Neighbours (true story), we finally welcome our natural ancestors from Escape This Podcast and take them... to their own studio. But all is not well, they are locked out, Jon has beaten them to it and is about to takeover the (podcast) world.

Join Mairi, Jamie, special guests Dani and Bill from Escape This Podcast and a very, very special cameo, as they try to take down the plummy giant, Lilliput style.

• Puzzle Maestro: Jamie Gibbs

• Solvers: Mairi Nolan, Dani Siller, Bill Sunderland

• Episode Art: Dom Jordan

• Editor (and self impersonator): Jon Saunders

Visual handouts to play along

• Mixing desk
• Poster
• Notepad

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In this episode, Jamie joins forces with two very special guests in order to take on a rogue Mike and Jon who are concocting a podcasting takeover of epic proportions. Their target - the enormous Escape This Podcast skyscraper that dominates the Sydney skyline. The date - the Australian national podcasting festival. Expect improv, terrible puns, and a cameo from a man pretending to be the Mayor of Sydney.

In this episode we're joined by special guests Dani and Bill from Escape This Podcast.

• Puzzle Maestro: Mairi Nolan

• Solvers: Jamie Gibbs, Dani Siller, Bill Sunderland

• Episode Art: Dom Jordan

• Editor: Mike Collins

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Join us in the once watery depths of the former English Channel, now a desertified wasteland! The team discuss whether live actors have a place in Escape Rooms at all, chew over their best and worst experiences of this ever popular feature, and whether the rooms that feature them heavily even count as Escape Rooms at all.

As ever, we come to you with some recommendations for the month ahead.

Bailey - The Tiny Chef Show (Stop motion tiny chef. Adorable and wholesome in equal measure)

Mairi - Jet Lag The Game (Imagine some comedians playing Hide and Seek...using continents.)

Jamie - Tom Bates (Very British animation about a tiny man and his horse called Nigel)

Jon - Going for a walk in the woods and leaving your phone in the car (because a lot of the modern world just sucks)

Hosts: Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan, Emma Bailey, Jon Saunders

Editor: Jon Saunders

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With water (for coolant) and petrol (for fun) secured, the team need only the ice cream van keys to see them on their merry way. Surely the Ice Cream Man will have them, and, oh look, he's just over there...

• Puzzle Maestro: Mairi Nolan

• Solvers: Jamie Gibbs, Jon Saunders, Bailey

• Episode Art: Dom Jordan

• Editor: Jamie Gibbs

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On the hunt for some water to help power our only means of escape: an old ice cream truck, the team take refuge inside a toilet block.

Again..? Yes! Look, we like toilet blocks on this podcast. But this toilet block turns out to be used for something quite unexpected. Get in, get the water, and get out. Just don't, whatever you do, use a black light in here.

• Puzzle Maestro: Jon Saunders

• Solvers: Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan, Bailey

• Episode Art: Dom Jordan

• Editor: Jamie Gibbs

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After being a little too successful at getting the sun to rise, Great Britain has turned into a scorching hot warzone of the delicious ice-cream-y kind. As the group head south to the beach, they soon encounter the aftermath of a great fight. Tanks retrofitted to fire lollies litter the street, unexploded cookie sandwich mines lay in wait, and there... Tucked away under a small patch of shade... Is one final ice cream van.

Will we be able to escape into the ice cream van in time?!

• Puzzle Maestro: Jamie Gibbs

• Solvers: Jon Saunders, Mairi Nolan, Bailey

• Episode Art: Dom Jordan

• Editor: Mike Collins

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Join us all at The Drunk Druid for a chat on all things Puzzles vs Narrative in game design. For this episode, we're joined by the fantastic Nathan and Marcus who are hosts of the Aurelius Whitlock's Murder Museum podcast, and designers on hugely popular video game, Rise of the Golden Idol.

Enjoy!

As always the team have recommendations for your better enjoyment. This month, they are!

• Jamie Death and other details Mandy Patinkin being Poirot on a cruise ship. What's not to like.
• Mike James Lee - How I think Creatively YT video - Frankly terrifying Youtuber giving advice on creativity as if he's cast himself in Sin City.
• Nathan Blue Prince Honestly the entire team lost their minds so completely as soon as this game got mentioned that I was sick a little in my mouth.
• Marcus Elyot - 30 Puzzle Design Lessons Another YT video - Frankly obscenely wide ranging and deep (and I mean deep, like, Oceangate deep) on puzzle design.
• Mairi Uketu Strange Pictures AN ACTUAL BOOK. ACTUAL PROPER CULTURE. THANK YOU MAIRI, THANK YOU. Oh wait it's by a Youtuber. However, a Youtuber that wrote a book that Mairi polished off in a single sitting. And, frankly (my word of the day), I have never met someone as easily distracted so, hats off Uketu. You broke Mairi.

Recommendations summarised by the editor, Jon; who was, by the end, so utterly enraged by having this entire set of show notes accidentally deleted that he really went off on one and then began writing about himself in the third person.

What a guy.

Hosts: Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan, Mike Collins

Guests: Nathan and Marcus of Aurelius Whitlock's Murder Museum

Editor: Jon Saunders

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Having begun the ritual to bring about the rising of the Sun, the team must now complete it. To do this, they step, in pairs, into the most hallowed structure of the ancient Druidic religion, the Portaloo. Maybe leave your UV torches at home, folks.

In this episode, we're joined by Marcus Richardson and Nathan Hicken, the fantastic hosts of the murder mystery podcast Aurelius Whitlock's Murder Museum.

• Puzzle Maestro: Mairi Nolan

• Solvers: Mike Collins, Jamie Gibbs, Marcus Richardson and Nathan Hicken

• Episode Art: Dom Jordan

• Editor: Jon Saunders

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• Spotify

...and wherever you get your podcasts usually!