Join us deep within Robin's Hole, where it's time to pull up a cozy armchair and discuss this week's pubisode topic: When should escape rooms retire? We reflect on some of the recent real-life escape rooms we've played together in Nottingham and discuss the lifecycle of an escape room. How long should an escape room be open for? When should it be updated? When should it be retired? And how might an escape room's life be increased? If you're an owner, when do you retire your rooms?

As always, here are your recommendations for this month.

Jamie - Tears of Metal (videogame), think Dynasty Warriors, a comic book art style but set in medieval Scotland.

Mairi - The Fall (film), a trippy fairy tale of an adventure film.

Jon - The documentaries of Adam Curtis, and in particular, HyperNormalisation.

Mike - Knitting! In the background of whatever you're doing... And I quote: "It keeps your naughty hands busy"

Hosts: Mike Collins, Mairi Nolan, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs

Editor: Jamie Gibbs

The solvers find themselves in a series of strange caves deep underneath Nottingham. But they quickly realise these are no ordinary spaces as they seem to shift and transform on a whim.

Jamie, how big is the space? Mike, where is the door located? Jon, what are the walls made of?

The size of a key or the size of a football pitch? The door is on the ceiling and of course the walls are made of purrfectly normal materials. Right. Right?!

• Puzzle Maestro: Mairi Nolan

• Solvers: Mike Collins, Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs

• Episode Art: Dom Jordan

• Editor: Mike Collins

TLDR: The players walk through a series spaces and can choose the size, the material on the walls, and the way out.

*blip blip blip beeeep*

Somewhere in the labyrinthine corridors of a recording studio, the solvers find themselves back and with a bigger challenge than ever: Find the cassettes and solve the puzzles to put on the ultimate BBC Radio 4 "kitchen drama". What else could possibly save the BBC from it's ten trillion pound debt, afterall? Also Jack Foley is locked in a cupboard.

This is a room which just proves that in the end, everything really is just foley.

• Puzzle Maestro: Mike Collins

• Solvers: Jon Saunders, Jamie Gibbs, Mairi Nolan

• Episode Art: Dom Jordan

• Editor: Mike Collins

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TLDR: The Infinite Escape Room returns, the solvers use a variety of foley items to put on a BBC drama.

The Infinite Escape Room is a comedy escape room podcast where a group of friends make and solve audio escape rooms for one another. It's one part tabletop RPG, one part escape room with a bit of Monkey Island humour sprinkled over the top.