Kirsty and Jim are on a mission: to do every escape room in the world, and then talk about them. What could go wrong?
New episodes every other Tuesday (ish), until all the escape rooms in the world are done.
What better way to round off our second Halloween season than by being handcuffed and chained up in the freezer of an axe-murdering chef? I don't even know if that's a rhetorical question. We go back to Rotofobia in Rotorua to tackle a slasher horror and to investigate a crucial mystery: #WHEREARETHEEYEBALLS?
Content note: There is some discussion of cannibalism in this episode
One Hell of a Kitchen on the Rotofobia website (https://www.rotofobia.co.nz/rooms/)
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19 Oct 2021
Cryptic Quiz Night (Confinement)
We were solving cryptic questions in a cocktail baaarrrr! Well, we did it a few weeks back when we recorded this episode. And then we went into a lockdown. So enjoy the youthful, playful flavour of two people who had been outside for fun to go to a place with other people. Enjoy the booth booth booth booth booth, the sassy cop, and the 51-piece puzzle from hell.
Cryptic Quiz Nights on Confinement's website (https://www.hamilton.confinement.co.nz/cryptic-game-nights-at-mystic-den/)
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12 Oct 2021
Tabby Lane (Escapist)
Halloween season has returned... from THE GRAVE! That's right, it's the most wonderful time of the year, featuring hauntings, frights, horrors, and your two favourite thots (That Halloween-escape-room-podcaster Over There).
We start with Escapist's new witchy room Tabby Lane. Can we save our cat? Is Agatha our aunt? What's that in the top right corner of the post-it note? Will we ever get more biscotti?
Tabby Lane on the Escapist website (https://www.escapist.co.nz/tabby-lane/)
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24 Aug 2021
The Bank of Australia Heist (Escape Hunt Sydney) Feat. Sophia Halpin and Ellie Featherston
After a brief hiatus, we reconvene with two friends, Ellie Featherston (of Out Of Our Vulcan Minds (https://anchor.fm/vulcan-minds)) and previous guest Sophia Halpin, to discuss Escape Hamilton's first international room, involving a heist at the Bank of Australia in Sydney. In 1920! And a failure to identify where keys go. In 2021! Plus: which way is the one way in a one-way mirror?
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Bank of Australia Heist on Escape Hunt's website (https://escapehunt.com/au/sydney/games/the-bank-of-australia-heist/)
13 Jun 2021
Trailer: I Get That A Lot
More Escape Hamilton coming soon! But in the meantime, check out Jim's new podcast project I Get That A Lot (//anchor.fm/igetthatalot/)!
Get early access and bonus episodes on our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/jimfishwick).
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Music by Louie Zong (https://www.louiezong.com/) ('A Radish Beat' from Vegetable Soul)
Podcast art by Sam Wade (https://www.samwade.com.au/)
Production support by Martin Gallagher of Echidna Audio (https://echidnaaudio.com/)
14 Apr 2021
Murdoch Manor Revisited (Confinement)
After a brief hiatus, Season 2 continues by returning to a room from Season 1! The team at Confinement have revised, refreshed and retackled their murder mystery room Murdoch Manor, and we were thrilled to have a chance to see what they've done with the place. But most importantly, this episode marks our entry into competitive food eating. No, really.
Murdoch Manor on the Confinement website (https://www.confinement.co.nz/escape-rooms/)
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22 Mar 2021
Secret Saloon (Trapd)
Yeeee-haw! Well howdy there folks, won't you gather round while Jim and Kirsty tell you the tale of how they escaped the clutches of the wiley ol' sheriff who was tryna lock them up in the town's saloon? They have a good ol' fashioned chinwag about callie bawlies, Finnish swears, and make a grand promise about a lump of cordite.
Secret Saloon on the Trapd website (https://www.trapd.co.nz/)
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17 Mar 2021
Stripclub Escape (Rotofobia)
We head to Kirsty's old stomping grounds of Rotorua, to try an escape room with a very unique premise: it's a strip club! The clue's in the title, really. Listen to this episode to find out how it compares to the real thing, to marvel at how awkward Jim gets when talking about... rude things... and to work out how NASA's smellologist figures into all this.
Strip Club on the Rotofobia website
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7 Dec 2020
Awards Season
To mark the end of Season One of Escape Hamilton, Jim and Kirsty present a gala of the highest acclaim: The Prestigious and Totally Objective Awards For Achivements In Hamiltonian Escape Room Making. We encapsulate the highlights of what we've seen in our first season, and reward that which we enjoyed. So grab an incredibly expensive ballgown, put down some red carpet, and prepare for our rigorously thought-out opinions!
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27 Oct 2020
Over-Throne (Lilliputt Fun Zone)
To end the Halloween season, the prophecy insists that we must return... to the beginning. Over-Throne at Lilliputt Fun Zone Escape Rooms at Centre Place was the very first escape room that we did in Hamilton, and the thing that inspired us to start a podcast in the first place. So now we return to it, to revisit all the different components of this room: the ones that lit us up inside, and the ones that left us feeling cold. In many ways this room is a song... of ice... and fire...
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Over-Throne on the Lilliputt website (https://www.lilliputt.co.nz/fun-zone/escape-rooms)
19 Oct 2020
Bewitched (Escapist)
Halloween is nearly here, and we celebrate with our second witchcraft themed room. And, if we're honest, this one may well be one of favourite room we've ever done. Or should we say... two rooms?
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Bewitched on the Escapist website (https://www.escapist.co.nz/escape-rooms/)
13 Oct 2020
The Lost Villa (Confinement)
We have a spooky mystery for you... the case of the disappearing Halloween theme! We arrive at Confinement to find that one of the rooms we'd set aside for our Halloween theme is mysteriously not that spooky!! Okay, we didn't do our planning as well as we could but we're just vibing it out, alright? It's still a cute fun time.
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The Lost Villa on Confinement's website (https://www.confinement.co.nz/page/the-lost-villa/)
5 Oct 2020
The Chamber of Magic (Lilliputt Fun Zone)
Our Halloween season continues with a magical trip to Lilliputt Fun Zone Escape Rooms At Centre Place for a generic wizarding and witchcraft school-based fantasy themed room. Entirely unrelated to any other intellectual property you may be thinking of.
Also, unrelated, TRANS RIGHTS. Just while we have your attention.
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The Chamber of Magic on Lilliputt's website (https://www.lilliputt.co.nz/fun-zone/escape-rooms)
28 Sept 2020
Forsaken Farmhouse (Escapist)
We kick off our spooktacular five-week Halloween season by tackling a slasher thriller of a room at Escapist Entertainment. We get trapped in a basement! The lights go out! There are body parts! And, most importantly, we demonstrate the importance of not sucking at sucking.
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Forsaken Farmhouse on Escapist's website (https://www.escapist.co.nz/escape-rooms/)
1 Sept 2020
Jungle Story (Lilliput Fun Zone)
Welcome to the jungle, baby, we got escape games. And board games. Namely Jumanji. We return to (and have difficulty pronouncing) Lilliput Fun Zone Escape Rooms in Centre Place for a jungle-themed room that delights us both, despite the bruises. Also Jim hasn't seen Jumanji, what's up with that?
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Jungle Story on Lilliput's website (https://www.lilliputt.co.nz/fun-zone/escape-rooms)
25 Aug 2020
Hei$t (Escapist)
Are we a 1980 single by The Clash? Because this week it's time to be a Bankrobber. We never hurt nobody, we just love to live that way, and we love to take as much money as we can from the bank vaults at Escapist Entertainment. Probably for the best that we're not actual criminals though, this room didn't go quite as well as we might have hoped. WHOOPS!
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Hei$t on Escapist's website (https://www.escapist.co.nz/escape-rooms/)
28 Jul 2020
Tzolk'in (Escapist)
We put on our archaeological hats and set off to explore a temple, just like Lara Croft but without the destruction. Hopefully. And what's more, we introduce a brand new segment! How much more thrilling can one episode get?
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Tzolk'in on the Escapist website (https://www.escapist.co.nz/escape-rooms/)
7 Jul 2020
Dark Side of the Room (Escape HQ)
For our first episode, we go to Escape HQ (formerly Perplexity) and go on the hunt for a missing guitarist. We have a lot of fun, even despite the combination locks, problematic stereotypes, and, worst of all... 70s prog rock.
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Dark Side of the Room on Escape HQ's website (https://www.escapehq.co.nz/hamilton/games/dark-side-of-the-room/)
30 Jun 2020
Trailer: Escape Hamilton
Two friends (okay, actually we're married, we admit it) Kirsty and Jim are on a mission to do every escape room and talk about them. We started in the city of Kirikiriroa Hamilton (hence the name) in Aotearoa New Zealannd, but now we do escape rooms all over the place. And this is what our voices sound like!
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