35 - The Escape Room Industry with Nate Martin

Hello! In our 35th episode, we had a great time chatting with Nate Martin of Puzzle Break! We talk about his escape facility, Escape the Rubicon (his escape room on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship), and the escape room industry in general!

For our parody, Codegreen (whom I call leader) was excited to write a Moana parody! So she sent us the lyrics and got Si Miu to sing it! Huzzah! You can find them and their reviews on Escapers 4G.

And here are the lyrics for our parody song! ^_^

I've been staring at the words on the paper
Long as I can remember, never really knowing why
I wish , I could be a good escapist
But I know I'm not the greatest, no matter how hard I try

Every step I make, every Braille I crack
Every code I break, every clue leads back
How am I so slow, why do I not know
How to get the key

See the line of this code it's so hard and needs solving
Oh I don't know, my brain has froze
And I think I will fail for this room is beyond me
I'm not a pro, and I know my team's escape rate's kinda low

I know, we are working on these puzzles
they are happy with these puzzles
Everything is well designed
I know they are working on these puzzles
what's my role with these puzzles?
I dunno if we'll escape in time

I should solve not hide, I can see what's wrong
I'm not satisfied to just play along
But the voice inside says I take too long
What is wrong with me?

Shine the light on the wall I can see, it's tiny
No that's not right, use the black light
Here we go, there's a glow and it's pointing behind me
And now we'll know

Do you hear that chime, are we out of time?

See the line on the wall can you read it out to me
Just let me know, try the combo
But the words, I can see, they are written in Chinese
The final code, we were too slow...

34 - Pop Up Escape Rooms with Melissa Eapen

In our 34th episode, we talk to Melissa Eapen of Improbable Escapes about Pop up escape rooms!

We also discuss Ontario's Escape Room 2017 Unconference, where she helped organize the workshops along with Jake Walling of Escape Maze and Christine Hibbard of Looking Glass Adventures.  

You can check out a quick write up of the unconference in the Brantford Expositor. There, you'll find a picture of Scott Nicholson, Manda, Errol, and David Korhonen. 

And finally, the parody for this episode was written by Rob Leveille! He manages the Crux in Niagara! Thanks so much Rob and great job!

33 Room Escape Show Niagara

In our 33rd episode, the divas get a chance to talk to Jen Braverman and Rich Bianco who are running Escape To the North, a room escape conference!

In fact, if you go to their seminar page, you will find us! The Divas are doing a live podcast recording! Huzzah!

We did not write that bio...

If you want more information, you are free to email Jen herself at jen@haashow.com

And Errol wants everyone to know the song was hard to sing.

32 - Singapore Escape Rooms with Janice Heng

In their 32nd episode, the divas get a chance to talk to Janice Heng who runs the Singaporean escape room blog Escaping SG.

Errol also wrote an escape room love song, because he believes there aren't enough of them. He recruited Noelle Sorrell who has been singing since she came out of the womb. She works as the Ops Manager at Hidden Trail in Windsor, Ontario.

31 - Puzzle Design with Dan Katz

This week we interview puzzle designer and enthusiast Dan Katz! This is probably our longest podcast yet. Blame Errol.

Dan Katz has written puzzlehunt puzzles for the MIT Mystery Hunt, the Gen Con Puzzle Hunt, and BAPHL. His puzzles have also appeared in Wired, MAA Focus, and Games World of Puzzles. His most notorious gift to the puzzling community is the follow-the-deranged-directions puzzle format known as the Duck Konundrum, for which he sincerely apologizes.

Check out Dan's new puzzle blog at puzzlvaria.wordpress.com

For the curious, see the most excellent Xbox puzzle on youtube.

And the parody song was written and performed by Dan Katz himself!

30 - Hype in Escape Rooms - Interview with David and Lisa Spira

This week, we interview David and Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist to talk about the hype in escape rooms! Manpans was quite happy because we were able to get Naomi Lewin to do the sound editing. We are eternally grateful.

Also, behold our new look! It's glorious!

29 - Escape Rooms in the UK - Interview with Chris Dickson and Ken Ferguson

It's Season 2 of the Room Escape Divas, and in our first official podcast for 2017, we have a great interview with Ken Ferguson of The Logic Escapes Me and Chris Dickson of Ex Exit Games. 

[Let's Play Video] Room Escape Divas GoPro a Pop up Escape Room

Armed with a few GoPros, the Room Escape Divas play through a 45 minute pop up escape room. 

Watch as they demonstrate how lacking their observations skills are. 

Thanks to Ray Davies and Nick Newell at Panic Factory for letting us play their Krampus Room.
http://panicfactory.ca

2016 Year in Review

We take a look back at our favourite and least favourite rooms of 2016! Thanks so much for listening, everyone! We're very excited for 2017!