Hello to all you excellent, erudite, educated, eggheads, eager, and excited to escape, on

Wii.

Welcome to Good Job Brain, your weekly quiz show and off-beat trivia podcast.

I am your constantly curious co-host, Chris, and today you're listening to a very special

bonus episode.

This is being released at the same time as your regular episode of Good Job Brain, and this

special bonus is all about escape rooms, and that is why we have brought on a special guest

for you.

She's a writer, an artist, a professional puzzle maker, and she designs and runs escape rooms

and other types of immersive environments as well.

And she is...

Laura E. Hall.

Hi.

Hello, Laura E. Hall.

We are bringing you on now, we're doing this now because you have just released a brand

new book.

Can you tell us about that?

Yeah, so the book is called Planning Your Escape, subtitled Strategy Secrets to Make

You an Escape Room Superstar.

Yeah, the book is basically an introduction to the history of escape rooms.

It kind of goes through the whole genre and history of immersive and talks about why

people play and what compels us to come together in sort of real life spaces and that kind

...