Radio 1’s summer holiday had become an escape room
Greg James, Jordan North and Vick Hope were away on Radio 1’s Summer Breakout.
A normal road trip would apparently have been too easy.
Jordan had turned their campervan into an escape room on wheels and locked Greg inside.
The door could only be opened with a password Jordan had chosen.
Greg therefore needed the rest of Radio 1 — and its listeners — to work through a trail of increasingly ridiculous clues.
Scott and Chris joined the investigation from the studio.
Vick had to read a clue on a roller coaster
One piece of evidence came from Vick while she was actually on a roller coaster.
She was allowed to read the clue only once.
Between the ride, shouting and background noise, simply hearing it was difficult.
The riddle said Sunday was its favourite day of the week, that you would know it was coming from the jingle of a bell and that working out exactly who it was would not be easy.
A listener guessed ice cream.
Jordan announced it was wrong.
The programme was now trying to solve riddles where even a very sensible answer could be dismissed without further help.
Blackpool Tower supplied a giant Jordan North
Another clue appeared at the top of Blackpool Tower.
There was a huge picture of Jordan’s face surrounded by seaside objects.
An ice cream.
A sandcastle.
Fish and chips.
A crab.
A seagull.
A beach ball.
Sunglasses.
Everything screamed seaside.
Scott and Chris still did not know how the collection translated into the password Greg needed.
Jordan seemed delighted by the confusion.
The food clue made everybody’s head hurt
Scott and Chris were then given another audio clue involving food preparation.
It referred to cutting things evenly and cooking them properly.
The wording sounded as though somebody might be preparing chips or something else associated with the seaside.
The pair replayed it repeatedly.
Each listen created another theory.
Nothing felt decisive.
Scott admitted the whole challenge was making his head fizz.
That was exactly the response Jordan seemed to want.
Love Islander or Philosopher returned
Don’t Look It Up provided a different kind of puzzle.
Scott and Chris heard supposedly wise statements and had to decide whether the speaker was a philosopher or a *Love Island* contestant.
“We live in the best of all possible worlds” came from the 17th-century philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
“It’s better to be better than bitter” came from the reality-TV side of the game.
Removed from context, both sounded capable of belonging to either category.
Greg remained locked in the campervan.
The philosophy quiz was considerably easier than Jordan North’s escape room.
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