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Posted February 13, 2015
You've got a pickle, a snowglobe and a pool noodle. What will your legendary jailbreak be?

Many real-life prison escapes happened in ways one would not expect. Choi Gap-bok squeezed through a food slot to get out of his jail cell. Jack Sheppard was an 18th century prison break celebrity after pulling off the bedsheet rope trick a few times. Frank Abagnale actually convinced his guard that he was the prison inspector. Three Parkhurst Prison escapees actually created their own master key as part of their legendary breakout.

Compared with those, the task that lies ahead of you should seem like child's play.
You're in jail. Having managed to gather the three items crucial to your escape - those being a snowglobe, pool noodle, and a pickle - you must now conduct your escape plan. How will you do it?

The conditions are:
1. Your plan has to be possible to execute within 12 hours
2. You have to get out of jail in a condition allowing for further escape
3. You have to use all three items
4. You do not have help within the prison

Tell us in a comment how you're going to pull it off, but make sure to fit your plan in 100 words or less! Post your entry no later than Friday, February 20th at 4:59 PM GMT

- 1 post per person, any edits to be made within 3 hours of posting
- Winners will be announced no later than February 27th

We will choose 3 winners - each of them will get a swag bag from Team 17, publishers of The Escapists (incl. a towel, a hoodie and "prison soap") and 5 GOG.com gift codes to aid them in their jailbreak ploy. We’ll also pick honorable mentions and reward them with a GOG.com gift code each!
Post edited February 17, 2015 by GOG.com
Posted February 14, 2015
I knock out the slow, dim-witted guard that is my escort for laundry duty using the snow globe. I then wrap the pool noodle around my mid section to better simulate the guard's beer belly. I take and put on the guard's uniform and head to the prison exit. Escape made!

I then consume the pickle as my victory dinner, as nothing tastes sweeter than the pickle of freedom.
Post edited February 14, 2015 by Fomalhaut30
Posted February 14, 2015
Cut up pool noodles and make foam lightsabers out of them, challenge guard to a lightsaber dual. Once inside the cell smack him over the head with the snow-globe, steal keys. Once near the next checkpoint shake snow-globe, tell guard at checkpoint to focus entirely on the snow-globe before they realize whats happening, hypnotize him/her with the pretty snow. Tell them to unlock all remaining doors.

Walk outside, use pickle to bribe someone to drive you away to a safe place.
Posted February 14, 2015
I had to look up pool noodle too. I was assuming it was either a type of noodle or something to do with the game of pool (perhaps the equivalent to a snooker cue or rest). I recognise that shape of float but not that name for them.

If that's US terminology then does it mean pickle is specifically referring to a gherkin rather than any pickled item of your choice (onion, egg, herring, shark etc.)?
Posted February 14, 2015
The guard always eats the leftover food from my tray as he is leaving, but today the pickle has been soaked in the mysterious nasty fluid from the snow globe. When he starts to choke and he is holding my tray with both hands, I whip the strip of pool noodle I cut using the snow globe shards around his neck. Once he is unconscious, I take his uniform and tie him up with the rest of the pool noodle strips. I calmly take my tray to the cafeteria opening any doors with his keys, and go outside from there.
Posted February 14, 2015
To draw the attention of the prison guard, I break the snowball and use the broken glasses to make small cuts on my face and arms. Once the guard enters my cell, I restrain him with the pool noodle around his neck, and the pickle on his mouth in order to keep him quiet. Then I use his clothes to dress up like a guard. With his keys I release the other prisoners and sound the alarm. In the confusion, everyone will think I’m an injured guard and I’ll be able to walk outside not looking suspicious.
Posted February 15, 2015
I would start by eating the pickle, because you can’t escape jail with an empty belly. Then I would call a guard, who would try to confiscate my pool noodle. I would hit him with the snow globe on his head, incapacitating him. The snow globe would break causing the snow to fall down. I would pick the snow up, and I would get out of the cell and start running, waving my pool noodle around, while throwing the snow I previously picked up. I would look so fabulous that no one would try to stop me.
Post edited February 15, 2015 by sharptap
Posted February 15, 2015
Shoved noodle in my pants. Went to courtyard and claimed that my junk was larger than another inmates. While that didn't aggravate him, making several unnecessary yo-mama jokes did. He charged at me, I lifted a pickle up in the air (it was stored in my underwear) which caused a vicious prison riot (Pickles are hard to come by these days). Danny, a rookie guard, came rushing in yelling "RESPECT MY AUTHORITY." I snatched his access card among the ruckus and replaced it with the pickle. At night, I burned through the vents with the hydro-sulfuric acid that was stored in a snow globe (courtesy of Socko from the outside). Crawling through, I finally reached the Dean's office. Opened door with card. Unfortunately the dean was still there, with no choice, I unzipped my pants causing the noodle to flap out carrying an unfamiliar stench along with it. The Dean doubled over from fear. I took a leap of faith out the window into a conveniently placed pile of hay. It was hauled away by Man-Bear-Pig, unaware of the extra load. #TrueStory
Posted February 15, 2015
Not one of you actually bothered to look up the CONTENTS of a snowglobe on Wikipedia???

" For health and safety reasons, white plastic has become more common in the construction of modern snow globes. The liquid has evolved to light oil and then a mixture of water and antifreeze (glycerin or glycol). An added benefit was that glycerin and glycol slowed the descent of the snow. Caution should be taken if a snow globe is broken because the liquid, which can contain antifreeze, can be deadly to cats and dogs if ingested or licked off their fur."

I would appreciate at least a free code for this potentially EXPLOSIVE or POISONOUS tip.

I expect your plots to become far better than what I've seen so far.

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Off the top of my head ...

1. Carefully separate the metallic base of the snow globe from the sphere containing the light (very flammable) oil.
2. Filter the oil through a few socks and set the glitter aside.
3. Make a wires from the edge of the metallic base of the globe.
4. Push wires through rubber prison issue sandals to avoid electrocution. Holding sandals, spark a sock on fire with the wires and throw burning sock out the bars into the common area to get a lockdown.
5. While everyone else is screaming and banging on the bars, scrape and bash a hole in the substandard, lowest bidder exterior wall with the remaining metal base.
6. Place the half filled oil globe in the hole. (You need air mixed with oil fumes to get a good detonation).
7. Pack solid with laundry around the oil soaked sock. (We're making a contained explosive device here with a Molotov cocktail-esque wick) and shove bed against detonation point.
8. Macerate (mash up) the pickle and glitter together.
9. Make a line from nearest power plug to the oily sock.
10. Using previously made sandal wire holders, spark power socket with wires to the juice and metallic glitter to light the sock.
11. Hold bed against wall with feet while you are in far corner of cell breathing hallway air through pool noodle.
12. Boom ... much noise and smoke.
13. Escape through the hole in the wall.
14. Run away while the prison is filled with toxic smoke from explosion and burning prison clothes.

Please note: I do not consider 4 & 5 as "help" from others if you trigger the lockdown riot yourself, you are just using normal inmate response to a lockdown.

Otherwise you could replace 4 & 5 with:
4/5. Scrape a hole over several hours with the metallic base while pretending to noisily exercise kicking the bed.
Post edited February 15, 2015 by Ikaris_unbound
Posted February 15, 2015
I don't know who returned my snowglobe to me, or how they did it while I was behind bars. It was genuine Austrian, glass and wood. I shook the globe. The swirling entranced me, and spirited me away from these grim walls.

I startled awake. The snowglobe had shattered - on the floor, on the guard. I panicked. I needed a pickle, or I would spiral into despair again. I had a pickle - there, across the room. If only I could reach it. Pool noodle!

The pickle rush had downsides. Blood, screams, pain. I stopped hearing them, now free...
Posted February 15, 2015
19:00: Played with snowglobe too soon. Taken away by guard. Just my cup, with water and lint in it. Didn't even have time to make an angel for it.

19:30: Shake a pickle. Not the same.

20:00: Miss the snowglobe.

21:00: See a pool noodle just outside cell. Am losing my mind.

22:00: Guard roughed me up for not sleeping. Punched him in face with pickle. He succumbed to the pickle.

02:30: Been using pool noodle as a dowsing rod for an escape tunnel for hours.

04:00: My snowglobe, shining in some forgotten hole to freedom. Had angel after all.
Posted February 15, 2015
Engage Anakin Skywalker mode: NNNNOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

I've just seen the 100 words limit, that I missed fabulously... T,T

Hope to be read and to make you laugh, at least! ^_^
Posted February 15, 2015
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Ankareth: Engage Anakin Skywalker mode: NNNNOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

I've just seen the 100 words limit, that I missed fabulously... T,T

Hope to be read and to make you laugh, at least! ^_^
Completely agree!

Their is no limit to your imagination.
Except the 100 word limit.

Great Story enjoyed reading it.
Posted February 15, 2015
Here comes the special prize for worst abuse of definitions:

From the "pickle" (which is the fully loaded HMS_Pickle) I wrap the pool noodle around the gun lever and take one end to my hand. I enter the man-sized snowglobe made of unbreakable transparent material after wrapping the noodle around it in a way that it will not fly away, preferrably in a corner. Now I pull the pool noodle until it activates the gun lever. There is a big explosion, the snowglobe with me bounces around a bit, but most of the blast is feathered by the construction with the pool noodle. I now leave the snowglobe into freedom.

(Alternatively, if there were guards at the prison, they will be on my trail, so replace the last sentence with: "I roll away now in my snowglobe." In any case exact 100 words if I counted correctly. And yes, you didn't specify how long the pool noodle is either. :-))
Post edited February 15, 2015 by Protoss
Posted February 15, 2015
I'd find the guard manning the control room with the controls to open the main door, distract him with the snow globe then slip the pickle into his lunch. Pickles give him really bad stomach problems, so he has to rush to the toilet, and after he's on his way out the door I block the control room door from closing with the pool noodle. I then get into the control room, open all the doors and escape in the ensuing chaos.
Posted February 15, 2015
1. Bite pickle to form shape of a gun.
2, Tell guard that prisoner in the cell across the hall is planning escape and someone is smuggling him a weapon after lunch today.
3. Snow globe is placed on the cell windowsill to focus sunlight. Place the pickle in front of the sunlight to cast the shadow of a gun in the cell across the hall.
4. When guard comes up and sees the shadow of the gun in the cell across the hall, reach both hands through the bars, get the pool noodle around his neck, pull, take gun and keys, and escape.
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