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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 13, 2015
Aha! More contests as well. Time to put my snow globe to good use then.
Posted February 13, 2015
The snow globe, is it the same one the little autistic kid had at the end of St. Elsewhere?
Posted February 13, 2015
If i somehow use the Shawshank redemption plot with those items do i get bonus points?
Posted February 13, 2015
I'm a 2 year-old. Jail is a playpen outside next to the pool.

I stretch over the edge and get a pickle from mother's plate.

I pretend to choke on it. I grab the snowglobe from the playpen. Mother comes and picks me up. She lifts me over the prison wall and puts me down to check me.

I'm fine.

She bends to pick me up to put me back and I smash her over the head with the snowglobe. I grab a pool-noodle and put it over the fence, wedge it between two wooden slats, and climb to freedom.

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Phew, 100 words or less was hard. What are the gift codes for? Multiple copies of The Escapists game to gift, or any games? No matter, I'm entered.
Posted February 13, 2015
I hate a pickle because I have an allergy, this cause a false death. When I wake up, I throw my snowball to the guard, that looking at it forgetting me. Then I simply go outside, take out from my hidden secret stach the pool noodle, start swimming toward FREEDOM!
Posted February 13, 2015
I put the pickle in the pool noodle and use it as a giant blow pipe, I shoot the pickle into the mouth of the guard outside my cell and he chokes on it.

I smash open the snow globe, which by some chance coincidence has a castle in it that is the exact same shape as the key to my cell, so I use it to unlock the door and walk out.

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How's that? What do you mean it wouldn't work? :P
Posted February 13, 2015
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"You are in a prison cell. An unmade bed lies along the West wall, with some books strewn underneath. An unflushed toilet is in the corner. There is a locked exit to the South, guarded by a massive rat.

> inv

"You are carrying: Pool Noodle, Pickle, Snowglobe"

> eat pickle

"You may need this."

> give pickle to rat

"Unknown command 'give'"

> use pickle on rat

"The rat chokes on the pickle and dies. Rest in peace."

> get rat

"You are in a prison cell. An unmade bed lies along the West wall, with some books strewn underneath. An unflushed toilet is in the corner. There is a locked exit to the South."

> get books

"There is a book titled 'How to escape prison using a snowglobe'. Unfortunately you are unable to read."

> put rat in toilet

"Done"

> flush toilet

"The cell starts to flood with water, pouring out through the bars."

"There is some commotion coming from the passageway below your cell."

> use pool of water

"You lie down face first in the pool of water. A guard enters the room and you are rushed to the infirmary."

"You are in the infirmary. A nurse is treating another prisoner at the other side of the room. A guard is nearby with a key hanging from his belt."

> talk to guard

"And say what?"

> Ask guard about key

"That's a bad idea."

> Ask guard about snowglobe

"The guard surprisingly starts reeling off a story about his wife's snowglobe collection. He mentions how his marriage is in a bad place due to factors you really didn't need to know about. Your mind wanders off halfway through."

> Give snowglobe to guard

"Unknown command 'Give'"

> use snowglobe on guard

"The guard chokes on the snowglobe and dies. The nurse screams and another guard enters, violently beating you and then sending you to solitary confinement. Your pool noodle has been lost, and your hopes at escape are over. Violence never pays."

This game is hard.l
Post edited February 13, 2015 by Goatbrush
Posted February 13, 2015
Starting from my cell with a prison guard doing rounds.
I will rip part of the pool noodle off.
Open the snow globe and put the water and glitter in front of my cell.
Break the glass top and make a shiv with the ripped part of the pool noodle.
Attach another piece of glass to the pool noodle that is in the shape of a hook.
Yell out there is a fire.
Guard comes running slips on water.
Grab his arm and drag him as close to my cell as I can
Shiv him in the throat taking care to get no blood on the uniform.
Use the the pool noodle with glass hook to get the keys to open the cell door and dress in his uniform.
Place him in my bed making out I'm sleeping.
Walk out with pickle in hand looking down eating said pickle to not show my face as I walk out.
Post edited February 13, 2015 by Neonshuffler
Posted February 13, 2015
I munch on a pickle as a guard walks past. He wonders how I managed to sneak a pickle into my prison room and forces me against the wall as he investigates the room.

He sees the pool noodle while I carefully untwist the snowglobe from its base. I suffocate him by placing his mouth into the confined area of the snowglobe, much quieter than whacking him.

I change into his uniform and leave for the nearest exit, however, since this is a prison on an isolated island, I use the pool noodle to swim away from the prison.
Post edited February 13, 2015 by generalkorn12
Posted February 13, 2015
US Prison laws requires that inmates be given access and time outside of their cells to socialize and for exercise. With that in mind, I take advantage of the pickle's high sodium content in combination with any available electrical conduits in order to charge energy, thus turning the pickle into a rudimentary sodium lamp. Next, the snowglobe: One does not expect the noise of glass shattering in a prison. A lure for an unwary guard, as well as a source of moisture upon a very slick floor for him to fall in the throws of night. Once knocked out, the pool noodle to collect the keys from his person.

With the keys in hand, slip out of the cell, knock the guard out fully and stuff him into your cell in your bed. Take his clothes, your pool cue and pickle. Work your way outside to the yard, and once at the fence, ensure you're out of sight of the guard's tower. Climb the fence, use the pool noodle to pushed down the barbed wire and provide a safe climb over by its foam, and use your pickle light to help you navigate the darkness and into freedom!

Crap, 100 words. Okay, short version:

Charge pickle into sodium light. Use Snowglobe to cause guard to slip on wet floor. Collect keys with pool noodle. Knock out guard on floor, take clothes, stuff guard in cell. Exit to yard, climb fence. Use pool noodle to protect self from barbed wire on fence. Use charged pickle as light to navigate in dark to freedom.
Post edited February 13, 2015 by QC
Posted February 13, 2015
You're in jail.
...
Yes, visiting this old prison has been quite interesting!
You're still puzzled, however, how you ended up buying this s**t at the gadged store.. but the guy swore they belonged to famous escapees!
You eat the pickle, while you turn the small snowglobe a few times.
...
Whatever.. you exit the empty cell, go straight out the main prison entrance and get in your car.
You put on your sunglasses, drop the pool noodle on the backseat, start the engine and continue with your holiday.
Freedom! :P
Post edited February 13, 2015 by phaolo
Posted February 13, 2015
Can't wait to read all the hilarious solutions! Some people are already having a blast coming up up great stories. :))
Posted February 13, 2015
Attract guard to cell, then use the pool noodle to pull guard into the cell door and knock him out. Obtain key. Use snow from snow globe to get past laser tripwires. Eat pickle for sustenance during escape.
Posted February 13, 2015
The pool noodle is made into several important tools, 1 pair of silencing shoes that can slide. 1 blowpipe. 1 very small piece hidden in the mechanism to my cagedoor lewer.

the picle serves as my appeticer of freedom, as well as a carefully muched out aerodynamic rocked used with the blowpipe. this is for the lewer.

the snowglobe is beyond my exscpetations. breaking it open will allow me to use the little metallic figgures inside as lockpicks, the fluid will let me use my silencing shoes as sliders when there is a need for speed...
and now some luck.
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