OJ's Deals Shop in 13 Days to Escape: Location, Tools, and How to Buy

Quick answer

OJ's Deals is the tool shop run by OJ, the orange-jumpsuit NPC at cell 13 in the cell block. Walk up to him and press E to browse the shop, then pay with cash earned from prison jobs.

• Location: the cell block, at cell 13 — look for the orange jumpsuit
• Open the shop: press E next to OJ
• Known tools: Saw for 110 cash, Screwdriver for 25 cash
• Payment: prison job pay plus cash stacks found on other inmates' beds

OJ's Deals is the tool shop in 13 Days to Escape, and it is easier to find than it sounds. Job cash from prison work buys the escape tools sold here, but you need the tool's full price in cash before a purchase goes through — if you arrive short, go work a job and come back.

Where to find OJ's Deals

OJ stands in the cell block at cell 13, and the orange jumpsuit makes him easy to pick out from the other inmates. Walking up to him is all it takes to reach the shop: pressing E opens the "OJ's DEALS" interface, with no other menu or step in between. The game's own description positions OJ's Deals as the tool source for the whole escape plan, so this one NPC is where your equipment comes from.

The shopping trips in the run happened during free periods — YARD TIME and RECREATION TIME — when the player could walk back into the cell block between scheduled activities. When you want to buy something, look for one of those windows in the day and head over then. For more on that cell and its corner of the block, see the cell 13 guide.

Tools you can buy at OJ's Deals

You can buy the Saw for 110 cash and the Screwdriver for 25 cash. Both prices were on the shop's listings during the run, and both tools went straight into the escape:

Data table

Data table

Tool	Price	What it does
Saw	110 cash	Used on the cell window bars — the run sawed them off with a Saw bars progress bar
Screwdriver	25 cash	Buying it changed the objective to Unscrew the toilet

The Saw is the pricier piece at 110 cash, and it earned its cost later that day: during a RETURN TO CELLS alert the player made it back to the cell in time, completed the "Saw bars" progress bar, and removed the window bars. The Screwdriver is the budget option at 25 cash, and buying it immediately set the objective "Unscrew the toilet" — the step that leads into moving the toilet and digging out of the prison.

If you want a deeper look at the tools themselves, the tools guide goes into more detail.

How to buy a tool

1. Earn the cash first. Prison jobs pay when you finish them, and extra cash stacks were left on other inmates' beds in the cell block. The Saw alone runs 110, so know your target price before setting off.
2. Head to the cell block and find OJ at cell 13 — orange jumpsuit, hard to miss.
3. Press E next to him to open the "OJ's DEALS" shop.
4. Buy the tool you can afford. You need the tool's full price in cash before the purchase goes through, so a trip with a thin wallet gets cut short.

That last point matters more than it sounds. At lunch on Day 2, the player walked back to OJ without enough cash and could not buy anything; the fix was to collect the cash stacks off the other inmates' beds and get back to work — another round of potato peeling pushed the cash counter up to 187. Arriving broke turns a quick purchase into a longer errand, so glance at your total before you make the walk.

Earning cash for OJ's Deals

The money for the shop comes from prison jobs, which run during scheduled periods such as lunch and yard time. Two observed earners:

• Peel potatoes — the "Peel potatoes 5/5" job at the cafeteria station, paid per completion.
• Pick up litter — "Pick up litter 8/8" around the yard, worth 20 cash.

Tips

01

Use every job window

Jobs such as potato peeling and litter pickup happen during scheduled periods like lunch and yard time — take each window as it comes and the cash adds up.

02

Sweep the beds before you buy

Cash stacks were left on other inmates' beds in the cell block, so collect them on your way to OJ to avoid a wasted trip.

03

Set a target price

The Saw costs 110 cash and the Screwdriver 25, so you always know whether to grind another job or head straight to cell 13.

That is the income the run showed: job pay during the scheduled periods, plus the loose cash lying around the block. For the wider economy, the money guide covers the rest, and the prison jobs guide breaks down the work itself.

How OJ's Deals fits the escape plan

The official description lays the loop out plainly: "Work prison jobs, earn cash, and buy tools from OJ's Deals", then "Hide your tools, move the toilet, and dig your way out." The shop is the supply step in that loop — job cash becomes tools, and tools become escape progress. The run showed both ends of it: a Saw bought at cell 13 later cut the window bars, and a Screwdriver purchase flipped the objective to "Unscrew the toilet".

From there the escape opens up: hide your tools as the game advises, move the toilet, and dig your way out — the escape plan ties the full route together.