EXIT Puzzle by Ravensburger [Thursday Reviews]

[@skyfitsheaven7393]

I did this one on my own and came up with many things that turned out to be useless while the real solutions were so forced. I love real life escape rooms and hidden object games, this one had so much potential, final pieces could form an image, final answer could have been a sentence or magic word. I got the numbers, except the first one from the door, still dunno why every 3rd/4th/5th letter and how you come up with it and then spent an hour thinking how to turn them into a sentence or word because that's what the intro suggested I had to find so I checked the envelope and was so disappointed. Not to mention that at first I thought that the edge numbers are riddles and spent lots of time dividing them, comparing etc. The game could at least suggest that they are not riddles.

[@Knoddelfratze]

I feel you, we still have no clue why the 3/4/5 is a thing besides the cages numbered by that (which is needed in another puzzle anyway). Theres also the thing that the X from Australia stands for the broken egg, which also barely makes sense. I still wanna defend the series in general, I can from doing many of them tell you that this one aswell as the Vampire Castle are by far the worst. The puzzles to lay are nice but the actual riddles are horrible. Can highly recommend the Space Observatory aswell as the Submarine

[@SecretFoxfire]

I was considering buying one of these puzzles so I searched for reviews and yours was the first I found. Foolishly, I assumed that you just weren't as good at logic puzzles as you thought you were. After all, I not only love solving logic puzzles, I also design them for video games and magazines. Surely I'd be able to solve the clues without help. Good lord, how wrong I was... After a week of working at it every day (constantly frustrated by how difficult it was to see details and not understanding why there wasn't a high-res version of the completed puzzle image available on the hint web site so you can actually see everything once you've put it together), I decided that I needed to put the puzzle away to free up my table and it was time to throw in the towel. I looked at the clues on their web site and was flabbergasted. Who on earth thought those were reasonable puzzles?! I'd thought that I'd managed to solve three of them on my own, but it turned out that only one of them was even correct and I'd fallen for red herrings for the rest. But even with the hints from online, I still didn't get what the actual solution was, so I opened the envelope, and... I would like to find whoever designed the "exit" part of this "exit" puzzle and deliver up a long, boring lecture about signposting and vigorous testing of puzzles by people who were NOT involved in making them to gauge whether they need tweaking for clarity. In any case, I completely agree with you that the puzzle itself was delightful. It's oddly difficult to find nice images like this for puzzles - most are just landscapes or patterns. It was very enjoyable putting together the "jigsaw" portion of the puzzle. But the "exit" portion was truly a disappointment. I wonder if I could get Ravensburger to hire me to design some of these with a more reasonable level of difficulty.... 🤔

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Yep. Frustratingly bad.

[@phoebica]

We found all six riddles and the solutions without the hints - and we loved it. But: we needed two days to let the picture 'sink in' and basically ask ourself: why is this there and can it be a clou?. And from other exit puzzles we knew what to do with the solution tiles. So that helped.

[@kosterix123]

You had me at 1:20, saw this in a shop. Nice as a cheap gift.

[@juanbustos7738]

SPOILERS SPOILERS I've just finished the puzzle and I made my own solution. I think the slab with the random letters is the magic relic (the spell is active and the D,R,A,G,O and N letters are glowing). And if you put the solution (6 pieces) over the slab, they cover all the letters. Then, the magic spell is finally broke (and no more magic luminous letters and no more dragon!!!) That's the solution I came up with. I think it has sense.

[@FoolishFishBooks]

I love it! Thank you for giving sense to this rather senseless experience! A wonderful gift! :D

[@phoebica]

That was our solution too

[@cyndaquil8331]

I loved both the jigsaw puzzles and the escape room riddles! I've already finished Dragons and Observatory, and I was able to figure everything out with only a little help. Your review almost made me skip on this product, but I'm glad I bought it regardless. :)

[@kosterix123]

Thanks for covering this topic. Upvoted and subscribed.

[@raviodelorule]

I bought the same one, got the riddles solved but couldnt figure what to do next, and when I finaly realized it I fet really stupid, I was supposed to find the artifact to stop the curse. So I just searched for the "artifact" and got rid of it. It took a while to make sense

[@sgtperez11b]

This puzzle was fun, but don't understand what it's called exit puzzle! The corner pieces were a bitch to piece together.

[@kosterix123]

Go to boardgamegeek and search

[@Jakke45]

Totally agree with you. Could have been a great experience, but the workout of the "riddles" is sh!t. Good intro story, but no reward or story for when you solve them.

[@piano2525]

4:20 exactly...

[@raviodelorule]

I found them to be preaty self explanatory, just looked for the differences in the box and tried to figure what to do with that info. The difficult part mas making the solution make sense

[@Sejdr]

Nice review of a (what could have been) interesting non-book-item!

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Yeah! As I say, I'll be doing more, just not bothering with the 'escape' nonsense at the end. The puzzle itself was SO much fun 😄

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Especially the bits that just slightly different from the example picture that let you discover bit by bit what happens next...

[@Sejdr]

@@FoolishFishBooks Sounds interesting...next time, maybe show how it looks finished (with a big spoiler alert) for us non-puzzle-people. ^^

[@kareneastman9695]

It looks very good and interesting.:-):-D I love a lot of Jigsaw Puzzles.I think I like Mystery Puzzles. Interesting.:-):-D

[@minnie7453]

Would you consider doing a video where you spoil the solution? Now I’m just SUPER curious and there’s no other English-language videos on KZbin that I can find. :b

[@FoolishFishBooks]

*** SPOILER *** *** SPOILER *** *** SPOILER *** One example: In the back of the room there's a slab of stone with random letters on it. If you take the third letter, and then count three letters from that, and then three letters from that etc, you get the title of one of many books (eg. "morghtsy" or some similar nonsense) that are lying around on the floor. Then you can take the fourth letter and then count four letters from that, and then four more letters etc to get the title of the next book, and then do the same thing with every fifth letter for the name of the third book. Then you can take the digits that are written somewhere on that book and guess the right order for them, and that's the number of one of the grey edge pieces 2nd (worse) example. On the carpet, there's something like a cardinal point compass drawn, with fours arrows going in 4 directions. each cardinal point has a number, then the "+" symbol, then a shape (square, circle, drop, octogon). There are gems dotted around the room. Count the square gems, the MULTIPLY that number with the number associated with the square shape on the carpet (yeah, that "+" symbol is misleading), and then do the same for the other gem shapes. You then get 4 numbers. Add them together for the number you're looking for. Why? Is there a clue telling you to do this? No. It's all part of the 'fun'. There are six of these impossible tests of the limits of your belief, which give you six numbers that can be found on six grey pieces around the edge. Fit them together, and find... a grey rectangle (well, not quite, because it has only one corner, there are ears sticking out on three sides). That's it! The end! Hope you weren't expecting a secret message or for the six pieces to reveal a key or anything like that...

[@juanbustos7738]

SPOILERS SPOILERS I've just finished the puzzle and I made my own solution. I think the slab with the random letters is the magic relic (the spell is active and the D,R,A,G,O and N letters are glowing). And if you put the solution (6 pieces) over the slab, they cover all the letters. Then, the magic spell is finally broke (and no more magic luminous letters and no more dragon!!!) That's the solution I came up with. I think it has sense.

[@paulokoko]

@@juanbustos7738 man ! You are so right ! That makes sense ! I'm so glad you found it, because I was so disappointed (I still am). How could they sell this "escape" without beta-testing it ? And why did they not add an explanation inside the envelope ?!

[@heinzjoernkrueger7303]

Couldn’t agree more, the puzzle quality and motive is fantastic, the exit room experience disappointing, the solution nonsense....

[@MsFrances74]

I remain confused The entire riddle escape solution I don't understand I opened the envelope and felt even worse off Makes no sense to me We definetly enjoyed putting it together I searched for answer on how to play or even background information to explain the entire concept and wasn't able to find anything We purchased Vampire's Castle Thank you for the review

[@FoolishFishBooks]

Yep. I felt similarly let down by the solution, but the jigsaw itself was a blast to complete. I did not enjoy putting the Space Observatory one together anywhere near as much.

[@piano2525]

😂😂😂you tried the same puzzle as I did. It was really a nightmare for me. I liked putting the puzzle toguether. I liked the small riddles. I even knew what I had to do to solve it. Just didn't figure out the numbers. Didn't make sense... at the end I googled the solution...

[@FoolishFishBooks]

😂 so frustrating, right?! And the final 'artifact'... You know what I'm talking about. So... Just nothing! 😂 That's really hilarious we both did the same puzzle... In fact the squiggly pot plant clue wasn't even right! The arrow was actually pointing in the wrong direction 🤣

[@piano2525]

@@FoolishFishBooks 🙈 oh well ... maybe next time...

[@StephanieTimmer]

@@FoolishFishBooks actually, if you followed the vines from the stem, the arrow was pointing in the right direction We've done 3 of them so far, this one was our least favourite. The witch's kitchen and the vampire's castle were much more fun to solve!

[@StephanieTimmer]

Also, these 2 have a solution that actually makes sense, we had no idea what this one's solution was supposed to be

[@dragorino1177]

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