An extra post today, outside my normal schedule of Tuesday & Friday.

When I set up my spoiler page for the Exit / Escape series, I decided to leave the puzzles within the puzzle to Ravensburger, since they do provide hints. Even though Ravensburger provides hints and answers, I’ve gotten quite a lot of messages from people who want to know exactly how you are supposed to get to the correct answer. Most questions were about the Observatory and some about the Witches Kitchen, and I used to answer them privately. For these two puzzles I’ve now added explanations of the puzzles within the puzzle, and I also split the single spoiler page so that there is one page for joint issues, and then every puzzle also has its own spoiler page. The single-page was getting too long and difficult to manage, in fact, I found that I had inadvertently copy-pasted in some German text about football. Oops 🙂 The spoiler page for the Witches Kitchen is here and the one for the Observatory is here. I also went back and put in links to the individual spoiler pages for all the puzzles in the series where I had posted about them.

I redid both of these puzzles for this little project:

They are so much fun, and also, my photos weren’t good enough to work out all the details I needed for the puzzles. Actually, I think I’m going to continue redoing this series. These two are the ones that get the most traffic on my blog, and the next two are Vampire Castle and Dragon Laboratory. I think they’re up next 🙂 With at least two puzzles (The Temple Grounds and The Curse of the Wolves) I will try to work from photos if I decide to try to explain the puzzles – they were quite difficult.

It also looks like Ravensburger is getting ready to release some new puzzles in the series, Their help page already has entries for three new puzzles: Unicorn, Green House and Toy Factory. The Toy factory looks especially nice, but I’m getting them all as soon as they are available 🙂