I finished the Artist’s Studio Escape / Exit puzzle. I won’t post a photo of the finished puzzle here, but you can find it along with thoughts on the puzzles within the puzzle on my dedicated spoiler page.
As I expected, this turned out to be perhaps the most enjoyable jigsaw puzzling experience of all the Exit puzzles. Until the very end when I had to do the edges, that is. The puzzle had a rating of 5/5 difficulty for the puzzles within the puzzle, and I couldn’t solve all of them even with the help provided by Ravensburger.
The backstory was again a bit different in English than in German, but only in small details this time. The story is that in the early 16th Century, your master has been arrested, and you rush to the studio to do away with any incriminating evidence (it’s not entirely clear of what, but of some kind of illicit art). The final solution was quite funny, and I didn’t quite see it coming (usually it’s quite easy), so I really enjoyed that, too. All in all, one of the best Exit-puzzles, I would say.
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I don’t see the comment form on the spoiler page, so I’ll write here. I found the image very enjoyable as well. It was a lot brighter than the previous ones and very colourful. But the riddles were murder! The puzzle lay on my mat for a few days and I ate a lot of cake to summon the brainpower to solve them. On a couple I could figure out one of the digits and pulled all the edge pieces that had it, then see which fit better. One I thought was referring to something else but combined with the previous tactic it turned out to be a correct piece. And when I had five of the solution pieces I just looked for the one that completed the pattern and tried to work the logic from the number.
My first number was one that required the colour recipe, and that really intimidated me because I thought all the riddles would have many layers to the solution and I couldn’t physically see where six riddles like that would be. Turns out the recipe was used for more than just the one riddle. Ok…
The cogs riddle had multiple solutions for me. Even if I had noticed the stopper, the number of teeth on the first and last cogs are not the same so you get different numbers with each rotation. I was trying to get ABC in order and I would just get different numbers because the cog has to start a second turn to get to C. What they want is to turn the cog once, notice the numbers hit as the indicator passes the A, C and B marks and put them in the ABC order. I was so confused by that one.
The music sheet consists of three rows of notes and is torn in half. You have to match the halves and sum up the duration of the notes in each row. The melody is not important. An empty circle is a full note, a circle with a stick is a half, a filled circle with a stick is a fourth, and after that each flag on the stick cuts the duration in half. So one flag is 1/8, 2 – 1/16 etc. We are taught this in elementary school, but I guess it’s not as common as I thought?
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I’m so sorry, I forgot that I have to turn on commenting for pages (posts allow it by default), thank you for pointing that out. I really admire your determination to solve the puzzles on your own. Thank you for this, and I’ll put a link to this on the spoiler page. I’m sure I knew about musical notes as a child, I even played piano for a (short) while, but I’ve forgotten it all now 🙂
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That’s alright, you can copy from my text whatever you think is useful, no credit necessary. And you can delete my comment here if it spoils the experience. It was really difficult, but all the more exciting when the solution clicked.
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I think the comment is OK here, and I put in the links.
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