This is a spoiler page for the puzzle Artist’s Studio in the Ravensburger Exit / Escape-series.

Here is a link to a high-resolution image of the finished puzzle.

Hints for the puzzles provided by Ravensburger (in English). If you want another language version, go to the help front page and click on the appropriate flag.

There are 6 puzzles in the image, but before we get to those, we have to work out the colour codes. Also, I won’t be able to help with many of the puzzles.

The Colour Codes

The formula for each colour allows us to calculate a number that corresponds to that colour. In order to solve the formulas, we have to look for what numbers the various “ingredients” represent.

cryatals = 1, leaves =2, shell = 3, roots = 4, earth(?) = 5, oil = 6.

From these colours you can calculate the numbers for colours obtained by mixing:

purple = red + blue = 2 + 5 = 7
pink = red + white = 2 + 3 = 5
green = blue + yellow = 5 + 4 = 9
orange = red + yellow = 2 + 4 = 6

Puzzle 1: Anatomical Drawings

There is an animal scull (1), the wing of a bird (2) and a human foot (3). These reference three things in the image: a dog, a parrot and slippers:

The dog is playing with a purple ball (7), the parrot is green (9) and the straps of the slippers are red (2). Answer 792.

Puzzle 2: Three Paintings

In the orange (6) painting the column stands for one, in the pink (5) two columns for two and in the green (9) three colums for three. This shows the order of the numbers we get from the colours. Answer 659.

Puzzle 3: Sheet Music

Please refer to the Ravensburger explanation. I was left with the impression that you need some understanding of sheet music to understand how to get the result. Anyway, the answer is 586.

Please see Blackkitty‘s comment on this post.

Puzzle 4: Mechanical drawing

The cog on the left has a white arrow and the cog on the right has a black arrow. The object is to find out where the black arrow points when you move the white arrow to the positions A, B and C respectively. The wheel on the left can only turn right, as you can see from the “stopper” between A and C. I am too lazy to properly work out how all of these cogs would move – I would need to draw every move on paper. Anyway, the answer is 248 (2 for A, 4 for B and 8 for C)

Please also see Blackkitty‘s comment on this post.

Puzzle 5: Symbols on the glass plane

We need to work out which symbols were on the broken glass panes. The same symbol can only appear once on one row or in one column.

All of the possible symbols can be found under the window:

Based on this, we can rule out all except the circle in a square for the top row (any other choice would mean two of the same symbol in either column or row). By the same process, we know that the symbol in the second to last row is a square, and that the one in the bottom row is a circle.

Now we need to convert our sequence of circle in a square, square, circle to a number.

The square stands for 2, and as far as I can make out, you just count upwards from there on the previous photo with all the symbols: circle = 3, plus = 4, circle in square = 5. From this we get the answer 523.

Puzzle 6: Books

This gives us the correct sequence: an insect for aer, a tank for terra and a fish for aqua.

Aer = yellow = 4, terra = orange = 6, aqua = purple = 7. The answer is 467.

The Solution

The solution pieces reveal a surprisingly modern painting:

Looks like a Picasso 🙂