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.
The calculation for red is 1/2*1 + 1/6*6 + 1/8 * 4 = 0,5 + 1 + 0,5 = 2
Blue: 1/2*5 + 1/4*2 + 1/2*4 = 2,5 + 0,5 + 2 = 5
White: 1*1 + 1/2*2 + 1/3*3 = 1 + 1 + 1 = 3
Yellow: 1/3*6 + 1/2*1 + 1/2*3 = 2 + 0,5 + 1,5 = 4
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
Terra, aqua and aer are the Latin words for earth, water and air. From the ceiling there hangs three tecnical devices, from left to right:
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 🙂
Puzzler1909 
Thank you so much for these extra explanations. I agree this one was about as difficult as the Vampire’s Castle, and also had one puzzle that didn’t make much sense (the gear/ratchet in this one). But I absolutely love Ravensburger using the Latin root words for aer, terra, and aqua (we are all from different languages after all) and the before-its-time Picasso solution. I admit this puzzle sat completed but unsolved for a couple months! Thanks again for this website!
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Thank you for your kind words, I’m glad my spoilers have been useful! As a Latin major, I’m always happy to see Latin, and I think the Picasso solution may be my favourite in the series.
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By the way, have you seen that Ravensburger has published an Escape Advent Calendar? Only in Deutsch. (And not a puzzle so may not be of interest!)
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I did see it last year, but you’re right, since it’s not a jigsaw, I’m not interested 🙂
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Can you provide instructions manual, as it was not in the box and can’t find the pdfs on Ravenburger’s website (nor anywhere else online)? It’s my first escape room puzzle and I have no clue as to what to do exactly (I did escape room game prior to this puzzle and there is always some sort if explanation). Little stucked here with puzzle completed…
Thanks
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I sent you an email. You can have a look at my spoiler pages, both this and the general spoiler page for the series, if you don’t know what to do next – this is probably the most difficult puzzle in the series, but they all have the same basic structure. The booklet really only gives you a backstory.
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Thank you for your quick reply and help.
Happy new year!
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Hi, Great Page, but I still don’t get the complete idea for the color mixing riddle. How do you come to the final number? And why do I not mix e.g. white + blue but just exactly the given combinations? Thanks for help!
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Thank you! The colours are used in several riddles, so I’m not sure which one you are talking about. Or do you mean the colour codes themselves? To get the mixed colours, you just need to know what two existing colours to use, for example, purple can be obtained my mixing red and blue, not, for example, white and blue. I remember the combinations from working with water colours in school.
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I bought it used, and both the multilanguage presentation of the adventure and sleeve+solutionsheet were missing -.-”
I cannot find them online as PDF files, so I would be really glad if someone could send me a scan…
Otherwise I will try to contact the publisher!
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I sent you an email.
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This was mine and my wife’s first escape room puzzle, and it was an absolute DOOZY for us to solve. We are very good at real life escape rooms and thought the puzzles would be a breeze, so we picked one with a really tricky riddle rating to start. We were WRONG! I felt like a lot of the riddle puzzles required base knowledge that we simply didn’t have. We ended up looking at hints for a lot of them just to get started!
Thanks for creating this walkthrough though – we are both scatterbrained and lost the solution envelope, and we were very distraught!
Cheers!
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Yes this one was very trick (and even a little random) – we’ve done almost all of the Escape Puzzles and love them, but definitely had to resort to the hints for the Artist’s Room. You’re not alone! Many of the others in this range are more straightforward and satisfying (except the vampire one, which I recall was about as frustrating as this one!)
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I’m glad my help page was helpful! I’m not at all good at the riddle part myself, and I’m happy if I can find and solve one or two of puzzles without help. To me, these are mostly jigsaw puzzles, the extra puzzles are just a bit of extra.
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