Escape Puzzle: Witches Kitchen

I've tried other mystery puzzles and they are not a great as Ravensburger. So many hidden clues in the actual puzzle!! Great quality and pictures. This one is the most difficult thus far, and this is my third "Ravensburger" puzzle. Really look at ALL the clues and be very mindful. I would not buy another brand as these are so fun and a real challenge.

I have done three different ones of these. They are fun to put together and even more fun to solve the puzzles. I have seen in other reviews that people have problems but I haven't had any issues with this brand at all. Of the 3 I've done , this one was my favorite, both the putting together and the solving.Will buy more of these.

This is a fun puzzle with a really beautiful finished picture. I didnt mind the puzzle being slightly different from the cover of the box (although I agree... bummer there is no cat). I enjoy the added challenge with the interchangeable border pieces. The quality is always high with this company.I demerit a star based on the Exit-riddle challenge. I agree it falls short and could have been way more creative. It's mostly simple math problems and it was a bit confusing having (spoiler) two clues on one item. Exit game aside- it's still a lovely image to work on.

I just finished the Witch's Kitchen puzzle tonight and I loved it. I spent a few hours a day, for three days, working mostly alone, my husband helped assemble a little bit, and I solved the riddles on my own.It was my first time doing a Ravensburger escape puzzle and I'm looking forward to doing more BUT I also do a lot of escape room games, treasure hunts, and "point and click" adventure video games with hidden objects, riddles and brain teasers. If that's not your thing, then this puzzle probably won't make a lot of sense to you.It's still a lovely jigsaw, even without the "escape" riddle part of it, but it is not quite like other jigsaw puzzles.1) Unlike some jigsaw puzzles, there are no letters or clues on the back, such as "AAAAAA" or "BBBBBB" etc, and it doesn't come with a poster to lay down on the table as a guide.2) The picture on the box is not exactly the same as the picture in the completed puzzle, though it is close enough that I still found it very helpful.3) The edge pieces are cut so they are interchangeable. The internal pieces are not this way, just the edges, so it makes assembling the border a challenge, but not impossible. The puzzle dimensions are on the box, which helps. I put together most of the border, but not all of it, and then started working on the inside for awhile.A lot of people are posting that the solution is incorrect but I didn't have a problem with it. It didn't even occur to me that there was anything wrong until I came here to rate the puzzle and I read the other reviews.I don't want to give answers or spoilers, so I'll just say this: The solution is to IDENTIFY the antidote. If you've done that, nothing else matters.

Great value and quality. Fun for the entire family "Escape" room at home, uses online website for entering the responses before moving on to the next question.Can be put together several times and played again and again.

This puzzle started out extremely frustrating because all of the edge pieces fit together to each other even if they are wrong. After we suffered through and got the edge finally assembled, the puzzle itself was pretty fun and the pieces mostly fit together well. And then we started the fun of figuring out all the clues and solving them...we did need to use some tips from the website but were able to figure it out for the most part and had a lot of fun. UNTIL we couldn't get the answer piece to fit with the other pieces. We worked for hours and kept thinking we must have done something wrong and didn't have the correct answer. Finally we gave in and opened the secret envelope to reveal the answer and we did have the right answer! Except our pieces weren't cut right and they wouldn't fit together. This was extremely disappointing and frustrating and left us feeling like we wasted hours and hours on something that didn't even work. I would definitely not purchase another one of these and risk the answer not even working after you do all the work of figuring out the clues.

This is a beautiful puzzle that is slightly difficult to complete since the edge pieces are nearly identical in shape. Regardless that didn't bother us and we enjoyed putting it together. The puzzles within the puzzle ranged from easy to moderately difficult. We solved them all without looking at the clues. So the final solution is where this puzzle fails in a big way. I'm writing this because this was a fun puzzle but you have to make allowances (that you shouldn't have to) for the final solution. The "missing" puzzle piece for the final puzzle does NOT fit (but it is more or less the right shape) and part of the image on the piece is cut off. For this reason, it is easy to discard the "right" solution. Not sure how many extra hours I spent trying to figure out where we went wrong only to discover my first choice was the right one. That is darned aggravating and quite inexcusable. So if you purchase this, my advice is when you get to the end and reasonably think you have the right solution, ask someone else (not playing) to look at the envelope that has the correct answer. They can let you know whether you got it or should keep on trying. Hope this is helpful to someone!