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.

Entertaining and the rightblevel of difficulty for young teens and up

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.

First off, I know that Ravensburger is a great puzzle company. The quality of the materials is top notch and the picture is really detailed and imaginative. I was taken in by the idea as I have been playing a lot of mystery-type games during the pandemic (Detective, Chronicles of Crime, Unlock, etc.), and this seemed like a cool concept. Worst case scenario, I would at least enjoy putting a puzzle together. There are some cool tricks to it like the picture not being quite what's on the box and some pieces connectable even though they don't go together, but that added to the challenge and made us think a bit more. Where the shortcomings lie is in the escape element. Once the puzzle is put together, there are some hidden word/number puzzles to solve that lead to the final conclusion. I have done a lot of similar puzzles before, so this was relatively easy for me. The final solution was a bit of a letdown since it didn't quite "fit", but it wasn't a dealbreaker. As I mentioned, the quality is great, but the game did come with a bunch of extra rectangular pieces that are the cut off border of the whole puzzle. It's doesn't ruin the experience, but it feels kind of lazy to leave scraps in the box. I have been intentionally vague in my review to avoid spoilers, and now that I am looking at other reviews I see a lot of people (both positive and negative) haven't been nearly as respectful. My recommendation is this: if you like challenging puzzles, this is a great one. If you also like math and word problems, you'll like this just a bit more on top of that. If you are interested, avoid as much information as you can.

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 was my first Ravensburger escape puzzle. Like other Ravensburger puzzles this is a high quality puzzle. As others have stated, do not to start with the border because all border pieces fit with each other. The picture is similar to that on the box which was helpful to put the puzzle together. I was only able to solve one riddle myself without clues and then was able to mostly solve the others with clues. There is one though that I can't see how they went from the clues to the final answer. As others have stated, the instructions are not very clear. After solving the eight riddles I still didn't know how to "solve" the overall mystery. When I opened the clue and finally understood the objective, my final piece didn't fit even when I follow the picture exactly. Now when I go back and read the other reviews more thoroughly I see that several people have mentioned this defect and yet Ravensburger is still selling this puzzle. I'm still willing to give it three stars because now that I understand the concept better I am willing to try another one and hope that the product defect is only for this version.

First of all, this is a nice one for the Halloween season, but not so cliched as to be untouchable the rest of the year. The "escape" code-breaking and number sequence puzzles that you can do after putting the jigsaw together are pretty simple, but you don't have to do them to enjoy this if you like the content of the picture itself. The final image is different than on the box in a few places, which is amusing, but the best thing is that the amount of details makes it relatively easy to assemble. I only resorted to shape matching for the last 10% or so of the pieces. Yes, there are few false positive fits, but that's part of the fun...

What a disappointment. There is close to zero diversification on how the innies/outies look like. Almost all the edge pieces identical, and many of the non-edge pieces as well. This would have been OK if the drawing was very vivid and distinct, but it is mostly shades of green/brown, which makes it a very unsatisfying puzzle. We often just didn't know if we had a correct fit or not. This is not the right kind of difficult for me - I'd rather lay a 3000 piece puzzle where you actually know whether you put a piece correctly down or not. We quit the puzzle after two frustrating hours. Don't buy this one.

Me gusto mucho, muy buena opción como regalo, la calidad del rompecabezas excelente y la imagen, entretenido por ver diferencias y resolver acertijos, lo recomiendo¡

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Haven't done this puzzle but like the idea of a puzzle that challenges you.

Inte så roligt som väntat, men kanske inte 'min grej'. Pusslet i sig var roligast, men hade då för få bitar för oss.

Wer puzzelt, wird es genießen. Es war sehr machbar und die Lösung hat auch gut funktioniert