Ravensburger Escape Puzzle The Laboratory 368 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle for Kids and Adults Ages 12 and Up - 16844 - an Escape Room Experience in Puzzle Form

the jigsaw puzzle itself was easy to assemble and a fun puzzle. The escape room puzzles were a little more tricky. Thank god for the hints. Really cool escape room puzzles though once you knew what you were looking for.

Great Ravensburger quality for the jigsaw. But the story line was lame. The clues were extremely difficult to find. Each clue took several levels of deciphering to come up with the numerical answer that resulted in finding the puzzle piece needed. My daughter is a master of logic and mathematical puzzles but she could not solve this without the help from the QR code.. Even with the help, it was difficult to decipher the hints. There is a misprint in the final answer and not much of a story.

My husband and I are avid escape room fans. This is the worst puzzle/game we’ve ever done. Two of the clues/solutions didn’t make any sense, even after reading the answers. It seemed the makers were stretching to make it hard and as a result, stretched TOO far. Puzzle was fun. The escape room part not so much.

It is a fun puzzle if you have these instructions.Your goal in the puzzle is to find the antidote to the poison. There are 6 clues to solve that give you 6 3 digit numbers. Use the numbers to identify the 6 puzzle pieces you need to pull from the puzzle to assemble a new puzzle that gives you the antidote. The clue to the plants and greenhouse is a misprint from a different puzzle.

For someone doing one of these puzzles for the first time, the instructions didn’t give you a guide as to how the puzzle gets solved using the numbers on the puzzle pieces. There aren’t really instructions at all, just 2 paragraphs describing the scene and scenario. Even when I opened the answer envelope I was surprised that you remove pieces from the completed puzzle to put together your answer. A cool concept but had it been explained it would have been really helpful!The hints that you can get online by scanning the QR code are really cool, however I feel they were too difficult to figure out. I admit I should have started with an easy level, but I still feel it was really difficult even knowing how they got to the answer. I’m usually like Ravensburger puzzles but I was disappointed with this escape puzzle version.*there is a misprint in the “Time to start” paragraph referencing a greenhouse. It should say something about finding your vaccine.

There are several puzzles to solve in the game, but some are way harder than the others which sapped the fun from the game. For the hard ones, the online clues weren’t that helpful.