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I love Kiwi co. I do them with my little nephew and its just so fun to bond over an activity with him
I gifted two years of KiwiCo to a friend for his daughter. Some of the activities they did were so much fun and learning. It's highly unlikely they didn't enjoy it.
I've been meaning to get this for my 3 year old. This reminded me to do so and thanks to you, I got a discount 😊
Speaking about difficult puzzles, please check out the most difficult puzzle in the world I just published.
UPDATE: The artist has been identified and the name "Mena" is her signature and probably not a clue in this puzzle. I exchanged a few messages with her and unfortunately she doesn't know the answer and doesn't think she was ever told what the answer was. Please don't reach out to her yourself. ADDITIONAL NOTES ABOUT THIS PUZZLE (Please upvote this) I want to acknowledge that this puzzle includes drawings of Native American headdresses in a way that wouldn't be ok these days. This puzzle was released in 1985 and it was a different time. I hope this imagery doesn’t play a huge part in the final answer. Yes, the title is very click-bait-y, but I wanted to get as many eyeballs on this as possible to try to get it solved. I also plugged the $5,000 number into an inflation calculator and apparently that’s equal to $14,000 today. So I’m definitely not giving the winner $14,000! If it does get solved, I was thinking about doing a donation to a charity of the winner’s choice. But let’s see if anyone manages to solve it first.
@@mrzimnafurane She's contractually obligated to pin the sponsor link.
I think the thrill of solving it is enough.
@jabradford32 may have found your artist
I think we are searching for Latitude (ground), Longtitude (trees) and Altitude (sound) so that would mean we are searching for numerical values. Tricky is that these can be expressed in different detail. But at least I think one could start counting the things in the trees and seeing how much different things there are. There are also Figures that point very distinctly, think they are a clue as well.
You could put this on the description of the video and pin this coment so more people see it.
In the poem the only capital letters are LLA -> Latitude, Longitude, Altitude. I think the answer to the center and ground part will give you latitude coordinates, the trees longitude and the sound altitude!
That also fits with
Maybe we also have to look for hearts❤ 🤔
sol-itude
This is a very good clue!! I lookd it up and the coordinates of USA mainland are approximately between: Latitude: between 48 and 25 Longitude: between -123 and -67 Altitude: could be anything (on the bottom of a lake below 0) and up until the highest mountain.
The hearts themselves could be clues as to which way they are facing. Either horizontally for latitude, vertically for longitude.
What stands out to me is all the directional cues in the puzzle. There are a lot of people pointing, and objects rotated towards a particular direction. I wonder if following a visual path will be part of the solution? When I look at the exact centre, I see a boy with a heart lollipop pointing north east, towards a girl playing an instrument. There are hearts around her with their bottom points going right. If I follow that direction, I see a staircase going up and people with heart vases walking towards it. There's also a fish playing a trumpet, which is facing towards the staircase. All that makes me think I should go up the stairs. At the top, there's a queen holding a magnifying glass. If I follow her gaze through the glass, I need to look left, which takes me to a bridge marked with hearts. On the bridge, there's a cat playing an instrument, which faces left, so I keep looking left. I see a train going north west, which leads my eyes to the "heartitude" flag on the tower. My eyes go down the tower, and I see it has hearts with their bottom points facing down. I keep looking down and follow the curved path with the mouse character. Around there, I see 2 pigs with heart arrows and various characters looking/pointing right (like the tree holding money, a girl with a heart dress, a fountain bird looking right...). I get a bit lost here... not sure where to go next! It takes me to the beach. There I see a star marked in the ground. I also see a bucket + shovel in the sand, marked with a heart. Maybe that's the end? But I'm not confident because that entire path ignores the bottom half of the puzzle. In the bottom half, you have a tambourine player pointing left, and trumpet-playing beavers pointing north-west. Not sure what their role could be yet. Will keep staring at this and thinking
What if you do the same thing on a United States map or globe?
Could the characters be using Semaphore Flag Alphabet just based on the way their arms are pointing? Definitely seems deliberate.
I think a lot of them are waving, or just in mid movement for the activities they're doing. The cat swimming for instance. The trees seem to be holding up fingers though.
I think a good place to start is at the "enter" sign
Maybe try drawing in all out. Like connect where everything is pointing like a connect the dots thing to see if it draws or spells anything out?
Kansas City's official slogan was 'Heart of America' since 1915, since it is close to geographic center of continental US. It has also been known as the city of fountains at various times. Those two seem like a pretty strong clues to me, but I didn't know where to go from there. Also when I came upon Kansas, suddenly everything reminded me of Wizard of Oz. There is girl with red shoes and a dog, there is queen that could be Glinda, the good witch of the North, everyone except her are children or children sized like in Munckinland. At center bottom there is someone that looks a lot like mayor of Munckinland. In the distance there is yellow brick road and everything is under the rainbow. I realize there are a lot of fairy tales mixed in this puzzle, but if Wizard of Oz is intentional clue it could mean that north on this map is where the queen is. So what I am now looking for is a place, maybe park in Kansas city that matches the puzzle. As to where is the treasure i think it is buried on the beach. Poem said to look to the center and the exact center is boys hand that is showing to the queen (directly to her heart, I drew a line in illustrator) and queen is looking through the magnifying glass at the beach where heart bucket is. This is all I got after days of thinking, if someone has idea how to continue, please share.
I think I might have found your artist. I looked up Mena Dolobowsky and her illustration style looks a lot like the ones in the puzzle
Mena Dolobowsky probably isn't old enough to be the artist, but maybe one of her parents?
considering Mena Dolobowsky's website says she was getting an art degree in NYC in 1976, I definitely think she could be old enough to have been the artist for this puzzle. the style is incredibly similar. @@sabrinaqualley5743
@@sabrinaqualley5743according to her website she started studying arts in New York in 1976. A few years later she started working as a freelance artist.
According to her linkedin she started working as an illustrator in 1980, so I think it really could be her. I also found a book called 'A Visit to New Orleans' which was illustrated by her, and first published in 1984. There is an ebay listing of this book where you can see the back cover which includes her signature and it definitely looks similar to the one in the puzzle!
I would definitely say that has a high chance at being the artist. I mean the current art style looks a lot cleaner but it's been nearly 40 years
UPDATE: The artist has been identified and the name "Mena" is her signature and probably not a clue in this puzzle. I exchanged a few messages with her and unfortunately she doesn't know the answer and doesn't think she was ever told what the answer was. Please don't reach out to her yourself. I kept looking at the puzzle after filming this, and another idea I had would be to think of other definitions of the word “sound,” like as a body of water. Are we meant to look for outlines of places like the Puget Sound? Also, when I mentioned the “tic-tac-toe” dress and quilt, if you look behind them there is a rabbit with three X’s in a row, plus two X’s on the white base. But what does it mean??
Confusiiiing
@ChrisRamsay52 would be a great puzzle solver to collab with!
Unlikely, i don't know it😢
What is on the piece(s) exactly in the centre?
Next to the "look for sounds" sign is a girl with a sound-producing tambourine in a tic-tac-toe skirt. She points at the tic-tac-toe quilt. The cats at the quilt point in 3 directions. And, I'm stuck. Heartitude is heart + gratitude. Hearts seem significant, like they point to the real clues. One tree has hearts, leaves, flowers, pears, and frogs/toads. Pair of toads! Erm, I got nothing. Heart on a teapot, tea, the letter T?
In the unlikely event someone solves this I am SO excited for the follow up video, love this kinda content from you!
There are hearts on the ground in the center. The tree with the money is a pear tree. Clue Keeper's Trail sign is next to a frog wearing the stockings from Wizard of Oz. heart + pear + a movie set in Kansas... Looks like an artists rendition of Harper Community Park in Harper, Kansas. It even has the arched bridge and arched (rainbow shaped) entrances with suns painted on them, a swing set where the beavers are playing in the hammock, and it looks like an old arborist's building in the SW corner.
I a feel a collaboration with Cracking the Cryptic is in order.
I finally bought a table big enough to fit your 3000 piece puzzle and I solved it :) It was awesome! Thank you Karen for the beautiful puzzle. Will there be a third Ravensburger puzzle from you? Asking for a friend 🥰
hmmmmm
I have to split all my 2000 puzzles over 2 tables, but I wanna do Karen's 3000 anyway. xD I heard in one of her videos that they were making a series of 6 puzzles? But I'm not sure I heard that correctly, 6 puzzles would be cool though.
😂 I used my 60" tv box which I've held onto for big projects like 3k puzzles.
Awesome! I want to do her 3000 piece puzzle, but I don't have the space for it. ☹
You lucky duck! I'm still saving up, while simultaneously planning how I'm gonna do it without a big enough table and two cats ready to sabotage any chance they'll get 😭 my puzzle board is now a chewing board, not that it was big enough anyways!
Have you reached out to cracking the cryptic team and community? Mark and Simon are amazing solvers
Yes these guys could do it. Have you still not solved it three weeks later?
13:16 when another tab goes flying off 😅 this puzzles only flaw really! It is SO CUTE. I love this illustration it’s so fun.
I really enjoyed it as a puzzle even outside of the scavenger hunt! That’s not always true of this type of gimmick puzzle 👀
Maybe there are other tabs that are supposed to come off (split in the middle) with clues underneath.
The letter "c" with a line over it is a medical abbreviation often used by doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals. The symbol looks like this: c. The c is almost always lower-case. This symbol actually has a very simple meaning. A c with a line over it just means "with". This abbreviation is often used on patient charts and prescriptions, as well as information or notes written by medical professionals.
FYI, that would almost certainly be from the Latin "cum". Doctors do love their Latin!
Oh I was thinking "overseas"
It's Latin. "cum" means with. Stop giggling!
C is also the letter for 100 in Latin, M is 1000, L is 50, X is 10, V is 5, one is I
In Roman numerals a C with a line over it should equal 100,000 (100x1000) or it simply indicates that we should view that C as a number and not a letter. It was kind of the first odd thing I noticed. What that might have to do with finding an "unlikely" location, I have no idea.
"Look for sounds" with so many character pointing makes me think Semaphore. I would also guess that the 14 snippets of illustrations on the back of the box are important, maybe their order and/or locations in the picture.
I think the first clues point at the trees near the enter sign. If you look at the trees there is a dragon that tail is ”S” shaped. Then if you look to the ground there are letters that could be either u or c. Then if you look for a sound there are beavers playing instruments between the two trees with shirts that have letters r and b. Those words spell SCRUB. But after that I’m lost 😅 maybe the scrub is another clue that points to somewhere else in the picture? Is there someone scrubbing something or doing something that could cause a scrubbing sound?
Also could the look to the center mean the enter sign because there is ”c” letter on the ground so it spells center?
Maybe their just roasting us😔
@@annnnnnnnnnnnikaThe girl on the enter sign points to her ear which is vaguely C-shaped with one hand and to the beginning of the sign with her other hand. Could this also be a clue that it should read as Center rather than Enter? Unfortunately the ear looks kind of like a G... But the pointing definitely looks suspicious
For that first clue, I believe they meant sound as in Long Island Sound. Think a peninsula in reverse, that spot on the left of the puzzle, unlikely to be useful.
The frogs and the pears in the tree might reference a book called "The Frog Prince / The Pear Tree" (An Upside Down book published by edc that could be read front-to-back or back-to-front) published in 1985. That book was illustrated by Libico Maraja, who also illustrated a bunch of children's books (Alice in Wonderland, Pinocchio, etc.).
So fun! It is incredibly _unlikely_ that I’d ever solve it, but I really hope someone does because I’m also really curious! Lovely video as always ❤
It's unlikely for me too, but I love these puzzle hunts!
I love your deep dives into vintage puzzles
I can't wait for an update about this puzzle!! So interesting!
25:15 One of my favourite moments in all of Karen's videos. Spot-on sarcastic delivery.
I love this mystery! As for the puzzle image, I almost never like busy illustrations, but this one - curiously - looked fun to make.
I bought "the bizarre bookshop 2" from ravensburger for my son's girlfriend, but I had to complete it because I'm making her a puzzle advent calendar, and I needed to take it apart in sections. Let me say, your tips and tricks were very helpful, and I wanted to thank you for your videos
This is such a cute idea! I never thought to do this!
I’m doing a puzzle advent calendar for my partner right now! Last year I didn’t solve it before portioning out the pieces and don’t want to make the same mistake.
I used toilette paper rolls, wrapped each one and glued them together in the shape of a tree. Got the idea off of pinterest. They work great to hold the pieces.
Loving the regular posting! Missed your videos every Sunday! I look forward to them every single Sunday! Love your content! Thank you!🎉❤
About the trees: I notice they are maybe pointing to the kind of objects you need to count: - left tree: The amount of leeves (because he is sick)? - middle left tree: The amount of fruit? - middle right tree: The amount of drinks? - right tree: The amount of flowers? - upper tree: The amount of birds?
Hi, Karen. Love your channel!!! I was so excited to watch you at the World Puzzle competition live, and then your videos. I would love to go, but I am a rather slow puzzler. It is UNLIKELY that I would ever be able to figure out this solution.
There is a poem by the famous American poet Robert Frost called the sounds of the trees may be worth looking into
I think the title of “An Unlikely Place” could mean in a place with no hearts like no one likes it. Great Videos Karen so good!!
my brain just keeps thinking of diffrent Old Tales/stories when looking trough the puzzle.
That art style makes me so happy, wish I had gotten this way back when. It is UNLIKELY I will be able to find a copy now. Thanks for showing it!
It was so delightful to put together!
I'm guessing, off the Arrowhead trail. ‘Mona Tree Swings’ - some logic (Finders Keepers, is between quotations on the rear of box) plus their names exist on trail signs in puzzle. There is a place called Mona Utah, there you will find the Mona Rope Swings. The puzzle has the name Mona (on the ground) located in the bottom right corner in cursive. (In the Trees) is a rope hanging above the beavers. And Ralph Burraston (R,B; the beaver shirts) founded the rope swings over water) (In the sounds!).
I think it would be spectacular if Katie solves it! ❤
I sent it to her and she didn't get any further than I did!
I came here to say "send it to Katie". 😂
what if the answer is on the back of the jigsaw puzzle? that's an unlikely place to look in
This is what I have: When you look at the center and at the "Look for sounds," you'll see the girl with the tambourine. She is pointing to the cat on the left. The cat points up, where there is someone looking up and left... which points to someone else etc. The end point seems to either be above the queen throne, that incidentally looks like a purse or the tent in the top right.
I believe it is in Nebraska, because it's in the center ("at the heart") of USA, and the nickname of the state is also "Tree Planters' State". The river, the plains, the dunes, and the mountains in the illustration also seem to be pointing to places in Nebraska, and the treasure could be "buried" inside of the tunnel of Omaha's Aquarium, since the instuctions point to the possibility to it beeing "buried in the water" and it is indeed an unlikelly place to describe something as beeing "buried". Also the "clue finders trail" leads to a tunnel, we have a mermaid at the end of it, and lots of fish walking in the ground. I believe the sound reference would be for the fish next to the mermaid playing trumpet, but it's a wild guess.
Thanks for another great video - I’ve just made my first jigsaw advent calendar for my 82year old mother in law who finds 1000 piece puzzles difficult to do - I really enjoyed the process of sectioning the completed puzzle into 24 decorated bags so thank you for the great idea! (Unlikely😂)
I definitely think you might be on a good path with look for sound = looking for phonetic alphabet symbols. Perhaps if you find enough of them it will be anagram-able into words?
I don‘t think it‘s unlikely that there will be a follow up video with maybe the solution to the puzzle. really looking forward to that!:)
Once again, my mind is taken back to studying the Masquerade book in the school library, when it first came out. I was so convinced I could figure it out😂 However, that experience taught me that my brain just doesn't work that way. So, apologies, Karen, but it's unlikely I'll come up with anything helpful in solving this mystery. But I'm enjoying seeing some of the ideas other commenters have, and I really hope there will be a follow up video one day.
In medical terminology a lowercase “c” with a line over it means “with”. Kind of obscure, but there is a doctor in the puzzle. Random info: an “s” with a line over it means “without”. Cheers!
Ok, new idea for possible solve. So the first clues lead to the beavers playing the trumpet. Instead of notes there are hearts coming out of it. So if you look for the sound that are symbolised as hearts you can follow them where the characters near the hearts point at. If you follow the hearts the final point seems to be the ❤titude tower flag. So can the answer be something like at the top of the ❤titude tower. But the clue said it is located somewhere in the USA, so is there a place that is called gratitude, sounditude, notetitude etc? 🤔
Soo cool! Thanks for sharing. Loving your videos.
whoa ! how fun ! I hope i don't miss the follow up ! I found what turned out to be a vintage puzzle on my own bookshelf! " Exhaustion " by Sandy Miller. I looked her up and may have caught some " i want that " emotions . ... lol ....
My first impression was Old Faithful but probably unlikely. The place (Yellowstone) itself is a varied park with many notable trails where they all have specific names that you could interpret to be depicted on each of the "trails." Also, the "sounds" are all the things you hear in the park at different times of the year depicted in the different seasons starting with the bottom right as Spring then above that Summer and to the left Fall and finally Winter with no leaves and the Xmas stuff. Each of the "red herrings" and/or scores of clues are actually just simple things that support the seasonal depictions in each sections and the translation of all the people and sounds to things in Yellowstone. In the Park (Yellowstone) you see all the different people and activities one might find at Yellowstone depending on the weather and time of year. The people in horns (bison) and the Boy Scouts on the trail, people in head-dresses, wild horses (unicorn) etc. Then if you think about this being an interpretation of a national park and the location with the "clues" being where it is in the park. What is the most unlikely place to find 5k? I might have thought the prismatic pool but probably Old Faithful. But of course I'm just filling in what I see with what I want, I guess. Usually in the 70s/80s there was education to be had when deciphering puzzles or watching TV. This could have been "educational" for kids to learn about a specific park or the history of the US. "The American Puzzle Factory" would have made an "American" puzzle with a landmark for kids to learn about. The specific location in the park is probably up to more interpretation with the directional clues and with the a specific part of the park depicted in the puzzle's picture (meaning not the entire park as a basis for directions). I might have just taken the directions to mean where all the notable places are in the Park. Like north east is the tower, southwest of that is Old Faithful. Northwest is springs and southeast is the lake after a few waterfalls with the various fountains being the various geysers in the Park. Since they aren't 1:1 depictions of animals (that would be too obvious) but similar, I think this is definitely supposed to be a representation of a different park with fountains (geysers) and all the pictures representing the sounds and people you might see with all the different educational backgrounds you would learn after you couldn't solve it in time but were told what the answer was. You might have to look up all the different references and maybe, as a kid, learn something about one of the Greatest National Parks in the US. Feels like an 80s solution to me.
Might be a great guess. Fountains, flute...more fountains than likely... Following the scores of clues will narrow it down.
The art style reminds me a lot of Janet Ahlberg, who illustrated children's books in the 70s and 80s (and probably longer than that lol). "Each Peach Pear Plum," which her husband Allan wrote, was one of my favorite books as a kid, and I still have a lot of the poem memorized and can picture the illustrations clearly!
THE JOLLY POSTMAN! Omg thank you for the nostalgiia hit :)
@@RavenesqueOmg THAT'S what it was called! I was thinking of that book but couldn't remember the title! My little sis loved that one! You're welcome for the nostalgia hit, and thanks for sharing it with me :)
I noticed all the trees seem to be holding up a certain number of fingers. Also, the flute player mentioned has someone pointing at them. I think this might indicate that following lines formed this way might spell letters? I think the poem indicates the grouping of smaller puzzles, and also possibly the order the solutions to those puzzles goes in.
This puzzle reminds me of the Highlights Hidden Picture Puzzle books I got in the 80s and 90s through the mail.
i love things like treasure hunts and solving clues, so will definitely have a nosey at the images ! who would have thought that it wqaas unlikely to find any sort of information about this puzzle, it makes it a bit more fascinating for me!!
That's what makes me think that it is solvable. If it was as much of a mystery as The Money Hunt, I feel like more people would still be talking about it?
The c with a line over it is how people used to short-hand the word 'with.' My mother still writes it this way 😅-- now I want to pause the video and try to figure this out!!
Hey Karen, in case you are gonna see this comment: I would love it if you'd make a video some time about the best puzzles for beginners. I have always enjoyed watching people do puzzles and have been watching a lot of your videos lately. However, I have never really enjoyed doing puzzles myself. I lack the attention span and get overwhelmed quickly. Nonetheless I have been thinking about giving puzzles another chance for quite some time now.. I know I would like to start with something that ideally has less than 1000 pieces and I have looked a bit into what's out there, but don't really know what I should best go for. I don't want to do a puzzle for kids with larger pieces, because honestly those appear a bit too easy and that can be frustrating too.. but with the ones for adults I just don't know... do I go for a busy image so there's a lot of aspects to use as orientation or rather something less busy.. I want something that's still challenging, but doesn't get frustrating and is overall a fun puzzle to do... Obviously that can be quite individual, but I thought maybe you could talk some time about what kind of puzzles for beginners are out there and which kind of puzzles you would recommend to start out with.. and also maybe some tips to not have the first puzzle experience after many years be super overwhelming. Also, lots of love, I really enjoy your videos (:
"Unlikely" I'll remember to check back for an update lol
A score can also be a music score, which relates to look for sound.
I can’t believe I stumbled on your Channel, I dot even even do puzzles but I love your content
Could the 4 trees in the front be the four seasons? The left one is winter, the one with pears is fall, the one with angels and lemonade is summer and the one with flowers is spring? - in this case the tree holding some cash would be fall.
OMG the ad of this kiwico did convince me - i instantly bought one box for my daughter to Europe :D I am already looking forward to it :D
I love this illustration. The treasure hunt piece makes my brain hurt. 😜 It is extremely unlikely that I would get any further in solving it, but maybe I’ll put the picture on our TV over Thanksgiving and ask my family to help!
Unlikely 😉 that anyone at the company knows the TRUE answer to this puzzle but we will still try to figure it out! Thanks for sharing such a cool puzzle!
I really enjoyed the no spoilers ahead section
this might require a collab with a channel solving other kind of puzzles :)
Feel free to send this video out to anyone who you think could be able to solve it! If someone else made a video explaining the answer, that would save me from having to do it if someone just emails it in 😂
@@KarenPuzzles collab with @CrackingTheCryptic ?
I'm sure cracking the cryptic could solve this
I got curious and went to look for that Masquerade treasure hunt and OMG it was really WILD!! 😮😮
I still have my copy of Masquerade. I was so convinced I could solve it! Bear in mind, I was only 12 when it was released😂
I finally bought first puzzle of my life and all credits goes to you Karen for igniting such great interest in me. I'm really happy and so excited to solve my FIRST PUZZLE EVER❤❤ Love from India❤
This could possibly be a hint: in the place where the beavers are (with the trumpet), the yellow hearts and the wall could represent a sheet of music
It's been looked into in another thread here. Best guess so far is the notes may read "BEEF".
Love this all ready
I’m so intrigued!!! I want to figure out this unlikely puzzle!
I’ve just looked up the masquerade puzzle you mentioned. How crazy was that.
1985 you say? Wheres your crimped side pony, hot pink blush and batwing blouson?
This is such a relaxing video and puzzle after all the excitement of the championship speed puzzling. 🥰
I love that you made this into a viewer puzzle to solve❤
Really entertaining video & a beautiful puzzle All I know about this puzzle is their are clues with letters and numbers and you put them together somehow and it's the name of a place, but I can't quite put it all together lol
Sounds in trees - birds, the dr is listening to the tree’s heartbeat 💚
I love your Videos they are such a safe space for my brain and really help me when my autism kicks really hard. Thank you ❤
I looked at the images, can't hope to solve it, but the only kind of hidden clue I may have parsed is from the banner reading 💛itude, in music there is the term "étude" (meaning study in French) which would be pronounced similarly and typically centers around a short instrumentation. Towards the bottom of the puzzle there are a group of beavers playing instruments with yellow hearts above them which are arranged kind of like music notes. I don’t really know anything about music so I kind of hit a dead end there, but maybe it will help someone else.
Good find! Here's a reaction from a music theorist. The hearts have a background of a five-layer brick wall that reminds me of the usual five-line musical staff. Unfortunately the notes (if that's what they represent) are ambiguous. The first one, being in the middle of the staff, I think should be a B. Then the second note (between the fourth and fifth lines?) would be E, and the last note (crossing the top line) F. But the third note is unclear: is it between the fourth and fifth lines, like the second note? You can see the ambiguity here. Sorry, this is as far as I got. Thanks for having me engrossed in the riddle for a few minutes.
IF we go with the idea the wall represents musical bars you would find on standard sheet music, you could say the bricks are the "lines" while the gaps between are the spaces of the bars. IF we say the middle part of the heart represents the center of the note, we would get B E E F.
I was thinking about the beavers because the other trees are looking away and the trees that they are between are both looking at "us" and pointing at them. They are also close to the sign that restates the "look for sounds" clue
Well using what you said if you look at the placement of the yellow hearts on the five rows of bricks it kinda looks like sheet music. The hearts would land over B,E,E,F which of course spells beef? The pig above the stone wall is pointing to a platter of meat (whether its beef or not I don’t know) not really sure what any of it means of its even relevant? Im hoping someone figures it out I’m dying to know the answer!
Could it simply be that there is 4 yellow hearts, making it 4-titude, which "sounds" like Fortitude
You could do a livesteam where we try to solve it!
It’s very very UNLIKELY that I will ever solve this 😂. Great video as always Karen and hope you are feeling better. Looking forward to a follow up video for when someone figures out the answer.
It's highly *unlikely*, but can you please do a video about that Masquerade puzzlehunt? I would love to see it from you ❤ anyways, great video as always 🎉
oh man, i'm so upset that we don't know the solution! hopefully, with some help from the subscribers, you'll be able to solve it? hoping for a follow up video!
"Unlikely" I'll figure it out, but I sure am up to the challenge! Gonna get my thinking cap on and settle down to a coffee and mystery solving time!
Haven't found a puzzle I could solve yet. Plus, that one is busy and full of colors and I'm good at those.
We love kiwico! My son loved the biomechanical hand. He'd pick up everytbing with it for months. 😂
I was looking at the C with the line over it. Under it I noticed the cantaloupe and carrots and thought, hey those both start with c. So I kept looking and thought maybe the guys with the pots (and maybe steak guy) are for "carry". Maybe the guy on the rock is "contemplating" but that feels like a bit of a stretch. The duck is also carrying something but I feel like there wouldn't be another carry. Then there's a crocodile (unless it's an alligator) in the tree. And in between the trees is a guy with some horseshoes that look like c's. If you go more left there's a guy with a clock (but I would naturally call it a watch), then a bit above there's a girl with a cookie, and the tree has cash, and then further along the path there's a cycle of some kind. Then further on the path there's a mouse with a cane, and maybe a cave behind him (but I'd naturally call it a tunnel and I think there's another opening). That's about as far as I can get if I'm trying to find some things that start with c. Or maybe by the mouse it keeps going with cats and another clock, maybe also castle? And maybe the little guy "climbed" the hill (also seems like a stretch)? But then going back to the C shirt, along the path the other way there are things like keys and queen, and some hearts "collected" or maybe "kept" in a basket, so maybe it's just the k sound that c makes. Maybe in the trees the birds with a nest are "caring" and the other birds are "calling"? Maybe the tent is "camping" the boat is a catamaran? And some more cats on a bridge, maybe "crossing"? And another croc floating below. But then also on the path above the C shirt, there's a treasure chest and chains, those start with c but don't make a k sound. When I saw the rainbow and the train I thought "well they both have "rain" in them". Near the upper right there are what I think are frogs coming out of the other end of the tunnel, and fish near them. So I thought maybe f's now. There's frogs, fish (flying?), fishing, the croc is "floating", someone playing a flute. Then maybe the frogs in the tree and the fish on the columns? Or the fountains? Between all the fountains there's someone picking flowers. Maybe a farmer to the right? Then seeing the person holding a snowball in the sandy area in the middle, I thought maybe some s's. Snow, sand. Pig with the mirror is "self"? There are people swimming on the left area of water. Lower left there are the three cats sewing. The tree is sick. Lots of people sitting, some sleeping. But then there's the guy with the AB shirt, and the beavers with the R and B shirts (maybe something to do with the -eave- part in the middle of "beaver"?). And also with the C shirt, I thought maybe the line is showing where the bottom is (like what people sometimes do with 6 and 9), so maybe it's actually an upside down/reverse c. A turned c (though usually called an open o) is the symbol for the open-mid back rounded vowel, like in "on", "thought", "saw" in American English. No idea what to do with that though. Apparently I can see more than I thought in the puzzle. It remains to be seen if any of it actually means anything though 😅
You could do a puzzle ASMR channel. All the sounds would work from opening the box to dumping it out to shuffling through and clicking the pieces into place.
I spotted that the trees are pointing towards three spots. The two on the left are pointing on a fountain. The both trees at the bottom right are pointing to the beaver playing an instrument and the last one at the top right is pointing towards the hat of the person next ro him. Also something about the trees: they often have something inside one hand that is represented in the leaves of those trees.
I’m a little late to the party but my best guess based off the clues I’ve found point me towards Memphis. This might be a stretch but here’s my evidence so far: the top left being the most obvious clue for this city. I’ve found a few references to the city’s music scene including BB King (person with a blue jacket with peculiar “BB” pockets, top right of the puzzle on the pathway), R&B beavers, one with a trumpet, on a hammock (bottom right), and the various heart imagery which may be a clue for “soul” (this is more of a stretch imo). Other clues (or stretches to fit my theory) are: animals found in Memphis do include alligators and beavers (the pigs may be a reference to pork BBQ); the duck near the center may be a reference to the Peabody Hotel and the ducks that live there; the sick tree could refer to St. Jude’s. How do all these clues come together to pinpoint a specific location in Memphis? I have no clue! Thanks for reading my crazy theory for this puzzle!
What I've potentially gathered is that the sound could refer to things you could hear, if the image were real. For example: the waterfalls, water fountains, birds, train, and thunder. I could imagine the hearts, birds, and fountains could be meaningful considering how many there are. The tree on the right is pointing at a white bird nearly poking it. Santa on the beach makes me think West Coast (my first thought was the Southern Hemisphere though). I don't understand why there are pyramids and camels nearly on the opposite side of the puzzle. Unless we pretend we're in Australia and The Pyramids would be to our NW. Someone pointed out -itude could refer to latitude and longitude. Maybe counting the correct things could bring you the coordinates.
Wonder if locating ... then speaking to the illustrator, Mena Dolobowsky, might be a good place to start. When I Googled her name, several entries appeared: lists her as an illustrator in New York. I sure hope your solve this puzzle.
ooh I love a good mystery, but these kind of puzzles are beyond me. I'm just as lost as you! It'll be interesting to see if anyone solves it or to find someone who did solve it back in the day. And ugh very thin connectors is one of the things that bothers me most in puzzles. I really wish they wouldn't design puzzle cuts like that. I have a puzzle with a piece like that and I keep that piece in a separate ziplock bag by itself because I'm so afraid it will break and I really enjoy redoing that puzzle every year or so.
Oh my God! You are using Kristin's one hand technique with the puzzle.
I just spent at least an hour working on the "unlikely" place clues. My brain hurts!
I'm pretty sure the center of the puzzle (per the poem) is the kid's hand pointing directly at the flute player. Probably that's the start of the answer but I have no idea where to go from there or what it means. lol It's very unlikely I'll solve it but it's fun to try.
well, if it is centralised to be in america, and the puzzle is full of hearts...maybe one of the states in the "american heartland" is the beginning
It's unlikely that I will solve the puzzle, but about the sound. I think it's like you said what objects gives sounds. The flute, birds, the sound of the water in the fountains. The
the center could be the center of the bullseye target with the heart arrow
I love ❤your speaking giggles. It’s cute and lighthearted
So unlikely i ever get closer but I'll give it a try
I am not a puzzler but this really got my attention. Super fun video!
Thank you for making me feel four years younger lol. I can see why they didn’t make this a series. Those rules for the scavenger hunt seemed a little…arbitrary? Especially with the tie breaker. That tie breaker made me think of the friends episode where the girls try to get their apartment back from the guys & Phoebe makes up "Phoebe ball" where they each had to tell her their favorite things about trees & she was just randomly giving out points. It just kind of sounds like that. I’m guessing not that many people were interested in this after reading those rules.
Hold up… masquerade puzzle drama??? Can you make a video about this masquerade puzzle???
That story has been covered extensively in other videos and podcasts. I prefer to focus on lesser known puzzles that no one else is talking about 😅
Thinking about this (but not looking too closely at the puzzle itself), I have two ideas: 1) What if "sound" refers to the physical location like Puget Sound? That could be the starting point and then using the rest of the puzzle to narrow down the specific location. 2) Talking about the "center" and the "ground", I get the idea of leaves on the tree (or fallen on the ground). The sound can come in around all of the leaves that have fallen on the ground and would make noise as you walk over them. I wonder if there is a section of the puzzle that has a pile of leaves, maybe a clue is "buried" under it? Is there any writing or something on the back of the puzzle pieces? If you flip the pile of leaves over there might be something "buried" under there?
19:44 i think you’re on the right track here. The outline of the tree in the bottom left also looks so much like a map of a part of a sound (the waterway type is sound) .. and it has 3 Xs … which seems like an x marks the spot clue. I traced the tree outline and tried to match it to someplace in the Puget Sound… couldn’t find a match, so started looking at other Sounds. So many on the NC coast! Will keep looking. perhaps others find clues that help narrow it down to a particular area of the country to look?
I love a good mystery!
Me too, except when I can't solve it!