Sacred Myths And Legends Wooden Brain Teaser Puzzle (The Equation)

by Family Games

Product Features

• This kit includes step by step solution instructions
• Difficulty Level: Hard - Genius
• Game play instructions are available in 4 languages.
• Decipher the complex clues and codes shidden within six cryptic conundrums, leading to your final revelation.
• All wood used in manufacturing was either from surplus wood from furniture factories or farmed trees from re-growth forests.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4 x 4 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000NY6M82
• Item model number: 20031
• Manufacturer recommended age: 12 - 16 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #76,948 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Aided by sacred scrolls, coded engravings and pictorial fagments of historical, geographical and mystical importance, participants are challenged to adventure through six cryptic wooden puzzles to unlock the secrets that will lead them closer to their final puzzle destinatin - secrest of the pyramid. Game play instructions are available in 4 languages. Decipher the complex clues and codes shidden within six cryptic conundrums, leading to your final revelation. Who will be the first to reap the rewards. We want you to feel good purchasing Family Games' products. We remain committed to selling safe games and puzzles of the highest quality, and we remain committed to manufacturing them in the most environmentally safe and socially responsible way - all wood used in manufacturing was either from surplus wood from furniture factories or farmed trees from re-growth forests.

Product Description

Aided by sacred scrolls, coded engravings and pictorial fagments of historical, geographical and mystical importance, participants are challenged to adventure through six cryptic wooden puzzles to unlock the secrets that will lead them closer to their final puzzle destinatin - secrest of the pyramid. Game play instructions are available in 4 languages. Decipher the complex clues and codes shidden within six cryptic conundrums, leading to your final revelation. Who will be the first to reap the rewards. We want you to feel good purchasing Family Games' products. We remain committed to selling safe games and puzzles of the highest quality, and we remain committed to manufacturing them in the most environmentally safe and socially responsible way - all wood used in manufacturing was either from surplus wood from furniture factories or farmed trees from re-growth forests.

Features include:

•This kit includes step by step solution instructions
•Difficulty Level: Hard - Genius
•Game play instructions are available in 4 languages.
•Decipher the complex clues and codes shidden within six cryptic conundrums, leading to your final revelation.
•All wood used in manufacturing was either from surplus wood from furniture factories or farmed trees from re-growth forests.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Difficult puzzle. That is a good thing., June 9, 2009

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D. Holwerda (Scottsdale, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Sacred Myths And Legends Wooden Brain Teaser Puzzle (The Equation) (Toy)

This is the second in a series of seven themed puzzles from the "Sacred Myths and Legends" line put out by Family Games, Inc. Each puzzle can be solved alone, but each one also provides clues to the solution of the next puzzle in the series, leading up the seventh puzzle (to be released in late 2009) which incorporates elements from all the previous ones.

This series of puzzles is great for adventure-loving, intellectuals who want to escape into a Robert Langdon/Indiana Jones motif for a while. Each package includes a beautiful, high-quality, wooden puzzle which requires solving to reveal a secret scroll, which will then provide clues to a password which needs to be entered on the companies website to unlock an extra clue for the next puzzle. Each of these clues takes the form of a riddle.

Each puzzle in the series has it's own theme (Da Vinci is one, Atlantis is another, King Arthur, etc.) and the clues all pertain to the theme of the puzzle you are on. The incorporation of the internet slightly removes you from the role-playing element of these puzzles, but once you see how difficult these passwords are to figure out, you will most likely be spending hours on the internet anyway - trying to decipher the clues. The passwords are actually much more difficult than the wooden puzzles (as a general rule) and will sustain you LONG after you have already solved the physical puzzle. However, the difficulty level of these riddles is EXTREME (in most cases), so be prepared to educate yourself thoroughly regarding the mythological or historical theme at hand.

That is not to say that the PUZZLES are easy, however. Most of them require a great deal of effort to finish, even after you know what the solution is supposed to be. And there are no instructions with these puzzles. There is usually one clue per puzzle and it is left up to the player to figure out what needs to be done. As I said, these are definitely aimed at an intellectual audience.

The second puzzle in the set is called "The Equation" and is considered by most to be the most difficult one on the series. The motif is one of science and mathematics, though a full understanding of these concepts is NOT required to enjoy the puzzle. Hidden elements from the first puzzle will aid in the solution of this one, but those elements are not nessecary. The scroll in this puzzle is NOT hidden (it comes in the box), but the clues on the scroll help you with the puzzle solution in this case.

Some of the puzzles in this set will take you less time than others (most can be solved in a day or two, sometimes much less...but some of them - like this one - took me weeks), but the passwords will keep you going for quite a while, regardless of how fast you solve the puzzle. Another great thing about these puzzles is the fact that they look great on a display shelf ...and house-guests are always intrigued by a good puzzle.

One warning about playing these puzzles - if you search internet forums for help with the passwords, YOU WILL SEE SPOILERS and it could ruin it for you. I would highly recommend avoiding those forums altogether (until you are ready to give up anyway). Otherwise you run the chance of spoiling the mystery for yourself.

Enjoy!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely difficult but fun puzzle, September 20, 2010

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Ryan M. Emens - See all my reviews
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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Sacred Myths And Legends Wooden Brain Teaser Puzzle (The Equation) (Toy)

This is a great puzzle for anyone that loves puzzles and riddles that are so tricky that it will take weeks to figure out. It is the second puzzle of a series of seven where the answer to the first puzzle with give a clue on how to solve the next, then so on and so forth. Be sure to get the first puzzle and solve it completely in order to use its clue before buying this one... you will need it.Family Games DaVinci's Secret Sacred Myths and Legends Collection

It is essentially a 15 piece tangram puzzle but you won't know what the correct answer is unless you use the clues given from the solution of the first puzzle. I had a lot of fun trying to solve the puzzle with my friends and family so this one can be great with a person by your side.