# Multi-Puzzle Puzzle? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 15, 2019, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-puzzle-puzzle/827830 "2019-01-15T22:44:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-puzzle-puzzle/827830/1 "2019-01-15T22:44:56Z")
I have been watching videos on YouTube by Mr Puzzle and Chris Ramsay where they solve/review different puzzles that have been released. It seems like with every example there’s only a single thing to be solved and if you get that then you’re basically done. If you want the puzzle to take more time, then you simply make it a harder puzzle. But then, with the harder puzzles, the solution seems to be to fiddle with the damned thing until you randomly happen on something. It’s really more with the middle-ranged puzzles that you can actually observe and hypothesize strategies for defeating the thing. But those, you accomplish in 15 minutes, and now you’ve spent $50 for a paperweight. It seems like there should be something that is more like a onion of mid-level puzzles, where solving one just leads you into the next, and you have to go through 4-5 layers before getting to the end. Is there one like that? I haven’t spotted anything that seems to do that on either of the two channels. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-puzzle-puzzle/827830/2 "2019-01-15T23:39:31Z")
I played a game called Gorogoa on my iPhone that worked almost exactly as you describe. See here: > **[Gorogoa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorogoa)** > > Gorogoa is a puzzle video game developed by Jason Roberts and published by Annapurna Interactive. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, and iOS on 14 December 2017, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in March 2018, and shortly thereafter an Android and Kindle Fire release. > Gorogoa has the player manipulate images placed in a two-by-two grid, exploring within each image as well as placing or stacking images relative to others, to solve puzzles. Through the puzzles, the player gu... ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2019, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-puzzle-puzzle/827830/3 "2019-01-16T02:17:48Z")
Sorry, I should have specified (for anyone who doesn’t know the YouTube channels I was referencing) that I meant physical puzzles, like these: > **[Cast Coil](https://www.puzzlemaster.ca/browse/metalpuzzles/metal/3516-cast-coil?image=7397)** > > Test your knowledge & skill with Puzzle Master Cast Coil puzzle, crosswords & games. We have a nice range of Hanayama Metal Puzzles puzzles & more. Shop Now! > **[Secret Lock Box II](https://www.puzzlemaster.ca/browse/allpuzzleboxes/7648-secret-lock-box-ii)** > > Puzzle Master offers a wide selection of Dave Janelle puzzles & brain teasers. We have different varieties of Dave Janelle, including Secret Lock Box II & more. Shop Now! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2019, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-puzzle-puzzle/827830/4 "2019-01-16T13:52:04Z")
Would Escape Rooms fit what the OP is looking for? ---
**Author:** ![Fundisi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Fundisi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fundisi)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-puzzle-puzzle/827830/5 "2019-01-17T10:43:54Z")
> **[Crystal Puzzle HCM59169 Große Crystal Windmühle Puzzle Game : Amazon.co.uk: Toys...](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crystal-Puzzle-HCM59169-Gro%C3%9Fe-Windm%C3%BChle/dp/B01MSNKM4H)** > > Free delivery and returns on eligible orders. Buy Crystal Puzzle HCM59169 Große Crystal Windmühle Puzzle Game at Amazon UK. While this isn’t a multi level puzzle, being a 3d jigsaw type puzzle, it isn’t a single “Aha!” type solution either. Being see-through plastic pieces, with no indication of which side up is correct, it was one of the hardest ones I have tried that one could actually solve, without needing that random event to help. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-puzzle-puzzle/827830/6 "2019-01-18T02:06:34Z")
Are you familiar with the quiz web site [Sporcle](https://www.sporcle.com/)? They did two things of this sort called “Puzzle Hunts”, basically there’s an initial series of quizzes, each of which reveals a component of the next-level puzzle, and then solving that one gives you hints to the ultimate answer. [Sporcle Puzzle Hunt](https://www.sporcle.com/playlists/sproutcm/sporcle-puzzle-hunt) [SIA (“Sporcle Intelligence Agency”) Puzzle Hunt](https://www.sporcle.com/playlists/SIA/sia-puzzle-hunt) ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-puzzle-puzzle/827830/7 "2019-01-18T03:46:54Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Would Escape Rooms fit what the OP is looking for? No, I was really looking for something that you could put wrapping paper around and then, later, put on a shelf and have it look cool. But I don’t mind the other suggestions. Maybe they’ll come in useful at some point. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2019, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-puzzle-puzzle/827830/8 "2019-01-18T04:06:02Z")
There’s a good one you can google called The Lotus Box Puzzle that has a couple of layers to it. Don’t watch any youtube videos on it unless you want it spoiled but it seems to have a primary and secondary solution. ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2019, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/multi-puzzle-puzzle/827830/9 "2019-01-24T23:48:58Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > But those, you accomplish in 15 minutes, and now you’ve spent $50 for a paperweight. A paperweight that you put on your desk and watch everyone else who picks it up struggle to solve it. 🙂