This Mystery Puzzle From the 90s Broke Us

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  • Опубліковано 26 вер 2023
  • Do mysteries and jigsaw puzzles belong together? Join us as we read a creepy tale and put together an annoying puzzle from the 90s. It's spooky!
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  • @gracestarkes2644
    @gracestarkes2644 10 місяців тому +83

    I couldn't help but feel my heart warm up when Phelan cradled Ziggy in his arms like a little baby. Seeing him display such fatherly affection towards his little fur baby despite her mischief was incredibly wholesome.

    • @merchantfan
      @merchantfan 10 місяців тому +10

      I admire his ability to force his attention from the cute cat to the boring, boring puzzle story

    • @Tareltonlives
      @Tareltonlives 9 місяців тому +3

      Sheis so precious!

    • @ShayLaLaLooHoo
      @ShayLaLaLooHoo 8 місяців тому +4

      Ziggy Time!!
      2:21
      2:40
      3:40
      3:52
      4:39
      5:55

  • @NeverEvenThere
    @NeverEvenThere 10 місяців тому +49

    Phelan gives off "husband holding his wifes purse at the mall" energy when he's listening to you read the story 🤣

  • @thewraithwriter22
    @thewraithwriter22 10 місяців тому +27

    "We're in a hell of our own making."
    The delivery of that killed me.
    More people died in the comments of this video than in the story.

  • @MforMovesets
    @MforMovesets 10 місяців тому +19

    Allison is the opposite of Redlettermedia: If there's nothing to salvage or to work with, she will upload it anyway.

    • @AllisonPregler
      @AllisonPregler  10 місяців тому +10

      Nothing but garbage for me!!!

    • @CyclopsWasRight616
      @CyclopsWasRight616 8 місяців тому +1

      @@AllisonPregler i mean, you DID watch that first Superman movie. That's not that bad.

  • @gracestarkes2644
    @gracestarkes2644 10 місяців тому +50

    It's so adorable how Ziggy's all curious about what you're up to and wants to join in the fun.

  • @jonothanthrace1530
    @jonothanthrace1530 9 місяців тому +9

    This video proves what I've suspected about Allison and Phelan all along: That they're adorable and intensely goofy regardless of what they're doing.

  • @skortyspice
    @skortyspice 10 місяців тому +29

    When i saw the title i was like what the hell is a mystery puzzle. Glad to see that you two seem just as confused as I am. I love your content together. Your love of campy weird schlock is so wholesome when it's in the context of being a married couple with a cat.

  • @seraphonica
    @seraphonica 10 місяців тому +11

    that's not a bad cat, that's a puzzle halper!

  • @LobbyLoiterer
    @LobbyLoiterer 10 місяців тому +7

    I got a mystery puzzle at a garage sale once like 20 years ago. It matched the picture on the box, but when you put it all together, there were glow-in-the-dark bits that revealed the secret hidden in the puzzle. Always liked that gimmick, but now I appreciate it even more for at least letting me know how to put it together first.

  • @zerogravy7446
    @zerogravy7446 10 місяців тому +12

    The best part of this is Phelan hugging cat :)

  • @KyleRDent
    @KyleRDent 10 місяців тому +25

    I realise you used it for aesthetic, but that table cloth made your puzzle much more taxing than it needed to be 😂

  • @jackgladney
    @jackgladney 10 місяців тому +7

    Very thorough job with this one, but I have one correction. Several people have pointed this out already, but that is not a bad cat. That’s actually a very good cat.

  • @BrianDavis13
    @BrianDavis13 10 місяців тому +12

    Phelan holding Ziggy was adorable. She's growing up so fast!
    I used to be really into puzzles, and I tried a few that didn't have the picture on the box, and it just sucks all the fun out of it, both because it makes it much harder to assemble, and also because the picture is inevitably disappointing.
    The recaps of the kid's baseball games were truly riveting, but there is something that could have made the story much better: MORE PEAS!!! :D

    • @U_N_Owen
      @U_N_Owen 10 місяців тому

      Yeah. You think "oh fun, a mystery!" and then later you realize that "mystery puzzle" to a sales-type business jerk means put 99 percent of the budget into the COVER ART and promotional copy on the back, and then the actual contents can just be painted glass shards and cigarette buts they swept up in the parking lot and a story somebody's uncle wrote on a napkin because if they SHOWED you the contents of the box before you bought it that would spoil the "mystery." Like the Goosebumps-style skeleton umpire is brilliant, and then the puzzle is brown dirt with scraps of paper.

  • @seancannon7718
    @seancannon7718 10 місяців тому +14

    I had a few Bepuzzled jigsaws back in the day and yeah, not giving you a reference picture was kind of their thing. The ones i had worked just like these except they were murder mystery themed. So basically the stories were a Murder She Wrote knock off instead of a Goosebumps knock off. I thought not having picture made for an interesting challenge, not sure what that says about me.

    • @lnk2158
      @lnk2158 10 місяців тому +2

      I've done the murder mystery ones, too. I really enjoy them, but also think if you're expecting a normal puzzle it's probably annoying.

    • @U_N_Owen
      @U_N_Owen 10 місяців тому +1

      It actually IS a Murder She Wrote rip-off. There was a series of MSW mystery puzzle games just like this, except they had the decency to release them as PC games with a changeable difficulty setting so you didn't go nuts trying to put together a real physical puzzle. You'd listen to a (terrible, unintelligible, exhaustingly-long) story and then try to solve the mystery by putting together a crime scene puzzle and then study the picture to "work out" the solution (to the boring story you couldn't follow that ate up 80 percent of the playtime with its suckage). These games were terrible for the same reason Spider Tales was terrible. They failed to realize that the MYSTERY was the selling point, not the puzzle, so they didn't bother to hire good writers who could make it fun.

  • @Antonicane
    @Antonicane 10 місяців тому +10

    Literally watching this video with a very demanding kitty cat on my desk right now trying to monopolise my attention. So really getting the full experience.

  • @Cajek2
    @Cajek2 10 місяців тому +6

    It's spooktober in september: the second most frightening month of all

  • @doan2300
    @doan2300 10 місяців тому +6

    Ah, the unofficial hard mode of all puzzles, Kitten On Table Mode.
    Hello Ziggy you are adorable!

  • @littlebighead4482
    @littlebighead4482 10 місяців тому +8

    it's so nostalgic to see you two together, been watching here and there for over a decade now

  • @WillDaBeard
    @WillDaBeard 10 місяців тому +31

    I just realized we’re gonna see these two doing videos together WAAAAY more now that they’re married! It’s a content mirical

    • @gracekim25
      @gracekim25 10 місяців тому +1

      Aye it is tons of fun 😊

    • @markiangooley
      @markiangooley 10 місяців тому +4

      Total win for us! Also, Allison always looks great with dark hair. I still have no clue of what her actual hair color is but it hardly matters.

    • @thewraithwriter22
      @thewraithwriter22 9 місяців тому +1

      @@markiangooley it's actually ever changing, like one of those light up keyboards

    • @mobius273
      @mobius273 9 місяців тому

      Wait when did they get married? I remember Allison announcing that they got engaged but i didn't hear that they're already married

  • @ananananabop
    @ananananabop 10 місяців тому +18

    I would actually love an R.L.Stine book cover art puzzle. That would make for a fun halloween activity

  • @richysradioroom
    @richysradioroom 10 місяців тому +18

    I love you two together. Even the crappy joke book made me laugh.

  • @U_N_Owen
    @U_N_Owen 10 місяців тому +4

    I couldn't help noticing this Spider Tale didn't have any spiders in it. I also noticed a lack of spooky skeleton umpires. And it was more of an anecdote than a tale.

  • @christophermerlot3366
    @christophermerlot3366 10 місяців тому +5

    Doing any sort of jigsaw puzzle with a cat around is just asking for a world of hurt.

  • @TigerNightmare
    @TigerNightmare 10 місяців тому +3

    I actually had a similar puzzle, because my mom didn't feel like buying a Nintendo game for my birthday. Read the story, assemble the puzzle, and then use the completed puzzle to solve the mystery and check if you were right at the end. Or in my case, assemble the puzzle, skip the story, and skip to the answer. It's like spending hours cooking a dish that no one wants to eat.

  • @LaNoLaCola
    @LaNoLaCola 10 місяців тому +21

    Allison and Phelan starting the spooky season early 👻

    • @raycerx87
      @raycerx87 10 місяців тому

      Spooky season starts in September!

    • @gruvee9334
      @gruvee9334 10 місяців тому +2

      It's Septober!

  • @dancepiglover
    @dancepiglover 10 місяців тому +4

    In doofy voice: Anyway, to make a long story short, no one killed anyone.

  • @MatthewCaunsfield
    @MatthewCaunsfield 10 місяців тому +4

    Giving how challenging this puzzle was, it was extra bold of you to use that tablecloth! 😁

  • @joshuamoore8560
    @joshuamoore8560 10 місяців тому +5

    Watching this gives me warm memories of Allison's Modelland read-through. I still give that one a watch regularly when I need some joy in these trying times. Thanks, Allison! *punch*

  • @cosmiccats15-ju9ic
    @cosmiccats15-ju9ic 10 місяців тому +4

    3:40 Ziggy tries to leap into Phelan 😆

  • @wstine79
    @wstine79 10 місяців тому +14

    Don't Allison and Phelous realize what horror sights they'll see if they put together a spooky puzzle board game?

  • @mantramoon9
    @mantramoon9 10 місяців тому +10

    Seems like a decent idea but with really bad execution - can't imagine why it wound up in a thrift store! I liked the What We Do in the Shadows clips. Also your kitty is adorable.

  • @JamiJR
    @JamiJR 10 місяців тому +18

    Ziggy isn't bad! Ziggy just wanted to help solve the mystery!

    • @andreasnickmann370
      @andreasnickmann370 9 місяців тому

      Me: Ziggy isn't bad, just drawn that way.
      You: that doesn't make sense. Ziggy's a real cat, not a cartoon character.
      Me: I know. I just wanted to belong ☹️

  • @CountessJJ
    @CountessJJ 10 місяців тому +6

    Love little Ziggy! So curious, such a cutie.

  • @Lhunweth
    @Lhunweth 10 місяців тому +2

    I imagine this "game" was so pristine because past owners got too bored to complete the puzzle and put it back in the box!

  • @trevingrayek1671
    @trevingrayek1671 10 місяців тому +3

    The real terror was the puzzles we completed along the way

  • @ToHoldNothing
    @ToHoldNothing 9 місяців тому +2

    5:59-Almost thought it was post production, but Ziggy did a little squeak, so cute!

  • @diegocella6791
    @diegocella6791 10 місяців тому +4

    Phelan has to use all his power to stay awake! It's a tough one!

  • @brendakrieger7000
    @brendakrieger7000 9 місяців тому +2

    I love that tablecloth!! Phelan is such a good cat daddy🐈‍⬛

  • @gracestarkes2644
    @gracestarkes2644 10 місяців тому +11

    So…It's not really a ghost story as it is a story about sexism and jealousy in little league baseball. Why the spooky title and artwork then? Did they tack it on last minute? Did the original draft get immensely toned down? Was this rushed?
    Professor X: We will never know.

  • @gracekim25
    @gracekim25 10 місяців тому +5

    I’ve never tried baseball 😅 aw Ziggy is so cute, must love the camera attention as well as the cuddles 😊

  • @ToHoldNothing
    @ToHoldNothing 10 місяців тому +1

    That TMNT Mutant Mayhem video was only a month ago and I already forgot Ziggy the crazy tortie kitten and her antics

  • @jankarieben1071
    @jankarieben1071 10 місяців тому +2

    GOODMORNING Allison and Phelan! between you and the two shots of crown ive had, this is a great start of the day!

  • @cameronstone4495
    @cameronstone4495 10 місяців тому +4

    Man even Sisko would find this ball game boring!

  • @gracestarkes2644
    @gracestarkes2644 10 місяців тому +4

    5:59 Ziggy cries “Bored!”

  • @MikeStavola
    @MikeStavola 10 місяців тому +1

    My mom got me some of these, and I absolutely hated the books. The puzzles were okay, though.
    I had a golf one, an art-themed one, and one with a really awesome old car on the box.

  • @gregorywiederecht
    @gregorywiederecht 10 місяців тому +1

    I remember I actually bought one of these as a kid. Except, it was Clue-themed. I vaguely remember the mystery not being very compelling, even though I actually enjoyed reading the Clue novels in the school library (they were these chapter books with a different mystery every chapter. Really easy to figure out)

  • @wstine79
    @wstine79 10 місяців тому +5

    I'm enjoying this Game Night simulator. Has Phelous and Allison played a spooky board game called Shrieks & Creaks?

  • @tutunaku
    @tutunaku 10 місяців тому +2

    19:01 "Iiiiiiiiiiiiit's pointless padding scene time" ding

  • @grkpektis
    @grkpektis 9 місяців тому +1

    I've done a similar puzzle/ murder mystery that had no reference image but there were a bunch of words on the puzzle to help you and the image was clear so it was fun. This looks puzzle looks like an annoying nightmare

  • @ShayLaLaLooHoo
    @ShayLaLaLooHoo 10 місяців тому +3

    Halloween with Allison and Phelan must be so much fun!
    Also, I feel like the concept of this is pretty cool, but the execution is lacking. The writing is terrible 😭

  • @norbertovalle7928
    @norbertovalle7928 10 місяців тому +1

    Thank y’all for bringing Halloween month a lil early this year, keep playing with toys y’all, & at first I thought Lupa’s shirt was a Star Trek shirt lmao, like a Gorn but I guess not lol, oh & omg THAT KITTEN, ok so on June 3rd, a kitten was born & I kept her & named her Mew Mew. I named her after the Black Panther from Son Of lion King review Phelous did, & SHE LOOKS JUST LIKE THAT CAT YALL HAVE! & it’s so awesome, is that cat an offspring of Ash? If so that’s so beautiful, I still cry whenever I see Ash in a review, but y’all gotta keep this stuff going,… especially for Ash

  • @mathieuleader8601
    @mathieuleader8601 10 місяців тому +3

    look out here comes *ZIGGY!*

  • @titangirl161
    @titangirl161 10 місяців тому +2

    I actually had one of those as a kid, but the one I had was set in the Clue universe (spoiler alert: it was Mr. Green).

  • @CyclopsWasRight616
    @CyclopsWasRight616 8 місяців тому

    when i was a small child, I'd do puzzles upside down, so there was no image. There's an insanely hard one with the image on both sides of the puzzle. I still remember it. The devil is trying to do a puzzle and unicorns and other animals are mocking him.

  • @Pipkiablo
    @Pipkiablo 10 місяців тому +2

    My god, there was so much crap in the mid to late 90s that was trying to emulate Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of the Dark? and hardly any of it ever succeeded.

    • @U_N_Owen
      @U_N_Owen 10 місяців тому +3

      Seriously, how much cooler would this puzzle be if it was actually a funny horror story about a skeleton baseball team who are going to kill you if you "strike out," as in, don't solve the puzzle? All the other games in this series have the same kind of horror-themed artwork and titles, but the first one you fall for spoils all the others. The one with flying witches on the cover isn't going to have witches in it, etc.

  • @FaeQueenCory
    @FaeQueenCory 10 місяців тому +1

    It's like they said "find all the brown things we have" and took a picture of it.

  • @Entertainer13
    @Entertainer13 10 місяців тому

    Did your own VO for the two hours later meme. Mad respect!

  • @batoutofmel4959
    @batoutofmel4959 10 місяців тому

    Those earrings brought me back to life.

  • @darthsidious47
    @darthsidious47 10 місяців тому +4

    Yay Halloween content!!! We love Ziggy!

  • @brendakrieger7000
    @brendakrieger7000 9 місяців тому +1

    Cool! I love puzzles🧩🧩D'awe Ziggy is so darn sweet😻🐈‍⬛

  • @SirWilliamKidney
    @SirWilliamKidney 10 місяців тому +3

    Aww cute kitty!

  • @michaelthomas5433
    @michaelthomas5433 10 місяців тому +1

    I am left bepuzzled.

  • @CarmenCards
    @CarmenCards 10 місяців тому +1

    The real murder was there enthusiasm

  • @Nintendofan-yk4cd
    @Nintendofan-yk4cd 10 місяців тому +3

    Ziggy is just too cute

  • @noisepuppet
    @noisepuppet 10 місяців тому +2

    Reviewing a Goosebumps-adjacent thing while wearing an ermahgerd-adjacent t-shirt. I feel like one of them conspiracy theorists, reaching for these connections.

  • @brianlewolfhunt
    @brianlewolfhunt 10 місяців тому +1

    Princess Bride quote for the win!

  • @SwiftNimblefoot
    @SwiftNimblefoot 10 місяців тому

    "Triss found Stacey sitting on the grassy hill behind the field"
    -"What are you doing here, Stacey?"
    -"Just waiting for the president's car to arrive..."

  • @JohnnyWednesday
    @JohnnyWednesday 10 місяців тому +1

    Have you both completely lost your senses?! playing with occult forces can only lead to trouble. Don't blame us if your missing socks suddenly turn up.

  • @e93sports80
    @e93sports80 10 місяців тому

    Nice vid!

  • @EpicJasonX9000
    @EpicJasonX9000 10 місяців тому +1

    *Hello Allison & Phelan! I want to play a game!* - Jigsaw

  • @charliepie1212
    @charliepie1212 9 місяців тому +2

    Huh, didn't realize you two were married. Good job.

  • @felipechalreo
    @felipechalreo 10 місяців тому +1

    Phelan needs a What in the world t-shirt 👕 with Tom Arnold

  • @phily8093
    @phily8093 10 місяців тому

    How you could see what you were doing against that table cloth I'll never know.

  • @nOOn3nOOn3
    @nOOn3nOOn3 10 місяців тому +2

    You two are just so adorable

  • @Zycyzyx
    @Zycyzyx 10 місяців тому +1

    Oh man, a dramatic disassembly would've been nice (I get why you wouldn't want stray pieces flying about for the cat to find later though.) In my house you either glue/frame it or tear it right back down once everyone's seen it. Tearing a pain in the ass puzzle down with extra violence at least gives you a little satisfaction for all that wasted time.
    Also, a bit of a letdown conceptually since I assumed the book and puzzle would add up to something together. Like if the book left certain things open ended but the puzzle gave you visual hints to come to the right conclusion? Shame.

  • @katsomeday1
    @katsomeday1 10 місяців тому

    My older sister had this! We lost some pieces before we could finish it.

  • @Tareltonlives
    @Tareltonlives 9 місяців тому +2

    Ziggy was right- should have cuddled the baby instead

  • @v.m.9198
    @v.m.9198 5 місяців тому

    That book is an inaccurate portrayal of a baseball game: it needs to be 30 pages minimum

  • @crithon
    @crithon 10 місяців тому

    I think you solved the crime of the century!

  • @ByrdieFae
    @ByrdieFae 10 місяців тому +1

    Holy hell that story was boring. But YOU TWO are hilarious 😂😂😂

  • @paultapner2769
    @paultapner2769 10 місяців тому

    I had something similar back in the 70's. It was based on British tv cop show the Sweeney. There was a story book to go with it. And the story ended with the police chasing the criminals they'd been after, and unmasking the mysterious leader of a gang. Or something. It was actually quite interesting but I think my immediate reaction to finishing the puzzle and seeing the picture in full was 'which character is that again?'

  • @brandyloutherback9288
    @brandyloutherback9288 10 місяців тому

    "A Hell of our own making?" Watching Charmed, summed up by Phelan!

  • @SwiftNimblefoot
    @SwiftNimblefoot 10 місяців тому

    Why does Green Knuckles have Lego 4x2 pieces glued to his shoes? :P Also, did Mello die of a drug overdose? I knew the Sonic Archie comics were often dark, but not that THIS dark...Btw you should called the episode "The Terrible Puzzle Mystery Book (We Found at a Thrift Store).

  • @Calcifrizzle
    @Calcifrizzle 10 місяців тому

    What an entertaining video! Maybe I should punch the Like button...

  • @famijher
    @famijher 10 місяців тому

    Phelan saying the Puzzle drove them insane? Obviously a lie. They were never Sane to begin with, the puzzle would just push them over the edge to the point where they might actually do something naughty, if Alison and Phelan actually could be bothered to do that, of course.

  • @BrandonCroker
    @BrandonCroker 10 місяців тому

    Spider Tales? Man, Peter Parker really chose some very poor marketing decisions.

  • @user-lb9xw4xf2q
    @user-lb9xw4xf2q 10 місяців тому

    It always throws me off a bit when your channels do videos in the *wrong* sets.

  • @gracekim25
    @gracekim25 10 місяців тому +1

    Yay spooky puzzles ❤

  • @RettMikhal
    @RettMikhal 9 місяців тому

    Maybe the Spooky story was inside us all along. Nah... they said there would be sandwiches.

  • @GrannyGamer1
    @GrannyGamer1 10 місяців тому +3

    Cat's the best part.
    💯¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 🙀

  • @SofaKingWeTodEd666
    @SofaKingWeTodEd666 10 місяців тому

    too much spoopy! 😱

  • @jafrytvasia9609
    @jafrytvasia9609 9 місяців тому +1

    Reader bewaaaare… you’re in for a … ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz

  • @TommyDeonauthsArchives
    @TommyDeonauthsArchives 10 місяців тому

    Something about this video reminds me of something... Something recent...

  • @roddmatsui3554
    @roddmatsui3554 10 місяців тому

    Hey! Stuff! Oh my goodness me! 1994, oh gosh. 😳

  • @stuffingtonjfluffypantsiii
    @stuffingtonjfluffypantsiii 10 місяців тому

    But the real question is, does Stay's mom got it going on?

  • @jeffreybarrow9788
    @jeffreybarrow9788 10 місяців тому +1

    Cat Attack!!!

  • @philipjay2099
    @philipjay2099 10 місяців тому +2

    Tortie prowler!

  • @SolitudeChrist
    @SolitudeChrist 10 місяців тому +2

    Ziggy! 😺😺

  • @MissAshley42
    @MissAshley42 10 місяців тому

    And then they took it all back to the thrift store and punched the door on the way out. _~pssch~_

  • @Alucard-A-La-Carte
    @Alucard-A-La-Carte 10 місяців тому +1

    With how misleading the packaging was and how weaksauce the story turned out to be, I'm GENUINELY surprised there wasn't a Bible verse on the last page.