I really like these calendars each year. They aren’t as big of an investment as the Exit ones, and give me a little brain workout each morning. It’s a shame this puzzle was so broken. I had to brute-force it in the end, and slide the sleeve around until a word popped out! 😂
I agree, and I think they're quite amazing as the work of a single person. There's no way I'd want to take on making something physical like this, and shipping it out around the world too - sounds like a nightmare to me! For this puzzle I feel I should have brute-forced it too, and back engineered what was wrong rather than reading the hints, but on the other hand it would have made it a really hard video to edit if I had done so! :)
This just highlights the manufacturing quality of the EXIT calendars (except when the pieces are completely absent, *cough* Day 2 last year *cough*)- they supposedly pack and check everything by hand, and these sorts of things always line up perfectly!
Mind you, I think they sell hundreds of thousands of each Exit calendar, whereas this calendar sells a thousand or few (based on the Kickstarter sales). On this basis you'd expect the Exit one to be 100 times better. :)
Me too - they're always fun! Thanks so much for watching! Sometimes the calendars, as in today's solve, slightly miss the spot but given how impressive they are as the labour of love of just one person I always try to keep that in mind too. They were /very/ unlucky that /both/ the horizontal and vertical alignment are off on this puzzle, because if it was just one I think it would be entirely solvable - and indeed perhaps it was anyway, had I persisted! :)
@drgareth Nah we know it can be like this with calendars like this, it also makes for a longer video 😂 Remember the exit calendar that had missing stuff because it could move around inside the rooms so you were missing stuff one day and getting extra stuff that didn't belong to the days puzzle other days...😅
This one gave us trouble too. It is unfortunate because I like the sleeve mechanic but oh well 😂. We solved this calendar before the hints were posted to their website so I had to toil my way through it, so I’m glad to know now there was a manufacturing error and that it was not just me haha!
And similarly, I'm glad it wasn't just me! :) Printing tolerances are usually 3mm so if you had the extreme on both the cut-outs and the back-cover printing then you might be out by 6mm if you were very unlucky. Some of these errors are greater than 6mm, however, and the rest of the back and sleeve imagery doesn't appear to be out by this much, so I suspect this is primarily design error - and in any case puzzle design needs to take account of printing tolerances. But also I applaud the creator for trying something so ambitious! It's a really fun idea, and they had to go to the complexity (and I guess cost!) of putting the cut-outs in the sleeve, so I bet they're really disappointed with how it came out. It was very unlucky. I think I would have been tempted to just put dotted lines and get the solver to cut the slots out!
I feel like this happens every year that the small puzzle chokolade calendars have at least one puzzle where things aren't lining up and you manage to guess the answer but the calendar can't give the right ansver..... must be that the factory producing the calendars don't know that the packing is part of a puzzle so they don't make an effort to make everything line up and designers don't count for that so they too precise in the design
I really like these calendars each year. They aren’t as big of an investment as the Exit ones, and give me a little brain workout each morning. It’s a shame this puzzle was so broken. I had to brute-force it in the end, and slide the sleeve around until a word popped out! 😂
I agree, and I think they're quite amazing as the work of a single person. There's no way I'd want to take on making something physical like this, and shipping it out around the world too - sounds like a nightmare to me! For this puzzle I feel I should have brute-forced it too, and back engineered what was wrong rather than reading the hints, but on the other hand it would have made it a really hard video to edit if I had done so! :)
This just highlights the manufacturing quality of the EXIT calendars (except when the pieces are completely absent, *cough* Day 2 last year *cough*)- they supposedly pack and check everything by hand, and these sorts of things always line up perfectly!
Mind you, I think they sell hundreds of thousands of each Exit calendar, whereas this calendar sells a thousand or few (based on the Kickstarter sales). On this basis you'd expect the Exit one to be 100 times better. :)
I look forward to this series every year. ❤
Me too - they're always fun! Thanks so much for watching! Sometimes the calendars, as in today's solve, slightly miss the spot but given how impressive they are as the labour of love of just one person I always try to keep that in mind too. They were /very/ unlucky that /both/ the horizontal and vertical alignment are off on this puzzle, because if it was just one I think it would be entirely solvable - and indeed perhaps it was anyway, had I persisted! :)
What a shame! Still a joy to watch 😊
Oh bless you - I was a bit concerned it would be frustrating to watch, so I'm glad to hear that! :)
@drgareth
Nah we know it can be like this with calendars like this, it also makes for a longer video 😂
Remember the exit calendar that had missing stuff because it could move around inside the rooms so you were missing stuff one day and getting extra stuff that didn't belong to the days puzzle other days...😅
This one gave us trouble too. It is unfortunate because I like the sleeve mechanic but oh well 😂.
We solved this calendar before the hints were posted to their website so I had to toil my way through it, so I’m glad to know now there was a manufacturing error and that it was not just me haha!
And similarly, I'm glad it wasn't just me! :) Printing tolerances are usually 3mm so if you had the extreme on both the cut-outs and the back-cover printing then you might be out by 6mm if you were very unlucky. Some of these errors are greater than 6mm, however, and the rest of the back and sleeve imagery doesn't appear to be out by this much, so I suspect this is primarily design error - and in any case puzzle design needs to take account of printing tolerances. But also I applaud the creator for trying something so ambitious! It's a really fun idea, and they had to go to the complexity (and I guess cost!) of putting the cut-outs in the sleeve, so I bet they're really disappointed with how it came out. It was very unlucky. I think I would have been tempted to just put dotted lines and get the solver to cut the slots out!
I feel like this happens every year that the small puzzle chokolade calendars have at least one puzzle where things aren't lining up and you manage to guess the answer but the calendar can't give the right ansver..... must be that the factory producing the calendars don't know that the packing is part of a puzzle so they don't make an effort to make everything line up and designers don't count for that so they too precise in the design
That's probably pretty accurate! :) Thanks so much for watching and commenting!
a shame as that looked a good puzzle ruined by production problems
I agree entirely - and probably cost extra too to get those cut-outs made!
Such a shame, great idea for a puzzle.
I agree! :)