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Post by jgunnz on Jun 17, 2017 23:07:35 GMT -5
Journal 29 is a unique book game where you can solve riddles and puzzles and submit your answers online to get the keys and move forward. To solve the riddles, you need to think out of the box. You can write, draw, search, fold pages, combine different methods and try to get those riddles right. Journal 29 is a 148 pages book providing over 63 riddles you can solve. I had a lot of fun with this - the puzzles are all extremely clever and many are in the same vein as C & C. Can't go wrong for $17. journal29.com/
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Post by Memosinstilettos on Jul 17, 2017 18:27:22 GMT -5
I loved it! So easy to travel with, I completed while on a trip home to England!!
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Post by phraca on Nov 25, 2017 20:34:05 GMT -5
I just finished this, but something does not sit right. For those that have finished, do you think it's odd that When you finish puzzle 63, it says "Congratulations" but doesn't give you a key, even though there is a blank on the page for key.63? That, and the "The End?" makes me wonder if there is not something else.
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Post by neutronstar on Nov 26, 2017 10:50:49 GMT -5
This looks really cool. just ordered.
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Post by phraca on Nov 26, 2017 12:04:37 GMT -5
This looks really cool. just ordered. I think most folks here would enjoy it. I binge-solved it over 2 days, but was a good puzzling value for the money. I had to consult the J29 forums on a few puzzles. They are not as good hint-wise as here, often giving TMI. Feel free to post here or PM me if you get stuck.
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Post by phraca on Nov 26, 2017 12:09:54 GMT -5
I just finished this, but something does not sit right. For those that have finished, do you think it's odd that When you finish puzzle 63, it says "Congratulations" but doesn't give you a key, even though there is a blank on the page for key.63? That, and the "The End?" makes me wonder if there is not something else. Update: I actually emailed the author on this and got a response in a few hours: “I will use the key from 63 to Journal 29 Vol. 2”
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Post by neutronstar on Nov 26, 2017 20:10:07 GMT -5
This looks really cool. just ordered. I think most folks here would enjoy it. I binge-solved it over 2 days, but was a good puzzling value for the money. I had to consult the J29 forums on a few puzzles. They are not as good hint-wise as here, often giving TMI. Feel free to post here or PM me if you get stuck. Thanks, will do
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Post by Yasoda Dei Conti on Dec 7, 2017 4:00:23 GMT -5
Had a great time starting it last night with my bf. Going to have to try to NOT binge - I want to draw it out!
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Post by distantsmoke on Dec 7, 2017 19:09:19 GMT -5
I just finished this, but something does not sit right. For those that have finished, do you think it's odd that When you finish puzzle 63, it says "Congratulations" but doesn't give you a key, even though there is a blank on the page for key.63? That, and the "The End?" makes me wonder if there is not something else. Update: I actually emailed the author on this and got a response in a few hours: “I will use the key from 63 to Journal 29 Vol. 2” Yay! Vol 2 to look forward to!
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Post by Katalia on Dec 7, 2017 20:57:45 GMT -5
The creator also said they're working on a board game.
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Post by wortelboer on Dec 12, 2017 13:32:12 GMT -5
I ordered this today. Figured it would keep me busy over the Christmas holidays.
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Post by kite on Dec 15, 2017 14:20:36 GMT -5
We got this a few months ago and really enjoyed it. There were a few errors, and we weren't sure if the occasionally awkward language was intentional or not (it looks like English is not the first language of the creators), but in general it was a lot of fun. It's easy to overthink the puzzles (they tend not to be layered) but they're often quite creative. There were only a couple of "how were we supposed to guess that" moments, which we got past with a nudge from their forum threads. I would recommend being very cautious when revealing spoilers there; it usually only took the first comment or two to point us in the right direction, and too often they blatantly give away the answers. (Sometimes I wish the C&C threads here contained more hints and fewer "PM me"s, but this is too far in the other direction!) Oddly, there's one instance where the puzzle itself breaks format and has an official "hint," near the end, and we found it extremely misleading.
But we had a lot of fun with the book, for a very reasonable price, and we'll eagerly buy the sequel if they offer one.
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Post by thegingerbarrister on May 8, 2018 9:49:04 GMT -5
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Post by dmikester on May 8, 2018 10:10:12 GMT -5
I was wondering why the Journal 29 Facebook page had cryptically updated yesterday. Really looking forward to this.
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Post by Geodus on May 12, 2018 8:30:48 GMT -5
So I got this yesterday, and binge finished it in an all-nighter.
I didn't really enjoy this as much as I hoped I would. I found myself repeatedly getting frustrated by errors in the puzzles, or just bad handwriting. The author's "3"s look ike "8"s and I struggled multiple times with what I believed were correct answers only to realize that I had misread numbers. There were repeated errors involving distance/spacing, and I wonder if the concept is different in another language (e.g, one in which the phrase "two away" would describe the distance between the numbers 5 and 8). In the end I just wanted to get it over with so I could move on. None of the puzzles were very difficult except for a few, which felt more difficult not because of clever design, but because they didn't seem well-constructed.
I was also expecting puzzles tied to a story ("what happened to the missing excavation team?" but there really wasn't any thread tying the puzzles together or any story exposition whatsoever. The book didn't resemble a journal as much as a random collection of puzzles, many of which required you to have solved previous ones in order to solve.
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