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Now that all the puzzles have been solved, lets talk about the whole concept ~~!~~

First of all - its great they are giving free card back. I know lots of ppl love collecting them. I am not one of those and never have done anything to gain any cardback which doesnt mean I dont appreciate colours, style and niche cosmetics we have in the game.

Got to say my eyes sparkled a little bit when I was heard about the mystery. It reminded me of earlier HS times- Naxx/Blackrock tough fights, Prince Arthas skin, discovering Ungoro special volcano animation. There has been many warm and cool small ideas throughout the history of our beloved game and I yearn and weep for a mystery or a challange. 

Which leads us to my final point - the whole idea behind the 4 puzzles turned out to be super boring and useless. After solving them out not even a single soul is gonna try to figure it out on their own. The difficulty of the 3rd and 4th mystery is so absurd I cant even come up with an analogy for it. It may have been fun as a "World first" achievement, kudos to any1 who tried or succeded. However the gameplay of it is so outside of entertainment zone for the rest of the world.

Why didnt they put some scrumbs informing us that there is a puzzle on twitter or yt ? How about a mysterious ingame voiceline? So that we may actually wonder about that one 'outside the box' sentence or picture. Why the puzzle itsself was made for a computer to spam clicks or run simulations ? Why cant u make it simpler AND slightly different for every player - like a Diablo 2 map, switching between sides so that YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO READ OR THINK A LITTLE BIT. 

In my mind around 4-5 ppl (2 engineers, 1 concept/HR person, 1 graphic designer) spent about a week on this. They can do whatever they want with their team ofc, its just a shame they didnt make it into something bigger, smarter. 

WHAT DO YOU THINK ? AM I SUPER OUT OF LINE ? Maybe you superduper did like it ? Are you gonna copy-paste the moves to get a card back ? 

 

 Your reasoning seems a little contradictory in a few parts (underlined above). Do you want a challenge you have to think and reason through? Sounds like this would be it. Just... don't look up the solutions online? But instead you are low key shaming people who would look up the solutions for a free cardback?

Or do you want something to be entertaining, in which case game puzzles such as this or even the Lucid Nightmare, Hivemind or Fathom Dweller mount puzzles in WoW aren't really meant to be entertaining, so much as incredibly obscure puzzles that it takes people all over the world to successfully crack. Which again seems like it'd fit the challenging bill.

Not trying to be super critical, just not able to pin down the through-line of your feelings here. For myself, I'll go through a walkthrough when all the puzzles are done and I have a spare hour on a Saturday when my daughter is napping, but I don't have the time to burn on it until then. :-)