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A Little to the Left - Merry Mess Guide

By Jen

A guide for the Christmas 2023 Puzzles-- Merry Mess.

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Languages: English

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24 Dec, 2023 @ 12:00pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Introduction & Video

Day 1 (December 22nd) - Candycanes

Day 2 (December 23rd) - Trains

Day 3 (December 24th) - Snowglobes

Day 4 (December 25th) - Presents

Day 5 (December 26th) - Nutcracker

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Introduction & Video

This is essentially just a quick walkthrough for the 5 new Holiday Puzzles, in-case you need help. I will have both written explanations and pictures.

If you prefer video guides, however, you can also find my video playthrough here as well:

Day 1 (December 22nd) - Candycanes

This puzzle essentially has two parts to it. You need to put the Candy Canes together and then organize them from which is the most white to the most red.

The candy canes won't "connect"/complete themselves until all parts are connected so don't worry if you're sure a part is right and it doesn't immediately stick together.

This is what the finished puzzle looks like:
Hover over to see:

Day 2 (December 23rd) - Trains

Like with yesterday's puzzle, this is another multi-step puzzle. The first step is to get each of the Holiday Poppers lined up so their ribbons intersect (as if they were holding hands in a sense).

Hover over to see the image:

The Cat will then show up and break one to reveal a piece of the Train. Break each of the other Poppers by clicking them to get the other train pieces. Then you simply need to put the Train together.

Hover over to see the image:

Day 3 (December 24th) - Snowglobes

This is the first and one of two puzzles to have multiple solutions in Merry Mess.

The three solutions are as follows:

Having each Snowman that has both their arms pointing up like this \(ovo)/ facing forward.
Have each of the labels facing forward/centered.
Having the snowglobe angled so the snow is connected to one another in a sense.

And here are the photos showing each:
(Again, hover over to see.)

As a note, solutions 2 and 3 are VERY particular. I had considered both of those early on and crossed them off when nothing triggered only to try them again and they suddenly worked. I must've been *just* slightly off the first times I tried.

Day 4 (December 25th) - Presents

This was easily the puzzle that took me the longest as I had so many ideas and more or less ended up overthinking way too much.

All you have to do is have it, so the present patterns connect into a pattern on the next present. That's it.

It is still very particular though and some parts are just barely showing for it to be correct.

Hover for image solution:

Day 5 (December 26th) - Nutcracker

The only other multi-solution puzzle, this one has five total solutions:

From shortest to tallest
From the amount of gold baubles (the gold dot on the top of a hat or a point) they have from least to most.
Held item length: Shortest to tallest-- as a hint, the shortest is the one not holding anything.
Beard length. Again, shortest to tallest.
Finally, the gold bands on their boots/legs. Shortest/lowest ones to tallest/highest ones.

As an aside, it's likely many of these can go either way (IE: Tallest or shortest or Most gold baubles to least), but I am just saying the ones I did.

I think these are pretty obvious so I'm not going to include screenshots, but if you need some, let me know! Or... they're all in the video so.

6 Comments

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76561199094708196 2 Jan, 2024 @ 3:10am

Thanks so much!

Impact 26 Dec, 2023 @ 4:23pm

I thought it was size of mustache, but that corresponds to beard length

Joshua 25 Dec, 2023 @ 6:15pm

Thanks so much for this guide!

OWO 25 Dec, 2023 @ 1:50am

In the case of the snowman problem, you just need to make sure there is no shadow on the floor.

Sahara 24 Dec, 2023 @ 1:32pm

I agree with the snowman one being picky. I had also tried both of the other solutions first, but they never worked so I discarded them. After I did the solution with the snowman having it's arms in the air (then seeing your guide), I went back and tried those other 2 solutions and both worked! I lined things up exactly as I did the first attempt, but that time they worked. I wonder if maybe I had to do the first solution before the other two would be triggered as available

ScrtSolstice 22 Dec, 2023 @ 2:50pm

Cheers for this! For some reason I couldn't figure out the last of the Nutcracker variants and you saved me from my madness.

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