Escape from the Movie Studio

 

Another Professor Puzzle Christmas supermarket special, this time in a smaller box, think deck of poker cards size, with twelve or so hard-wearing cardboard tiles and a few pieces of paper ephemera -- the narrative is so slight as to be practically non-existent (you are a photographer who has sneaked into a movie studio to snap pictures of the latest blockbuster, and security are chasing you down to escort you off the lot/break every bone in your body).

Problems first -- the only way to check your final answer is to actually open the solution envelope, which contains the answer to everything on a single sheet -- so if you wanted to check a single puzzle, you have the whole thing opened in front of you. No hints sheets for individual puzzles. And it's the sort of thing that each of 12 puzzles gives you a letter for the final cryptogram, but you only really need roughly half to work out the whole answer based on context.

Having said all that, the twelve puzzles are distinct and run the gamut from drawing and ripping things up, to colouring things in, to working things out, to jigsaw style puzzles, to our old professor puzzle favourite of simple letter substitution cipher. At least here there's 12 different things to do, it's very suitable to dip into, solve a puzzle or two, dip out of -- small footprint overall, so also very suitable to stick in your pocket or bag and pull out for a quick slice of puzzling on the go.