The Louvre

Description from Mr. Puzzle Australia:

France has lost the Mona Lisa!!!!!!
Find the flagpole and the French Flag. Find the Mona Lisa. Raise the French Flag so it stays at full mast above The Louvre.

The Louvre is the latest sequential discovery puzzle designed and made by Brian Young here in Australia at Mr Puzzle. You’ll find a lot of puzzling packed into this small puzzle.

Discover tools to progress through the puzzle until the Mona Lisa is found and the flag can be flown at full mast above The Louvre. To do the puzzle you’ll need to remove pieces that may have to be re-used as tools. Once you determine how to use them you can advance towards to the solution. 

Depending on how you break down the moves to open the puzzle there are at least three separate locks, each with a number of steps.  But none of these locks are magnetic locks.  And yet we’ve not said here that there is absolutely no hitting allowed. Undue force that can damage the puzzle is not required and never allowed.

Brian has taken a unique lock he invented for his Limited Edition SMS Box; arguably the hardest lock, certainly it caused many people a lot of trouble to solve, and has built a variation of that lock into The Louvre.

The way the lock was incorporated in the SMS Box there were no visual clues to help solve it. Once you’ve solved a couple of steps in The Louvre you will be able to see enough of this lock to give you an idea of what’s expected.  But, to compensate for allowing you to see the lock, Brian changed it slightly to make it behave quite differently to the lock in the SMS Box; an added annoying little sting in the tail (or tails?).

This is a similar concept to what he did when he made The Houdini Torture Cell where Brian took one of the locks out of The Opening Bat puzzle;  Brian wanted more people to have access to a really good lock than just those 65 who owned the bat. He also wanted people to see and understand what was happening to solve that lock.  So he built a more straightforward puzzle around just that lock.  He’s done something similar here although The Louvre has more steps and locks than Houdini did. 

Size: 145mm x 45mm x 65mm

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This is the remaining puzzles from my collection to be sold, i don't have any other puzzles than the ones posted now here on PP.

Having sold many puzzles on the Cubicdissection marketplace (https://market.cubicdissection.com/display-feedback/keezor), i have a lot of experience packing and shipping puzzles, and so far have not experienced any damaged shipments.
I take great care to pack the puzzles, so they can withstand the brutal handling the packages often get.

Shipping cost is calculated after the auction is finished. For 1-4 normal sized puzzles within EU, expect around 15-20 EUR with tracking.

Payment options:

• SEPA transfer within EU (no fee), or bank transfer outside EU (small fee to the bank)
• paypal (6% paypal fee will be added to the order total, and payment will be converted to DKK using xe.com)
• Wise (no or very low fee paid to wise, i will not add any fee on top)

Paypal is not recommended due to the high fees, but i will happily accept payment there if you prefer it.