This game should be straight forward and tell you that each puzzle has no solution unless you've "found" the whole solution, guessing is not allowed. On multiple puzzles I tried to guess the solution for some time only to find they seemed to have no solution. The only ones guessing a solution works for are ones you've seen the solution to but just didn't realize it or understand it.
I played back through the game to confirm this and yes, if you know a puzzle's solution and enter it, but haven't found all the clues yet, then the right solution is considered incorrect. If the game told me guessing would not work even if correct, I'd likely not have wasted so much time trying.
Something I found out is evidently your hitbox gets wider at the begining of your jump, it does make sense as you do a flip for some reason, but I was perfectly safe between two of the violet falling face things, I guess they're the dice while on overdose, but another dice was going to fall on me sandwiched between the two, so I jumped to clear out before the middle one fell on me and died as I began to jump due to a leg colliding with one of the sandwiching dice as I began the flip. So be cautious jumping close to a falling dice.
I noticed this game on the badge of the day listing, I had the easy badge way back in 2013, but had never gotten the hard badge, so I thought I'd go for it. Come level 8, all my hotkeys weren't working and manually switching was losing me the fight, so I looked around and saw no way to reset them or fix them in game, so I figure they worked before a page refresh might fix it. And it's gone... I'm back at level 1 on stage one, no other file to load, it just didn't save or anything! I see why I never got that hard badge, and never will!
So I completed one of the extra puzzles and it's not marking itself complete, I added them all up and it's definately right, but it refuses to mark complete. Anyone see anything wrong with this? https://puu.sh/CHIhA/21a5e103ca.jpg
REALLY ANGRY AT THIS GAME RIGHT NOW! I spent hours getting to max level, best gear, went around, got all the buffs, got a merc and exited to save before final boss, then went to reload and apparently my save is corrupt?! What a waste of time...
The Retail Giant Badge should be a hard badge, as long as it friggin' takes to get it. That or there needs to be like 10x or 20x speed or even just a skip day or something, so many times I had built up my mall and it just needed to generate some cash, but it takes friggin' forever!
So I replayed to check some things, and found all puzzle solutions are always the same, and yet the candycane puzzlebox cannot be solved even if you know the solution unless you first open the cabinet sealed by the bow, candycane, star and gingerbread man. Interesting.