

Personal artifact · Trinket
Mysterious Puzzle
Mysterious Puzzle is a famed trinket artifact in Crusader Kings III: Learn Language Phase Length 8 days faster per Scheme Phase. Quality 70 and wealth 70; maximum durability 100. Patch 1.20.0.3, from game/events/travel_events/travel_events_james.txt.
Quick answers (2)
- What does Mysterious Puzzle do in CK3?
- Learn Language Phase Length 8 days faster per Scheme Phase (patch 1.20.0.3).
- What if the owner can't benefit from Mysterious Puzzle?
- They get Prestige +0.05/month instead.
An extravagant golden puzzle covered in engravings in a foreign language. It is said to have once belonged to a powerful game master.
Effects
- Learn Language Phase Length8 days faster per Scheme Phase
For an owner who can't benefit from it
The template gives these instead of the effects above when its “can benefit” check fails:
- Prestige+0.05/month
Who can benefit (can_benefit) (1 line of game script)
learning >= medium_skill_rating
As written in game/common/artifacts/templates (mysterious_puzzle_template).
How it is made
Made only inside events; no scripted effect to call from the console.
Also created in event travel_events.4036.
Source: game/events/travel_events/travel_events_james.txt, common/modifiers (artifact_learn_language_scheme_phase_duration_add_2_modifier), common/artifacts/templates (mysterious_puzzle_template) and the English localisation, Crusader Kings III 1.20.0.3.