CK3 DatabaseCrusader Kings III · 1.20.0.3 “Crozier” · unofficial

Personal artifact · Trinket

Mysterious Puzzle

Famed

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

For an owner who can't benefit from it

The template gives these instead of the effects above when its “can benefit” check fails:

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.