The Mysterious Negg Cave is a hidden spot in Shenkuu where you can travel to for a very unique daily. Solve the puzzle and you can be presented with some very neat prizes!

WHERE IS THE MYSTERIOUS NEGG CAVE IN NEOPETS?

The cave, like the Hidden Tower, isn’t right out in the open! To find it, either use this direct and convenient link or head over to Shenkuu and click the area that I have circled in the image below, in the top right-hand corner:

Make sure the click the top of that shadow and not the side,
or else you’ll find yourself at Remarkable Restoratives.

MYSTERIOUS NEGG CAVE SOLVER

This puzzle might be a little difficult to grasp at first but you’ll be a pro once you get the hang of it!

Negg Cave Basics

There can only be three of each symbol on the board, and only one symbol of each color. Here are the symbols:

As you can see, there are three wind icons, three fire icons, and three water icons (top to bottom), and then three purple icons, three red icons, and three yellow icons. There can only be one of each symbol-color combination on the board to complete the puzzle.

Negg Cave Board

Before you begin the game, consult the game board. You’ll be given some “clues,” i.e. some icons and/colors and some indication of where they go on the board. Here’s the puzzle we’ll be using for the rest of this guide:

The clues are on the left and the game board is on the right. Look, it’s shaped like a negg!

Negg Cave Puzzle Solver

Most of this game is cause-and-effect, and process of elimination, much like Sudoku. For example, look at the clues we’ve been given above. See the line of red symbols? There is only one possible place for that string to go, so let’s put them in:

Now we are left with our last two clues: the fire–water–water string and the air–air–fire string. What’s important here is the position of these strings. The fire–water–water string clearly needs to fit it in the top, middle, and bottom lines, since it’s a stack of three. Because we already have the red string going through the center of the negg puzzle, there is only one place for each of these strings to fit. Let’s start with the fire–water–water string:

As you can see, I took the fire–water–water clue (top-left clue) and put it in the only place on the game board that it would fit. Now, there are three empty spaces left on the board. Luckily, we have a three-symbol clue left: the air–air–fire string (bottom-center clue). It fits perfectly in the spaces provided:

You might notice that based on the clues, the answer to the puzzle lines up the symbols: the first vertical row is all three wind symbols, the middle vertical row is all three fire symbols, and the third vertical row is all three water symbols. Sometimes, when the clues are less clear cut as they were in this puzzle, symmetry or order such as this can be a clue to the puzzle’s answer. The answer is not always based on this sort of order, but it can be, so make sure to keep an eye out for it!

If you try out an answer and lick “Submit,” and it tells you that you’re wrong, I suggest clearing the board and starting over (just click “Clear All”). You can follow all of the clues and still have to try a couple of different combinations, because sometimes the clues will not give the whole answer. Just be patient and try all of the remaining combinations, and you’ll get it!

MYSTERIOUS NEGG CAVE PRIZES

The prizes that can be won from the Negg Cave are random, including the avatar. Read below to see what you could win:

Item prizes

A Nimmo Music Extravaganza	Aisha Cheeseburger	Aisha Riceball	Ancient Shenkuu Cannon	Angry Emoticon Hearts	Aplets	Aquatic Arrangement	Artichoke Dumplings
Baby Scorchio Plushie	Bag of Infinite Neggs	Biyako	Blue Ruki Plushie	Boots of Leaping	Bottle of Shenkuu Ink	Brown Rice Bowl	Camouflage Ruki Marionette
Chilli Stir Fry	Chocolate Kougra Pudding	Cobrall Root	CoffChai Blended Tea	Creamy Stick Biscuit	Cyodrake Scratching Post	Cyodrakes Gaze Keychain	Dark Vine Potion
Exotic Fried Noodles	Exotic Ingredients of Shenkuu	Extreme Shenkuu	Fresh Bamboo Chair	Fruit and Vegetable Hand Roll	Fruity Taffy	Gikerot	Gold Gem Negg
Green Cyodrake Plushie	Grilled Stuffed Tofu	Hair Chopsticks	Hasee	Iced Soy Chai Latte	Karate for Beginners	Kazeriu	Kentari Stamp
Linae Stamp	Lucky Pandaphant Doll	Negg Latte	Negg Noodles	Neggy Custard Pie	Nimmo – Now and Zen	Pandaphant Puppet	Paper Dagger
Parasol of Unfortunate Demise	Purple Hasee Plushie	Pygui Hand Puppet	Pygui Nesting Dolls	Quintilc Throwing Star	Red Poogle Morphing Potion	Relaxing Shenkuu Rock Garden	Shenkuu City Stamp
Soothing Stones	Ultimate Icy Negg	Vanilla Gnorbu Biscuit	White Squid Root	Zen Bed

BattleDome Challenger

Successfully completing the puzzle can award you the Neggbreaker as a BattleDome challenger! This is completely random, so just keep at it and you’ll get the Neggbreaker eventually.

Negg Cave Avatar

Like the BattleDome Challenger, winning the avatar is completely random:

Randomly awarded after successfully completing the puzzle in the Mysterious Negg Cave.