Summer Unpacked: How to Solve All 32 Puzzles

Summer Unpacked is a cozy puzzle game containing a collection of 32 different puzzles, all centered around a vacation theme. These puzzles involve piecing together pictures, sorting and rearranging items, pairing up items, and interacting with scenes. The puzzles in Summer Unpacked range in difficulty, with some being straightforward while others are much more challenging. To further add to the challenge, Summer Unpacked offers little in the way of guidance. It’s up to you to figure out how to find the solution to the puzzles.

If you’re seriously stuck on any of the puzzles in Summer Unpacked, this guide aims to help you complete them, including step-by-step instructions.

Note: I have yet to solve puzzle number 20, aka the coffee-and-cookies puzzle. I’ll keep working on a solution, but if anyone else has the answer, do let us know!

Summer Unpacked is available exclusively on Nintendo Switch for $12.99.

Sun Rewards

For every puzzle in Summer Unpacked, you can earn at least one sun upon completion. Some puzzles allow for multiple solutions, offering more than one sun. These will be noted in each puzzle guide.

Some puzzles have more than one way of solving them.

1. Sunscreen Puzzle

Suns Available: 2

The first puzzle of Summer Unpacked involves a row of sunscreen bottles. You need to rearrange these into the right order.

One solution is to order the bottles by the number on their label, starting with the smallest (10) and ending with the biggest (50+). The second solution can be done by reversing this order.

Put the sunscreens in order according to the number on the bottle.

2. Fruit Puzzle

Suns Available: 2

The second Summer Unpacked puzzle presents a selection of fruit, either whole or sliced in half. The goal is to pair up some of these fruit and then put them in the right order. The correct order starts with the smallest fruit and ends with the largest.

Here is the order as well as the pairings, going from left to right. For the second sun, you can put the fruit in reverse order.

1. Lime with slice
2. Misshapen orange
3. Lemon
4. Orange with slice
5. Blood orange with slice

Pair the fruit up, then order them by size.

3. Pasta Puzzle

Suns Available: 3

The third puzzle of Summer Unpacked includes a variety of pasta. Your task is to put them in the right order.

One solution is to arrange the pasta by how many individual pastas there are in each group, starting with 1 and ending with 7. The second solution is to do this in reverse order.

To get the third sun, notice the pasta packaging around the edge of the level. They have numbers on them. If you order the pasta according to the number on these packaging, starting with the smallest and ending with the biggest, this earns you a third sun.

You can order the pasta according to the number in their group, or by the numbers on the packaging around the level.

4. Cards Puzzle

Suns Available: 1

The fourth Summer Unpacked puzzle is a simple pairs game, which includes 12 cards with 6 different pairings. The trick is to match the cards that are similar to each other, as they are not completely identical. 

This is a simple pairs game – but the matching pairs may not necessarily be identical.

5. Sunglasses Puzzle

Suns Available: 2

The fifth puzzle of Summer Unpacked focuses on putting lenses into three different sunglass frames. You need to identify the matching frames and lenses by their colors and shapes.

For one solution, you need to put the pink lenses in the pink frames, then green with brown, and finally blue.

To gain the second sun, put the green lenses in the blue frames and the blue lenses in the brown frames. The pink heart lenses can only go in the pink frames.

Match the colors of the lenses and frames – or mix up the blue and green for another solution.

6. Packing Man’s Suitcase Puzzle

Suns Available: 1

Summer Unpacked‘s sixth puzzle is a little different: this time, you need to pack a suitcase, which takes a number of steps. Although these steps can technically be done in any order, follow the instructions below to ensure that you complete the level:

1. Wristwatch 
2. Sunhat 
3. White + blue socks (pair up the different colored socks separately, then pair up together, then place in slot)
4. Sandals 
5. Shoes 
6. Razor
7. Belt
8. Handkerchiefs
9. Green + blue underwear 
10. Orange jacket + green shirt + brown pants 
11. Yellow shirt + yellow pants 
12. Green shirt + blue shorts 
13. Beige shirt + beige shorts 
14. Red flowery shirt + red shorts

7. Packing Woman’s Suitcase Puzzle

Suns Available: 1

The seventh puzzle of Summer Unpacked works just the same as the previous one: having to pack a suitcase by placing the contents in the right slots, sometimes pairing them up. 

Here are the items and their pairings:

1. Turquoise slippers
2. Wristwatch
3. Cream tank top + shorts
4. Sunhat
5. Red dress
6. Yellow bikini top + bottoms
7. Cream sandals
8. Pink bra + purple bra
9. Pink underwear + purple underwear
10. Pink hair bow
11. Orange jumpsuit
12. Black and white swimsuit (goes into slot with yellow bikini set)
13. Blue top + shorts
14. Green leaf top + green shorts
15. Green jumper + tan pants

8. Cats Puzzle

Suns Available: 1

The eighth Summer Unpacked puzzle involves a bunch of cats playing mischief in a museum room. You need to find a way to get rid of each cat. Here are the solutions from left to right:

1. Grey cat = remove feather from helmet
2. Sleeping ginger cat = remove green scarf and select harp
3. Brown cat = remove hat from statue
4. Cream cat = remove ball of yarn from pot
5. Black cat = remove bag of treats, as well as three treats from the floor

Click on the objects to remove or interact with them to remove the cats.

9. Olives Puzzle

Suns Available: 1

The ninth Summer Unpacked puzzle is a simple sorting exercise. There are three bowls and three different olives. You must place the olives in the right bowl. To help you out, one bowl has one of the olives attached on a toothpick.

This is where each type of olive goes:

• Green bowl = green olives
• Blue bowl = green with red olives
• Red bowl = purple olives

Sort the olives by appearance.

10. Tickets Puzzle

Suns Available: 2

The tenth puzzle of Summer Unpacked gets you sorting out a series of tickets. These need to be rotated and placed in the correct slots. They should snap into place providing it’s the right item and they’re correctly rotated.

Put the tickets in the correct slots. Make sure they’re correctly rotated as well.

11. Seafood Puzzle

Suns Available: 2

Summer Unpacked‘s eleventh puzzle involves arranging food items on a dish. Here is the correct placement:

• Lemon slice in the middle
• Shrimps go in the larger circular slots. They must either face inward or outward the dish.
• Mussels fit into the slimmer slots. They need to face inward or out the same way.

To earn both suns for this puzzle, swap around the rotations of the shrimp and mussels so they face the opposite ways to the first solution.

The shrimp and mussels can be rotated 180 degrees to get another solution.

12. Ice Cream Puzzle

Suns Available: 2

For the twelfth puzzle of Summer Unpacked, the goal is to put the ice cream scoops in the correct places. The cones remain stationary. Here is one of the two solutions to solving this puzzle, going from left to right:

• Far left = pale brown ice cream
• Middle left = turquoise ice cream
• Middle = pink ice cream
• Middle right = green ice cream
• Far right = brown ice cream

For each ice cream, make sure the scoops with the toppings are on the top.

Match the colors of the ice cream, and place them on the right cones.

13. Keys Puzzle

Suns Available: 1

The thirteenth puzzle of Summer Unpacked presents a row of three keys. You need to match 3 items to each of these keys: a helmet, scarf, and pair of gloves. The clue is matching the colors of the keys with the items. As you correctly match up all the items to each key, they turn into a trophy.

The correct matches are as follows:

• Left key = White helmet with blue/yellow/orange stripe, orange scarf, and grey gloves
• Middle key = Turquoise helmet, white-and-teal scarf, and brown gloves
• Right key = Cream helmet with red/green stripe, red scarf, and green/red/cream gloves

The keys puzzle with the matching items numbered.

14. Opera Puzzle

Suns Available: 1

The fourteenth Summer Unpacked puzzle requires you to pair up a series of items and place them in a scene, namely an opera house. As you correctly pair up an item, they will transform into a different image, which you must then place in the scene.

Here are the correct pairings and their placements:

• Music sheet pieces > conductor > center of orchestra pit
• Make-up + bag > opera singer > center stage
• Harp + violin > musicians > orchestra pit
• Tickets + spyglasses > spotlight > stage area
• Hat + room number hanger > audience > booths

15. Spa Puzzle

Suns Available: 1

The fifteenth Summer Unpacked puzzle is set in a spa. It’s your task to pamper the woman with the items provided. You need to take a series of steps to complete this exercise. Here is the order to complete the steps in:

1. Apply the face cream.
2. Apply the cucumber slices to the eyes.
3. Use the towels to remove the face cream and cucumber slices.
4. Apply the bath salts to the woman’s body.
5. Apply the lotion to the woman’s hair.
6. Apply the headwrap and dressing gown.
7. Place the candles and music player in the wooden tray.

Apply the items in order to complete the level.

16. Windows Puzzle

Suns Available: 2

The sixteenth puzzle of Summer Unpacked involves arranging a variety of window shutters so they match the right window. When you get it right, the window will have decorations added on.

For each of the two solutions, all the shutters either need to be open or closed (not mixed), with the decorations present.

• Top left = rounded indigo shutters (purple grapes)
• Top middle = blue diamond panelled shutters (blue flowers)
• Top right = rounded blue shutters (orange tree)
• Bottom left = rectangular turquoise shutters (lemon tree)
• Bottom middle = rounded turquoise glass shutters (tree with green fruit)
• Bottom right = indigo blue panelled shutters (potted lavender)

17. Towels Puzzle

Suns Available: 2

The seventeenth Summer Unpacked puzzle presents three separate piles of towels, with four towels in each pile. The goal is to organize the towels in order of size (biggest at bottom, smallest at top).

There are two solutions: one is according to towel color matching the swimsuits, and the other is for towel patterns.

Below is the first solution:

• Red swimsuit = red towels
• Blue swimsuit = blue towels
• Yellow swimsuit = yellow towels

Here is the second solution:

• Red swimsuit = towels with big stripes (big red towel at bottom)
• Blue swimsuit = plain towels (big blue at bottom)
• Yellow swimsuit = thin stripes (big yellow at bottom)

18. Beach Pictures Puzzle

Suns Available: 1

Summer Unpacked‘s eighteenth puzzle is a simple exercise involving placing items in a series of framed pictures. You need to identify the silhouettes and what items go where.

The following items appear in the following frames:

• Far left = signpost and turquoise book
• Middle left = red parasol and rucksack
• Middle = surfboard and sailboat
• Middle right = plant, beach bag, and seagulls
• Far right = pink bird

Simply place the objects in the silhouettes slots.

19. Badminton Puzzle

Suns Available: 4

The nineteenth Summer Unpacked puzzle is set on a badminton court. You need to arrange the rackets and the shuttlecocks in the right positions to clear the level.

There are meant to be four solutions. Here is one example:

• Orange racket on left side of court
• Blue racket on right side of court
• Orange shuttlecocks to left of court. The four shuttlecocks need to be facing upwards and ordered from top to bottom according to amount of orange on feathers.
• Blue shuttlecocks to right of court. Similar to above, the four shuttlecocks should be facing upwards and ordered top to bottom by amount of blue on feathers.

When done correctly, the scores will be filled in at the top.

One of four solutions to the badminton puzzle.

20. Coffee and Cookies Puzzle

Unfortunately, I have not yet managed to solve this puzzle, but based on my research online, I’m not the only one!

This puzzle involves putting a series of objects in the correct position on a 16-grid setting. Initially, there’s a coffee pot and sugar bowl in opposite corners, as well as two different colored saucers. You must correctly position the other items, including two coffee cups, two drinking glasses, and two cookies.

You’re also meant to put the three coffee beans in the coffee pot and the three sugar cubes in the sugar bowl. The coffee pot, sugar bowl, and saucers cannot be moved from their position. Apart from moving objects around, you cannot interact with any of the objects to change their position or status, like in some other puzzles.

All the objects must be fixed on the grid in the set positions. You cannot merge any objects.

There’s no obvious clue to how to solve this puzzle, but I will keep working on a solution. If anyone already knows the solution, feel free to share it in the comments below. 

In the meantime, I’ll share a picture of the puzzle in case anyone has any ideas.

The coffee and cookies puzzle.

21. Jugs Puzzle

Suns Available: 2

The twenty-first puzzle of Summer Unpacked presents a row of jugs. You need to put these jugs in the right order by rearranging them. The jugs can be rotated to show a different pattern or image, depending on which solution you’re working on.

There are two solutions to this puzzle. One is for correctly ordering the pictured jugs, and the other is for correctly lining up the jugs by pattern.

22. Camera Puzzle

Suns Available: 1

The twenty-second puzzle of Summer Unpacked involves sorting a camera out using the items provided in a series of steps. Here are the correct steps:

1. Use the cloth on the lens to clean them.
2. Attach the strap to the camera.
3. Insert the batteries into the camera.
4. Select the film coming out of the camera to remove it.
5. Select the lamp to turn the light off, then insert one of the 3 film reels to complete the level.

Get the camera ready using the items provided.

23. Mosaic Puzzle

Suns Available: 1

The twenty-third Summer Unpacked puzzle requires you to fill in the missing pieces of the doorway and mosaics to complete the level. The rooster and fish are easy enough, as is the doormat, but pay attention to the patterns on the doorway and mosaics, notably the orange diamond patterns.

Finished mosaic puzzle.

24. Flamenco Puzzle

Suns Available: 1

For the twenty-fourth puzzle of Summer Unpacked, you must pair up the items with the picture displayed. As each item is correctly matched, the picture changes to the next. The level ends once all items have been matched.

The correct pairings are as follows:

1. Hands = castanets (select first to correctly position them)
2. Woman in red bodysuit = red skirt (select first to correctly position them)
3. Red-rose frilled hand = red-rose frilled fan
4. Back of woman’s head = roses
5. Dancing lady in red dress = small red fan
6. Feet = red shoes (select first to correctly position them)
7. Woman with orange flower in hair = fan with orange flowers
8. Woman in polka-dot dress = black-and-red polka-dot shawl
9. Final picture = guitar

Pair the items up according to the image shown. You may need to select the item first to correctly position it.

25. Daydreaming Puzzle

Suns Available: 1

The twenty-fifth puzzle of Summer Unpacked involves pairing up objects and then applying these to thought bubbles. 

Here are the correct pairings:

• Slippers + eye mask = man (changes to bed)
• Dish + sea food = man (changes to plate of food)
• Badminton racket/shuttlecock + water bottle = man (changes to badminton court)
• Statue + guidebook = woman (changes to museum)
• Lemon + orange = woman (changes to bowl of fruit)
• Swimsuit + hat = woman (changes to ocean)

The correct pairings numbered.

26. Map Puzzle

Suns Available: 1

The twenty-sixth Summer Unpacked puzzle is sort of a jigsaw puzzle, with a bit of a twist. You are given a few puzzle pieces, but first you must select the city map to open it, revealing the puzzle piece slots. Furthermore, you need to rotate the map (not the individual pieces; they cannot be rotated) in order to fit the pieces into the right places.

To help you out, here is how you fit all the pieces:

• Piece with river and buildings = upright rotation
• Piece with parks and river = upside down
• Piece with grass and building = upside down
• Piece with beach = rotate clockwise
• Piece with fountain = rotate anticlockwise

The map puzzle with pieces labelled.

27. Sleeping Puzzle

Suns Available: 1

In the twenty-seventh puzzle of Summer Unpacked, you have to help the couple with settling down to sleep. They’re having some trouble with flies, as well as the heat, light in the room, and the air conditioning. You must make the room comfortable for the couple to sleep in.

Here are the correct series of steps to take with completing this level:

1. Turn off both bedside lamps.
2. Click on each couple so they set down their phones and close their eyes.
3. Select the window to shut it and expel the flies. This, however, creates a new problem with the room being too stuffy.
4. Select the air conditioning (above the bed) three times until the couple are sleeping comfortably in their bed.

Help the couple settle to sleep by interacting with their room.

28. Phone and Sandwich Puzzle

Suns Available: 1

With the twenty-eighth puzzle of Summer Unpacked, you just need to select items to complete the level.

Here are the simple steps:

1. Select all the phone messages to remove them.
2. Select each phone.
3. When airplane mode appears on the phone screens, move the slider across on each screen.
4. With the plate of sandwiches, keep clicking on them until both sandwiches are gone to complete the level.

Remove all the messages, put the phone in airplane mode, and eat some food to complete the level.

29. Getting Ready Puzzle

Suns Available: 1

The twenty-ninth puzzle of Summer Unpacked involves completing a number of steps to finish this level by clicking and dragging different items, where you help the holidaying couple get ready for an evening out.

Here are the complete steps:

1. Select the wardrobe doors to open it.
2. Select the drawers to open them. Select the contents inside to open these as well.
3. Select the glass doors either side of the wardrobe. The woman appears from the left, the man on the right.
4. Drag over to the woman the red dress, watch, earrings, and sandals.
5. For the man, give him the shirt, pants, shoes, and belt.
6. Select the man and a towel will appear on his door. Drag it over to the woman.
7. The woman is now holding a shaving kit. Give it to the man.
8. The man now has a yellow bottle, which you need to give to the woman.
9. The woman now has a red bottle, which is for the man.
10. The man now has a make-up set, which goes to the woman. This is the final step and the level is now complete.

Help the couple get ready as they have a wash by handing the correct items over.

30. Conversation Puzzle

Suns Available: 1

In the thirtieth puzzle of Summer Unpacked, the couple are having a conversation, complete with speech bubbles. You must drag the correct speech bubble into the man’s empty bubble in response to the woman. If you give her the wrong response, a red sad face appears. If you are correct, a yellow smiley face appears. Keep repeating this until the level is complete.

For all the responses, you just need to use the three dots every time.

Use the three dots speech bubble from the man on all the responses.

31. Picture Puzzle

Suns Available: 1

For the thirty-first puzzle of Summer Unpacked, you must match the items that correspond to the scene taking place. As you correctly match each item, the scene will change.

Here are the correct matches:

1. Dog = drag beach ball to dog
2. In water = drag water splash to between couple
3. Playing in sand = drag spade to hole in sand. This prompts three piles of sand to appear. Apply these to the woman’s legs.
4. Necklace = move the remaining seashells to the correct slots on the necklace. 
5. Putting on necklace = move the necklace so the man is holding them

Drag pictures onto different scenes to complete them.

32. Magnets Puzzle

Suns Available: 1

For the thirty-second and final puzzle of Summer Unpacked, you just need to move the magnets to the correct slots. The level ends once all magnets have been correctly applied. 

Simply drag the magnets to the right place to complete this puzzle.

Summer Unpacked Puzzles Conclusion

That covers all the puzzles you can do in Summer Unpacked. You can go back and do the puzzles again as many times as you like. This also applies if you ever get stuck and have to return to a puzzle later. Remember that some puzzles offer more than one solution, so maybe you’d like to go back and find them all to earn all the reward suns!