I just ran this with some frame adjustments as part of a Tyranny of Dragons campaign (this was a sidequest in Luskan with this temple being dropped in the ruins of Illusk), it worked great, and was a nice palate cleanser after many game sessions of heavy combat. As noted in the other reviews, these puzzles are of certain types that might not work well for every group, but they worked very well for mine. Just make sure you have a way of showing ALL the players the relevant imagery (I used Discord to share images as well as a single sheet for each puzzle image). Clear imagery for the card puzzle is particularly important to tell between suits of cards. My group is full of puzzle-minded folks, so none of these stumped them for very long. I only had to give the briefest of hints twice. I amped up the baddies at the end for my own purposes and it all came together.
So, don't be afraid to just use the puzzles in sequence for whatever purpose you need as they all work very well together and then up the CRs of monsters that you encounter to challenge your players at whatever level they are at. The introduction to Puzzling Temple encourages DM to use this material creatively and I applaud them for that.
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