Its main power grants the owner the powers and knowledge of darkness and shadows, giving him incredible skill at strategy and allowing him to use ancient and powerful magic. It can even interfere with the magic of other Millennium Items, and at its full power, it can repel the dark Seal of Orichalcos.

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Each of them suffered mysterious deaths, with the last one uttering "The Shadow Games" with his dying breath. In the first series anime, Shadi entered Yugi's mind room belonging to Dark Yugi, looking for the secret powers of the Millennium Puzzle. During his second encounter with Atem, Bakura stated that the spirits of Kul Elna were trapped in Hell following the ritual, and that he could hear their grudges in said afterlife from the Items. In an early chapter of the manga (Duel 14: The Man From Egypt (Part 2) in Volume 2: The Cards With Teeth), Shadi gives a vague explanation about why the Millennium Items were created.Later, after Kaiba was defeated by Aigami during Yugi and Kaiba's Duel against Aigami, Kaiba gave Yugi the Puzzle. He also feared that the Puzzle contained the power of the Shadow Game so he hoped Yugi would never solve it. The village of Kul Elna became the victim of the Pharaoh's unwitting decree, as Akhenaden had them slaughtered, their blood, bone and flesh melted in with the gold that was cast in the mystic rite that formed the items. The Millennium Puzzle appears in the Amphibia episode All In, where it is seen in a pile of puzzles that Marcy Wu solved.

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It is able to initiate Shadow Games and corresponding Penalty Games that Dark Yugi used to punish those who harmed Yugi or his friends. It's eventually revealed that Bandit Keith came into possession of the Puzzle; he uses it and the other Items in a ritual to attempt to awaken Ra. The Millennium Puzzle had been discovered by a team of British archaeologists in the Valley of the Kings at the beginning of the 20th century. However, upon discovering the dark truth behind the Items' creation, Akhenamkhanen attempted to atone by offering his soul up to the Egyptian Gods as penance, sparing his son, Pharaoh Atem from any future retribution for his own indirect actions.

Unaware to himself, his body now often becomes host to an ancient Egyptian Pharaoh, who punishes bullies and evil-doers, who cross Yugi and his friends. Otogi tried to rebuild it after he shattered it, he ended up almost trapped in an illusion of the puzzle's maze, indicating that only a wise, chosen one can build it, as Ryuji Otogi could also not fit the pieces in. Also, it allows its owner to sense and feel thoughts and emotions, and to enter the minds of others. In the Toei anime, Shadi entered Yugi's mind room belonging to Dark Yugi, looking for the secret powers of the Millennium Puzzle. However, when Yugi and his friends were able to help Yami learn his original name, Atem managed to summon Holactie the Creator of Light, destroying Zorc without sealing him into the Puzzle or shattering it.

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With Egypt under threat from invading armies 3,000 years ago, the Pharaoh Akhenamkhanen sought to protect his land through mystical means, and laid down the command for the seven magical Millennium Items to be forged, based on an ancient spell found in the Millennium Spellbook. He failed, and was very nearly killed by a particular trap which caused the floor of the room to collapse (in the manga, he stated that if he fell, he'd be trapped in Yugi's soul forever).Thief King Bakura, the sole survivor of the slaughter in Kul Elna, stole the holy DiaDhank from the tomb of Akhenamkhanen. Placed on a stone tablet (the Tablet of Lost Memories) that professed to chronicle a battle between the Pharaoh and Seto, the cards and the Puzzle opened a gateway to Ancient Egypt, through which the soul of the Pharaoh was pulled. This would the explain the increasingly evil natures of the main antagonists (Pegasus, Marik and Bakura). It can even interfere with the magic of other Millennium Items, and at its full power it can repel the dark Seal of Orichalcos.

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Protected and comforted by his friend Anzu Mazaki, Yugi shows her his secret puzzle, that he has been unable to solve for eight years.Over the years, no one had been able to assemble the puzzle, which led Solomon to believe that the Puzzle was simply impossible. Not wanting to put his friends through Sozoji's horrible singing or have them pick a fight, Yugi insists that he's fine and won't tell them what he's been made do. A similar event happens in the second series anime during the Duelist Kingdom arc, but it is Yugi who rescues Shadi, not Yami Yugi. He used his name as part of a spell that sealed Zorc's soul and his own in the Millennium Pendant, which was shattered and was laid to rest in his tomb. The original flavor text for the " Millennium Shield" stated that it was a Millennium Item; however, it has absolutely no importance to the storyline and does not originate from the Millennium Stone like the other Millennium Items.