Aces&Eights
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I've been stuck on this one forever. Any non solution hints would be much appreciated!!!
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I've been stuck on this one forever. Any non solution hints would be much appreciated!!!
Cheesewheel
Member
The game will autosave immediately before showing you the end. Afterwards you can reload your old save and do whatever you want and lose no progress.
To answer the bolded question you asked:
Non-Tetris symbols do count towards the Tetris areas
A further hint:
The layout of the puzzle leads you towards an assumption that is not correct
A further hint:
None of the tetris pieces overlap their actual marker
A further hint:
All four black squares appear in the same segment
A further hint:
All four Tetris pieces appear in the same segment
And the last hint:
All four black squares *and* all four Tetris pieces appear in the same segment
Hopefully there's enough there to get you through it, but that last hint is pretty explicit; experiment before moving on to each new hint.
Attleborotaco
Member
See back in the beginning of the game, i just thought the rule was make sure a line goes through between Black and White Squares, and thats why im confused now, but this helps alot lol.
Thanks! Read your comment and solved it on the first try, haha.
Spoiler:
Exit the start "gate", make a small loop and then aim to include the tetris blocks. The shape of the line you draw will essentially be a H with the - in the letter be the black squares.
GlamFM
Banned
Need some help for after the mountain.
Have a series of panels where
I'd mainly like someone to tell me if I have the Tetris pieces in the right place. I've drawn out what I think are all the combinations (including variants where the line can go around in different directions), and I think I've eliminated all but one layout (which has two ways to draw it).
Here is my sketch. http://i.imgur.com/qc0Ia0z.jpg
The column with the check mark is the one I think is the only possible layout because
. Am I right?
If so, I can't figure out the fifth oanel in the sequence where it
Edit: GlamFM - image spoilers don't work on mobile - it just shows the picture straight away. Could you put that as a URL instead?
well more specifically *inside* the mountain
Have a series of panels where
the elements keep layering on and you need one line to solve all of them
I'd mainly like someone to tell me if I have the Tetris pieces in the right place. I've drawn out what I think are all the combinations (including variants where the line can go around in different directions), and I think I've eliminated all but one layout (which has two ways to draw it).
Here is my sketch. http://i.imgur.com/qc0Ia0z.jpg
The column with the check mark is the one I think is the only possible layout because
otherwise the green and pink stars can't be properly connected
If so, I can't figure out the fifth oanel in the sequence where it
changes the layout of the black and white dots - I can't separate the black dot without blocking off the stars
Edit: GlamFM - image spoilers don't work on mobile - it just shows the picture straight away. Could you put that as a URL instead?
Cheesewheel
Member
This may or may not help but ...
Concentrate more on the tetrominos and less on the black squares.
tim_pkmn89
Member
Need some help with a puzzle in the Greenhouse. I feel bad for asking, but I even slept on it and can't see how it could be solved unless I'm interpreting the mechanic wrong.
Vigilant Gambit
Member
I feel like this game would be a lot easier to play if I wrote stuff down as I went. Like, where to find out-of-the-way puzzles that require mechanics that I haven't learned yet.
Remembrance
Member
You are sort of right.
There are a few possible layouts that leave the green and pink stars connected.
But you have enough room to separate the black dot while adhering to those layouts.
Remember that it's the stars that need to be paired, not the squares. Squares just need to be separated from other colors.
SictorVullivan
Member
I haven't done that one specifically, but I strongly suspect that this is a situation where
the path you're observing is incomplete, and you need to find a way to extend it.
Since that response is guesswork, it might be entirely wrong!
It must be something about the way that puzzle is laid out. I had no problem adjusting rulesets for other pieces. I spend a ridiculous amount of time looking at the failure states too. Brain must have failed me. Spent 2 hours on it...
tim_pkmn89
Member
Huh. Guess I was interpreting the mechanics wrong.
I thought these were different than the regular squares and all of a single color needed to be together. I wonder what went wrong in my earlier testing then...
Yeah, I think a notepad is essential. When the initial rush is past, I suspect I'll share my scribblings.
SictorVullivan
Member
Yep. Try from the desert area. Atleast thats how I got it.
Straight up solution - if you want it:
Thank u for tagging
Tried asking yesterday but I probably mixed the areas up, it's a puzzle between the Jungle and the Monastery, here's an image
I hate to leave it unsolved lol. Any hint?
I hate to leave it unsolved lol. Any hint?
Thanks. I was having a complete brain freeze and trying to also separate the green and pink, when I didn't need to.
Edit: oh sod off.
after all my careful drawing they've changed the bloody Tetris pieces for the last puzzle
Edit 2: OK double sod off.
when you introduced more white and black spots, you replaced old ones. Now you add a Farris shape but the precious one still counts?
Yeah, dammit.
Another puzzle I've been stuck at for ages, keep coming back but can't seem to figure it out (near the temple):
Any help there is appreciated, thanks!
http://i.imgur.com/LgFc93m.jpg
I understand you have to align the roots (from the cliff where I'm standing), hit the dot in the middle and separate the colored squares, but doesn't seem any permutation I've tried so far works.
I understand you have to align the roots (from the cliff where I'm standing), hit the dot in the middle and separate the colored squares, but doesn't seem any permutation I've tried so far works.
Any help there is appreciated, thanks!
Remembrance
Member
Nothing has been replaced - all six panels are in effect as soon as they're turned on, and remain in effect.
It helps to step back so you can see all of them at once as you draw.
It helps to step back so you can see all of them at once as you draw.
Have you solved the one just a couple steps away from that one by any chance? I'm stuck on that one
As for your own, I'll keep it vague and say
try to play with perspective a bit
Clues:
You use the same principle to solve it as you do for the puzzles in the monastery. If you haven't done those, leave it for now
A slightly clearer clue:
Back away a bit
Slightly more of a clue:
You'll get half the answer before you get the whole thing
That ought to be enough.
Yep, I solved that one (the door that leads back to the temple).
Hint:
Don't use trees/roots to find the shape, use something harder.
Thanks guys, will keep playing around I guess with the perspective.
First clue:
Your solution is much the same.
Second:
The key vantage point for you is a little further away than you might imagine
Third:
Make sure you're fully aware of the surrounding area
Fourth:
Stand in front of the gate. Turn around. Look up. Now figure out how to get there
(And that's just getting you started)
Edit: Got confused about the two different doors. This one was pitched at Beedog, but it looks like I was reading Beedog's query with JerkShep's picture (and vice-versa; so I thought JerkShep was asking for the one a couple of steps away from his own picture!) - hence wasn't aware that Beedog had basically done those steps.
CAAAAAAAAAAAW
Member
Man :/ I'm stuck at
I know where it should be, but nothing's working...
one last + left
I know where it should be, but nothing's working...
Great hint, I managed to complete it. Thanks!
Playing this on the ps4 has been pretty fun but I really wish this has the layton thing of being able to scribble on the screen however you want instead of having to always start at the maze start to draw lines.
It's a lot easier to solve when instead of drawing a path, you draw the pieces of the path that you know have to exist first and then fill in the rest.
I've also decided I despise the plus puzzles. The ones that add the +x part of your save file.
Perhaps the nature of those puzzles change at some point but right now they are the worst and not fun to solve at all.
Overall though I've been enjoying it
It's a lot easier to solve when instead of drawing a path, you draw the pieces of the path that you know have to exist first and then fill in the rest.
I've also decided I despise the plus puzzles. The ones that add the +x part of your save file.
They are way too finicky and pixel perfect and I've seen a number that I didn't solve not because I couldn't find the right 'area' to stand but because I couldn't find the right pixel to stand on. There was one where the best place to stand had geometry that was blocking me from where I needed to be the character refusing to take a step up onto a 1ft obstacle was infuriating.
Perhaps the nature of those puzzles change at some point but right now they are the worst and not fun to solve at all.
Overall though I've been enjoying it
I think what you find frustrating is designed like that.
if you can't get up that obstacle then there is a reason. I spent ages trying to adjust my view to get around a plank just poking a tiny bit over one of the panel edges. Turns out I was absolutely meant to be like that.
Back up.
I cant figure out these tetris puzzles and i dont want to look up a solution but damn this is taking forever.
The one i have an issue with is
The one i have an issue with is
the 2nd puzzle on the door unlocking fhe short cut, and the first one on the row of puzzles near it. It has a long horizontal straight peice and 2 vertical straight pieces under neath it. I dont understand this at all
There is one rule that is super poorly taught.
Remembrance
Member
Think of it this way:
It's impossible for the horizontal piece to be in the row where you see it, because it would overlap the vertical pieces.
Where does the horizontal piece have to go?
It's impossible for the horizontal piece to be in the row where you see it, because it would overlap the vertical pieces.
Where does the horizontal piece have to go?
runningjoke
Member
EnlightenedMint
Member
After getting frustrated with some of the tetris puzzles I finally decided to cut the pieces out and it made it so much easier.
The rule...
the "virtual" chunk does not need to overlap the icon. It just needs to be in the same outlined section. The Commutative Property of Tetris Blocks.
Easy enough to just do dots on a piece of paper.
Big dot = icon, little dot = virtual coverage.
I guess im not understanding at all because i dont see how i can move it without not outlining it within the shape.
Remembrance
Member
Use a vertical piece to cover the horizontal piece's square, and use the horizontal piece to cover both vertical pieces' squares.
Then there's only one place the other vertical piece can go.
Then there's only one place the other vertical piece can go.