InaudibleWhispa
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Do you have the door open in front of it? If so, the solution is the same idea as the panels in the monastery.
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Do you have the door open in front of it? If so, the solution is the same idea as the panels in the monastery.
you need to use an environmental cue to solve it and there are no environmental cues there unless you've done something to change that room.
Wow, the treehouse felt like an absolute chore. It just kept throwing stuff at you before the rules you'd just learnt had even sunk in.
Match two of these but not if they're not stars and only if there's not an inbalance between the number of each except sometimes that's okay maybe sorta possibly.
Often times you solve these by sheer fluke and then come away not having learned anything.
Match two of these but not if they're not stars and only if there's not an inbalance between the number of each except sometimes that's okay maybe sorta possibly.
Often times you solve these by sheer fluke and then come away not having learned anything.
Next time use spoiler tags please. Damn.
LightofRohan
Member
I have no idea what those sun shapes mean, so confused. Where do you learn how to deal with those?
Thanks for all the tips!
Dr_Boris_Goltz
Banned
Grim Patron
Member
got it. thanks again.
I know for sure there's lots more because of the obelisk stuff and the videos under the windmill.
Spoilering everything just in case.
The following spoiler contains a spoiler link at the end. Just a heads up.
Late Town Puzzle
The middle squares in the following pic are transparent and not white. Just in case it shows up as white for you.
I made a transparent grid. Then I took paint fill with a 33 or 66 percent color (I forget) to each square. I did each color one at a time. If under a red filter the color was white I would apply a red fill to that square. Same for blue and green. It worked. I just upped the color intensity by doubling the layers to make the colors really stand out from one another.
My final 'render.' http://i.imgur.com/kaBRwul.png
Added non transparent version http://i.imgur.com/4iFxaSo.png
I made a transparent grid. Then I took paint fill with a 33 or 66 percent color (I forget) to each square. I did each color one at a time. If under a red filter the color was white I would apply a red fill to that square. Same for blue and green. It worked. I just upped the color intensity by doubling the layers to make the colors really stand out from one another.
My final 'render.' http://i.imgur.com/kaBRwul.png
Added non transparent version http://i.imgur.com/4iFxaSo.png
Looking at the trophy list, there's nothing in there that you could miss.
Funny how on Steam there are only two achievements. Guess Blow doesn't really care about this stuff.
InaudibleWhispa
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Before endgame question: Just finished the
given by the achievements - should I head for
There's also at least one puzzle in
which i never saw before, and its next to
Also, I realized there was nothing when finishing the
section in the first place lol.
10th Laser,
the mountain now, or did I miss any? Can I continue playing after specific points? I don't want to finish the game or go into some endgame status without having the option to 100% it eventually.
There's also at least one puzzle in
the town
a tree with an apple.
apple
Whenever I felt like that in those areas, I'd just go back to that puzzle and experiment. There's nothing that says you HAVE to go to the next puzzle. If you solve one and don't know why it worked, go back to it and draw different lines. Try two stars with a same color square, see what flashes. Try two stars with a different color square. After a few you should be able to suss out what the rules are.
Thanks! I'm glad I can leave that behind me.
Had the wrong assumption that it has to be all four together, because one of the upper tetrimons was 3 spaces high and the down ones were both just two high. I feel dumb now,
cpp_is_king
Member
There's a simple rule underpinning it all
Stars must always be paired with exactly one same colored piece of any kind
Dr_Boris_Goltz
Banned
Okay I feel guilty but I had to cheat at the
sound puzzles. I'm totally tone deaf and couldn't pick up on anything.
Holy shit just had an epiphany on this one thank to a puzzle for the challenge (currently doing that, I freaking love it), can't want to get back to those!
bigwinnerx
Member
Stumbled into the puzzles to the right of the quarry near the orange doors and those might be my favorite so far.
Ryo Hazuki
Member
Don't feel too bad. Some of those took me fucking ages. They're awful and the worst part of the game in my opinion.
Hoho for breakfast
Member
Ok so I'm way behind everyone so hopefully someone can give me a hint (it'd probably be around the 60th or so puzzle)...
That may have something to do with the answer but both me and my wife have been stuck on it for over an hour. I need help.
Edit: So I looked up the answer and I still don't get it at all. I mean I don't understand why the answer is what it is. This game is going to lose me quickly. It's hard for me to believe people are figuring this crap out on their own.
I'm on the 4th purple grid tree shadow puzzle (with the orange boards that help you to know where to draw the lines). I'm confused as hell as to what the answer is for that 4th one. It's one where the orange block is sitting behind the puzzle panel instead of in front of it.
Edit: So I looked up the answer and I still don't get it at all. I mean I don't understand why the answer is what it is. This game is going to lose me quickly. It's hard for me to believe people are figuring this crap out on their own.
So far today, my daughter has 1) cleared the quarry in 20 minutes (I was stuck half the week) 2) opened up 2 areas I couldn't get into at all and 3) figured out the tetris puzzles in 5 minutes flat.
She's taking great delight in her father's increasing humiliation. I'm starting to wonder if she's my child. She didn't get her smarts from me. 0_o
She's taking great delight in her father's increasing humiliation. I'm starting to wonder if she's my child. She didn't get her smarts from me. 0_o
Belgian Dude
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eot
Banned
The progression in this game is weird and makes me think I'm going the wrong way or something. The areas near the beginning are littered with rows of tutorial panels and the puzzles build on that, then you explore a little and it's nothing but unexplained mechanic after unexplained mechanic and you don't know if you're supposed to figure them out or just move on to more unexplained mechanics.
Aces&Eights
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Kids brains haven't been beaten down by life and stress. Ask her to itemize your cable bill then you will be back in even footing!
Dr_Boris_Goltz
Banned
Hoho for breakfast
Member
Icyflamez96
Member
3 lasers up! I love how sweet and long that animation is.
Oooh. It is tax season.
TimeEffect
Member
Feels like there arent enough tiles but I'll keep at it thanks!
GwyndolinCinder
Member
Door is there for a reason.
Chris Murphy
Member
Very end game spolier question.
Edit: Found it... I wondered when I was going to go down here.
How do you re-activate the forcefield at the beginning of the game without starting a new game? I've done the challenge and can't find a way of re-ctivating it. And even if I do how do you get back in the start area if it's activated.
Edit: Found it... I wondered when I was going to go down here.
TimeEffect
Member
People saying this isnt $40 are insane
So much hidden stuff that you appreciate as you play and discover.
More than that, the puzzles are excellent.
Just imagine: if this game released for $20 and came out much sooner, itd have so much less content.
I wish we had more puzzle games. It's unfortunate that they intimidate so many people when great ones are remarkably well designed in the industry
So much hidden stuff that you appreciate as you play and discover.
More than that, the puzzles are excellent.
Just imagine: if this game released for $20 and came out much sooner, itd have so much less content.
I wish we had more puzzle games. It's unfortunate that they intimidate so many people when great ones are remarkably well designed in the industry
Wow, this windmill +1 is absolute garbage.
EDIT: And there fails another attempt.
As soon as I try to detach from the second blade, it goes on the wall for a tiny bit, but then just reattaches itself to the fucking blade! I managed it once for the third blade, but these controls are just absolutely fucking terrible for this. Analogue stick or mouse, all inputs in intersections have a very precise .1 degree angle where they work at all. Got a puzzle where an intersection has more than 4 directions you can go? Good luck ever getting on the one you want, because you sure as fuck aren't going to succeed through skill! It was pretty bad in some other puzzles, but here it's just completely unmanageable. I genuinely can't do a puzzle because the controls are too awful. I've gone past the fucking wall for over a dozen rotations now. And it takes fucking ages! I've been here for over half an hour! 99% of that time was WAITING. Near, far, on the left, on the right, it's all the fucking same. Just dire.
EDIT: And there fails another attempt.
Chris Murphy
Member
You can only go on a wall line once. It's a puzzle so there is a solution. If you try and get on a wall line a second time it will bumb you off it.
dickgumshoe
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I really would like anyone to spoil the solution of a camouflage panel for me: it's the third after the
I ate that stupid panel.
one which distracts with the telefone noise. I hear some kind of flute, but I don't anything that remotely resembles a pattern that I could match to the panel.
The best epiphanies I had were figuring out what all the mechanics of the different symbols are. It'll teach you the basic concept, and then leave it up to you to determine how far the concept can be pushed. This is awesome. I see a lot of people asking for the mechanics to be explained to them, as if it isn't a puzzle itself. Sure, knowing the mechanics won't solve the panel for you, but figuring the mechanics out for yourself are some of the best puzzles in the game imo.
Captain Smirk
Member
Just done the greenhouse, my favourite one so far.
the green colour identification to skip a floor was clever.
But I went on the same wall line twice to solve the third blade. I never used the shorter one on the right at all. It's just that the game refuses to let me do the same thing I already did because the controls are abysmal.
EDIT:
I also tried the thing you suggested and went on the right wall segment first. When the second blade came over I got on it, and as soon as I was right in the dead center middle of the blade, it teleported me onto the first blade. Fucking hell. This is actually worse than the other way.
It's a weird location. I got hung up on the first 1 star puzzle.only thing in the game that has seriously held me up.
Chris Murphy
Member
You potentially didn't retrace your line on the wall line. Basically it's like every other puzzle you can't retrace you own line. So it makes the 4th one impossible without using the second wall line. Also you can duck under the 3rd blade because it's broken.
HoodWinked
Member
At hundred and fiddy panels solved. Gotta go back and try the first panel outside of the start area, maybe I figured it out!
Great game. Frustration leading to satisfaction after some solves. But I gotta say I do feel like "GTFO, how would you expect people to notice this", after I accidentally stumble upon a clue. (Maybe the noticing is not accidental and art direction directs you there to find it, dunno, but sometimes I believe I notice things purely by wandering aimlessly and stumbling upon it.)
Great game. Frustration leading to satisfaction after some solves. But I gotta say I do feel like "GTFO, how would you expect people to notice this", after I accidentally stumble upon a clue. (Maybe the noticing is not accidental and art direction directs you there to find it, dunno, but sometimes I believe I notice things purely by wandering aimlessly and stumbling upon it.)
HoodWinked
Member
dont feel dumb those puzzles are complete trash. managed to do them without any hints or help personally but i didnt even get that sense of accomplishment when i completed that area.
InaudibleWhispa
Member
Easiest area of the game for me, alongside the forest next to the quarry; I got most panels on my first try. Each area plays to different strengths so it's quite interesting to see everyone's differing difficulties. It'll be interesting to see a poll of most difficult areas and see all the differences between people, though I'm sure the swamp would come out on top.
Yeah, the jungle was really easy to me, but then
I studied music as a kid and generally have a good ear.
Fractology
Member
Treehouse hints requested (not exactly puzzle panel related):
I've finally ground through almost every puzzle in this godforsaken logic branching mess, but just when I think I have the laser in sight...this motherfuckin door gives me the run-around. What the hell am I supposed to do to get to this open door in time? Hints only please! Below are the things I've tried:
1) Stood as far back as possible to activate switch and run for it. Impossible.
2) Looked for a vantage point on another pathway that was closer to the door, but also can access the door open panel...can't find one
3) Saw the door open switch INSIDE the shack that I need to get into but I the cracks are spaced in such a fashion to make it tease the shit out of you rather than act as a possible work-around.
1) Stood as far back as possible to activate switch and run for it. Impossible.
2) Looked for a vantage point on another pathway that was closer to the door, but also can access the door open panel...can't find one
3) Saw the door open switch INSIDE the shack that I need to get into but I the cracks are spaced in such a fashion to make it tease the shit out of you rather than act as a possible work-around.
HoodWinked
Member
the way he could help with motion sickness is to put a cursor on the screen it allows you to fixate on it instead of the screen thats in motion. for instance if you hold out your finger in front of the screen while you're moving you'll notice it helps.