SuperEpicMan
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I can get close enough to activate the puzzle from a distance, but not enough to really see what I am doing.
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The Witness |OT|
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Remembrance
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I think it's better demonstrated a different way:
The exact distinction between those rules:
There's a specific symbol tied to the 'colours must be separated' mechanic - the square with rounded corners. Those tetris pieces are their own distinct symbol
plasmawave
Banned
Someone should do The Witness ASMR video.
SuperEpicMan
Banned
Had to pop in here and say that I bought this game last night on a whim. I'm 73 panels in. I also went on a walk earlier today, and caught myself trying to line up my perspective with bits of architecture lol...
I'm thoroughly enjoying this so far. Well worth the price of entry for me.
I'm thoroughly enjoying this so far. Well worth the price of entry for me.
Solved the final
The park across the street from my home has a perspective puzzle in it... The trees line up so that the letters on them form a phrase if you look from a specific spot.
Challenge. Feels a bit luck based whether you get easy or hard puzzle configurations...
The park across the street from my home has a perspective puzzle in it... The trees line up so that the letters on them form a phrase if you look from a specific spot.
Remembrance
Member
You could reach those puzzles inside the box because the glass was broken on those sides.
What about the other sides?
SuperEpicMan
Banned
Haha it still took me a moment to know what you meant. I didn't notice
the box was broken lol
RepairmanJack
Member
This puzzle going up the mountain:
The sound one. I know how to solve it, I know the pattern but I just don't get when the restrictions kick in. Only puzzles I've needed help on is these damn sound puzzles that stop your movement. I just don't get them.
SuperEpicMan
Banned
I have just got to the second M
ountain chamber with the flashing colour puzzles. I am finding them kinda difficult as I am colourblind, is there many of these ones, as I am tempted to see solutions for them.
There aren't, and not a person here would suggest you don't go ahead and move past those puzzles with a solution guide.
If you must, you can probably find out what the actual colors are and then solve it -- or, you can
slowly deduce which colors are which by grouping a few each time and and "solving" it to see if they flash
therealminime
Member
Just the handful that are in that room.
As a colorblind too, I had to look for answers because I couldn't see a thing in them. Non-colorblind people don't know what it's like (not their fault, obviously) and ask to keep trying but in some puzzles it was impossible.
ashecitism
Member
I'm at the
puzzle right in front of the laser, I already opened the two doors, so everything is yellow/goldish
ashecitism
Member
Oh, so the last one. Two halves, which use two different rules.
explicitly:
the right half you avoid the shadows, the left half you draw the line on them
Thanks! Got it with your first hint! Can't believe I missed that! Keep getting surprised by the way the puzzles require you to really look at them.
petethepanda
Member
421 +48. You know that feeling in an RPG when you're high level and you return to an early area to fight stuff that used to be tough and this time around you just tear shit up? That's me with the village right now. So satisfying.
Once I got over the bridge, that was me in the swamp. Panels that would have stumped me last week are like, slay, rend, maim. :lol
I maintain The Witness is actually an open world RPG with knowledge replacing all inventory, currency and XP. It just fits.
I remember getting to the village and looking around thinking "What in God's name..."
When I came back, it was a slaughter -- only after I reminded myself, as you so often do, that the rules are always the same. If something appears off, its your perspective to it.
hydrophilic attack
Member
Omg I just got the ship puzzle. This was my thought process:
So in my previous post I talked about how I had to
In the end I probably spent around five hours on this puzzle. I did it mostly on my own except for a couple of small nudges in this topic to get me on the right track
. Both of these I already thought I had to do, but it was nice to get confirmation. So w felt pretty good that I did it mostly on my own, and it was a fun puzzle. I still feel a bit annoyed though about
So in my previous post I talked about how I had to
rule out the sounds of the drops. The only sounds left then are the random creaking noises of the ship. There are a few different ones. They don't seem to play in the same order, which rules out that I should trace through one long sequence fitting all the noises. So some of these creaking noises need to be fitted to probably a series of dots of the same colour. There are more noises than colours so I need to fit the noises that best fit the different colours.
So there is one that starts low and then makes a pretty large step to a higher pitch. This could fit with the purple dots, going from large to small. Which is good, because with the large dot right next to the starting point, we would probably quickly run out of space if we tried to get the small one first. Then the only noise that seems to sort of fit orange is one that starts at medium pitch, then goes up a minor second and then down a tritonus leap. Since the difference between the first notes is fairly small we can charitably label this sequence medium medium large, even if the first two are actually not the same tone.
The orange and pink dots should probably be collected by different lines (one by the one I control and one by the invisible symmetry line) Then for the black ones, the only way to get them both without trapping myself is to get them with different lines, first the medium one with one line, and then the small one with the symmetry line. Medium then small sort of fits one very high-pitched creaking noise.
So I need to get the pinks in the order large medium, the orange ones in the order medium medium large and the black ones in the order medium small. This seems impossible to do if I also try to get the colurs in sequence (i.e. first all the dots of one colour, then all the dots of the next colour and then all the dots of the third colour) so I'll relax that requirement and only make sure to get the dots within a colour in the right order, but not care about getting everyone in the same colour before moving on to the next colour.
So there is a path I can take to get first the large pink one with the main line, then medium medium and large orange with the symmetry line, then medium black with main line and small black with symmetry line and then exit. But that doesn't work! So I figured my reasoning was probably sound (especially so because I had started typing up this post, but asking for some feedback on my thought process rather than to announce I solved it, and reading what I had typed out, it all sounded right to me). So I figured I was hearing something wrong rather than having incorrect reasoning.
Since I figured the orange one didn't quite fit what I heard, I tried collecting the orange ones in another sequence. I got it when I did medium large medium. I'm not quite sure which noise fits with that. There is one that starts at medium pitch then take a fourth leap down. If I'm charitable, I can maybe say I hear a higher pitched note after the lower one for a very short time. But it doesn't fit nicely.
So in the end I went large purple, medium orange, large orange, medium orange small purple, medium black small black.
So there is one that starts low and then makes a pretty large step to a higher pitch. This could fit with the purple dots, going from large to small. Which is good, because with the large dot right next to the starting point, we would probably quickly run out of space if we tried to get the small one first. Then the only noise that seems to sort of fit orange is one that starts at medium pitch, then goes up a minor second and then down a tritonus leap. Since the difference between the first notes is fairly small we can charitably label this sequence medium medium large, even if the first two are actually not the same tone.
The orange and pink dots should probably be collected by different lines (one by the one I control and one by the invisible symmetry line) Then for the black ones, the only way to get them both without trapping myself is to get them with different lines, first the medium one with one line, and then the small one with the symmetry line. Medium then small sort of fits one very high-pitched creaking noise.
So I need to get the pinks in the order large medium, the orange ones in the order medium medium large and the black ones in the order medium small. This seems impossible to do if I also try to get the colurs in sequence (i.e. first all the dots of one colour, then all the dots of the next colour and then all the dots of the third colour) so I'll relax that requirement and only make sure to get the dots within a colour in the right order, but not care about getting everyone in the same colour before moving on to the next colour.
So there is a path I can take to get first the large pink one with the main line, then medium medium and large orange with the symmetry line, then medium black with main line and small black with symmetry line and then exit. But that doesn't work! So I figured my reasoning was probably sound (especially so because I had started typing up this post, but asking for some feedback on my thought process rather than to announce I solved it, and reading what I had typed out, it all sounded right to me). So I figured I was hearing something wrong rather than having incorrect reasoning.
Since I figured the orange one didn't quite fit what I heard, I tried collecting the orange ones in another sequence. I got it when I did medium large medium. I'm not quite sure which noise fits with that. There is one that starts at medium pitch then take a fourth leap down. If I'm charitable, I can maybe say I hear a higher pitched note after the lower one for a very short time. But it doesn't fit nicely.
So in the end I went large purple, medium orange, large orange, medium orange small purple, medium black small black.
In the end I probably spent around five hours on this puzzle. I did it mostly on my own except for a couple of small nudges in this topic to get me on the right track
(one which said to listen to notes other than the drip-drop and one to consider the rules of symmetry)
the noise for orange fitting the solution so poorly. Especially so when I could sort of reason out the orders for black and purple without having to hear the noises. Can anyone tell me what noise is supposed to give you the order of the orange dots? Is it the one I described how I can sort of see if I do the hearing equivalent of squinting, or is it another one?
SuperEpicMan
Banned
I think I am getting close to the final section,
. If you beat the game, does it let you continue on to finish the remaining puzzles, or should I go back out and finish them first?
just gone down the elevator in the mountain
ashecitism
Member
I don't recall
a sound puzzle going up the mountain. Is this a secret? Then don't tell me lol. Anyway, if by stopping your movement you meant your line, then it's something else stopping it. Usually those type of puzzles have two starting points...
explicit:
invisible symmetry
It will make a save before the ending, so you can continue from there.
Grinchy
Banned
Question about a couple puzzles in The Town.
It's about the ones you access by doing the audio puzzle in the basement to get the staircase to come down. The ones where you change the lights between red/green/blue. I solved both puzzles and nothing happened. Is anything supposed to happen? Or are these just some extra puzzles to do?
In the town, with 5 lasers up.
This puzzle seems so simple, but I'm missing some key info that I cant find.
This puzzle seems so simple, but I'm missing some key info that I cant find.
The very plain puzzle to open the town tower in the church like building. The puzzle next to the dude statue. Under the bell you can climb to. I can't figure out the key to it.
SuperEpicMan
Banned
I am stuck on the last puzzle in the bottom of the M
ountain where you do 4 panels on the floor, and they turn into one large symmetry puzzle. I kinda feel like I know what to do, but nothing seems to work.
Chances are good you do know what to do. Make a special note of how many blocks you have to choose from, and make sure that matches with what you're doing symmetry-wise.
Extra hint:
The final solution is not some bizarrely weird shape
Tonight I mostly ran around trying to figure out how to get to the
, but no luck,
Last I checked my score was about ~
, should I be able to get there by now probably if I just find the path, or is it some grand reward for being a completionist?
Also the enclosed area
, seems to be pointless?
bridge above the movie theatre (still not found video 4 unless I forgot to punch it in)
can see locked doors at sun temple where I sent the laser up, and another door underneath the windmill but they both open from the inside. It should be between the desert laser and the windmill, but I haven't found an entrance around there.
Last I checked my score was about ~
470+90
Also the enclosed area
behind the windmill, after the orchards
Potential spoilers for near the starting area
You know the brown rocky area with palm trees opposite the starting castle.. There's nothing there besides the statue of a man reaching for a goblet/the sun. Without giving too much away, is it just symbolism or is there more to it?
22 hours in, been stuck on this since Monday. I am ashamed to ask but...could I get a hint please? I thought I knew what was going on with the blue things, but I actually don't. http://i.imgur.com/OmsCDXt.jpg
Have you found the + puzzles?
Some of them, but not many. Should I be focusing on those now? I'm only at like +20
Edit:
Or maybe you meant to look at a specific instance of one of those....I dunno.
thanks for the hint anyway.
You know how you can add yellow tiles together? Well...
Reverend Funk
Comfy Penetration
This is a pretty big hint
you can use the blue squares to eliminate a shape entirely
For the 3rd panel
Minor hint
How many blue squares are there in total?
More obvious hint
What kind of shape could all of the blue ones create if combined?
Heh, I can't believe I never caught on to that. Thanks everyone!
CarbonFire
Member
You've leveled up.....your brain. And agreed, it's what this game does so, so well.
There aren't any superfluous lasers.
Count how many locks opened up on the box so you could open the final area up.
listening to a recent Gamers with Jobs cast. they do not have good things to say about this game...
https://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/1299508
https://www.gamerswithjobs.com/node/1299508