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The Witness |OT|
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Chairmanchuck
Member
The left half has the rules of one puzzles, the other half the rules of the other.
The rules split in the middle.
The rules split in the middle.
That's super simple...try to redo the panels before it to get an idea of why that works.
Saiyan-Rox
Member
I'm staring at it right now and the shapes usualy mean have the empty space be those shapes right? Sometimes you have them on top of each other or too the side but wtf is that!?
Freeman76
Member
You are doing better than me, i cannot for the life of me figure out what those hollow blue squares mean or What to do with them.
Puzzle explanation:
It's a 5x5 grid. So the tall 4 piece with a 1 piece on top and 2 piece to the side.
Super simple
Super simple
Chance Hale
Member
How do you reactivate a platform,?
I solved a puzzle which activated a platform but I wasn't finished with the tutorial puzzles so I have no idea to solve what is over here, lol. Tried resolving the puzzle but it didn't move it back.
I'm in a swamp like area
That feel after 200 puzzles solved you discover the '+' scoring people have been referring to, alongside their puzzle completion count.
What do you mean by '+' scoring?
Nah, there is nothing you can find that will ruin the game.
Saiyan-Rox
Member
I think I'm over thinking or under thinking this entire puzzle/game
I just don't know when bits are supposed to combine, how they are combie and where.
I just don't know when bits are supposed to combine, how they are combie and where.
Yeah I'm too stupid for this game.
TheSlySoul
Member
I think this puzzle describes the game: looks easy, but not really...
Yep. That didn't qualify as a twist to you?
Puzzle counts. There are puzzles that aren't puzzles but are puzzles. They are counted as + puzzles.
I'm gonna feel real dumb but a little help here?
Ah, of course. Thanks.
TheSlySoul
Member
This puzzle is dickish, but
the less moves the better.
The shadow connects somewhere else.
I love how that gibberish statement makes perfect sense given the proper context.
Chairmanchuck
Member
Belgian Dude
Member
You can solve that puzzle in two different ways
Did you really follow the shadow? Remember it has to be continuous
D
Deleted member 10571
Unconfirmed Member
Alright, found a puzzle that seems to work similar to the
one that I also can't solve, in a c
ship
ave on the mountainside almost at the top. You obviously control 2 mirrored lines, but idk how to solve it at all, despite knowing about the black/white dots. Why are the "pickup" dots differently colored? aah.
Finished the red temple at last. That was evil.
At 200~ puzzles. Random thoughts:
-There's this area that has a lot of colored water around it, next to the area that "teaches" you about the tetris blocks, no idea how to reach it. I'm just going to organically end up there?
-The tetris blocks. I've done the "tutorial" yet I feel like I have no fucking idea how this shit works. I'm totally in the dark in how these things combine with other unrelated blocks.
-The desert. What the fuck even. Don't even know where to start. I feel like I'm missing equipment in this game sometimes.
-The "town." These are like fucking hard mode puzzles. I haven't been able to complete a single one.
-Some random scattered puzzles seem stupid difficult, like there's one
At 200~ puzzles. Random thoughts:
-There's this area that has a lot of colored water around it, next to the area that "teaches" you about the tetris blocks, no idea how to reach it. I'm just going to organically end up there?
-The tetris blocks. I've done the "tutorial" yet I feel like I have no fucking idea how this shit works. I'm totally in the dark in how these things combine with other unrelated blocks.
-The desert. What the fuck even. Don't even know where to start. I feel like I'm missing equipment in this game sometimes.
-The "town." These are like fucking hard mode puzzles. I haven't been able to complete a single one.
-Some random scattered puzzles seem stupid difficult, like there's one
in the mountain that has an invisible yellow line. Dude. Why.
Did the treetop area. I hadn't paid attention to the panels
that let me
There seem to be a lot of
will leave that for now, maybe come back later.
having multiple exits, which selects an orientation
brideg the gap between the switch and the timer door
There seem to be a lot of
optional areas up here too - rotating the platforms to get behind the laser tower for instance.
I'm at the same spot. I bet you quit the tutorials on the same panel, too.
Belgian Dude
Member
If it's the one I'm thinking of, it's not as hard as the one the ship. Did you do the symmetry section? Cause your line is blue and the mirrored one is orange.
Chance Hale
Member
There's only
one knob
May as well have been the game's subtitle.
Saiyan-Rox
Member
If anything we can thank the creator of the game (name has vanished from my head) for making a few off us realise how stupid we are lol
Oh and painkiller for headaches have taken a rise in sales this week.
Most of that will come naturally. Persevere with the desert area, try looking at things from different vantage points
Can you get on the
ship? I just did a lovely big + puzzle there but there doesn't seem to be a dock on it, and I can't get across from the treetop area
Belgian Dude
Member
It's the Swamp Bridge, right? There's only one exit but two solutions - you can see that the bridge itself is made of yellow blocks. You probably solved the puzzle by grouping the middle tetris piece with the right tetris piece, right? Think of it as if you're pulling a lever.
TheSlySoul
Member
Oooooh
Just unlocked the video, so much philosophy!
I promise they don't. You just don't understand the full extent of their logic yet.
I keep saying this every time I run into a new one, but then once figured out it turns out that they were still following the same rules.
I am really trapped on one though. I swear I've solved it, but apparently not...
Chance Hale
Member
I didn't even realize that's what I was doing, lol. I'll get back eventually I guess.
Several puzzles have
multiple 'exits'. Quite often there are multiple correct answers and different things will happen depending which exit you finish on.
Starting to get the feel of the tetris pieces after doing the tutorial, but I'm confused by one at the quarry boathouse.
There's a puzzle with three separate, diagonal two block tetris pieces and one white elimination marker. What I'm confused by is the difference in the direction of the diagonal line in the tetris pieces. Like, two of them are arcing northeast and one is arcing southeast, but everything up to this point has led me to believe that diagonal (as opposed to a straight tetris piece) means it can be oriented any way regardless of direction, so do the arcs of the diagonal blocks mean anything?
Chairmanchuck
Member
Just a question. What are these
play button panels you find laying around? Walked around the starting castle, opened a door and found one. Then found 3 or 4 other ones.
Shrike Alvaron
Member
Kind of grateful for the game making numerous saves now so I can check things out at different times...
I did notice the statue in the ending flyover, which stood out to me as I hadn't thought I noticed it in previous times I passed the lake
But oh man, so much to check out and explore still. I didn't even realize
some of the audio logs are from fictional people, now I feel like going back through and finding them again to see if they're existing quotes or new ones.
I do wonder if the secrets will reveal more about the game's nature, but my speculation so far is...
HUGE ENDING SPOILERS BELOW
SERIOUSLY I PRETTY MUCH GIVE AWAY THE ENDING HERE PROCEED WITH CAUTION
The entire game is an abstraction of a person's mind and memories. A dying person, to be exact. Each area on the island corresponds to a specific place that person has been in their life, and solving the puzzles in them is an abstraction of their... "Progression" in life, you can say. By going through these past places the person experienced, you end up unlocking the mountain and the first thing you see in there is a giant MESS of thrown away junk, as if the mountain is a locked away part of their mind storing stuff they don't want to think about anymore. (Also, it's worth noting that there is a certain sound effect used in some of the mountain puzzles that sounds distinctly organic, like pulsing flesh) As you descend things start breaking, getting distorted, warping, hard to process and think about. But in the end, once you reach the bottom, everything becomes clearer. The junk is gone, the broken panels are gone, and all you're left with is a base sense of tranquility. It almost feels like heaven. In the end you're whisked over the island and see everything shutting down, all before it begins again, circling back to the beginning just as the final puzzles circled around on themselves.
Now, what I wonder is if this is the only ending; I doubt it is. If my idea of what the island is is right, then I feel that finding all the secrets, probing as deep as you can, may very well change something about the ending...
I've gotten on the
sunken ship. Only thing I found there was some shit audio recording.
SirMossyBloke
Member
I'm stuck on that one!
Well I was only 2 hours into line puzzles and now I'm just
looking for every light / shadow that I can activate, found it by accident.
TheSlySoul
Member
Holy shit.
The windmill itself is a puzzle.
Chance Hale
Member
Oh shit, I just realized what was happening and how to connect the bridge. Thanks for the tips!