Pretty much everyone is getting messed up on this and I can blame the design a little bit.
The block with a space in between the pieces is actually 2 spaces in between ,not just one.
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Pretty much everyone is getting messed up on this and I can blame the design a little bit.
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I just figured it out.
Consider that the blue icons might not go with the obvious yellow ones.
Explained in
Marsh puzzles
I think the key to understanding the tetris puzzles is to find the multiple solutions and the ways you fail in the tutorial.
I am in the minority but they have been a highlight for me so far.
Alright I guess I should head out that way, thanks.
What area will I find the tutorial section for these? They confuse the hell out of me and I haven't found anything that seemed to teach it to me.
Swamps.
Spoilers for desert laser:
So when you redirect it you can point it at the mountain obviously but when you point it at the only black cloud in the sky it turns white. This mean anything or just a hidden detail? Yes or no would do fine. Would like to figure out what could be behind it.
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The square needs 4 blue the angle needs 3
Zen_Arcade
Banned
That's my point though, it's not a very good tutorial because it's very difficult to fail. Pretty much every other tutorial in the game has you starting off doing something you will probably do wrong the first time within the first couple panels. Whereas the first five panels of the
Swamp
I don't know why I do this. Why do I buy horror games when I don't like horror? Why do I buy puzzle games when I don't like puzzles? I just burn on them same day. I don't have enough patience for bashing my head against a wall.
Fake edit : oh hey look at that I just solved the first puzzle that gave me trouble a few hours ago. Onto the next one. Move along nothing to see here but passing frustration and the ever looming fact I'll have to watch the ending on YouTube one day.
Fake edit : oh hey look at that I just solved the first puzzle that gave me trouble a few hours ago. Onto the next one. Move along nothing to see here but passing frustration and the ever looming fact I'll have to watch the ending on YouTube one day.
I feel so dumb lol. I don't understand at all. Does anyone have a straight up solution?
I mean, I get what you're saying but I don't see how that ends up playing out on the actual board.
bananafactory
Banned
Just finished the desert temple
Anyone know why I suddenly have two save files? One is from 30 mins ago and one is current
Anyone know why I suddenly have two save files? One is from 30 mins ago and one is current
LiquidSword
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Just got a 1 Gb patch on steam
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If someone else doesn't get it to you by time I'm done walking the dog I'll try.
To be more clear you need to create the yellow square and then add in the blue angle and one dot and on the other side of the line create the yellow angle and group up the blue dot and 2 dots.
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ignore what I was saying about creating shapes, it doesn't matter because the blue icons destroy the rule.
the game creates a new save file after you finish a set number of puzzles
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Wrapped up
and
tonight, so that's five down. Still loving it. I have one question on a puzzle I just sort of guessed at though, with the
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tree shadows
the keep
tree shadows
The last one before the gate opens that has you tracing shadows. There's the big loop thing with the broken branch, which I get was supposed to be a closed off path, but was it really just that you trace the path over the little bit where they almost overlap? There was still a gap there.
N30RYU
Member
I'm also stuck there
I guess we must make a movement backward to have 5 tones... like up. up. middle backward. Down. Up or something
Okkk. Thx skynidas for the info.
Remembrance
Member
What does it say about me that I'm enjoying the marsh?
Edit: Just noticed some major perspective trickery. Whoa.
Edit: Just noticed some major perspective trickery. Whoa.
hydrophilic attack
Member
I wish I didn't have work to do so I could start playing this game 
Thanks guys! I noticed that but didn't put two and two together, derp.
Now I'm struggling to get the line to move off the second blade wtf!
Rodney McKay
Member
I'm near the area with the shipwreck, and there's a puzzle I found that I can't quite get to activate (I think it's a secret one)
right in front of the a chair on the edge if a cliff looking out over water (with the shipwreck to the right) there's a perspective puzzle that looks kinda like a wrench. I can get it to sparkle when I select it at the head of it but I can't get it to let me draw the line.
Do I need to find the exact pixel to stand on or am I just not in the right spot? (I'm standing pretty much right next to the chair, maybe a little in front and to the side of it)
Do I need to find the exact pixel to stand on or am I just not in the right spot? (I'm standing pretty much right next to the chair, maybe a little in front and to the side of it)
paperspace
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An update (1GB) was just pushed to Steam. Wonder what it does.
Vigilant Gambit
Member
I would also like to know. I have the DRM-free Humble version, and that hasn't been updated yet. :/
The Illiterati
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3rdamention
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Wow, this game is so much fun.
Started Yesterday with my 11 year old daughter. We played until 9pm, and solved 40 puzzles/panels. It was amazing how quick we picked up on stuff playing together with 2 minds.
Then I started a new game (it keeps your old save) so I could play one on my own without her. She didn't want me to play on our save lol. I breezed through the first 71 puzzles, then I found some new ones and I have no idea how to solve.
These puzzles were straight up grids, no dots, no connected squares, nothing in particular, but just moving straight to the finish line doesn't work.
These other puzzles confusing me had some squares that were connected. I solved the first one, but the second I couldn't figure out. They are on the top of the rock hill after you have to open like 3 gates to get up there. Funny thing is, I dont know what my methodology for solving the first puzzle was, I keep staring at it, looking around for clues. I just dont know what the "trick" is.
I am going to go back in tonight and back track some, see if I missed some building block style puzzles that teach me the "trick" for these. I love this game.
Started Yesterday with my 11 year old daughter. We played until 9pm, and solved 40 puzzles/panels. It was amazing how quick we picked up on stuff playing together with 2 minds.
Then I started a new game (it keeps your old save) so I could play one on my own without her. She didn't want me to play on our save lol. I breezed through the first 71 puzzles, then I found some new ones and I have no idea how to solve.
These puzzles were straight up grids, no dots, no connected squares, nothing in particular, but just moving straight to the finish line doesn't work.
These other puzzles confusing me had some squares that were connected. I solved the first one, but the second I couldn't figure out. They are on the top of the rock hill after you have to open like 3 gates to get up there. Funny thing is, I dont know what my methodology for solving the first puzzle was, I keep staring at it, looking around for clues. I just dont know what the "trick" is.
I am going to go back in tonight and back track some, see if I missed some building block style puzzles that teach me the "trick" for these. I love this game.
paperspace
Member
Multi-monitor is also an option, but not really the one I'm referring to.
I'm just using the overlay.
Vigilant Gambit
Member
Are you sure you finished the
tree shadows
open the left and right sides of the gate with two sets of puzzles. The left side, you have to trace the shadows. The right side, you have to follow the path outlined by the shadows. Essentially, stick to shadows for one set, find the path they're trying to show you for the other.
Thanks! I seriously think they put the puzzles in the wrong order because the "tutorial" ones come after the harder one.
Yes
captscience
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Yeah..I was trying to do that but
the colors of the windows didn't correspond enough to the colors in the elevator to make it seem possible.
The Illiterati
Member
No problem, I personally don't want to answer questions on here because I generally think the solutions are within the game, but for that one, as soon as you finish it, the next puzzle is basically the tutorial. I think they should be reversed.
edit: LOL you edited and said the same thing.
Huckleberry
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Awesome thanks!
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Ahhh, I hate giving out straight up answers but hopefully this makes sense now?
SWAMP SPOILER -
In most cases they connect, and when they do you can put them over any icon even if it doesn't match as long as it's connected to one that does. If you isolate, then the icon needs to match what is covering it.
If I had an endless amount of time, i'd love to create a Tetris video tutorial but I don't. :<
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Yeah yeah, I got the laser and everything, its just the last of the
shadow tracing puzzles
Damn it, desert.
I was feeling all awesome and shit, figuring that stuff out, and blasting one puzzle after another. Now I'm stumped again in
. This game has highs but such lows too. :|
I was feeling all awesome and shit, figuring that stuff out, and blasting one puzzle after another. Now I'm stumped again in
the room with the rising water level. For the life of me I can't see any sort of sun glare on the third panel's reflection no matter where I am. edit: seems I just have to catch it at the perfect time in the perfect spot. Man fuck this. This fucking sucks.
It's there.
For which panel? You can see some
reflections with the water down and some up, and some only while it's in the middle of rising or going down.
Rough estimate. Lots of people using their cell phones and a healthy contingent using P/P. Hardly anyone going at it totally commando.
The game makes me laugh more than I thought it would.
The solutions are almost always so simple.
The game makes me laugh more than I thought it would.
The solutions are almost always so simple.
Some of those are the most borderline puzzles I've come across in the entire game.
331 +27,
areas cleared.
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Damned straight. Also why the desert is killing me, no long tutorial (unless I'm missing it) and I can't figure out what the first damn panel wants me to do. I continue to be baffled.