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The Witness |OT|
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Early in the swamp, can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong here
it definitely looks like it should be right.
Not sure if this has been mentioned or not yet but my fiancee noticed this while i was playing. It's something that took me a minute to see. Turn your head 90 degrees to the left if you need to.
Potential spoilers if you don't want to see the environment but has nothing to do with a puzzle.
Potential spoilers if you don't want to see the environment but has nothing to do with a puzzle.
The Illiterati
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That doesn't work at all. You can't rotate those and they can't overlap.
FUCK. There's another cool one
while on the boat near the first boat shed thing you go in. There is a statue of a girl on the water and her hair is super long when looking at it from certain angles
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Sum the shapes, don't overlap them. The contained space has to have as many squares as the component pieces
Too much overlap.^^^
Almost reminds me of Descent.
While not widespread it's definitely happening to quite a few people. Way more than any other recent game as far as I can tell.
Almost reminds me of Descent.
I think I get that first one but I still don't understand the second one even looking at the solution -.-
Your middle section is one line to high.
Edit nm there's more problems with. If you want the answer let me know.
UpDownLeftRight
Banned
Any ideas what the puzzles in the
want from me? I'm getting kind of annoyed by being pushed back a block in what's essentially the tutorial each time I fail. It doesn't usually bother me but during the learning stage makes no sense.
Edit: Nevermind, holy shit!
jungle
Edit: Nevermind, holy shit!
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Nope that's not it
The Illiterati
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Yeah I noticed,just glanced at it.
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The blue squares cancel out the yellow ones. Because a yellow square is made up for 4 yellow blocks, you need to group them with 4 blue dots. Once they are group, you cancel out the need to create the 4 square block using your line tool. In this case, the line tool is used to seperate the two yellow shapes with enough blue squares to cancel out the rule.
Goldrusher
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Town laser activated.
So many cool puzzles to get that thing going.
So many cool puzzles to get that thing going.
TheSlySoul
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Just beat the
and it was interesting. Three more areas left...
greenhouse/bunker
Rodney McKay
Member
Am I standing in the wrong place to get this puzzle to activate?
Secret(?) Puzzle:
I can get it to
Secret(?) Puzzle:
I can get it to
sparkle a little but it wont let me draw it yet. The other ones I've found like this haven't been this hard to trigger, so I'm wondering if I'm not in the right area or something.
paperspace
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I downloaded the update and it is fixed! It is so awesome to see this game with proper shadows now. I can now see my own silhouette!
right, I get that. But then what makes that solution correct as opposed to say, literally any random line you put on the board?
fake edit: oh my god I finally understand. I didn't realize that
the blue square only had to be in the same section as a yellow square to count it out. I thought it was more specific than that and I needed to pay attention to how many extra spaces were in whatever shape was created to get them together too. But once it's canceled out it's irrelevant how many spaces are in the shape. Good lord my brain hurts.
Shrike Alvaron
Member
Change that to a link, also you'll want to spoiler tag any talk of such secrets. Unfortunately I'm at work which blocks Steam links anyway so not many tips to give you.
Whenever (general game hint)
an exception appears it means they are trying to teach you something new.
Thanks for the tip, but still nada.
unless this game has caused me to forget how to count, there seems to be 10 pieces needed and I have ten in the contained space?
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The major rule for yellow blocks is you need to outline the tetrimino. The blue blocks can cancel out the yellow blocks, which cancels out the rule that you need to draw them. To do that, you group the right amount of blue blocks with a yellow shape. Once done, think of it as turning the puzzle into the white/black square puzzles you learn in the beginning because the yellow tetrimino rule has been removed.
I'm sure i've made it more confusing. These puzzles are impossible for me to describe but I understand them. :>
I need an answer for this too. I literally cannot comprehend how it is possible.
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
Ok guys, please help. I'm done pushing around paper cutouts of these shapes and I just want the answer:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/k6u73dptrr5wr7r/File Jan 27, 10 29 52 PM.jpeg?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/k6u73dptrr5wr7r/File Jan 27, 10 29 52 PM.jpeg?dl=0
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Tetris.
It's not about the amount of squares, it's about the shapes and finding a way to outline them.
FrontierWhiskey
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Not a huge deal but I noticed that The Witness has no issues switching back and forth from KB/M and controller -- that could be a fun way to play it with someone couch co-op style
Anyhow this game. So good!
Anyhow this game. So good!
Rodney McKay
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Whoops, sorry about that, it's fixed now. Didn't know that image spoilers didn't work on mobile.
Shrike Alvaron
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Oh my god I was stuck on this one for ages and when I finally got it... I really don't like giving out solutions but here's a strong hint:
Try to visualize all the shapes together. Don't worry about individual shapes too much, just pretend you're playing Tetris and aim to fill in the grid with them as compactly as possible. Then, you just need to be concerned with putting a line around that large mass. You could also try adding up all the squares from Tetris shapes and compare that to how many squares are in the grid to get an idea of what sort of line you're going for.
Oh no, you helped a ton. I really appreciate it! It's just so hard to comprehend some things when there are so many layers of rules that go into to making it work. Misunderstanding even the smallest thing makes all of your assumptions off
Shrike Alvaron
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You can't change the shapes that are shown. That's not a square, that's two discrete 1x2 blocks that are two blocks apart.
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
I am doing that, I'm using real cutouts to try and fit them together but can't even do that. I just need a solution at this point, I get what they want from me.
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Check the spacing of the bottom shape
Don't believe I've come across that one yet, but I'm hearing things now.
Shrike Alvaron
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Trust me, you're going to be facepalming so hard if you look at the solution. I urge you not to, but if you must:
http://imgur.com/EFN1zsQ Red line is what you should follow, yellow lines just show the arrangement of shapes. Yeah...
orthodoxy1095
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I keep reading people's explanations and tips for the tetris stuff, but they still seem like bull to me. Only stuff that I can't actually wrap my head around.
Shit, that makes it even more confusing. How does that even fit on the screen then?
Thank you, finally made it past this one. Feel like I'm finally starting to get it.
Solves the next one immediately
And the one after!!