The Witness (puzzle game)

I would strongly, and I mean very strongly, recommend Chronos not ask for hints on this one unless he has agonized over it for a few days. It’s a pretty famous puzzle in the game for a reason.

I mean, unless it’s tricking me, I can tell how to solve it (well, to within a few details to be determined). I’ve seen all of those elements before, in puzzles I’ve solved. Now it’s just a matter of putting the pieces together and systematically figuring out where to put the path to make that happen.

What’s the harder one? My recollection was that the shipwreck puzzle was by far the hardest.

For inside-the-box thinking, the desert-shore one was pretty hard, too.

Some of the outside-the-box puzzles were arguably harder, but I’m not sure how meaningful it is to rate the difficulty of outside-the-box puzzles.

I think it has been discussed in this thread. Here is a picture of it. I can see how the other one is harder in many ways, but this one had my wife and I discussing and poring over it for a long time.

Cool, let us know. This one bothered quite a few people. I think it was the most notorious puzzle in online discussions at the time of release.

Hmm. Chronos, don’t unspoil this:

I said don’t unspoil this!

Summary

While that was another puzzle where I took some time offline to ponder, I found it relatively easy (still on the hard side). Then again, I’m pretty good with colors, color theory, etc., and much less good with sound. Perhaps Chronos will do better with the ship puzzle due to his musical background (tuba playing).

I got that the ship puzzle was sound-based. But I just didn’t get the long sequence. I’d actually considered the horn/creaking sounds as a possibility but I just didn’t wait long enough.

Also, for whatever reason I didn’t get the starting note of the short sequence right. My brain just didn’t want to hear it that way. I did use a spectrogram app but even at that, the gap for resetting the sequence wasn’t particularly long.

Basically agree with this.

Both are great, but my wife and I call the multicolor puzzle the “final puzzle” of Witness. I dunno, we just spent a ton of time talking about it and we failed quite a few times before getting a full solution and it worked.

The other one? I won’t get into it now. Solved it, though.

Upon further reflection (or at least a shabby excuse for it), who else but you would sabotage your dreams? :slight_smile: However, if your ultimate goal is to be free of the endless cycle of death and rebirth, maybe it is in another sense ultimately not sabotage if it speeds you to achieving enlightenment…

Huh I don’t recall having much trouble with the multi colour problem.

Harder for me was the sound-based puzzle on the ship, because I struggled with all the audio puzzles. Either my sound setup is sub-optimal, or my ears are.

Hide that in a spoiler!

Don’t worry, I already knew that, because it was implied by the spots of different sizes, that had only showed up in other puzzles of that sort.

But I spoilered it anyway in case anyone else is reading this thread without having gotten that far. One could easily discover that puzzle before the part where you learn to understand it.

neverm

Have you solved it? Don’t give up!

I’m not sure that we have any well-defined spoiling rules here, but I try to avoid any actual puzzle hints. And while for most puzzles their basic nature is obvious enough not to require a spoiler, for the ship one

the fact that it’s sound based is tricky enough that I think it demands one. Even if you had encountered the sound puzzles before, someone might not make the connection immediately since it’s in a different area.

And I do agree that

many of the sound puzzles were somewhat difficult. I used a spectrogram app on my phone to help, though even then I had to brute force one or two (after I had narrowed things down a bit).

Understood.
I didn’t initially think of it as a spoiler because To me I guessed quite quickly that the sounds were the key, but it’s also true that I had been to the sound part of the island already.. So I get it.

I haven’t even made an attempt at it yet. Once I do, I don’t anticipate it taking long.

Cool, let us know.