Playing this game for hours on end is just not an option that’s on the table as it will fry your brain and make you question absolutely everything in your life. In fact, The Witness, in my opinion, is best taken frequent breaks from. Figuring out a puzzle, no matter if it takes one minute or one hour, is an excellent feeling – but your reward is typically an even more insane puzzle. If you search for “witness puzzle explanation” on any medium, and read the comments, you rarely find self-deprecating sentiment, “oh, how did I overlook this obvious clue!? I’m so dumb!” It’s more typically along the lines of “this is ridiculous, I would never figured this out!” and I can attest that the latter is how I feel 100% of the time when I’m forced to cheat.
While the puzzles have a wide range of difficulty, there are some that are deviously complex. Some of the puzzles can really test your patience and it can turn The Witness into a Hair-Pulling Simulator. One of the most gratifying moments of playing The Witness is, as you may imagine, solving a puzzle – but especially once you’ve spent minutes or hours staring at it. A seemingly unsolvable puzzle may require juuuust the right positioning before it all becomes clear. You can activate and solve most puzzles from different angles (in other words, not standing directly in front of it), and this is a requirement plenty of times and you’ll need to adjust the perspective so that solution reveals itself to you. In another region you must use your senses to draw connections and similarities between objects within the puzzle, and objects in the surrounding environment. Another where it relies on seeing the puzzle in the correct way using shadows cast on to the panel. There is a region where all the rules involve symmetry. The different regions on the island have different themes, in appearance but also in the aforementioned puzzle rules. Figuring out the rule is the first puzzle, solving it with the rule is the second. “What am I supposed to do with this?” would be a normal thing to say aloud.
#The witness puzzle rules how to#
You’d probably stare at it blankly for a while, because the rules were never explained to you.Įven when you “learn” how to play, you’ll still look at puzzles with complete confusion. If you had never heard of or seen Picross or Sudoku puzzles, and you were shown a board, would you know what was happening? It would just look like a bunch of numbers around a square. And this is where The Witness is different than your typical puzzler. The rules and ideas behind each area build from there – figuring out what the puzzle wants you to do, and then doing it, are the two parts to each solution. Once they understand that, they have to apply those rules to solve each panel. The way The Witness transfers knowledge of the rules to the player is by starting them off with an easy puzzle and leaving it up to them to interpret what the game wants them to do. The puzzles range from fairly simple to incredibly complex, but the hardest part is constant: figuring out what is the key not necessarily unlocking the door.
Something visual (or audible, for that matter) may be the key to understanding how to solve it. When you have trouble solving a puzzle, rather than pulling out your hair (however tempting it may be), your best bet might be to (literally) take a step back from the puzzle, and look around.
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