Having Puzzle Sight active gives you access to the intuitive puzzle, even if you are Puzzled Out. Instead of giving energy of Puzzled Out, each move uses 10 energy of the Puzzle Sight effect, or 5 if you have the Secrets of the Cube skill. If you have fewer than 10 (or 5) energy of the effect, you make your move and lose all remaining energy.
Box Form
You stare at the puzzle box for a moment and it makes sense. It's like child's play, really, how the box can stay the same while the whole world moves around it.
Option | Message | Effect |
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Twist it into a rod | You look at the cube for a second, then quickly and efficiently turn it into a long spindle. Well, that was easy enough. You twist it experimentally until you hit just the right spot, then it folds down into a strange prism or rod. |
Change to mysterious puzzle rod |
Unfold it into a tablet | ||
Form it into a pyramid | ||
Listen to its song | ||
Release its light | ||
Open the compartment | You quickly identify a small area surrounded by seams and twist the cube to open it. The tiny door opens, revealing a chamber within the cube. You know it leads somewhere else, beyond the cube, but is still somehow contained within. This might bother you normally. Hmmm, you have some things that might fit in the chamber. |
Powder Pouring |
Leave it be |
Rod Form
Whoever designed this puzzle intended the bearer to work against dozens of springs, levers, and resistant metals.
On the bright side, you know better. There are hidden catches everywhere that should make it a ton easier.
Option | Message | Effect |
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Fold it into a | ||
Fan it into a Pyramid | ||
Unroll it into a Tablet | ||
Wind the Bells | ||
Activate the Grinder | Carefully moving a few pieces to the side, you twist the puzzle in several sharp motions. You can hear a loud grinding noise as you twist the puzzle. Maybe something's happening to the powder you put in there. |
Grinds powder if there is something in the chamber |
Separate the segments | ||
Leave it for now |
The Tablet:
Fold it into a pyramid
Return it to a cube
Roll it into a rod
Separate the segments
Switch the doors
Read the tablet
Leave it alone
The Pyramid:
Flatten it into a tablet
Collapse it into a rod
Revert it to a cube
Realign the runes
Open the compartment
Stare into the eye
Leave it
Reading the tablet with puzzle sight gave this message, and gave 10 energy of Runic Puzzle:
You look down at the tablet. You're suddenly aware that the writing is… almost infinite. Some mechanism in the box can rearrange it into thousands of strings of text.
You still can't read it, but spend a while gaping in awe.
Strange how, not counting the leave it option, there's only 5 options for Vholes's box. He should have 6 (since he doesn't have Music of the Cube unlocked) actions. And I should have 7 while I have only 6. Non-unlocked actions not disclosed by puzzle vision or what?
There's a 'dud' move it doesn't seem to list (and the fact that it doesn't list it supports the theory that they are, indeed, dud moves).
- - - Al's Spading Area - - -
Here's a slightly simpler way to look at my data, maybe:
Cube | |||
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Without Puzzle sight | With Puzzle sight | ||
Options -> | …does this | Options-> | …does this |
Rotate the top | Becomes a rod | Twist it into a rod | ? |
Twist the sides | Unlocks Puzzle's Gaze | Unfold it into a tablet | ? |
Swivel a corner | No effect | Fold it into a pyramid | ? |
Pull at a crease | Powder Pouring | Listen to it's song | ** |
Push at the center | Becomes a tablet | release it's light | ? |
Look for another catch | Becomes a pyramid | open the compartment | ? |
Stop and listen | Gain 10 Music of the Cube | leave it for now | ? |
Leave it be | Leave |
Rod | |||
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Without Puzzle sight | With Puzzle sight | ||
Options -> | …does this | Options -> | …does this |
Turn the left side | Becomes a box | fold it into a cube | ? |
Twist around the axis | Becomes a tablet | fan in into a pyramid | ? |
Work on the right edge | No effect | unroll it into a tablet | ? |
Pull at another crease | Unlocks Music of the Cube | wind the bells | ? |
Fold in the middle | Becomes a pyramid | active the grinder | ? |
Search for a latch | Grinds powder | seperate the segments | Black metal stregth (10) |
Pull apart the segments | Gain 10 Black Metal Strength | leave it for now | ? |
Leave it be | Leave |
Tablet | |||
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Without Puzzle sight | With Puzzle sight | ||
Options -> | …does this | Options -> | …does this |
Twist the left side | Becomes a pyramid | Fold into a pyramid | |
Separate the layers | Becomes a rod | Return it to a cube | |
Start from a corner | No effect? | Roll it into a rod | |
Find a crease | Unlocks Black Metal Strength | Spread the segments | |
Fold the corners in | Becomes a box | switch the doors | |
Look for a latch | Switches lock positions | read the tablet | * |
Read the tablet | Gain 10 Runic Puzzle | leave it alone | |
Leave it be | Leave |
Pyramid | |||
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Without Puzzle sight | With Puzzle sight | ||
Options -> | …does this | Options -> | …does this |
Twist the bottom | Becomes a tablet | Flatten it into a tablet | |
Slide the faces | ??? | Collapse it into a rod | |
Rotate the top | Something else | Revert it into a cube | |
Try to open a side | Red Flakes | Realign the runes | *** |
Work on the middle layer | Becomes a rod | Open the compartment | |
Reach for the eye | Becomes a box | Stare into the eye | |
Stare into the eye | Puzzle's gaze | Leave it | |
Leave it be | Leave |
— Becomes a mysterious puzzle tablet
— ??? (unknown effect)
— Becomes a mysterious puzzle rod
— Chamber with red flakes (1/day)
— Becomes a mysterious puzzle rod
— Becomes a mysterious puzzle box
— Gain 10 energy of Puzzle's Gaze (+20% Perception)
— Leave
It's odd there's there's one fewer option under puzzle sight. It's making me think that the useless moves are red herrings. My next plan is to see if anything interesting happens when powder pouring under puzzle sight. The message for eye-drops intrigues me: "You pour the dose of dehydrated eyedrops into the cube. Faintly, you remember watching something like the box shift and open, revealing… something. Maybe it was on television and they went to a commercial break or something. Ah well, whatever." Maybe you'll remember it better if under the right combination of drugs. Maybe another red herring.
*Oooh! Found a new message:
You look down at the tablet. You're suddenly aware that the writing is… malleable. Some mechanism in the box can rearrange it into eighteen, presumably coherent, strings of text.
You still can't read it, but spend a while in awe of the amount of care and planning that must have taken.
Compare that to the one above - I think I'm making progress, though I'm not exactly sure what I did to get that message? I'll have to double check what configuration my box is. (It was in powder pouring position).
I switched the latch on the tablet to change from powder pouring to red flakes… and got the same message the next time. Then release the light, then back to powder pouring
** Release the light:
With a few quick twists, the cube begins to glow from within. The red light highlights the seams in the box's construction, but you can tell that is not its primary function.
The red glow within the cube grows more pronounced.
*** Realign the runes:
Working from the top, you subtly move the pyramid to realign the text on its walls. Doesn't mean much here, but you're sure the tablet will say something different now.
The runes slide into a different configuration. You still can't read them, but they seem pretty interesting.
Still same message after realigning the runes. I suppose I could try realigning/reading the runes up to eighteen times and hopefully one of them will do something different. That would be in line with Kinaks clue too about how "repetition can still lead to wisdom."
Remember, age and repetition lead to wisdom. ;)
Read the tablet while under the effect blood of the ancients to gain the skill Secrets of the Cube.
You can see eighteen ways the text could fit together and somehow they all make sense. A strange feeling of understanding wells up within you.
This entire box is newer than it looks. It's not an ancient relic, it's a testing tool constructed by Midgard Industries.
Now, who it's supposed to test and for what, you don't know. But apparently you passed.