First you need to know how the thing works. The skulls at the bottom are what you will use for your
attempts. Each time you turn a skull, it changes to the next color, until it comes back to blue. The
lever to the left of the puzzle is there to test your current layout of the colors and see if it is
correct or not. So each time you pull the lever, what you attempted will be added to the top left of
the puzzle and you may or may not get Black and White light next to it.
These lights are there to give you information about that specific attempt. A Black light means that one
of the colors you entered is CORRECT and is IN THE RIGHT POSITION. A White light means that one of the
colors you entered is CORRECT but is not in the right position. The position of the light has no relation
to the positon of the colors (Example: A black light in the first sphere does not mean the first color
you entered is correct. Didn't think it would be that easy did you ?
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The colors of the puzzle are, in order, blue-green-orange-purple-red-yellow.
This is the way I have learned how to solve it:
First step (Finding the four colors of the solution and which one will be in the 4th position)
- Set the skulls to blue-blue-blue and leave the last one blank. Pull
- Repeat step one with the other colors OR until you have 4 white/black lights. Once you have
4 accumulated lights (not 4 in one attempt) it means you have all the colors of the solution.
You also do not need to go all the way to yellow. If you went up to red and you don't have 4
lights, it means the remaining colors will be yellow.
- This takes 5 attempts max.
- Remember what the black and white lights mean? Wonder why you leave the last one blank all
the time? This is to find the last color of the solution. If you get a white light on one
attempt, it means one of the colors (which are all the same) is correct but not in the right
spot. With the last one left blank, it means that the color that triggered the white light
will be in the last unused spot.
- Let's assume you had 2 black lights on blue, 1 white on orange and no other black light up to
red. Which means the last black would be at yellow, remember? So your 4 colors are
Unknown position: blue, blue, yellow
Known 4th positon: Orange
Second step (Finding the 1st position's color)
- Even if we now know the 4th position, you want to leave that last skull blank still.
- Change the 2nd and 3rd skull to a color that you know is not in the solution. In this case,
red would work.
- Test the first positon with each color that triggered a black light. In this case, blue and
yellow. If you had more colors you would try more times. Again here, you do not have to try
them all, because you can extrapolate the last color. (Ex: You only need to test 2 colors if
you have 3 left total because if the first 2 are negative the last one will be positive)
- Do this until you get a black light, which means that color is the 1st position. Why? Because
the 2nd and 3rd colors cannot trigger anything, because they are not in the solution and the
last one cannot either, because it is blank.
- So with the colors we had, you would try blue. Blue gave you a white? Then that leaves yellow!
- We now know that the 1st is yellow and the 4th is orange.
Third and last step (feeling lucky punk?)
- Well...in this situation you don't really have to be lucky because you have 2 blue left so the
solution is Yellow-Blue-Blue-Orange yay! If you had two different colors though, well it's 50/50.
For example if you would have had blue and green left it would have been either
yellow-blue-green-orange
yellow-green-blue-orange.
Since I suck at explaining things, let's do another one step by step as if you had to solve it to make
sure you understand how this works
Solution: Green-Red-Orange-Yellow (You won't have that in game, but this will help understanding)
Step one
- blue-blue-blue-blank (0 white/0 black)
- green-green-green-blank (0 white/1 black) Found one of the colors of the solution
- orange-orange-orange-blank (0 white/1 black) Found another color of the solution
- purple-purple-purple-blank (0 white/0 black)
- red-red-red-blank (0 white/1 black) Found another color of the solution
We only have 3 blacks and we are up to red, which means we will have a yellow and that it
would have triggered a white light. That means yellow will be the 4th position of the solution.
Step two
- green-purple-purple-blank. Because green was the first found color of the solution and that
purple isn't in the solution. (0 white/1 black) We found that green is the 1st position.
Step three
- Green-Orange-Red-Yellow. (2 white/2 black) Ah it's the other way around then!
- Green-Red-Orange-Yellow. (4 black) Solved in 8 attempts!
This method will always solve the puzzle in less than 10 attempts, so if you do it correctly, you cannot
fail because you don't have enough attempts.
You can practice with this trainer to get better!
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