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This guide will feature the solutions for each and every puzzle in The Witness. Since the game does feature a pretty complex amount of puzzles, we will be including several images for the solutions to help guide you along the way. Also, since the main point of this game is to solve the puzzles, we suggest trying to complete them on your own before looking at this guide. Otherwise you risk spoiling the entire experience.
Also, since there isn't any real way to check your progression, and there isn't a "set way" to do things, our guide may feature sections in a different order than you played them in. Don't stress out. The most important part of this game is solving the puzzles. The order doesn't always matter.
Some Things to Know Before You Get Started
- Don't bash your head against the wall. If you're stuck and you just can't figure something out, walk away. Take a breather and play with your dog or cat to ease your frustrations. We promise the puzzles aren't going anywhere.
- Feel like you're moving slow? Sprint using SHIFT/L2/LEFT TRIGGER.
- Paying attention to your surroundings is extremely important in The Witness as the background behind puzzles can hold the solution you're looking for.
- This isn't an FPS game centered around mindless running and gunning. Take time to try to think about things before simply attempting to make quick answers. Sometimes taking a few seconds to think things through can save you a lot of headache.
- If you can't figure out where to go next, just look around for wires leading to something. Many of these puzzles connect with each other, so you'll always want to be aware of what connections your solutions are making.
Also... It should go without saying, but SPOILERS AHEAD.
Area 1: The Garden, The Ramparts, and the Chamber Hidden in the Tower
Upon loading into the game for the first time you'll find yourself staring at a door at the end of a long tunnel. Head down the tunnel and solve the puzzle on the door to get the hang of the mechanics. It's a super simple puzzle, so don't worry about getting frustrated just yet.
Once you've solved the first puzzle, head out the tunnel to encounter a second door with a puzzle. Solve this simple puzzle to unlock the first area of the game, the Garden.
Once you climb the stairs from the second door, head straight in front of you to the panel at the end of the gravel path. Solve this puzzle and it should light up the black cable running from the panel.
Follow the cable to find another panel. Solve it and continue the process.
Once you solve this third puzzle in the tower, follow the cable to a large laser-like gate with a puzzle to the right of it. The puzzle is blocked off by three panels, one of which you've just removed.
From here you need to follow the other two cables to the corresponding panels and activate them. First follow the cable that leads back towards the area where you first entered. You'll need to head around the wall to the right of the door, where you should spot the entrance to one of the Garden's four towers. Head inside to find the puzzle. You should notice two cables running from it. Make a mental note of that, you'll need to remember it in a second.
With this puzzle solved, and the panel removed from the gate lock, head back to the gate and follow the third and final cable to the tower directly opposite of the one you just explored.
Once this puzzle has been solved the gate to the Garden will open.
But wait. Don't go running off just yet. Instead, turn around and head back to the puzzle with two cables running from it and solve it using the method listed below.
Once you've realigned the power from the puzzle above, head out the gate and down the path. As you walk keep an eye out for a large opening between a rock and a bush to your left. When you spot it, head up the grassy knoll and follow the wall around to find a break in the ramparts. Now climb onto the top of the wall and turn left, following it around until you reach a dead end with this audio log located across from it.
With the first audio log in your collection, turn around and follow the wall around, past the break in the ramparts until you pass through the tower where you realigned the power. You should spot a pathway to the left just outside the tower that leads to a flat rooftop with a set of pillows near one edge. You can snag the second audio log of the game from this location.
Once you have both the audio logs, climb down from the wall using the crumbled section and turn left, following the walls in a counterclockwise motion until you pass through an open gate. If for some reason the gate isn't open, head back into the Garden and realign the power on the puzzle with two cables. You should know the one I'm talking about by now.
Continue through the gate and around the walls until you run into an elegant wooden door with a puzzle on it.
With the puzzle solved, head inside the small chamber to find a third audio log resting on the ground at the base of the tree.
There is also a fun little puzzle on the ground in this chamber, but solving it isn't a huge priority.
With the area explored, turn and locate the unopened door with a puzzle on it.
Once you've solved the puzzle, head outside to find yourself back on the path leading out of the Garden.
Area 2: Blue and Green Panels, the Bunker, and the Pink Orchard Puzzles
Now continue down the path, ignoring the bunker door on the left, until you spot a group of blue panels in an empty field.
These are tutorial style panels that will teach you new ways to solve puzzles, so you'll want to give them a try.
Hint: Seperate the black and white squares.
We've included the solutions just in case you need a little help.
With the blue panels solved, turn around and locate the entrance to the broken down building directly across the path from the blue panels. Head inside to find a series of green panels with more tutorial puzzles.
Hint: Use the line to cover all the hexagons.
We've included the solutions just in case you need a little help.
Once you've completed the green panels it's time to finish up this little section and put your newly earned knowledge to the test. Head back up the path towards the Garden, this time turning down the path that leads to the door to the bunker. Solve the puzzle on the door using the tricks you just learned.
Once inside the bunker you'll find a large box. Open it using the simple puzzle on the backside, and then memorize the image you find inside. We suggest taking a screenshot so you don't forget.
Now head out the bunker and back down the path to the blue panels. Ignore them this time around and continue straight off the path and up to the pink orchard of trees on the hill. You'll find a new puzzle here, which will begin a new series of puzzles.
Obviously you should be getting the hang of following the wires and things by now, so we won't be pointing that out as much anymore.
Hint: Look at where the apple is located on the tree.
Once you complete the puzzle, head on to the next.
Now head to the next panel and solve it too.
Things change up a little bit with this next puzzle.
Hint: Look at where the branch is broken.
Now follow the cable and solve the next panel.
With the last panel solved, turn around and follow the cable to an opened gate that leads to a neat little painter's area and this stunning view of the upcoming areas.
Area 3: COMING SOON
This guide is a work in progress. We will be adding new content to it as we complete the puzzles. Check back regularly for new updates and solutions.
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