In The Witness, are there puzzles that DON'T do anything?
Inspired by a recently popular Witness streaming I decided to do the game myself. I completed most of the puzzles without help, but I was surprised that there were some puzzles in the game that seemed not to do anything.
- The room with coloured light puzzles in the town centre (I'm talking about the puzzles themselves)
- The triangle puzzles scattered throughout the island (could be just a tutorial though)
- One puzzle on the second floor of the quarry
- And I think there were some others too that were just... dead ends. They were the final puzzles in a series, but didn't contribute anything to progressing the game. But they were also obviously not just tutorials.
Oh, and I don't mean the ones in the hidden area before the Music Box Challenge. Those are obviously there for the sheer fun of it.
So... do these puzzles have any actual meaning (as in, unlocking/moving something), or are they just there for fun?
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Do witnesses have impossible puzzles?
There are no impossible puzzles in the challenge except for the black/white and colored square panels where 2 of 3 are always impossible in each run.How do puzzles work in The Witness?
Puzzles in The Witness revolve around a simple, line-drawing mechanic, where you must draw the correct path from a circular starting point to a rounded end point. Every puzzle in The Witness is driven by this basic and intuitive mechanism. It's easy to think of puzzles in The Witness as mazes.How hard are the puzzles in The Witness?
It's a little difficult to parse, but according to Demaine The Witness' puzzles - at least the ones featuring "antibodies," which I'll get to in a minute - are planted firmly in the middle of the three, existing as "a level up from the usual NP-completeness, while being far below PSPACE-completeness common to puzzles ...Are witnesses just puzzles?
2016's The Witness is kind of like an open-world puzzle game. In it, you're essentially asked to constantly solve the same 2D maze-style puzzle over and over, but depending on where you find it in the game's open world, there are different rules for solving it.Solving Hundreds of Puzzles on a Gorgeous Island - The Witness!
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