#THE WITNESS SHAPES HOW TO#
Personally, I hit a point where playing with cut-out shapes was becoming so inefficient that I gave in and started trying to solve them deductively, and I pretty quickly realized it would have been so much easier if I had done that from the start rather than learning how to do it in the more complex middle and late shape puzzles. If instead you start to learn the basic implications of the shape rules, by the time you get to the later puzzles you look at certain patterns and immediately know certain things that have to be true of the solutions. The more you brute force them by just playing with the shapes until something clicks, the more unprepared you are for later shape puzzles until brute forcing them is basically your only option.
Like every other sequence of puzzles, the shape puzzles are arranged in an order that teaches you implications of the rules that allow you to learn to solve them deductively. It makes the early puzzles easy because it's easy to brute force the early puzzles, and it's possible to use them as an aid without just brute forcing, but the temptation to brute force puzzles remains very high long after that becomes an incredibly inefficient strategy. I did that at first and it hurt me a lot in the long run. Looking up puzzle answers will almost universally hurt more than it will help because then you're just stuck trying to understand solutions that were already harder than you were ready for - unless you just look up the rules themselves, and if you just look up an explanation of the rules, why bother even playing? There's actually even an audio recording near the tetris area that tries to gently prod you about the utility of collecting negative evidence like this, talking about how hard it can be to see patterns when you only try to confirm your hypotheses and never try to falsify them. You will probably discover that there are things you expected to fail that don't. They're set up in such a way that there are only a few possible routes, so you can see which ones fail and which don't. Usually it's because the rules are simpler than you think they are. This is the way to solve almost all confusions in the game, and is especially important if you "barely" made it through them. I know this game combines puzzle-types later because it likes you to suffer, haha. You're all way too nice! I've got like a 60% understanding of these things now so we'll see how it goes. But how do you do one when it's in the middle? You can't cover it on 4 sides?Īnd if anyone wants to write out the rules then I would appreciate it.ĮDIT: Thank you for all the help everyone. If the block icons are touching do the shapes have to touch?Ī shape has to be covered on 3 sides if next to a wall to be considered a shape. I swear every time I get one right it's because I just kept trying without understanding and just got lucky.Ĭan you rotate the block shape? Eg, 4 vertical to 4 horizontal?
#THE WITNESS SHAPES TRIAL#
I honestly looked up the last one, and this one I've been trying REALLY hard to get the answer by trial and error. I feel like knowing where they are will help me understand why that solution is correct.Ģ) Why is this solution on the next puzzle not correct? Like, I see that they fit together some how but I don't know where the actual tetris blocks are. So I'm gonna have to beg you all for some help:Ĭould someone tell me which is the actual solution here? I BARELY made it through the first row of tutorials, then when I saw the second row I was like "Oh thank god I need more practice!" I started them and immediately realized "I have no idea what I'm doing". You might see me post here cause I'm working my way through the game.I really have NO CLUE what the rules are for the Tetris type puzzles.
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