Witness broken puzzle !?!?

Moonpie2 · 12 Feb 2016 at 06:30

OK, probably not broken, but I don't understand what rule I'm missing.
Can anyone tell me why my solution to the grey door/bunker puzzle is not accepted??

I have covered all the dots and have split all the white/black tiles.

Cheers !!

Kenai · 12 Feb 2016 at 06:35

No idea what this is but I see big grey dots too, like the big white one at the end of your line, does your line not need to start and finish on these big dots?

You also seem to have split two black dots in the bottom right

Moonpie2 · 12 Feb 2016 at 06:43

Big grey dots are start points.

I've actually seen the solution on-line and as far as I can tell, although the guy took a slightly different route, he did the same as me (even not splitting the 2 blacks in the bottom right doesn't work for me)

So I don't want to finish the puzzle until I understand the rule

Moonpie2 · 12 Feb 2016 at 06:51

AHHHHH !!!!

I got it

The line I draw is not just about splitting the white/black tiles, but also separating them from the ENTIRE puzzle.
So as you can see, I have 6 whites in the central area, but also 1 black. I need to make only whites in the middle.

Hmmm....... the game didn't really do a very good job of explaining this during the black/white tile tutorial

bazzabear · 12 Feb 2016 at 08:55

I was going to say - you haven't split the whites and blacks, you have several which have no line between them.

I assume, as you say, the instructions weren't clear and you thought you just ahd to split individual pairs, rather than the entire pool.

Dano · 12 Feb 2016 at 10:45

Heh, broken puzzle in the witness, I too have made that comment a few times

Moonpie2 · 13 Feb 2016 at 01:38

The biggest problem I have with hard puzzles is that I don't know if they're just hard and need figuring out, or if I just haven't learned a particular mechanic yet and I need to come back to then later.

Other than that, fun game. :-)

darrenjr · 29 Feb 2016 at 18:44

Started this today, already hooked...

Wrathamon · 29 Feb 2016 at 22:33

I've enjoyed watching The Witness being played on Twitch, but still not yet made the decision to buy it myself.

I'm really tempted to grab the PC version but still waiting to see if it comes out on the Xbox One

Moonpie2 · 1 Mar 2016 at 02:43

I'm still playing it on and off.

I can't play too much or I start to get that well documented effect (there's a website dedicated to this) of seeing Witness Puzzles in real life, so I have to take a few days off.