On a whim, after reading your last post, I decided to fire up the game and give it another go.

This was attempt number three (after having not touched the game in about a year). I very nearly ran out of time at the end since the pillars gave me so much trouble. Any "hitches" you might see/hear are me doing the PS4 equivalent of alt-tabbing to the capture gallery, to check out the screenshot I took of the pedestal.

Just watched it. I think you literally had 3 seconds left! Awesome.

Those pillar puzzles are the bane of my existence. I think I spent 4-6 hours on the Challenge, and I finished it on the very last beat of the music. :)

I love this game. So many freaking layers. As an essay on the human condition, it's pretty amazing. And the puzzles are fun, too!

Now... have you found the other other ending?

;)

Oh man... another one? Ugggg.

On a whim, after reading your last post, I decided to fire up the game and give it another go.

This was attempt number three (after having not touched the game in about a year). I very nearly ran out of time at the end since the pillars gave me so much trouble. Any "hitches" you might see/hear are me doing the PS4 equivalent of alt-tabbing to the capture gallery, to check out the screenshot I took of the pedestal.

Even finished before the 1.05 update finished downloading.

GG, Jonathan Blow. I don't understand (or even like) a lot about The Witness, but boy can you design cool puzzles.

Yes, review coming when I have the time to write it. In the next few days.

I love this game. So many freaking layers. As an essay on the human condition, it's pretty amazing. And the puzzles are fun, too!

Now... have you found the other other ending?

;)

This was attempt number three (after having not touched the game in about a year). I very nearly ran out of time at the end since the pillars gave me so much trouble. Any "hitches" you might see/hear are me doing the PS4 equivalent of alt-tabbing to the capture gallery, to check out the screenshot I took of the pedestal.

Even finished before the 1.05 update finished downloading.

GG, Jonathan Blow. I don't understand (or even like) a lot about The Witness, but boy can you design cool puzzles.

All trophies. 100%. Spoilers obviously.

Nice.

The farthest I ever got was the second column puzzle.

I saw you playing online all last night. Any idea how many attempts/hours you spent on it?

A lot of it was just figuring out how to get in. That one color puzzle was pretty tough. Took me maybe four hours from start to finish to work out how to do it, then to execute. Took me a while to figure out the dots on the pedestal represented panels in the maze you had to solve. Also stuck for a little while not realizing that 4 of the six dot puzzles were impossible and that you didn't have to solve them all.

All trophies. 100%. Spoilers obviously.

Nice.

The farthest I ever got was the second column puzzle.

I saw you playing online all last night. Any idea how many attempts/hours you spent on it?

Scratch that; I just thought of how you could find it.

It's still super easy to miss, though.

Just a yes or no will do here:

Does it have to do with the door not quite all the way up to the top of the mountain, that is locked by a puzzle that has 2 blue dots, and 2 orange dots, (both on the line path, not in the squares) and a line that stops before you can finish the puzzle?

No.

That just had a video code behind it.

I think I found what you were talking about…

Scratch that; I just thought of how you could find it.

It's still super easy to miss, though.

It's brilliant in its simplicity.

There is an unlit cable dangling from the bottom side of the cube. It's easy to overlook, but leads you directly to the bottom of the cube and the rest of the line puzzle you have to trace.

Scratch that; I just thought of how you could find it.

It's still super easy to miss, though.

Just a yes or no will do here:

Does it have to do with the door not quite all the way up to the top of the mountain, that is locked by a puzzle that has 2 blue dots, and 2 orange dots, (both on the line path, not in the squares) and a line that stops before you can finish the puzzle?

No.

Scratch that; I just thought of how you could find it.

It's still super easy to miss, though.

Just a yes or no will do here:

Does it have to do with the door not quite all the way up to the top of the mountain, that is locked by a puzzle that has 2 blue dots, and 2 orange dots, (both on the line path, not in the squares) and a line that stops before you can finish the puzzle?

I wondered about that when he answered you initially. I don't know that it's obvious at all. In fact, if I correctly remember how you get to it, it's actually pretty devious.

Too bad my game started over turning everything off or I might look for it.

The game creates a new save file when you finish (I think). You should be able to access your last save before finishing by hitting "load game" at the main menu.

Yes you are right thankfully.

There is also a major problem with the spoilers tag on here. It does not cover up text in my reply box. I almost saw what you wrote. I'm not sure if there is anything that can be done about that though.

I don't really know if what I wrote was a spoiler, since as far as I know there's nothing in the game world that points you towards "it". It's the sort of thing that you would only find if you spent a lot of time wandering around the world and happened across by chance- and I don't mean like the other puzzles you mentioned in this thread, since those are littered all over the place and most everyone stumbles upon at least one in their playthrough.

I only know about "it" because I was talking about the game with a friend and he pointed me towards it the same way I did in my spoiler tag.

Which is dumb, but there are other things about the witness I think are dumb, so hey.

Scratch that; I just thought of how you could find it.

It's still super easy to miss, though.

I wondered about that when he answered you initially. I don't know that it's obvious at all. In fact, if I correctly remember how you get to it, it's actually pretty devious.

Too bad my game started over turning everything off or I might look for it.

The game creates a new save file when you finish (I think). You should be able to access your last save before finishing by hitting "load game" at the main menu.

Yes you are right thankfully.

There is also a major problem with the spoilers tag on here. It does not cover up text in my reply box. I almost saw what you wrote. I'm not sure if there is anything that can be done about that though.

I wondered about that when he answered you initially. I don't know that it's obvious at all. In fact, if I correctly remember how you get to it, it's actually pretty devious.

Too bad my game started over turning everything off or I might look for it.

The game creates a new save file when you finish (I think). You should be able to access your last save before finishing by hitting "load game" at the main menu.

I never meant that finding the challenge was obvious, only that it would be obvious when you encountered it.

Re-solving the puzzle on the cube at the top of the mountain (with all the lasers activated) is how you start heading towards it.

I wondered about that when he answered you initially. I don't know that it's obvious at all. In fact, if I correctly remember how you get to it, it's actually pretty devious.

Too bad my game started over turning everything off or I might look for it.

Let us know if you beat THE challenge.

I don't know what you are talking about. Will it be obvious when I get there?

Yes.

There's a trophy for it.

I never beat it.

It wasn't obvious. I finished (or what seems like finished) the game, and I am missing a trophy.