Puzzle solutions explained

[Rineux]

So, I've encountered two puzzles in the game that I didn't manage to figure out by myself, where I had to look up the solution. I did pass those sequences, but I'm really curious to how we're meant to figure them out.

First one is the one with the four wooden tags. The hint says to compare them to the note, and while I do recognize elements of the signs on the note, I can't read it of course. What's the approach to the solution here?

Second one is the final puzzle with all the little blue and white pieces. The hint is about the Chinese letter with a 3 marked on it, plus the little paper drawing of the tiles, but I have no idea how to figure out a solution here.

Very curious about this!

[Adelaide]

OK. Let’s start with the first puzzle you said. The symbols on the wooden boards are actually strokes of regular Chinese characters. Or we can call it traditional Chinese character. You can only use these tags in the exhibition hall 2 The bigger one north of the SAVE. There are four wooden pillars on the wall of exhibition 2. You should insert the board into the pillars in the correct order. The symbols on the boards form two characters “開門”. It means “open the door”. Board 1 3 2 are on the wall facing the door. And board 4 is on the wall where the door is.
I’m not sure whether I gave away too much information. I’m sorry if it affected your gaming experience. Hope that may help you. By the way, let me know if you want to figure out the second puzzle you mentioned.

[Rineux]

This is great, thank you so much!
I was pretty sure the reason I got stuck there was because of language, so I'm super intrigued to hear the proper solutions. I've already finished the game because I had to look up how to progress, so you're really only positively affecting my gaming experience :D

Would love to hear the explanation to the other puzzle!

[Adelaide]

Another puzzle is also a word game which is related to the Chinese characters. We have three pieces of paper for this puzzle: first one has two password on it, the second one has a Chinese poem on it and the last one has drawn many of Chinese porcelain with different patterns on it. Both the second one and the last one are marked number 3, and you should remember the position of number 3. Let’s back to the first paper that has two password. The password for today is ”千龍懸境”，and the sequence of boards representing yesterday’s password has been given. Then we can see the password for yesterday is ”人火千尺”，the third character is the same as today’s first one. So we just need take out the third board which has been given in front of us, and insert it into the first empty slot.
After that, we should turn to the second paper. From the position of the marked character”人”, we can conclude that we should counting from right to left, from top to bottom. The following are the matches between numbers and characters.
千-15 龍-23懸-11境-6
The last and most important, check the third piece of paper. We can infer that in the same way: these blue and white patterns should be counted from left to right, from bottom to top. Then we should count the number 23, 11, 6 one by one to find out the rest three boards with correct patterns.
That’s all about the puzzle. :)
In my opinion, you were stuck here for a reason——cultural difference. It’s difficult for you to recognize Chinese character. And you have no idea that the ancient Chinese writing order was from right to left from top to bottom. Just like the second paper which has a Chinese poem. Actually, the marked character and number is one of the ancient Chinese methods of conveying secret information. It is about encoding and decoding. For me, It’s too difficult for me to express the explanation in English correctly. I must have some mistakes in tenses or grammar. Hope you can understand my explanation!

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[Rineux]

Hey, I completely forgot to thank you for explaining this so thoroughly. Your explanations are extremely helpful, and I don't feel so bad now for looking up the solution :D You're right, without a grasp of Chinese this is super hard to solve. So thanks for explaining, I find it super interesting, and I will play again, have your post ready and try to figure it out the way you explained it so nicely.

[Adelaide]

Originally posted by Rineux:

Hey, I completely forgot to thank you for explaining this so thoroughly. Your explanations are extremely helpful, and I don't feel so bad now for looking up the solution :D You're right, without a grasp of Chinese this is super hard to solve. So thanks for explaining, I find it super interesting, and I will play again, have your post ready and try to figure it out the way you explained it so nicely.

Never mind. The trailer for the second chapter of the game is coming soon. If you are interested in this game, why don't you wait for the second chapter? This game's production team said in sina micro blog that the release date will be announced in May.

[Rineux]

Will definitely keep an eye open for it!