Among Us- How to solve Alien Gene puzzle?

[der.dida83]

I never used a walkthrough for any puzzle in this game, because they are always expertly designed, so you can figure out everything yourself... but in the latest DLC I really didn't get how to solve the Alien Gene puzzle...

So you get only the following conditions (right?):

1. Each child must have at least one trait of each parent
2. Each alien must be genetically unique

I got a lot of "correct" combinations based on these 2 points, but they always were unsucessful... so either I misunderstood something or it is incorrectly explained?

How are you supposed to figure this out....


Additionally, this puzzle wasn't really implemented in a good way, it is very tedious to pick up each alien individually, to place it one by one and then they turn around, so you can't distinguish the 3 features at one glance (color, antenna, eyes)... I dunno, I always praise this game and the DLCs for their puzzles, but this puzzle sucked.

[mac]

Hi derdida!

The puzzle has only one possible solution. Each Slug has to be unique. You have to start with the static ones and work from that. If parents are red and blue, the child has to be either red or blue. And now use that logic on all traits and remember, no two can be alike.

I understand that the wording on the puzzle is a bit confusing, but we tried to make it as clear as possible.

Hope this helps and if you still have issues with the puzzle, write so again.

Good luck!

[der.dida83]

Hi mac, cool that a Dev looks into this forum, I'm astonished again and again with your game how you still come up with fresh puzzles, since there are so many Escape the room titles out there.... you would think that it has become impossible to come up with new ideas in that genre...

Oh, I think I get my misunderstanding, I thought it meant that each child has to have at least one trait from each parent... but what I didn't get is that traits that parents don't have the children also can't have, so if e.g. no cone is triangular of an parent, the child can't have a triangluar cone.... kinda "logical", come to think about it.

But what I don't still get is the genetically unique part, since every specimen is unique, what would be an example then for 2 aliens being not genetically unique?

[CAJ-Chaz]

Originally posted by mac:

Hi derdida!

The puzzle has only one possible solution. Each Slug has to be unique. You have to start with the static ones and work from that. If parents are red and blue, the child has to be either red or blue. And now use that logic on all traits and remember, no two can be alike.

I understand that the wording on the puzzle is a bit confusing, but we tried to make it as clear as possible.

Hope this helps and if you still have issues with the puzzle, write so again.

Good luck!

Yeah i still don't get it. and didn't get it. I spent 3 days on this puzzle trying to work this out even on paper and still couldn't get it. i gave its due diligence but in the end had to google it. The one and only puzzle ive had to do that with.

[der.dida83]

Actually I did understand now what the misunderstanding was on my side. It's not given as criteria but kind of logical that children cannot have traits that neither parent has .

Though I don't get what that had to do with each slug has to be genetically unique but that rule eliminates a lot of combinations.

[11clock]

You don’t need to worry about the genetically unique part, since all of the specimens given to you are unique anyways.

It’s not a particularly difficult puzzle. Each child just has to only have traits that could be inherited directly from their parents. The wording makes it sound more confusing than it actually is.

[BenieTheDragon]

I'd like to chirp in by saying I'm too am trying to solve this.
I THINK I understand (going by what the dev said).. but the problem for the second row is none of the Green slugs match the parents. There's one with the wrong antenna and one with the wrong eye shape.
Only one Red slug matches. The second one does not.

[mac]

Originally posted by der.dida83:

Actually I did understand now what the misunderstanding was on my side. It's not given as criteria but kind of logical that children cannot have traits that neither parent has .

Though I don't get what that had to do with each slug has to be genetically unique but that rule eliminates a lot of combinations.

I guess the wording there is abundant. We can remove the "genetically unique" part and the puzzle would stay the same because all the slugs are different.

Originally posted by BenieTheDragon:

I'd like to chirp in by saying I'm too am trying to solve this.
I THINK I understand (going by what the dev said).. but the problem for the second row is none of the Green slugs match the parents. There's one with the wrong antenna and one with the wrong eye shape.
Only one Red slug matches. The second one does not.

Maybe you didn't find all the aliens? Did you open the box and the wardrobe containing more specimens?

[Daft]

Originally posted by mac:

Hi derdida!

The puzzle has only one possible solution. Each Slug has to be unique. You have to start with the static ones and work from that. If parents are red and blue, the child has to be either red or blue. And now use that logic on all traits and remember, no two can be alike.

I understand that the wording on the puzzle is a bit confusing, but we tried to make it as clear as possible.

Hope this helps and if you still have issues with the puzzle, write so again.

Good luck!

Same issue with the wording here.... It is not written that a child can't have a trait that his parents has not... It iis not written that the color of a child come from a parent because you wrote that color is a trait and a child inherit random traits from his parents so technically, he coulb be yellow... Super confusing, not very clear... I agree that the "genetically unique" is useless.

We spent 30 mins trying to understand this puzzle, no update from the game since this post, a bit sad.

[Ness]

My misunderstanding with it is I saw no reason that they had to share all traits with parents. I thought colour, for example, could just be recessive and the parents passed Bb Bb to get a non-blue baby

[Mateja]

Slugs Tree - schematic chart: https://imgur.com/ICFF7FZ