Unsolvable puzzle at this (x,y)?

[Gingerbred Fred]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3434449153

[Amo]

I truly HATE these puzzles. Hate, hate, hate. if you target one, the ones that are affected will shake, that did help me a little but it took me forever to get them

[Gingerbred Fred]

My game files installation is Steam-verified too; so it completely baffles me how several players managed to gain the Legendary Thinker award with puzzles that cannot be solved.

Some IMO aren't worth bothering with: Children puzzles award gemstones that can be mined—twice a year, for Pete's sake—but the Musical, Piston Pumping & Pushbutton Puzzles award pretty good game-enhancing prizes like Diamonds, Space Stones, the Beekeeper Charm (more WAX from 20 Apiaries during Honey Harvest Timed Events !!! ) and Savoury Crepe oven recipe.

As for the Bell Ringer Dexterity & Skill Testing Puzzles, I M one of those who was genetically passed over while the Dexterity Genome was being distributed among Orchestral & Keyboard Musicians, so I cannot do those puzzles at all. I can pick up the well-hidden Diamond in Barrow End that the Far Southwestern Mega-Children Puzzle awards...but that's about my limit on digital dexterity.

[Amo]

I found the bell puzzle to be the easiest after I figured out how to do it. I usually use a controller but discovered that if I position myself where I can see every bell (kind of in the middle) and then use the mouse to throw the acorns, it was so much easier! And once I understood HOW to do the children puzzles they weren't too bad (I pick one thing at a time like has first and anyone who matches the parent gets thrown into a pile off to the side) and by the end of sorting you only have a few choices and then it's just drop onto the board and go.

[Gingerbred Fred]

Your Children Puzzle How-To: 100% *correct*. You get an A++.
Your Bell RInger Puzzle How-To: *Thank* you for that! I often win the Nili Festival's Diamond that way. I shall definitely give it another try. Keyboard musicians must find this puzzle awfully easy to do—my fingers are alwasys unintentionally rhitting the worng keys whie touch-ty0ing.

[咔嘚KADEEE]

Try moving them to the ground.

[Gingerbred Fred]

I did. #1 & #3 pop each other up or down while #2 & #4 have no effect on them. So #1 is always at least one level (out of five) higher than #3 and vice-versa.
Oh, and my Installed Game files are Steam-verified.

[Gingerbred Fred]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3437788146
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3437791594

[ackadia]

Not to be 'that guy', but these pillar puzzles, while frustrating at times, are not that hard. It's about paying attention and not getting thrown by their disorientating effects. It's a balancing act.
Typically, you will have:
One or two that can be raised without affecting other posts
The rest will raise - or lower - two other posts.
Orientate yourself to one object in the area and make a note of which posts move and by how much. Usually the solution begins with raising two posts to their maximum height and the watching what the other three posts do when you interact.

Other puzzles types need different tactics. The "four children" ones, toss away any that cannot be used [because...] and then put down four statues using arm position as the first focus (there are 5 possible positions, one for the central statue and four others.
Often, you'll find, there is only one with (say) arms folds. Because of this, all other with arms folded can be discarded. usually you'll then find one with two matching arms (say bent), another with 3 or 4, and the last with 4 or 5.
As you now have them grouped by one characteristic, using face, hat, base you can fairly quickly whittle down the numbers.

The stepping stones... I just record them as a short video, pause the game and replay them in a stop, start matter. Trying to memorise up to a dozen step watching a 9 second sequence...
So, again, orientate yourself, have an viewpoint that covers all the stones and record.
One was particularly hard to follow.
Another, like a clock, a lot easier, while the grids with a hopscotch solution easiest of all.

The bells, that's just about have a position with a clear shot at all posts.

Other puzzles aren't puzzles as such, like the scorpion statues.

The sand crab though... not sure if that's even a thing. :)