how are the puzzles

[some guy]

so far ive only seen black/white square based logic puzzles. are there a bunch of different types of puzzles and how is the quality of the puzzles?

[tmaddox]

Yes, there are lot's of different ones. The square ones are the most common.

There is match 3
standing stones
image matching
crystal mazes
hidden arches, rings, cubes
Matching red and green blocks in the environment
lining up lines in the landscape to create a pattern picture
and the dastardly, everybody hates them, mosaic puzzles
Interlocking Rings you have send a line through.

and probably ones that I am forgetting. They range from easy to hard with the mosaics just being downright frustrating.

And there a LOTs of them. This is no quick game for sure.

[Hellion]

There are I think 24 puzzle types overall?
They range in quality and in difficulty. Overall really good variety!
Some puzzles even have sub-types within them with all the different rules

[some guy]

Originally posted by tmaddox:

Yes, there are lot's of different ones. The square ones are the most common.

There is match 3
standing stones
image matching
crystal mazes
hidden arches, rings, cubes
Matching red and green blocks in the environment
lining up lines in the landscape to create a pattern picture
and the dastardly, everybody hates them, mosaic puzzles
Interlocking Rings you have send a line through.

and probably ones that I am forgetting. They range from easy to hard with the mosaics just being downright frustrating.

And there a LOTs of them. This is no quick game for sure.

i guess i lied, i think knew about most of these. most of them are are environmental puzzles yes? i dont particularly enjoy those to be honest. for just "puzzles panels" is there some variety too? thanks for the input guys

[Roan]

Environmental Puzzles:
1. Armillary Rings - Find a location where you can draw a straight line through all gold rings without going through purple rings.
2. Matchboxes - Find the two matching Red and Green blocks and form a connection between the two.
3. Sightseers - Gives you an image of a location. You need to stand in the location where it was taken and hold it up.
4. Light Motifs - Silvery "paint" that you'll find on various surfaces. Find the point where they all align (it'll turn blue) and click to complete it.
5. Skydrops - Stand in a specific spot to form several spheres floating in the air into either a circle or diamond.
6. Hidden Pentads - Activate the blue Pentad to create a bubble around a small area. Find five blue relics within that area.

Hidden Objects:
7. Rings - Invisible rings that appear as a "mirage" you need to fly through.
8. Cubes - Invisible cubes that make a soft ringing noise when you are near.
9. Archways - Arches that materialize when you are nearby.

Wall Puzzles:
10. Match 3s - Switch two blocks to create groupings of 3 or more same-colored blocks which are then cleared. Goal is to clear them all.
11. Fractals - Move the mosaic around to match the given image.
12. Dials - Set each colored dial to its correct spot by clicking buttons on the bottom that move certain colored dials different amounts.
13. Mosaics - Move the blocks up, down, left, and right to clear a path for the gold block to reach its goal.

Ground Puzzles:
14. Crystal Maze - Reach the end of the maze within the allotted time.
15. Sentinel Stones - Find a location where you can create a connection between every stone.
16. Rolling Blocks - Roll blocks along a grid to either use each tile once, reach a golden goal tile, or both.

Movement:
17. Flow Orbs - Race through each orb as fast as possible.
18. Glide Rings - Glide through each ring as fast as possible without touching the ground.
19. Wandering Echo - Follow the small white orb as it travels from location to location, touching it when it stops.
20. Shy Aura - Find a way to approach and click the Shy Aura, depending on what color it is.

Box Puzzles:
21. Logic Grids - These are the most prolific / versatile puzzles in Islands of Insight and you'll find them increasingly complex as you progress and new rules are added.
22. Patterns - Figure out the pattern / rule and fill in all empty spaces.
23. Memory Grid - Correctly fill in each tile in the grid after briefly "glimpsing" it.
24. Music Grid - Each tile represents a sound effect or note. Listen to the sequence and select the correct tiles to replicate it.

[some guy]

Originally posted by Valimure:

your list of all the puzzles

thanks for your incredibly detailed reply! how do you like the puzzles?

[Roan]

Originally posted by Six Biomes:

Originally posted by Valimure:

your list of all the puzzles

thanks for your incredibly detailed reply! how do you like the puzzles?

I love most of them! The only one I truly despise are the Fractals, as they feel more like "randomly move your mouse around until you get close" than an actual puzzle.

My personal favorites are Logic Grids (very much how my brain thinks so I love working through them,) the Hidden Pentads (I love a good scavenger hunt,) the Crystal Mazes (super fun when they're a bit more complex and require vertical movement as well as horizontal,) and most recently the Mosaics (they remind me of some of those "get the car out of the traffic jam" games but the addition of more complex shapes and being able to move them up and down makes for some truly complex puzzles. One of my favorites so far was a series of them that you had to "unlock" from one another one piece at a time to get to the gold center cube.)

[some guy]

Originally posted by Valimure:

Originally posted by Six Biomes:

thanks for your incredibly detailed reply! how do you like the puzzles?

I love most of them! The only one I truly despise are the Fractals, as they feel more like "randomly move your mouse around until you get close" than an actual puzzle.

My personal favorites are Logic Grids (very much how my brain thinks so I love working through them,) the Hidden Pentads (I love a good scavenger hunt,) the Crystal Mazes (super fun when they're a bit more complex and require vertical movement as well as horizontal,) and most recently the Mosaics (they remind me of some of those "get the car out of the traffic jam" games but the addition of more complex shapes and being able to move them up and down makes for some truly complex puzzles. One of my favorites so far was a series of them that you had to "unlock" from one another one piece at a time to get to the gold center cube.)

sounds good. thanks again!