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Atlantis 3: The New World (Beyond Atlantis II) Hints
How exactly do the drawers work?
1 of 15: First, you can have a maximum of four drawers at any time. If you click on a drawer that would otherwise make a fifth drawer open, nothing will happen.
2 of 15: If you want to figure out how these drawers work, it may help you to start with a "clean" puzzle board, where all of the drawers are closed. If you don't have a clean board, you can either use trial and error to try "cleaning" it, or you can restore a saved game from a point before you touched the board. (Or, just keep reading to the end of these hints to learn how the drawers work. The specific examples won't work for you, but the hints at the very end of this question will still tell you what you need to know to solve this puzzle on your own.)
3 of 15: Start with a "clean" board and then click on the drawer in the upper left. The first drawer that opens is the one diagonally down and to the right. If you letter the columns A-D and number the rows 1-4, this means that clicking on A1 will make B2 open. (If something other than B2 opens, you've already clicked on some drawers. You can still keep reading, though, because the general idea is the same.)
4 of 15: Click on that drawer again, and the next drawer along that diagonal will move. (If you last opened B2, you'll now open C3, but even if you didn't, the next drawer is always one more space down the diagonal from the last one that opened. If necessary, wrap around the edges from right to left and from bottom to top.)
5 of 15: Click on the same drawer two more times, and the remaining two drawers in that diagonal line also open (D4 and A1, if B2 opened first).
6 of 15: Click four more times, and all of those drawers close, in the same order that they opened.
7 of 15: So you've now learned that clicking on any given drawer doesn't always have the same effect -- it depends on *when* you click on it.
8 of 15: Experiment some more by changing the pattern. Instead of clicking on A1 four times in a row, change one of the drawers -- for example, A1 B1 A1 A1.
9 of 15: Compare the four drawers that open now to the four that opened when you clicked four times on A1. The sequence is the same in the places where you clicked on A1, but the sequence now changes where you didn't click on A1. (For example, if A1 *A1* A1 A1 opens B2 *C3* D4 A1, then A1 *B1* A1 A1 will open B2 *D3* D4 A1.) Repeat this new sequence (A1, B1, A1, A1) to close all of the drawers again.
10 of 15: Instead of thinking in terms of A1, etc., think about how far down/right along the diagonal you are from the drawers you clicked on. For example, you could write "B2" as "A1+1", meaning it's one square down/right from the place you clicked.
11 of 15: So clicking on A1 A1 A1 A1 opened A1+1 A1+2 A1+3 A1+0. When you tried A1 B1 A1 A1 instead, you opened A1+1 B1+2 A1+3 A1+0. Either way, you're opening the drawers +1 +2 +3 +0 from where you actually click. (The +'s may move slightly, so you may get +3 +0 +1 +2, but the idea is the same.)
12 of 15: In other words, the very first drawer that you open or close will always be one space down the diagonal from the one you actually click on. Your second click then opens/closes a drawer two spaces away. Then, go three spaces down/right for the third click. Finally, your fourth click will open/close the drawer you're clicking on. The fifth click repeats the cycle, again opening or closing a drawer one space down/right. (In the examples above, you started to close the drawers you'd already opened.)
13 of 15: If you started before you touched any of the drawers, your first click will always open the drawer one space down and to the right. If you've already opened or closed some of the drawers, you may be somewhere else in the pattern, as in +2 instead of +1. You'll have to try one click to figure out where you are, but once you know that, you can then pick up the pattern to figure out how to open (or close) the drawers you need to.
14 of 15: Again, remember that if you have four drawers open already, all you can do is close one of them, so you may need to try clicking in different spots to find one that works. You still should be able to figure out your place in the pattern once you find one that will close.
15 of 15: If none of this makes sense to you, you can just skip ahead to the solution given later in these hints.
