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Mystery Case Files: Dire Grove Hints
How do I shut down the power?
1 of 4: Your goal with the fuse box is to get all the little colored tabs to match up -- green to green, orange to orange, and so on -- by moving the fuses around.
2 of 4: A couple of the fuses are fixed in place: the ones at top center and bottom center that don't have any white insulator caps. Start with the fuses that connect to them and go from there.
3 of 4: And the fuses can't be rotated, so you can also use which way the tabs point to figure out where a fuse goes. For example, the fuse that's at the upper left when you start (orange, orange, blue) clearly needs to be somewhere in the lower right.
4 of 4: Here's what the fuses should look like when you're done: