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Myst III: Exile Hints

How do I solve the puzzle at the set of four red wheels?

1 of 18: Those red wheels open and close steam valves.
2 of 18: It might help if you first turned on the steam generator.
3 of 18: You need to heat the water by bringing hot air in from another part of the island.
4 of 18:
The lava room on the other side of the island should help here -- it's on the other side of the locked rectangular door.
- How do I unlock the rectangular door inside the mountain?
- How should I work the controls in the lava room?
5 of 18: If you've set those correctly, then steam should now be coming out of some of those valves.
6 of 18: Notice the dotted red line on the dial below the wheels?
7 of 18: You're trying to set the needle to the position indicated by that dotted red line.
8 of 18: Try turning the red wheels to see what happens.
9 of 18: The dial is a pressure gauge.
10 of 18: But the indicated level is 19, and the four wheels in front of you only change the pressure in increments of 10 -- getting to 20 isn't good enough.
11 of 18: There's more to the puzzle than just those four dials.
12 of 18:
In fact, the platform you're standing on is an elevator.
- How do I operate that elevator?
13 of 18: Find the two levels above the initial one and play with the dials to see how they effect the pressure.
14 of 18: The valves on the middle level each raise the pressure by 4, and the valves on the upper level each raise the pressure by 1.
15 of 18: There's only one way to get 19 with those combinations of values.
16 of 18: Go all the way to the top and leave just one valve closed.
17 of 18: Then go down one level and leave exactly two valves closed.
18 of 18:
Open all of the valves on the bottom level except the one that's stuck shut (on the right). This gives you 1+4+4+10=19.
- But what good does that do me?

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