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How can I get this orb into the receptor?
  • 1 of 9: Notice that the orb receptor is right next to the orb firer.
  • 2 of 9: Also notice what the orb bounces off of after it comes into your area.
  • 3 of 9: There's a slanty wall segment to the right of the one that the orb bounces off of. What if you could get the orb to bounce off it instead?
  • 4 of 9: It would go right into the orb receptor, that's what! See about making it happen.
  • 5 of 9: After the orb hits the left slanty wall segment, it bounces into the wall on the left, and then back.
  • 6 of 9: Instead of doing that, you want it to go over to the other slanty wall segment and bounce toward the receptor.
  • 7 of 9: So fire one portal at the black mark on the second spot an incoming orb hits.
  • 8 of 9: Then fire the other portal at a spot on the wall that's directly across the room from the first portal.
  • 9 of 9: That way, the orb will bounce into the first portal, come out through the second one, bounce off of the other slanty wall segment, and then head straight for the waiting receptor.