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Riddle of the Sphinx Hints
What is the significance of the eight pillars?
1 of 11: What do you notice about the pillars?
2 of 11: You'll need to look up for the answer.
3 of 11: Climb each pillar.
4 of 11: Notice that the top of each one rotates. Notice that the eyes are different colors on each side of the pillar.
5 of 11: It makes sense that you must set each pillar to the eyes of the correct color.
6 of 11: You will need two other pieces of information to set each color correctly.
7 of 11: Not every pillar needs to be changed.
8 of 11: The Yacht Scroll tells you which pillars need to be changed.
10 of 11: The correct colors are as follows: on the ramp side of the yacht, from left to right, leave the first pillar alone (white), turn the second one to white, the third to green, and the last to white; on the other side of the yacht, from left to right, turn the first pillar to red, the second to blue, skip the third (leaving it green), and turn the last to green.
11 of 11: You have now freed up the yacht to be movable from the steering wheel.
