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Sentinel: Descendants in Time Hints
What am I supposed to do with the barrels?
1 of 23: As with the others, you should know by now that the barrels are going to provide you with a clue to solving the next "golden puzzle grid".
2 of 23: Since this is another of Argannas' sound-related puzzles, make sure that your volume is turned up before starting.
3 of 23: This puzzle is randomly generated each time you play a new game, so there is no single solution. The following hints provide information on the process of solving the puzzle, regardless of the final solution.
4 of 23: Experiment with the barrels.
5 of 23: What happens when you click on any of them?
6 of 23: They each roll down to the far end of the track in which they are sitting. But do they all respond identically?
7 of 23: It sure doesn't seem like they make the same sound when they roll!
8 of 23: What is the basis for the sound puzzles in Argannas?
9 of 23: Similarity of sound -- i.e., identifying, out of a group of sounds, which ones are alike.
10 of 23: Is there anything else, besides the sounds that each makes, that helps "identify" each of the barrels?
11 of 23: In previous puzzles, there was some way to distinctly link the items in a puzzle (e.g., cranks, bells) to those glyphs that keep showing up on the golden puzzles.
12 of 23: How can you do that here?
13 of 23: This may require some walking around the barrels, so that you can see them from all sides.
14 of 23: At the end of each barrel, there is a crudely-painted copy of the glyphs that you have been seeing throughout all of these puzzles.
15 of 23: Now, if you can discover the barrels which all produce similar sounds, you can then also identify -- based on the glyphs on the barrels -- which buttons will be used to unlock the next puzzle grid.
16 of 23: In this puzzle, there are four barrels that produce matching sounds -- not just three, as in the previous puzzles.
17 of 23: But what about the order in which the buttons will need to be pressed?
18 of 23: What kind of "ordering" can you achieve from the barrels?
19 of 23: Is there anything identifying about them that would put them in any kind of "order"?
20 of 23: What about their size?
21 of 23: The barrels are lined up according to size. (If you are at the far end of the room, you may wish to move back to the end where you first came in, to avoid a parallax problem, and make this easier to notice.)
22 of 23: Simply choose the buttons in order, going from smallest barrel to largest, to determine the order of the buttons to press on the currently-unlocked golden puzzle grid.
23 of 23: (Note that some symbols may be "mirror images" of what you actually find on the "golden puzzle grid". That is valid.)
