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Ultima IX: Ascension Hints

I need help in the room with the sliding platforms!

  • 1 of 12: There are many solutions to this puzzle.  Depending upon the order you turn the wheels, the platforms move differently -- some up or down, others from side to side.  Sometimes two platforms will move in a different direction at the same time.
  • 2 of 12: Your main objective is to be able to jump from platform to platform and make it over to the exit door on the opposite side of the room.
  • 3 of 12: Before you click on any of the wheels, hop down and see where all of the platforms sit in their starting positions.
  • 4 of 12: Two wheels seem to do the same thing no matter what you have done first.
  • 5 of 12: The top left wheel, when turned, moves a platform near you from one side to the other.  Click on it and then turn around.  The platform immediately across from you moved from east to west.
  • 6 of 12: The other wheel cannot be reached easily.  It is on top of a high platform on the west side in the middle.  You will probably need to handle it after you have moved another one.
  • 7 of 12: When turned, it moves the two platforms nearest to the exit door all the way over to the other side.
  • 8 of 12: My solution uses only 3 of the wheel valves near the door, plus the hard-to-reach inner one.  For this to work you must start from the beginning (no wheels having been moved).
  • 9 of 12: If you prefer, click below to see an illustration of how I solved it, or read the next three hints.
  • 10 of 12: Click on wheels by the door in this order: Top Left, Bottom Right, Bottom Left.
  • 11 of 12: Jump to the inner west platform and click on the wheel there.  Then jump to the ground and walk over to the other side of the room.
  • 12 of 12: The first block in the north corner is low enough to be climbed up on.  Go from there to the exit, jumping from block to block.