Voyage Hints

What is different the third time?

  • 1 of 16: The third time you are in this area, and need to unlock the gate, you will note that the third of the blue bar lights is lit.
  • 2 of 16: In addition, there are new colors to the lights underneath the buttons -- you should now see blue and/or orange lights lit.
  • 3 of 16: The principal is still the same; but yet another "variant" has been added to the mix.
  • 4 of 16: What changed from the first time to the second time, when doing this puzzle?
  • 5 of 16: Starting with only addition (green lights), subtraction was later added (red lights).
  • 6 of 16: What might a blue or orange light indicate?
  • 7 of 16: If green meant "add", and red meant "subtract"...
  • 8 of 16: ... then blue and orange could, intuitively, mean multiply and divide.
  • 9 of 16: But which is which?
  • 10 of 16: You'll need to use a little intuition here (since the colors alone don't indicate any preference).
  • 11 of 16: Try both ways (e.g., blue meaning divide, or blue meaning multiply).
  • 12 of 16: You should find that only one way will work, to provide a result that is in the range of the buttons (i.e., 3-12).  If you inadvertently reverse the meaning of the two colors, it will typically result in either a number that is too large (if misusing the multiplication), or a fraction (if misusing the division).
  • 13 of 16: The correct result is that blue = "multiply" and orange = "divide"..
  • 14 of 16: Apply the same arithmetic operations as before, but now -- instead of just adding and subtracting, you'll need to multiple and/or divide.
  • 15 of 16: While the puzzles in this "round" focus on multiplication and division (blue and orange lights), you still may see some addition/subtraction puzzles (green and red lights).  Continue to solve them as before.
  • 16 of 16: There is one more difference the third time around.  For every incorrect answer, the gold cover will now close *three* steps, rather than just one.  As before, correct answers still only open it one step.  So incorrect answers become more costly.