Solve what you see Keith! You see the puzzle in white light, solve it for being white! I know this was ages ago, but you actually got the answer a long while before you started solving for each colour. As soon as you know which colours change consistently, you have a solution for the last floor. You don't ever need to know the actual colours themselves.
This is the only let's play of the witness I'm going to keep following. All the other's just try to enter random things if they don't understand it and force their way through the game. (I'm fairly positive that one guy just looks up the solution and then explains it while he "solves" it. Even though his explanation doesn't make sense once you understand the puzzle) You are a very observant player and I have no doubts you will make it to 100% without any hints. The puzzles beyond the lazers are harder yes. But you will power your way through them without a doubt. As for this elevator puzzle, it was nice to listen to the reasoning behind the colors. I had an idea but intuitively went to the top floor without much thought.
For the reason on why the last cable is not yellow: It is because of the structure of the building itself: There are only 5 rooms inside and 3 of the them of lights: the red/ the blue and the green. The magenta and Cyan room are created by having the 2 colors mixed in one by the room above one by the room below. But at no point is there a room that have both red and green light (that would need another red room on the top of the building). So the building have 6 floor and they are as represented by the cables: Red/Magenta/Blue/Cyan/Green and White (the top floor). And the elevator always goes to the floor you solved the solution for +1.
+Keith Ballard The answer is there, Keith. Just not noticed, especially if a player didn't do what you did outside the game. You DID solve Yellow. And what happened? It took you to Red. You didn't fail, the puzzle didn't buzz and turn dark. You DID solve it, and it took you down to the Red floor. When you solved Red, it sent you to purple, Solved Purple and sent you to Blue, Solved blue to Cyan, and Cyan to Green, and Green to the top which could be taken as 'yellow'. Out of 6 colors on the wheel, you solved 5 of them, and they brought you to other colors, except maybe green if you do count the top as being 'yellow'. Look at the Color Wheel you made. Start at red, at the top. Go counter Clock-Wise, to the left. You solved Red and went to Purple and so on. You solved the color, it brought you to the next one in the rotation. Then logically, solving Yellow will send you to the next one on the wheel. Which is RED. The puzzle DOES make sense. It's just you're forgetting a color clue, and you even found it in the puzzle. 2 and 4 were both colored WHITE. So why would that color be excluded? That was probably the clue.
+jirodyne Your comment is a mixture of things that I already know and a few weird statements that don't make sense. You're saying weird stuff about yellow sending me down to red which just has no bearing on how any of this was actually laid out. My whole point was that it was weird how the elevator has six colors and five of them match the color wheel while the last one breaks that pattern. Wmaconick's comment makes sense in that the tower was three lights and the two blends between them with the final solution being regular white light.
Keith Ballard Sorry, not very good at explaining things in ways that make sense. In my mind I understand what I said, or tried to say anyways. lol. I was basically saying that Solving for Yellow, brings you down to Red, was because that's how it works. Take a look at the Color Wheel you made to help you with the elevator puzzle. Solving Red, on the Red Floor, brings you to Purple. Solving Purple on the Purple Floor, bring you to Blue. On the Color Wheel, started at the top and going Counter Clock Wise, you solved each color on it's own floor, and that brought you to the next color in the wheel. The exception to this, was Solving Green on the Green Floor, brought you to the top instead of a 'yellow' floor. But looking at the Elevator, it is colored yellow. If you take that as the 'yellow floor' and solve it with 'Yellow' What is next in the Color Wheel Roation, Counter Clock-Wise? Red. So it restarts and brings you to the bottom. But there was another Color used in the puzzle. When you solved what colors the puzzle squares were normally, unshaded, you solved 1 as Cyan, 3 as Purple, and 5 as Yellow. Then you guessed, and later at the top confirmed that 2 and 4 were white. Cyan was a color in the puzzle... Purple was a color in the puzzle... Yellow was a color in the puzzle... Wouldn't Logic Dictate that White would be a color too, that you can solve with? And you did at the top, since no more shading were hiding the colors. In fact, you could have solved this puzzle way back then when you figured the base colors out for the squares in the puzzle. And solved it you did in the end, and it brought you to the laser. As for the colors on the wires and wondering why no yellow and was white instead. There was also no Red, even if there should have been one for going for the Red Floor. And as soon on the top, there wasn't an actual 'yellow' Floor. Solving Green brought you to the roof, and Solving Yellow takes you to Red. There wasn't really a 'yellow floor' The top floor was... well the sky, white, the roof, cloudy.
+jirodyne Looking back at it you're right about the fact that entering the solution for yellow was actually accepted as a correct input for returning to the first floor as opposed to an error (which also returns you to the first floor). Your wires comment is incorrect, though. There is absolutely a red wire: it's the bottom of those six wires. That's the basis of me finding this odd, the presence of every color except one from the wheel on that wire sequence.
You can also find a solution to the elevator puzzle in the "lobby". One of the basic puzzles is the same as the elevator puzzle so you can look at the panel through a yellow or cyan + yellow window :)
When I first figured out what you're saying here I was fuming, it's just incredibly annoying that the game makes you recall the layout of a previous random puzzle with no indication whatsoever
bro i love the way you annalyze stuff my dude. I genuinley thought the dev just made the colors whatever he wanted at each floor. Did not realize they genuinely abide by the color wheel.
+GreyGamer Z The few people I've talked to afterward seem to have just fiddled with the controls a bit until they stumbled into the solution mostly by accident. I really, really wanted to get the exact solution along with the reasoning for why it worked that way, though. Aside from getting the right answers I want to know exactly why they're the right answers.
+Keith Ballard Okay, I went back and looked at the puzzle in-game and I figured out the logic behind how I did it. When you're on a level with 2 colors mixed, the squares that look white change to the color of whichever room you go to from there. So... When you're on the Magenta level and you go to Red, the squares that looked white all turn Red. When you're on the Magenta level and you go to Blue, the squares that looked white all turn Blue. When you're on the Cyan level and you go to Blue, the squares that looked white all turn Blue. Therefore you can assume that when you're on Cyan and you go to Green, the squares that look white will all turn green. Crappy paint picture of the process: i.imgur.com/6qHc21o.png The whole thing can be solved ovservationally. There is no need for the player to understand proper color mixing. Though it was interesting watching you work it out that way.
+Keith Ballard I actually did a full diagram of the puzzle has you did to resolve that puzzle but it is way easier when you understand that it is working with Primary/Secondary colors. Basically you go to one of the primary color like red and then all the tile can have 2 state: Red if that is part of the color or black if it is not; You do have to guess what tiles have green in them by checking the change between the blue and the Cyan floor but that is not bad: from there the color have a set of 8 possible combination: R ->Red, R+B -> Magenta, B -> Blue, B + G -> Cyan, G -> Green, R + G -> Yellow, R + B + G -> White, Nothing -> Black I feel like I am bad explaining but I did it pretty much naturally on a piece of paper and from there was able to decipher the full puzzle relatively quick, took me about 2-3 minutes to solve I would say. I may have been lucky to stumble on the correct mindset though. Not all of the puzzles went so smoothly. Good luck for the rest of the game. I think you do an awesome job this LP and it's really entertaining to watch even if I have completed the game and that is no small feat on a puzzle game.
3 years late, but i've played this recently. I have a graphic arts degree and this room still tripped me up, and i'm more then used to how light effects color. getting creative with colored lighting and their effects on colored objects was one if my fav things to experiment on in photoshop, so when i got to these puzzles I was happy. This game just awe'ed and impressed me with what you can do, and how things are solved, that the message is not just solving the puzzles, but understanding the logic. As you need this knowledge to beat the "final boss" of the game.
I did the opposite, played the game some years ago, and now I'm revisiting by watching this series. I didn't have this thought when I played it, but now I kept thinking: imagine how awesome would it be to throw a monochromatic yellow or monochromatic cyan light in there? It would freak everyone out! Most people are used to how computer screens work, mixing green and red to get yellow, but under a monochromatic yellow light the world would look a lot different, and what looked yellow before could even appear black! That would cause some confusion, but I would love it!
8:50 the reason it looked yellow to you is because your brain had already taken the context into account. It saw a green square in a cyan lit area and deduced that it was actually a yellow square before you even checked it on the colour wheel
I know this video is 7 years old but I just realised that the elevator puzzle is basically the same as the one you did when you first entered the greenhouse, the one before the yellow/blue glass set. It's amazing how the game can just give you the final solution of the elevator puzzle beforehand and the player wouldn't notice.
It's interesting the way different minds work. You totally flew through some puzzles that I spent 2.5 hours on, then the reverse happened to you with the elevator. I flew through the elevator without really worrying much about the color theory. I just noticed when the dots changed colors and wrapped around them without caring what the actual colors were and it worked! :D
I just love how you're _actually_ solving all of these most complex puzzles. So far, especially the one with the many shape-blocks where you moved them around on a grid in your program and the one with the colours where you have to figure out how the board _would_ look like in a light you're not standing in - the way I approached those was a combination of deduction and brute-force of the remaining options. For the blocks puzzle I just counted the amount of blocks, subtracted that from the amount of fields on the board, figured out 2 have to be left over and tried the few ways that board can be solved that way. And for the colours puzzle, I deduced which colours must be different because of which colours where grouped vs. different throughout all floors I had access to and then tried a couple of combinations I didn't have yet. (Incidentally, I skipped right to the very top instead of just to open air because I happened to hit that solution before the "actual" one.) I wouldn't say that my way is wrong or yours is right; if they didn't want you to be able to brute-force it (to some degree), they'd prevent or discourage it (as they do in some areas), so I feel fine about my approach, but I'm just super into how analytically you're approaching this, to a depth most people probably won't go. Amazing to watch!
I know this is a super old video, but I thought I'd chime in with an observation about the "missing yellow floor" that I have not seen in any of the other comments. If you pay attention to the board while you're riding the elevator up from cyan to the roof, you can see that it passes by the green room and the board will display your (magnificent) solution of the colour puzzle. As the elevator keeps rising, it passes through a space between the roof and the green room, where all the walls are yellow. For a brief moment, your solution to the yellow puzzle can be seen. 18:02 shows this clearly, albeit for a very short time. The elevator then keeps going to the roof where you get white light.
Your path to the solution was fecking incredible! Color wheel theory affects on pigment paint? fecking awesome!! Your Wisdom and Intelligence stats are off the charts!
Really fun thing: your blue-sensitive cones get overstimulated and that’s why it hurts looking at an entirely blue light room. Once you exit that room after being there for a while, your blue cones will be so tired that all other colors will look significantly off for a bit.
You did that color puzzle much better than I did :) I didn't even try to solve for green - I simply realized which colors were unique (this was your first step, but you took it much farther by actually doing color combination math), and solved it as if I were trying to separate all of the uniques (which is effectively the same as doing it in white light). It took me straight to the top and skipped the main ground floor :P
18:23 I didn't get stuck like you did but seeing your pain I agree that the cables should have had some kind of indicator that you skipped the yellow riding up. I only got it because I watched the elevator go up and saw that there isn't a floor above the green and you actually go uo 2 floors to get to the roof. The blocked missing floor in between is just the yellow cargo container when you look around
Regarding the "yellow" - sure, yellow may be next on the wheel, but you clearly are not in a yellow light. Sure you're in a yellow box, but it's not yellow lit. Otherwise, the colors on the panel would appear to you as such. Like how you were solving for green as if you were there - well at that point you were where you should be, and it just wasn't yellow. It was open white light from outside.
Keith, because I don't want you to be annoyed by the "yellow" light puzzle: Sunlight is considered to be white light because it contains all components. You'd get yellow light if you take away magenta and cyan from white light (basically how a scanner detects printed colors) (Or how your screen operates with rgb colors). If however real light would be yellow we wouldn't be able to have all these great colors on earth. Or can you tell me how you'd get a blue reflection from a yellow light source? (The surface would have to take away magenta and yellow from the yellow to get blue - that doesn't work though). With other words: The green room was very Alien green, right? and the red room was very Alien red, right. Why wasn't the sunlight very Alien yellowish? Because it is not yellow :) We are just used to how white light looks - that is why we wouldn'd say sunlight looks very Alien whiteish. Well, nobody would say anything like that anyways -_-' Great Problem solving skills tho' :) You'd make a great software developer :) Have a nice time - Noël
The problem is you don't know how colors actually work, that's why you obsess over the wrong thing (like the color wheel and a yellow room). Never forget, people, we only see 3 types of light: R G B PS: and for god's sake, Magenta will look Black under Green light (NOT Orange) because it'll have no light to reflect
Nice work on the color puzzle. =) I can't help but feel like a lot of the work would have been done by the earlier puzzles and just writing down what colors the dots looked like through the various glasses, but you still managed to get it, so whatever works!
The elevator puzzle is difficult, but I think it can best be explained like this. You have three distinct colors. In red, you see one different, in blue, you see another different, in purple, you see both. Then you get cyan, with two different colors, and a broken cord to a green room. Your expected to find out that you have to circle the third color on it's own, since you know one color is linked to each set, and you're trying to reach the third color. All that being said, the color thing is probably the most or second most complex gimmick in the main game, and he hasn't been there yet. No I'm not counting stuff within the mountain. That's endgame stuff.
You were only ever solving the puzzles in the light of the rooms you were already on to progress to the upper one. Then you got the idea that you had to solve for the light in the above room when this wasn't the case. This is why you then expected to solve for yellow light when you only had to repeat the pattern of solving the puzzle in the current light, which was white.
This is my third time watching this playthrough. And this is my favourite puzzle in the game. So Keith doing that colour chart solution is just priceless for me :)
The glass door which you opened secondary is a figure. Its the door you are facing at 1:49 go to the room above you right there, in other words on the 2nd floor in the pink room look slightly down and you will see the figure in blue lining in the door entrance.
holy moly, you went all scientific to solve the elevator riddle. I just took notes of what the colors turn into when looked through the green glass in the first floor
here's the physics for anyone curious: Pigment primary colours are subtractive, light primary colours are additive. That means that each primary pigment colour (Cyan, Magenta or Yellow) absorbs exactly ONE primary LIGHT colour (Red, Green and Blue, respectively) and reflects the other two light colours we can actually detect with our eyes. These colours mix, which is all additive means. As an example, let's talk about Magenta light. Magenta light is actually just an equal mix of Blue and Red light added together. So when Blue and Red light is shined on a Cyan surface, the Cyan absorbs the Red and reflects the Blue to our eyes. Thus, we see Blue. So now let's talk about Green light on its own. Cyan doesn't absorb Green light, and there's no other light present. Thus, we see it as Green. White reflects EVERYTHING, so any light shone on it would turn it into that light. Magenta absorbs all the Green light and shows up as nothing, turning black. And finally Yellow reflects all of the Green, and shows up as Green (just like Cyan).
Wow, literally solved that puzzle in 5 minutes. I think I must have massively fluked the floor with the broken cable as I never had to deal with the elevator going down. Didn't realise it was so complicated until watching this. Feeling very happy that I avoided a massive headache.
Hi Keith, I have spent the last 3 days watching all of your The Witness videos. I have to say, you have one of the least annoying voices on youtube (this is meant as a compliment, a lot of gaming youtubers are sooo annoying). I have enjoyed it so much and hope you upload more! I know you said at the end that there will be less frequency but it's so hard when a binge watch comes to an end!!!
+catherineliu06 They should still be daily. The reduced frequency has more to do with the fact that I was doing two per day for over an hour of video. That's a tough pace to maintain as the puzzles inevitably get more complicated. I can easily play for an hour each day, but editing takes a lot out of the duration.
+catherineliu06 If you're looking to continue your binge watching habits this is a similar series that's already done: th-cam.com/play/PL5dr1EHvfwpOv1JabqVWmVg3IMqjIqp5Q.html
That was cool thinking with the elevator puzzle. I just ended up thinking to separate the light and dark colors guessing that the green room would manipulate the spot in the middle to be darker and the other spots to be lighter, and thankfully that's what happened. Now that I'm doing 3D art and spending a lot of time with lighting, I'm starting to understand exactly when, how and why that works.
I'm sure I dont need to explain this but side note, that light puzzle has to be my favourite because 90% of people would not bother understanding how light works. But the color wheel for the light puzzle is subtractive I think because I dont know how else you would get black. But back to the point, regardless of color light is always absorbed and reflected so in in the way white light is a reflection of the color that is not absorbed, yellow and red light function the same, its just the properties are different.
You missed two audio logs that I saw, One is in the starting castle on the gate, Other is in the tree carving style chinese type building in one of the main 3 set of windows,Most left on whatever set it is in, laying on the carving.
Warm colours show in warm light, cool colours show in cool light- secondary & tertiary colours partially show in different lights, depending on their pigment mix...
In the initial all red/blue puzzle, the dark squares are what were are blocking out. Theres only 2 divisions in those puzzles. The 3rd division of magenta and cyan blocks in the mixed puzzles are "neutral". In the mixed puzzles we can see which blocks are the opposing color. So in the all red one we can see why the dark squares represent blue and in the all blue one the dark squares represent red. So now we know the all green puzzle will have 2 divisions and that we'll be blocking out the dark squares which represent blue in this case, and based on the cyan puzzle we know the blue are the 2 middle blocks.
As I see it, the reason yellow light wasn't the solution it's cause it was never a matter of understanding which colour comes next in the progression of the colour wheel (except, of course, in the case of the green room, which they make clear), it was just 'solve the puzzle based on the colours you see in front of you'.
i don't know if u already solve that or not but if go from elevator to the full green room and look at down u can see one those circle and lines to draw on :)
19:13 no. the "play" is that you solve to go up based on what you see. you had to sleuth what you WOULD have seen if the cyan cable wasn't broken and the elevator moved when you solved cyan. You're always solving what you see, it has nothing to do with any pattern you're trying to assign.
I love to see someone working through this puzlle like I did. I once saw a let's play where they solved it by entering a random solution that brought them to the top. That was so painful to me. :D
Very well thought out for the elevator puzzle, however I think there was a simpler approach to solving for green. For each of the of the previous levels, there was only one group that “changed” color. For red, everything was red except for group 1. For magenta, everything was magenta except for group 1 and group 5. For Blue, everything was blue except for JUST group 5. Cyan, all cyan except for 5 and 3. Logically following, there seems to be a pattern for 1, 3, and 5, and 3 has not yet been a separate color by itself. Separate only group 3 for the solution
Alternatively, going from a mix room to a solid room, the color dot of the room you are going to blends in with the rest, and the other prev mix color turns black. Logically following, going from cyan to green, the blue dots (group 3) would turn black, and the green dots (group 5) would now blend in with the rest of the dots (groups 1, 2 and 4) *Probably a little easier to follow*
The intuitive solution is that the three red on magenta carries over to blue, and cyan adds the two blue dots which means those are from green. You just subtract the solution from blue from cyan.
wow, dude, that took more knowledge about light mechanics than I even learned in color theory class in art school! I feel cheated for having to look up straight solutions when you were able to just... figure it out
It took me a while but O solved it by writing the grid down with R G B and checkmarking or putting an x. The red and blue rooms were really helpful for this. Black means not that colour, white(ish) means it has that colour. Finally I added all colours and got the whole grid as if white light would shine.
Holy shit, I was just playing this today and I used the first floor to figure out how green affected the colors because I notice green was the next floor above from cyan. Then I was trying to figure out yellow because I thought it was the only color I was missing. I was right because now that I think about it that’s suppose to be the color of the sun. But job well done still.
and than to think that i just tried a few solutions based on inteligent guesses, it took me 3 minutes. your approach is however far more fun to watch! xD
Another part where the player has a tendency to overthink :D It's obvious that you solve what was given to you except the green since it's broken so you basically had to skip it by simulating.
Well that was quite more work than needed, but impressive. I'm sure you know this by now - but since you mentioned in the comments "accidentally stumbling upon" the solution was the explanation you were given - it's not. Once you had them divided into the 1/2/3/4/5 group that was pretty much all you needed (well, 2 and 4 being the same) and instead of worrying about what colors they are for real, just plug it in solving the puzzle with those separated and see what happens. Yes, you'd end up skipping a floor - but I think that's what's meant to happen with you getting the following solution AFTER that.
The reason those squares look yellow when they came up green with the color picker is because they were surrounded by blue/cyan. Our perception of colors changes depending on the context of those colors, for instance a white square on a checkerboard that's in shadow will still appear white when in reality it is the same color as a black square in the light. Green is a combination of blue and yellow, so putting a green square on a field of blue made the yellow shades more obvious.
Man, you are going crazy with your way of thinking. I simply said to myself that if I'll separate all the groups of colors there are, the solution has be right, since that's how these puzzles work. And separating them all wasn't the answer to any floor so far, which means this solution has to belong to one of the floors above. And it was indeed correct
The reason green spots looked yellow to you in the cyan light is that the contrast makes your brain compensate for the effect of the colored light to try to see things as they are.
The last level is white because the sun is white, but appears yellow. Some stars will reflect more of one color than others, but there are still all colors being reflected.
I think the reason it goes from green to white is that yellow is actually a "half" floor. When you're going up from green to the outside, there's a few moments when you're inside the yellow box with no outside lights shining in, and the colours on the control panel change to reflect the yellow light. It's quick, but I think that might be the logic there.
So although your logic is correct, and good on ya for that, there is a much easier way to solve this. I didn't realize this until now, which is why it took so long. There is a panel in the original area of the bunker that looks a lot like the elevator panel. Try to find a way to give it green light, it gives you the answer!
I really find it entertaining how you overthink many of the puzzles, when so many times the solution is actually quite simple and right in front of you. The game really does a good job in tricking the player to think overly complicated. And you just show that in such intellectual and entertaining way. I usually get very frustrated when youtubers cant figure out the puzzle (in any game). But your unsolving or struggle with the puzzles are not because you dont try to figure it out or arent intellectually capable of it, but rather that you think so much about the puzzle and really focus on trying to solve it that you sometimes miss the rather obvious. But don't worry, I do the exact same, and then I need to take a break. Oh intelligence.. You silly thing. Keep up the great videos, I look forward to them every day. :)
Okay, this video overcomplicated the puzzle to an insane degree. Each floor when you solve it under its particular ambient light takes you to the next floor up. So to get to floor 6, solve the maze for the lighting on floor 5. Which you have already seen is outdoors. And if you forgot you saw it, the puzzle before the stairs where you lower the wall to the outside lets you see it again. So you know all colors need to be separated to get to floor 6, and you’ve already worked out the 5 distinct colors. That’s it. The color wheel wasn’t needed to solve it, it was just a tool you used to work out the colors but you then ran with it and it made you think the final solution was inconsistent, probably because you were 2+ hours in and your brain was cooked by that point.
here is why it's white. In the light spectrum, white is a combination of all colors, you had to solve each color floor building up to a white light. Black in the light spectrum is an absence of color. (for those late people like me)
This is how I solved it as well, because I understand subtracting color mixing. However, I've watched playthroughs of people who literally guessed it first try and went straight to the top.. dunno if they subconsciously were tracking which blobs changed, or it was a ridiculously lucky guess.
18:50 I love your perspective on this puzzle! When you say "Wait is this some kind of play that the sun is yellow?", it could be a play on purple, an impossible red-blue color brains literally make up to compensate for limited sets of rods and cones. See also: Purple Earth Hypothesis th-cam.com/video/IIA-k_bBcL0/w-d-xo.html (link to PBS Digital Studios Eons)
What's that program you used to solve this puzzle and the Tetris block puzzle in the underwater room in one of the last two videos? It looks like a Photoshop knockoff
If it takes you two and a half hours to do one laser puzzle, then by all means, space the episodes out. Don't spend a god awful amount of time on something in order to put it up in one day when you have other things to do, like living.
I thought it made perfect sense for the outside to be white... i think you were just so much in the mindset of the colored rooms that you didnt think it. Like if you took a good break and came back to think about it, it would make sense.
It is white because if you (like a prisma or crystal) put all colours to gether you get white. All though people have to keep in mind black and white are no colours :).
Solve what you see Keith! You see the puzzle in white light, solve it for being white! I know this was ages ago, but you actually got the answer a long while before you started solving for each colour. As soon as you know which colours change consistently, you have a solution for the last floor. You don't ever need to know the actual colours themselves.
This is the only let's play of the witness I'm going to keep following. All the other's just try to enter random things if they don't understand it and force their way through the game. (I'm fairly positive that one guy just looks up the solution and then explains it while he "solves" it. Even though his explanation doesn't make sense once you understand the puzzle)
You are a very observant player and I have no doubts you will make it to 100% without any hints. The puzzles beyond the lazers are harder yes. But you will power your way through them without a doubt.
As for this elevator puzzle, it was nice to listen to the reasoning behind the colors. I had an idea but intuitively went to the top floor without much thought.
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3:40 "These are weird. Just 'cause they're almost not puzzles...
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Yep, you can actually hear his brain realizing he's in deep trouble now :-D
For the reason on why the last cable is not yellow:
It is because of the structure of the building itself:
There are only 5 rooms inside and 3 of the them of lights: the red/ the blue and the green. The magenta and Cyan room are created by having the 2 colors mixed in one by the room above one by the room below. But at no point is there a room that have both red and green light (that would need another red room on the top of the building).
So the building have 6 floor and they are as represented by the cables: Red/Magenta/Blue/Cyan/Green and White (the top floor).
And the elevator always goes to the floor you solved the solution for +1.
+wmaconick That actually makes perfect sense, BUT MY COLOR WHEEL NOT ACTUALLY REAL OCD!!!
+Keith Ballard The answer is there, Keith. Just not noticed, especially if a player didn't do what you did outside the game. You DID solve Yellow. And what happened? It took you to Red. You didn't fail, the puzzle didn't buzz and turn dark. You DID solve it, and it took you down to the Red floor. When you solved Red, it sent you to purple, Solved Purple and sent you to Blue, Solved blue to Cyan, and Cyan to Green, and Green to the top which could be taken as 'yellow'.
Out of 6 colors on the wheel, you solved 5 of them, and they brought you to other colors, except maybe green if you do count the top as being 'yellow'. Look at the Color Wheel you made. Start at red, at the top. Go counter Clock-Wise, to the left. You solved Red and went to Purple and so on. You solved the color, it brought you to the next one in the rotation.
Then logically, solving Yellow will send you to the next one on the wheel. Which is RED. The puzzle DOES make sense. It's just you're forgetting a color clue, and you even found it in the puzzle. 2 and 4 were both colored WHITE. So why would that color be excluded? That was probably the clue.
+jirodyne Your comment is a mixture of things that I already know and a few weird statements that don't make sense. You're saying weird stuff about yellow sending me down to red which just has no bearing on how any of this was actually laid out. My whole point was that it was weird how the elevator has six colors and five of them match the color wheel while the last one breaks that pattern. Wmaconick's comment makes sense in that the tower was three lights and the two blends between them with the final solution being regular white light.
Keith Ballard Sorry, not very good at explaining things in ways that make sense. In my mind I understand what I said, or tried to say anyways. lol.
I was basically saying that Solving for Yellow, brings you down to Red, was because that's how it works. Take a look at the Color Wheel you made to help you with the elevator puzzle. Solving Red, on the Red Floor, brings you to Purple. Solving Purple on the Purple Floor, bring you to Blue. On the Color Wheel, started at the top and going Counter Clock Wise, you solved each color on it's own floor, and that brought you to the next color in the wheel.
The exception to this, was Solving Green on the Green Floor, brought you to the top instead of a 'yellow' floor. But looking at the Elevator, it is colored yellow. If you take that as the 'yellow floor' and solve it with 'Yellow' What is next in the Color Wheel Roation, Counter Clock-Wise? Red. So it restarts and brings you to the bottom.
But there was another Color used in the puzzle. When you solved what colors the puzzle squares were normally, unshaded, you solved 1 as Cyan, 3 as Purple, and 5 as Yellow. Then you guessed, and later at the top confirmed that 2 and 4 were white.
Cyan was a color in the puzzle... Purple was a color in the puzzle... Yellow was a color in the puzzle... Wouldn't Logic Dictate that White would be a color too, that you can solve with? And you did at the top, since no more shading were hiding the colors. In fact, you could have solved this puzzle way back then when you figured the base colors out for the squares in the puzzle. And solved it you did in the end, and it brought you to the laser.
As for the colors on the wires and wondering why no yellow and was white instead. There was also no Red, even if there should have been one for going for the Red Floor. And as soon on the top, there wasn't an actual 'yellow' Floor. Solving Green brought you to the roof, and Solving Yellow takes you to Red. There wasn't really a 'yellow floor' The top floor was... well the sky, white, the roof, cloudy.
+jirodyne Looking back at it you're right about the fact that entering the solution for yellow was actually accepted as a correct input for returning to the first floor as opposed to an error (which also returns you to the first floor). Your wires comment is incorrect, though. There is absolutely a red wire: it's the bottom of those six wires. That's the basis of me finding this odd, the presence of every color except one from the wheel on that wire sequence.
You can also find a solution to the elevator puzzle in the "lobby". One of the basic puzzles is the same as the elevator puzzle so you can look at the panel through a yellow or cyan + yellow window :)
When I first figured out what you're saying here I was fuming, it's just incredibly annoying that the game makes you recall the layout of a previous random puzzle with no indication whatsoever
@@videowave8779 It doesn't...
bro i love the way you annalyze stuff my dude. I genuinley thought the dev just made the colors whatever he wanted at each floor. Did not realize they genuinely abide by the color wheel.
I applaud you amazing work here, but there must've been an extremely easier way to do that.
+GreyGamer Z I'm pretty sure there is because I didn't have to go to all this trouble when I solved it. I can't remember how I did it though.
+GreyGamer Z The few people I've talked to afterward seem to have just fiddled with the controls a bit until they stumbled into the solution mostly by accident. I really, really wanted to get the exact solution along with the reasoning for why it worked that way, though. Aside from getting the right answers I want to know exactly why they're the right answers.
+Keith Ballard Okay, I went back and looked at the puzzle in-game and I figured out the logic behind how I did it. When you're on a level with 2 colors mixed, the squares that look white change to the color of whichever room you go to from there. So...
When you're on the Magenta level and you go to Red, the squares that looked white all turn Red.
When you're on the Magenta level and you go to Blue, the squares that looked white all turn Blue.
When you're on the Cyan level and you go to Blue, the squares that looked white all turn Blue.
Therefore you can assume that when you're on Cyan and you go to Green, the squares that look white will all turn green.
Crappy paint picture of the process: i.imgur.com/6qHc21o.png
The whole thing can be solved ovservationally. There is no need for the player to understand proper color mixing. Though it was interesting watching you work it out that way.
+DasVERMiT Your solution only seems to explain two of the five sets of colored squares.
+Keith Ballard I actually did a full diagram of the puzzle has you did to resolve that puzzle but it is way easier when you understand that it is working with Primary/Secondary colors.
Basically you go to one of the primary color like red and then all the tile can have 2 state: Red if that is part of the color or black if it is not; You do have to guess what tiles have green in them by checking the change between the blue and the Cyan floor but that is not bad: from there the color have a set of 8 possible combination:
R ->Red, R+B -> Magenta, B -> Blue, B + G -> Cyan, G -> Green, R + G -> Yellow, R + B + G -> White, Nothing -> Black
I feel like I am bad explaining but I did it pretty much naturally on a piece of paper and from there was able to decipher the full puzzle relatively quick, took me about 2-3 minutes to solve I would say.
I may have been lucky to stumble on the correct mindset though. Not all of the puzzles went so smoothly.
Good luck for the rest of the game. I think you do an awesome job this LP and it's really entertaining to watch even if I have completed the game and that is no small feat on a puzzle game.
I gotta say - I love how your mind works and how methodical you are. Kudos!
20:41 I was worried, just for a second, that the laser would decide to train itself on you and you’d have to start running away or get blasted.
3 years late, but i've played this recently. I have a graphic arts degree and this room still tripped me up, and i'm more then used to how light effects color.
getting creative with colored lighting and their effects on colored objects was one if my fav things to experiment on in photoshop, so when i got to these puzzles I was happy. This game just awe'ed and impressed me with what you can do, and how things are solved, that the message is not just solving the puzzles, but understanding the logic.
As you need this knowledge to beat the "final boss" of the game.
I did the opposite, played the game some years ago, and now I'm revisiting by watching this series. I didn't have this thought when I played it, but now I kept thinking: imagine how awesome would it be to throw a monochromatic yellow or monochromatic cyan light in there? It would freak everyone out! Most people are used to how computer screens work, mixing green and red to get yellow, but under a monochromatic yellow light the world would look a lot different, and what looked yellow before could even appear black! That would cause some confusion, but I would love it!
8:50 the reason it looked yellow to you is because your brain had already taken the context into account. It saw a green square in a cyan lit area and deduced that it was actually a yellow square before you even checked it on the colour wheel
I really love how you properly visualized the solution to the elevator.
"The stairs don't work!"
-Keith, 2016
I know this video is 7 years old but I just realised that the elevator puzzle is basically the same as the one you did when you first entered the greenhouse, the one before the yellow/blue glass set. It's amazing how the game can just give you the final solution of the elevator puzzle beforehand and the player wouldn't notice.
It's interesting the way different minds work. You totally flew through some puzzles that I spent 2.5 hours on, then the reverse happened to you with the elevator. I flew through the elevator without really worrying much about the color theory. I just noticed when the dots changed colors and wrapped around them without caring what the actual colors were and it worked! :D
I just love how you're _actually_ solving all of these most complex puzzles. So far, especially the one with the many shape-blocks where you moved them around on a grid in your program and the one with the colours where you have to figure out how the board _would_ look like in a light you're not standing in - the way I approached those was a combination of deduction and brute-force of the remaining options. For the blocks puzzle I just counted the amount of blocks, subtracted that from the amount of fields on the board, figured out 2 have to be left over and tried the few ways that board can be solved that way. And for the colours puzzle, I deduced which colours must be different because of which colours where grouped vs. different throughout all floors I had access to and then tried a couple of combinations I didn't have yet. (Incidentally, I skipped right to the very top instead of just to open air because I happened to hit that solution before the "actual" one.)
I wouldn't say that my way is wrong or yours is right; if they didn't want you to be able to brute-force it (to some degree), they'd prevent or discourage it (as they do in some areas), so I feel fine about my approach, but I'm just super into how analytically you're approaching this, to a depth most people probably won't go. Amazing to watch!
2:35 oh shit, that's why it's called "the witness"
your perspective is all that matters
I know this is a super old video, but I thought I'd chime in with an observation about the "missing yellow floor" that I have not seen in any of the other comments.
If you pay attention to the board while you're riding the elevator up from cyan to the roof, you can see that it passes by the green room and the board will display your (magnificent) solution of the colour puzzle. As the elevator keeps rising, it passes through a space between the roof and the green room, where all the walls are yellow. For a brief moment, your solution to the yellow puzzle can be seen. 18:02 shows this clearly, albeit for a very short time. The elevator then keeps going to the roof where you get white light.
Your path to the solution was fecking incredible! Color wheel theory affects on pigment paint? fecking awesome!! Your Wisdom and Intelligence stats are off the charts!
Thank you so much for your work! Good voice, good playing and good game. Waiting for new episodes.
Really fun thing: your blue-sensitive cones get overstimulated and that’s why it hurts looking at an entirely blue light room. Once you exit that room after being there for a while, your blue cones will be so tired that all other colors will look significantly off for a bit.
Watching you solve that puzzle was amazing. Great work!!!
You did that color puzzle much better than I did :) I didn't even try to solve for green - I simply realized which colors were unique (this was your first step, but you took it much farther by actually doing color combination math), and solved it as if I were trying to separate all of the uniques (which is effectively the same as doing it in white light). It took me straight to the top and skipped the main ground floor :P
wow that was just amazing how you solved this elevator puzzle :O
18:23 I didn't get stuck like you did but seeing your pain I agree that the cables should have had some kind of indicator that you skipped the yellow riding up. I only got it because I watched the elevator go up and saw that there isn't a floor above the green and you actually go uo 2 floors to get to the roof. The blocked missing floor in between is just the yellow cargo container when you look around
Lets play GIMP, lol. This was one of my favorite episodes.
Regarding the "yellow" - sure, yellow may be next on the wheel, but you clearly are not in a yellow light. Sure you're in a yellow box, but it's not yellow lit. Otherwise, the colors on the panel would appear to you as such. Like how you were solving for green as if you were there - well at that point you were where you should be, and it just wasn't yellow. It was open white light from outside.
You, Sir, are amazing. I salute to you while violently throwing my subscribe at you
Keith, because I don't want you to be annoyed by the "yellow" light puzzle: Sunlight is considered to be white light because it contains all components. You'd get yellow light if you take away magenta and cyan from white light (basically how a scanner detects printed colors) (Or how your screen operates with rgb colors). If however real light would be yellow we wouldn't be able to have all these great colors on earth. Or can you tell me how you'd get a blue reflection from a yellow light source? (The surface would have to take away magenta and yellow from the yellow to get blue - that doesn't work though). With other words: The green room was very Alien green, right? and the red room was very Alien red, right. Why wasn't the sunlight very Alien yellowish? Because it is not yellow :) We are just used to how white light looks - that is why we wouldn'd say sunlight looks very Alien whiteish. Well, nobody would say anything like that anyways -_-' Great Problem solving skills tho' :) You'd make a great software developer :) Have a nice time - Noël
"Why is it white?" *looks up at yellow sun* "......ohh shit" xD
The problem is you don't know how colors actually work, that's why you obsess over the wrong thing (like the color wheel and a yellow room).
Never forget, people, we only see 3 types of light: R G B
PS: and for god's sake, Magenta will look Black under Green light (NOT Orange) because it'll have no light to reflect
Nice work on the color puzzle. =) I can't help but feel like a lot of the work would have been done by the earlier puzzles and just writing down what colors the dots looked like through the various glasses, but you still managed to get it, so whatever works!
The elevator puzzle is difficult, but I think it can best be explained like this. You have three distinct colors. In red, you see one different, in blue, you see another different, in purple, you see both. Then you get cyan, with two different colors, and a broken cord to a green room. Your expected to find out that you have to circle the third color on it's own, since you know one color is linked to each set, and you're trying to reach the third color.
All that being said, the color thing is probably the most or second most complex gimmick in the main game, and he hasn't been there yet. No I'm not counting stuff within the mountain. That's endgame stuff.
You were only ever solving the puzzles in the light of the rooms you were already on to progress to the upper one. Then you got the idea that you had to solve for the light in the above room when this wasn't the case. This is why you then expected to solve for yellow light when you only had to repeat the pattern of solving the puzzle in the current light, which was white.
This is my third time watching this playthrough. And this is my favourite puzzle in the game. So Keith doing that colour chart solution is just priceless for me :)
The glass door which you opened secondary is a figure. Its the door you are facing at 1:49 go to the room above you right there, in other words on the 2nd floor in the pink room look slightly down and you will see the figure in blue lining in the door entrance.
holy moly, you went all scientific to solve the elevator riddle. I just took notes of what the colors turn into when looked through the green glass in the first floor
here's the physics for anyone curious:
Pigment primary colours are subtractive, light primary colours are additive. That means that each primary pigment colour (Cyan, Magenta or Yellow) absorbs exactly ONE primary LIGHT colour (Red, Green and Blue, respectively) and reflects the other two light colours we can actually detect with our eyes. These colours mix, which is all additive means.
As an example, let's talk about Magenta light. Magenta light is actually just an equal mix of Blue and Red light added together. So when Blue and Red light is shined on a Cyan surface, the Cyan absorbs the Red and reflects the Blue to our eyes. Thus, we see Blue.
So now let's talk about Green light on its own. Cyan doesn't absorb Green light, and there's no other light present. Thus, we see it as Green. White reflects EVERYTHING, so any light shone on it would turn it into that light. Magenta absorbs all the Green light and shows up as nothing, turning black. And finally Yellow reflects all of the Green, and shows up as Green (just like Cyan).
And there I was simply putting a green color filter over the cyan light in photoshop and be done with it
his gnu-imp can do that too :)
I was thinking this the whole time he was trying to figure out the solution 😂
The way he solved this... Blew my mind. It’s not the easiest way, but damn is it the most interesting and thorough.
Wow, literally solved that puzzle in 5 minutes. I think I must have massively fluked the floor with the broken cable as I never had to deal with the elevator going down. Didn't realise it was so complicated until watching this. Feeling very happy that I avoided a massive headache.
Hi Keith, I have spent the last 3 days watching all of your The Witness videos. I have to say, you have one of the least annoying voices on youtube (this is meant as a compliment, a lot of gaming youtubers are sooo annoying). I have enjoyed it so much and hope you upload more! I know you said at the end that there will be less frequency but it's so hard when a binge watch comes to an end!!!
+catherineliu06 They should still be daily. The reduced frequency has more to do with the fact that I was doing two per day for over an hour of video. That's a tough pace to maintain as the puzzles inevitably get more complicated. I can easily play for an hour each day, but editing takes a lot out of the duration.
+catherineliu06 If you're looking to continue your binge watching habits this is a similar series that's already done: th-cam.com/play/PL5dr1EHvfwpOv1JabqVWmVg3IMqjIqp5Q.html
That was cool thinking with the elevator puzzle. I just ended up thinking to separate the light and dark colors guessing that the green room would manipulate the spot in the middle to be darker and the other spots to be lighter, and thankfully that's what happened. Now that I'm doing 3D art and spending a lot of time with lighting, I'm starting to understand exactly when, how and why that works.
I'm sure I dont need to explain this but side note, that light puzzle has to be my favourite because 90% of people would not bother understanding how light works. But the color wheel for the light puzzle is subtractive I think because I dont know how else you would get black. But back to the point, regardless of color light is always absorbed and reflected so in in the way white light is a reflection of the color that is not absorbed, yellow and red light function the same, its just the properties are different.
You missed two audio logs that I saw, One is in the starting castle on the gate, Other is in the tree carving style chinese type building in one of the main 3 set of windows,Most left on whatever set it is in, laying on the carving.
Honestly an incredible job that you've done here. Wow.
LOL - @4:00 Is probably my favorite moment in this game (that I know of, not having completely finished yet).
Warm colours show in warm light, cool colours show in cool light- secondary & tertiary colours partially show in different lights, depending on their pigment mix...
This is why light theory should be taught beyond art because it's amazing and horrendous
I like how you used a logical, systematic way of solving these puzzles
Best episode hands down
In the initial all red/blue puzzle, the dark squares are what were are blocking out. Theres only 2 divisions in those puzzles. The 3rd division of magenta and cyan blocks in the mixed puzzles are "neutral". In the mixed puzzles we can see which blocks are the opposing color. So in the all red one we can see why the dark squares represent blue and in the all blue one the dark squares represent red. So now we know the all green puzzle will have 2 divisions and that we'll be blocking out the dark squares which represent blue in this case, and based on the cyan puzzle we know the blue are the 2 middle blocks.
As I see it, the reason yellow light wasn't the solution it's cause it was never a matter of understanding which colour comes next in the progression of the colour wheel (except, of course, in the case of the green room, which they make clear), it was just 'solve the puzzle based on the colours you see in front of you'.
i don't know if u already solve that or not but if go from elevator to the full green room and look at down u can see one those circle and lines to draw on :)
19:13
no. the "play" is that you solve to go up based on what you see. you had to sleuth what you WOULD have seen if the cyan cable wasn't broken and the elevator moved when you solved cyan. You're always solving what you see, it has nothing to do with any pattern you're trying to assign.
Wow, I applaud you in how in depth you solved that puzzle :O
I love to see someone working through this puzlle like I did. I once saw a let's play where they solved it by entering a random solution that brought them to the top. That was so painful to me. :D
Very well thought out for the elevator puzzle, however I think there was a simpler approach to solving for green. For each of the of the previous levels, there was only one group that “changed” color. For red, everything was red except for group 1. For magenta, everything was magenta except for group 1 and group 5. For Blue, everything was blue except for JUST group 5. Cyan, all cyan except for 5 and 3. Logically following, there seems to be a pattern for 1, 3, and 5, and 3 has not yet been a separate color by itself. Separate only group 3 for the solution
Alternatively, going from a mix room to a solid room, the color dot of the room you are going to blends in with the rest, and the other prev mix color turns black. Logically following, going from cyan to green, the blue dots (group 3) would turn black, and the green dots (group 5) would now blend in with the rest of the dots (groups 1, 2 and 4)
*Probably a little easier to follow*
Little late to the party, but good job on these puzzles. The color stuff was mind breaky for me.
I'm currently playing this game and I am really enjoying it, but I was going to quit at this puzzle. Thanks.
I feel that you need pen and paper, maybe even graphing paper in order to play this game with the least amount of headaches possible.
The intuitive solution is that the three red on magenta carries over to blue, and cyan adds the two blue dots which means those are from green. You just subtract the solution from blue from cyan.
Best Let's Play ever!
wow, dude, that took more knowledge about light mechanics than I even learned in color theory class in art school! I feel cheated for having to look up straight solutions when you were able to just... figure it out
Your complicated mind is wonderful. I enjoy it.
It took me a while but O solved it by writing the grid down with R G B and checkmarking or putting an x. The red and blue rooms were really helpful for this. Black means not that colour, white(ish) means it has that colour. Finally I added all colours and got the whole grid as if white light would shine.
Holy shit, I was just playing this today and I used the first floor to figure out how green affected the colors because I notice green was the next floor above from cyan. Then I was trying to figure out yellow because I thought it was the only color I was missing. I was right because now that I think about it that’s suppose to be the color of the sun. But job well done still.
and than to think that i just tried a few solutions based on inteligent guesses, it took me 3 minutes. your approach is however far more fun to watch! xD
Another part where the player has a tendency to overthink :D
It's obvious that you solve what was given to you except the green since it's broken so you basically had to skip it by simulating.
Well that was quite more work than needed, but impressive. I'm sure you know this by now - but since you mentioned in the comments "accidentally stumbling upon" the solution was the explanation you were given - it's not. Once you had them divided into the 1/2/3/4/5 group that was pretty much all you needed (well, 2 and 4 being the same) and instead of worrying about what colors they are for real, just plug it in solving the puzzle with those separated and see what happens. Yes, you'd end up skipping a floor - but I think that's what's meant to happen with you getting the following solution AFTER that.
when you entered nature light the yellow squares in your example were in the same place as on the actualy maze why were you cunfused?
The reason those squares look yellow when they came up green with the color picker is because they were surrounded by blue/cyan. Our perception of colors changes depending on the context of those colors, for instance a white square on a checkerboard that's in shadow will still appear white when in reality it is the same color as a black square in the light. Green is a combination of blue and yellow, so putting a green square on a field of blue made the yellow shades more obvious.
Man, you are going crazy with your way of thinking.
I simply said to myself that if I'll separate all the groups of colors there are, the solution has be right, since that's how these puzzles work. And separating them all wasn't the answer to any floor so far, which means this solution has to belong to one of the floors above. And it was indeed correct
The reason green spots looked yellow to you in the cyan light is that the contrast makes your brain compensate for the effect of the colored light to try to see things as they are.
The last level is white because the sun is white, but appears yellow. Some stars will reflect more of one color than others, but there are still all colors being reflected.
Oh look at you the little scientist.
Most people solve the elevator puzzle by inductive pattern recognition. But your way is so much cooler.
I figured it out because the elevator puzzle is the exact same one as the one that teaches the tutorial behind the rack of flowers under the building
I would not be surprised if Mr. Roarke appeared at the end of the game.
I think the reason it goes from green to white is that yellow is actually a "half" floor. When you're going up from green to the outside, there's a few moments when you're inside the yellow box with no outside lights shining in, and the colours on the control panel change to reflect the yellow light. It's quick, but I think that might be the logic there.
So although your logic is correct, and good on ya for that, there is a much easier way to solve this. I didn't realize this until now, which is why it took so long. There is a panel in the original area of the bunker that looks a lot like the elevator panel. Try to find a way to give it green light, it gives you the answer!
I really find it entertaining how you overthink many of the puzzles, when so many times the solution is actually quite simple and right in front of you. The game really does a good job in tricking the player to think overly complicated. And you just show that in such intellectual and entertaining way. I usually get very frustrated when youtubers cant figure out the puzzle (in any game). But your unsolving or struggle with the puzzles are not because you dont try to figure it out or arent intellectually capable of it, but rather that you think so much about the puzzle and really focus on trying to solve it that you sometimes miss the rather obvious.
But don't worry, I do the exact same, and then I need to take a break.
Oh intelligence.. You silly thing.
Keep up the great videos, I look forward to them every day. :)
Occum's razer, my friend. You have four different colors, so you put them each in their own group.
1:13 well that was impressive.
Okay, this video overcomplicated the puzzle to an insane degree. Each floor when you solve it under its particular ambient light takes you to the next floor up. So to get to floor 6, solve the maze for the lighting on floor 5. Which you have already seen is outdoors. And if you forgot you saw it, the puzzle before the stairs where you lower the wall to the outside lets you see it again. So you know all colors need to be separated to get to floor 6, and you’ve already worked out the 5 distinct colors. That’s it.
The color wheel wasn’t needed to solve it, it was just a tool you used to work out the colors but you then ran with it and it made you think the final solution was inconsistent, probably because you were 2+ hours in and your brain was cooked by that point.
here is why it's white. In the light spectrum, white is a combination of all colors, you had to solve each color floor building up to a white light. Black in the light spectrum is an absence of color.
(for those late people like me)
This is how I solved it as well, because I understand subtracting color mixing. However, I've watched playthroughs of people who literally guessed it first try and went straight to the top.. dunno if they subconsciously were tracking which blobs changed, or it was a ridiculously lucky guess.
18:50 I love your perspective on this puzzle! When you say "Wait is this some kind of play that the sun is yellow?", it could be a play on purple, an impossible red-blue color brains literally make up to compensate for limited sets of rods and cones. See also: Purple Earth Hypothesis th-cam.com/video/IIA-k_bBcL0/w-d-xo.html (link to PBS Digital Studios Eons)
What's that program you used to solve this puzzle and the Tetris block puzzle in the underwater room in one of the last two videos? It looks like a Photoshop knockoff
+Keith Ballard was that Bastion OST at 5:32?!
LOL the reaction white light
it's not yellow because it's not yellow.....
the puzzle is perfect
This reminded me too much of the "What color is the dress?" thing
If it takes you two and a half hours to do one laser puzzle, then by all means, space the episodes out. Don't spend a god awful amount of time on something in order to put it up in one day when you have other things to do, like living.
The last cable was white because the color outside was neutral which showed the true colors on the panel.
+Joe Bailey Good job either way though. You have a lot of patience.
5:37 I spy Monster Friend!
Yeah, the elevator puzzle is the exact same puzzle as the last puzzle on the first floor normal color string. THE EXACT SAME.
Exactly, Sun = Yellow and shows default colours so bam, mind blown, but not really. :P
I thought it made perfect sense for the outside to be white... i think you were just so much in the mindset of the colored rooms that you didnt think it. Like if you took a good break and came back to think about it, it would make sense.
The sun is yellow light, like Superman has powers under the yellow sun lol
It is white because if you (like a prisma or crystal) put all colours to gether you get white.
All though people have to keep in mind black and white are no colours :).
that bastion music tho
+Irineo Cardenas A random dose of Darren Korb is always a welcome surprise.