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Nice to know! I spent a good deal of time trying to figure this out.

I just tried to do a puzzle that had a 4x4 grid with pips in each square, and it wanted to know how many pips should go into the square with a ? mark in it. The hint was that it didn't like repeating - so I figured it was kind of like sudoku...nope.

Here's a much faster solution:

1: Deduce correct colour, easy with practice

2: Mentally trace out the lines ROUGHLY (so get the correct areas of the circle)

3: Read options and eliminate any choice with symbols outside the valid areas. This will usually solve it.

4: if still unsolved, trace out 1 exact path mentally and that should be enough to uniquely identify the solution.

Alternatively stop at step 3 for (usually) a 50/50 guess.

Step 1: get a pen and a sheet of paper

Step 2: put your paper on the screen

Step 3: you need to note two critical information from the inner circle: the end of the various lines & it's color, face's middle line, it's gonna help you to get a horizontal line at the end.

Step 4: rotate your paper until you connect all noted lines' end and match with the same color from the middle ring

Step 5: note the middle ring's outgoing endpoints (color is not important at this point)

Step 6: rotate your paper so the face's middle line changes to a horizontal line.

Step 7: now you can check for the solution using the middle ring's out going lines.

I hope I made these steps clear, it was really painful to come up with a solution.

Imma post my way here too then. No diagram, but you can read!

Treat it like a clock. The very top-most icon is 16, the next is 1, then 2, etc.

So let's say the yellow lines are pointing at 1 5 and 10. The lines that would match up with yellow are pointing at +1 (line bends clockwise), -1 (line bends counterclockwise), and 0 (line is straight... or mostly straight).

So the other rings matched to the inner ring are pointing at 2, 4, and 10.

Now to 'rotate' the inner ring, imagine a line going from the 'bottom' to the 'top' of the face. Let's say for this it's pointing at 5. The center will need to be rotated 5 things to the left (or -5).

2-5 = 13 (remember, it's like a clock)
4-5 = 16
10-5 = 5

And voila. Takes about 20 seconds to do once you get used to it.

Step 1: get a pen and a sheet of paper

Step 2: put your paper on the screen

Step 3: you need to note two critical information from the inner circle: the end of the various lines & it's color, face's middle line, it's gonna help you to get a horizontal line at the end.

Step 4: rotate your paper until you connect all noted lines' end and match with the same color from the middle ring

Step 5: note the middle ring's outgoing endpoints (color is not important at this point)

Step 6: rotate your paper so the face's middle line changes to a horizontal line.

Step 7: now you can check for the solution using the middle ring's out going lines.

I hope I made these steps clear, it was really painful to come up with a solution.

A subreddit for the Total War strategy game series, made by Creative Assembly. Discussions, strategies, stories, crude cave-drawings, and more for Medieval 2, Empire, Shogun 2, Rome 2, Attila, Thrones of Britannia, Warhammer, Three Kingdoms and others.

So I've been seeing these pop up along with the other puzzles for searching Ruins; I see that the hint is "alignment is all" but for the life of me these sets of puzzles are confounding me. I can work out the Matching, the Sudoku, and the Die puzzles fairly easily, but the Dials leave me completely @_@

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most modable TW game ever

3 years ago

hi all

we all have had this problem: you search a ruin and you get that silly old ones dial that you have to rotate in your head to get the right answer

this mod fixes that https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1899700957

it does that by replacing the images by pre rotated ones

all credits to Anyndel I am merely sharing it