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I don't know if this is a bug or my being rubbish at solving the puzzle, but I'm having a problem in the underground rail car thing in Selenic. This puzzle was the one that had me stumped the longest the first time I played, and it's giving me even more trouble now. It's one of the very few puzzles in all the Myst games that I don't remember the solution for, and I want to solve it if I can, but I'm becoming increasingly certain that it's impossible for me to do so, and must be a bug.

This is happening: I'm in the car, and simply don't have anywhere I can go. I've mapped out my possible choices, and as you can see, there aren't many.

http://bayimg.com/hapBiaAbI

If you know how to solve the puzzle, that should make sense. Unless I'm getting it totally wrong. I'm positive that the map is correct. So my question to those of you who know the solution to this maze is, am I missing some vital element of solving the puzzle, or is it broken?

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Cubkyle wrote:

I found a few more reviews where people mention being stuck in the compass room in the dark. One where someone even says that they quite sure that they pressed the right button, but are still stuck in the dark. Maybe there is a bug there.

I'm not sure how the power timer works, but a friend (it happened to him) and I have wondered if maybe the power ran out just as he hit the button? That would happen, right?

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Mystdee wrote:

If the power runs out, yes the room goes dark but you can still get out, you would not be stuck there.

I think "stuck" may mean "lost in the dark" and not "game breaking stuck." Though, I haven't actually seen the reviews...

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Tutelary wrote:

I don't know if this is a bug or my being rubbish at solving the puzzle, but I'm having a problem in the underground rail car thing in Selenic. This puzzle was the one that had me stumped the longest the first time I played, and it's giving me even more trouble now. It's one of the very few puzzles in all the Myst games that I don't remember the solution for, and I want to solve it if I can, but I'm becoming increasingly certain that it's impossible for me to do so, and must be a bug.

This is happening: I'm in the car, and simply don't have anywhere I can go. I've mapped out my possible choices, and as you can see, there aren't many.

http://bayimg.com/hapBiaAbI

If you know how to solve the puzzle, that should make sense. Unless I'm getting it totally wrong. I'm positive that the map is correct. So my question to those of you who know the solution to this maze is, am I missing some vital element of solving the puzzle, or is it broken?

Hi Tutelary,

I just did the mazerunner puzzle in Selenitic this afternoon, & it worked fine for me--I'm pretty sure it's not buggy. I think you can probably solve it by making diagrams as you're doing (I remember trying to make very elaborate maps when I first tackled it in the original version), but there is also another way. Hint:

Have you been to the Mechanical Age yet? There's something there that you might find very helpful in figuring out how the mazerunner works.
Let us know if you want a stronger hint than this. Good luck!

I made some research from Nordic and Finno-Ugric countries in iStore. I took UK and US too.

And "iMyst" list is

Code:

So hopefully we all follow Estonia's example.

Zap

Jane wrote:

Tutelary wrote:

I don't know if this is a bug or my being rubbish at solving the puzzle, but I'm having a problem in the underground rail car thing in Selenic. This puzzle was the one that had me stumped the longest the first time I played, and it's giving me even more trouble now. It's one of the very few puzzles in all the Myst games that I don't remember the solution for, and I want to solve it if I can, but I'm becoming increasingly certain that it's impossible for me to do so, and must be a bug.

This is happening: I'm in the car, and simply don't have anywhere I can go. I've mapped out my possible choices, and as you can see, there aren't many.

http://bayimg.com/hapBiaAbI

If you know how to solve the puzzle, that should make sense. Unless I'm getting it totally wrong. I'm positive that the map is correct. So my question to those of you who know the solution to this maze is, am I missing some vital element of solving the puzzle, or is it broken?

Hi Tutelary,

I just did the mazerunner puzzle in Selenitic this afternoon, & it worked fine for me--I'm pretty sure it's not buggy. I think you can probably solve it by making diagrams as you're doing (I remember trying to make very elaborate maps when I first tackled it in the original version), but there is also another way. Hint:

Have you been to the Mechanical Age yet? There's something there that you might find very helpful in figuring out how the mazerunner works.
Let us know if you want a stronger hint than this. Good luck!

Here's how I did that puzzle:

It's actually easy enough that you don't need to remember the Mechanical noises at all. The first two rooms only have one other direction to go than the one you came from, so you can match the noises to those directions, leaving you with two. Once you have those, the next few rooms (two directions each) use different noises, so you can reason out the directions you've already gone, which gives you the noise for all directions by room 5. After that, it's just a matter of following the noises until the puzzle's over.

Exactly, Koetsu, that's how I did it as well.

I never got how people figured out the directions when I first played Myst, but now on the iPod I figured it out myself!

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Koetsu, what you wrote in your spoiler tag is true, but

Tutelary wanted to figure out the puzzle for him/herself, and clearly hadn't made the connection between the sounds & the directions yet. So I was trying to give a nudge without totally spoiling. Maybe we need two tags here? for "sort-of-spoilery hint" spoilers versus "really & truly a spoiler!" spoilers.

Jane wrote:

Maybe we need two tags here? for "sort-of-spoilery hint" spoilers versus "really & truly a spoiler!" spoilers.

You can change the wording of the spoiler tag yourself to something like:
Just put the equal sign and what you want to say after the word spoiler.

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