Just another datapoint; my tvOS app stopped showing content, when I forced quit and redid the account auth it now shows the "latest" tab. Oddly the other tabs no longer show up though.
The only puzzles that you should ever have to randomly guess at are the first puzzles in an area that are very small and simple. You can then draw lines randomly to see what fails and what works to guess at how the new puzzle type works. Usually the next couple of puzzles which will be connected will then change things just enough so that you can see if your theory of how the puzzle works is correct or not. Once you get to complex looking puzzles like this you should never need to guess, you will be able to draw a line and know for sure that when you click the endpoint it is a correct solution.
@forcen: you should just leave this puzzle and come back later. You will find areas that teach you what the black dots mean, what the yellow tetris looking blocks mean, and what the blue blocks mean. This puzzle is using multiple rule sets, and is not worth randomly trying to figure it out. Once you have learned all the rules the answer will be trivial to figure out.
@thelastgunslinger: There is no explicit tutorial area for those types of puzzles. You will need to know how to solve more complex versions of them late in the game, and the only way to learn how to solve them to to find the easy ones in the world that you can experiment with and deduce how they work. They also make your solved puzzle count on your save file name go up :)
@walkertr77: I tend to start with the largest piece, and then try to add in the others to complete. By large I mean looking at how high or wide, not necessarily the total number of squares. In your example the large right angle piece due to needing to leave room for the next largest (the 3 cubes line piece) can only have 4 possible positions, that can be narrowed down to 2 possible starting positions if you consider nothing will be able to cover its symbol if you don't have it against the top row.
For sure I got better at not wasting time on the middle puzzles. I never had enough practice to "get good" at the last 2 pillars. That was all luck in getting something that had an easy solution for at least 1 of the 2.
I think the other thing I figured out was the multiple choice set of puzzles right before the maze. My strategy there was to look at all 3 and pick the one that didn't have different colored blocks in a close diagonal.
I don't understand how someone could find the puzzles in the maze and beat it on time without having a clue as to where they are. Did you just side strafe through the whole thing so sometimes a puzzle would cross your sight?
@rongalaxy: to give you a hint about the + count would rob you of one of the best mind blowing part of the game. Just play the game, if you don't stumble on it by chance there is one point where the game gives you a really big hint for what you should do.
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