Is there a place in this game that teaches you how to do the puzzles in the beach castle/temple/ruin area? I have looked everywhere I can think of and still have no idea what they want from me.

A yes or no will suffice, I just want to know if I need to look harder or think deeper.

Do you mean the hexagonal puzzles? Then yes, there's a subtle hint in the desert area.

@penzilneck: Thanks, I'll start scouring the sand for clues.

Everything you need is there. Try some other angles

So I'm pretty far into the game (359 +39 whatever that means, with no hints so far), but this place keeps giving me trouble. Anyone want to confirm that a puzzle isn't broken?

I'm looking at three screens up high (at slightly different angles) with hex-puzzles that open up shutters on a puzzle below. I can unlock the middle one, but then I am completely stuck. Now, I could have sworn that the screen just below all these was lit up when I first came here. But then I touched it and it shut down. I haven't been able to light it up again. Am I just not getting the puzzle or did something break?

Not broken.

Powers up after you solve the three above it.

@excitable_misunderstood_genius: Thanks. Will keep struggling.

@satanclaus: I was struggling on this area for ages. Finally managed to finish it yesterday. It look me forever to figure out the logic, once I did I felt silly.

It could be that you touched it and it shut down because you guessed an incorrect input; in many puzzle chains in the game (for example, Puzzle A unlocks Puzzle B, which unlocks Puzzle C, etc.), getting Puzzle B incorrect will force you to have to re-solve Puzzle A to light Puzzle B back up. I've seen a lot of people complain about this, but it's there to prevent you from brute-forcing puzzles by just continuously guessing until you get it right.

I'm not sure, but that might be what happened to you here. Try re-solving the puzzles above (the correct solution should still be there so just re-input it) and see if it lights up the one below again.