This guide explains how to solve Pressure Plate puzzle. Warning! This may contains spoilers.
Pressure Plate Puzzle Solution
Initial Conditions
The book lists 5 numbers. 10, 11, 15, 1, 5.
Full poem:
- Pressure by Felix Z
- Each wave deadlier than the next
- The soldiers beat at the gates
- My ten archers covering me
- The arrows fly straight
- What was eleven reduced to 1
- What was 15 is 5
- From left to right to reach the end
- Until I reach my prize
How to Solve
Take the total of your current column, then modulus 10 it to get the results of the next step. 1st column is always 0 because there is no existing column.
- Column 1: 0, 6, 9 = 15 = 5
- Column 2: 7, 5, 8 = 20 = 0
- Column 3: 8, 4, 0 = 12 = 2
- Column 4: 5, 2, 9 = 16 = 6
Passcode for first 5 columns = 0, 5, 0, 2, 6
Please all game developers, do not drop poorly explained puzzles thirty hours into your top down shooter, it was a long way to come to uninstall this game now because the puzzle had a stupid poem clue that did not describe the solution.
answer for those who didn’t understand the explanation (translate into English if you don’t understand Portuguese)
Ande até o 0 da primeira coluna, some os 3 números da coluna que vc está (fazer isso desdá primeira coluna que tem o numero 0 em diante), se a soma for maior que 10 você deve subtrair 10 do resultado da soma, se a soma for maior que 20 você deve subtrair 2 vezes o numero 10 e o resultado que sobrar será o próximo piso que terá que pisar, para a ultima situação, se ocorrer do numero ser menor do que 10 voce deve apenas somar os 3 números das colunas e o resultado será o proximo piso. EXEMPLO:
qualquer coluna
6+6+2= 14-10(regra)= 4 (esse é o próximo piso)
9+9+6= 24-10-10= 4
0+4+2= 6
Why did you say “modulus 10” instead of just “divide by 10, answer is the remainder”? What is “modulus 10”?! We ain’t mathmaticians. Explain things simply.