Marble Puzzle Riven
These two core puzzles are the tombstone puzzle and the fire marble puzzle.
Marble puzzle riven. One of my favourites. There is a mistake in this diagram. Here it is by the way. If you have solved the puzzle you should hear the system powering up the linking books and see the marbles ending back on the right.
Marble puzzle solution once completed successfully this will restore the power to all the fire marble domes around riven. If you are really stuck here is the solution. A number of minor puzzles must be solved to access these clues. Visit gehn an do not capture him and do not free catherine but go directly back and open the star fissure.
Marble puzzle solution once completed successfully this will restore the power to all the fire marble domes around riven. Open the star fissure before visiting gehn or catherine. Just finished riven for the second time. Open any of the marble domes and enter the 5 d ni numbers you have obtained from gehn s book these are always different therefore if you have not obtained these you will need to go back to his lab on crater island and.
Here it is annotated. As to the marble puzzle the solution lies in the colour of the grand dome. Since a most of riven s puzzles are based on the exploration of the world there are only a few direct solutions. And here is a view of the plaque from a few steps back with the catwalk retracted to match the diagram.
Others change randomly each time the game is played so they have to be discovered during gameplay. In riven two core puzzles need to be solved to complete the game. Visit gehn and capture him in the trap book and go back and open the star fissure without freeing catherine. Open any of the marble domes and enter the 5 d ni numbers you have obtained from gehn s book these are always different therefore if you have not obtained these you need to go back to his lab on crater island and get them.
That said i noticed a design flaw in one part of the fire marble puzzle. It is now time to leave the riven islands. On riven the number system and the letter system are based on the power of five so the six symbol colour system really stands out. After solving the fire marble puzzle there are other ways to end the game.