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On Wed, 30 Aug 2000 00:07:06 -0400, Jenny100 <Jenn...@nospam.com> wrote:
>"Murray Peterson" <mwp@home.com.invalid> wrote in message
>news:8F9FC38B4farkle@24.64.2.57...
>> Jenn...@nospam.com (Jenny100) wrote:
>>
>> >The Cryo walkthrough (which I found after finishing the game) says
>> >this:
>> > Place the disks on the bridge mechanism in the order of creation
>> >defined by the clues given by the characters.
>> >The bridge comes half way down.
>> >Then place the disks as follows, the order of destruction:
>> >
>> >I didn't quite catch what the 'characters' were saying when they
>> >gave me the disks and I didn't ask them to repeat what they
>> >said. I'm not sure if I am interested enough to go back and
>> >work it out though.
>>
>> We went back and listened to those clues 3 times.  They still didn't
>> help us.  If they were clues, then they were too obscure for us.
>>
>
>I wrote down what each of them said, making note of the disk
>they gave me. Then I compared it with the final answers.
>
>Black disk with mountain
>Metal is born of it. Wood later destroys it.
>
>Brown dish with white dots (how one walkthrough described it)
>It creates water but is later consumed by fire.
>
>Dragons on black background
>Water drowns it.
>
>Brown wood dish
>It engenders fire and is later eaten by metal
>
>Herringbone pattern dish
>It fashions wood
>
>Final answers:
>
>Order of creation
>
>Mountains - Metal is born of it
>Brown with white dots - It creates water
>Herringbone - It fashions wood
>Brown wood - It engenders fire
>Dragons
>
>There's a sort of consistency here if you imagine the disk called
>"brown with white dots" to be made out of metal. Then you see
>the metal disk follows the disk with mountains. The herringbone
>disk "fashions wood" and is followed by the wooden disk. If you
>imagine the herringbone disk to have that pattern because it's
>woven and used as a sieve, that might count as a "water disk."
>It follows the "brown with white dots" disk, which "creates water."
>And dragons would stand for fire, "engendered" by the brown
>wood disk.
>
>Order of destruction:
>
>Herringbone
>Dragon - Water drowns it
>Brown with white dots - Is later consumed by fire
>Brown wood - Is later eaten by metal
>Mountains - Wood later destroys it
>
>And here you see the reverse. The mountains are "destroyed"
>by the wood disk above it. The wood disk is "eaten" by the
>"brown with white dots disk" which stood for metal. That metal
>disk was "consumed" by fire - the dragon disk. and the dragon
>disk was drowned by the herringbone water disk.
>
>It makes a sort of sense once you already know the answer,
>but understanding how to interpret the clues previous to
>solving the puzzle?

I didn't care for this puzzle and disagree with the interpretation of the
walkthrough. The disk it called dragons, I saw as fire (water drowns it,
engendered by wood) and not dragons. The disk with what you call a
herringbone pattern, I saw as waves so water fit the image but not the
description (fashions wood) which I thought would be metal. The brown with
dots I saw as a metal plate with rivets since the clues indicated I was
looking for metal but the description (creates water, consumed by fire) I
thought was ice and none of the pictures fit and none of the clues mentioned
it by name. It's a bad puzzle when you are told the solution and have to
force it to fit the clues.