Walkthrough | Rock in The Witness The Witness Guide

Last update: 06 March 2019

This chapter contains our walkthrough to the Rock, one of the locations in The Witness. Here, we have only described the locations of these puzzles. If you are looking for solutions, check out Puzzle solutions chapter.

Leave the workshop, turn left and follow the green cable.

You will reach a puzzle on the entrance. Guide the beam from the start to finish and cross all of the marked spots along the path. After you open the door, walk inside, turn right and climb down.

You will reach the first set of double puzzles. Just like in workshop, you need to guide the line along two paths that cross the marked points. In the first set, paths are of the same color, in the next one, which you find by following the newly-lit cable, the puzzle will be two-color. This goes for both the paths and the points that you need to cross. Note that the blue beam always starts in the spot in which you click your mouse. Therefore, if your first attempt was a failed one, change the starting point and run the maze over.

In the third set of puzzles, you need to be more imaginative, because one of the paths will be becoming less and less visible. Do not worry though, it is still there and you just cannot see it. You may find this set trifle problematic. To make things easier, you can draw your solution on a piece of paper beforehand. Also, you can use the mouse to track one line and your finger for another one.

After you solve the third set, you establish power supply to the door to the laser. Solve the easy puzzle and enter.

To your right, you note three more puzzles of increasing difficulty. Solve them.

To solve puzzles on the left, stand in the spot, where you can both see the puzzles with the yellow and the blue paths. Copy the solution of the yellow puzzle into the blue one. Solutions on both sides must be identical.

repeat the copying three times, thanks to which you restore power supply between panels. The laser control panel appears. Activate it.

In this location, there also is an optional set of puzzles. You do not need them to complete the game, but thanks to them, you will learn how to solve perspective-based puzzles. From the climbing spot onto the rock, go left and climb down. There, you find a panel with two beams and without additional markings. To guide the beams in the proper way, you need to stand opposite the panel in the way in which you can see rocks projecting from the water, across the panel. Using the beams, outline the rocks. After you solve this puzzle, follow the lit cable to the next one.

While solving puzzles of this type, remember that you can move. It is important whether you are standing right in front of the panel, or far away from it, whether you are looking straight at it, or at an angle. Apart from that, not necessarily rocks can be the key.