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Myst Island The Gear Puzzle Return to the library and click on the painting between the blue book and the bookcase to open the door. Head directly out the door until you reach the clock tower, then click on the two wheel valves to see them close-up and set the time to 2:40 (left wheel moves the minute hand in increments of five, the right wheel advances the hour hand by one). Cross the bridge that rises from the water, and you'll find yourself in a tower room with a machine consisting of three horizontal gears with numbers and two levers; to the right is another lever which resets the puzzle. Since the other clue was "2,2,1," you need to align the gears so those are the numbers displayed from top to bottom. The right lever controls the movement of the top two gears, and the left lever controls the bottom two gears.
The key is in how long you hold a lever down before releasing it. Pull a lever and let go quickly, and the appropriate two gears advance one number. But if you pull the lever and keep holding it down, the two gears advance one number and then the bottom gear continues to rotate until you release the lever. So you should pull and quickly release the left lever, pull and quickly release the right lever, then pull and hold the right lever: This rotates the top gear to 2, and after that you can simply wait for the middle gear to rotate to 2 before releasing it. You've now uncovered the book located at the gears, and whenever you need to go to the Mechanical Age all you have to do is go to the gears you saw through the slit in the tower and click on the book.
Next:
The Spaceship Puzzle |
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