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Collapsing Tunnels Enigmatic Hoardstalker (Riddles)

In this puzzle, you must synchronize colored lights that travel along four pathways from the standard compass directions to a large crystal in the center of the room. This is done by moving on and off pressure pads that control the timing of the lights.

In this octagonal room you will find a large, pale blue crystal in a holder in the very center of the room. Leading to this crystal from the north, south, east and west, are a pressure pad and a line of four smaller crystals. Along one wall will be red, green, yellow and blue lodestones, some of which may be lit, while others are inactive. There are sometimes skill resources near the pressure pads, and there can be trees along the walls as well.

For each active lodestone, you’ll see its matching colored light traveling from one of the pressure pads to the center crystal, moving one square each clock tick. Each time one of these lights hits the center crystal, it will briefly glow, then fade, and the sequence repeats. Your job is to synchronize the lights so they all arrive at the center at the same time; this will cause the central crystal to glow permanently, and unlock the doors. This is done by stepping on a pressure pad to stop that light from moving, then stepping off at the right time.

• Skill Requirements: Magic.
  
  
• Tool Requirements: None.
  
  
• Overall Difficulty: Low.
  
  
• Added Difficulty for High Latency Connections: Moderate.
  
  
• Danger Level: None.
  
  
• Time Required: Low.
  
  
• Monsters in Room? No.
  
  
• Resources in Room? Yes (often ores).
  
  
• Impact of Team on Puzzle: Believed to be none.

First, click any dimmed lodestones to get all of the colored lights moving; this has a Magic skill requirement. If possible, try to time this so that the new light is synchronized with one of the existing colors; you may be able to do this by clicking a lodestone to turn it on just as one of the other colors hits the central crystal. This is not always easy to do—and it doesn’t really matter much anyway—but if you are lucky enough to come in when none of the lodestones are lit, it is possible to solve the entire puzzle without touching a pressure pad!

Once all four lights are going, what you do next depends on how many lights are already synchronized.

If none of them are synchronized, the best thing to do is just move onto one pressure pad and then off again, and most likely you will now have two lights synched. If not, just repeat this once or twice until you do.

With two lights synchronized, pick a third light to synch to those two. Go to the third color’s pressure pad and stand on it, trying to stop the light as close to the central crystal as possible. Now watch the two lights you are trying to synchronize to. When they are 1 or 2 squares away from the light whose pad you are standing on, step off. If you aren’t successful, try again; the amount of time you need to allow before stepping off depends on your Internet connection and reflexes.

The last light can be synched in the same way as the third, but there’s an even easier trick. Go to the pressure pad for the out-of-synch color, and time it so you go on the pad when that light has disappeared. This means it is currently lighting up the central crystal. As soon as the other three colors reach the center, the four will be synchronized and the doors automatically unlocked.

I have not yet had an opportunity to try this puzzle in a team, but I have been told that it is identical. It is likely easier to have one person do this puzzle while others do a different room, rather than trying to coordinate multiple players stopping various lights.

Collapsing Tunnels Enigmatic Hoardstalker (Riddles)