These two core puzzles are the tombstone puzzle and the fire marble puzzle.
Marble puzzle riven.
If not the marbles stay where they are and you need to try again.
After solving the fire marble puzzle there are other ways to end the game.
Just finished riven for the second time.
Visit gehn and capture him in the trap book and go back and open the star fissure without freeing catherine.
Marble puzzle solution once completed successfully this will restore the power to all the fire marble domes around riven.
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.
Visit gehn an do not capture him and do not free catherine but go directly back and open the star fissure.
Each puzzle requires a significant amount of time spent in detailed study of various clues provided in the game.
In riven two core puzzles need to be solved to complete the game.
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.
That said i noticed a design flaw in one part of the fire marble puzzle.
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.
Since a most of riven s puzzles are based on the exploration of the world there are only a few direct solutions.
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Here it is by the way.
Others change randomly each time the game is played so they have to be discovered during gameplay.
And here is a view of the plaque from a few steps back with the catwalk retracted to match the diagram.
A number of minor puzzles must be solved to access these clues.
One of my favourites.
Here it is annotated.
There is a mistake in this diagram.
Marble puzzle solution once completed successfully this will restore the power to all the fire marble domes around riven.
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.
Open the star fissure before visiting gehn or catherine.