Ongoing Thoughts and Ideas

• The Island
• Official Map
• Unofficial overhead

• Windmill
• Has several discount sounds. A few simple clinks, and less often a louder Clunk
• Has an X shape set of flowers (from orchard side) with a few extra flowers
• Flowers
• 10+ Lotus flowers exist throughout the island
• Their purpose is heavily disputed.  Some say they are indicative of region. Other feels they indicate a region component/hint for a 'larger island wide puzzle'
• Vases
• There are 8 vases.  Each one represent 0-7 in binary.  Thin is 0, Thick is 1
• The puzzle on the wall, can be used to raise a specific vase
• The yellow Vase is used in Env Puzzle
• Binary: 000, 001, 010, 011, 100, 101, 110, 111 
• Thick/wide radius is 1,  thus if you want the 5 or 101, you will draw a shape that has has thick in first and third spot and thinner in middle
• Some believe it is used as a combination to larger island wide puzzle
• No currently known effect or sounds.  
• Secret pathway to Underground
• Panels used to be hung here?
• Underground: The 4 floor panels
• Many believe these are used in a larger island wide puzzle.  They are overly easy, largest number of combinations seen.  Can't brute force all combinations.
• https://i.imgur.com/lzmRbeu.png
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• Image found in main exe:  Approximately 2/3 the size
• Disputed if water or clouds,  if box art, or even if significant.

Relevant Reddit Links and Misc Facts

Relevant Reddit Links:

• Audio locations
• Approximately 49
• As counted by number of flowers in center lake.  Also indicate location.    
• Secret hotel/dev credits area, not counted here by Lake.
• Text translation can be seen in the following *.subtitle files
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\The Witness\data\strings 
• No known effect from 100% completion
• Movies
• 6 movies
• Puzzles Solutions found through single rooms in game
• The 4th puzzle is the reward for the challenge area (music box)
• Text Transcripts can also be seen in the follow *.subtitle files
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\The Witness\data\strings
• Obelisk Locations
• 135 Environment Puzzles
• 6 Obelisks
• Turn white when 100% individually completed.
• No known effect from 100% completion
• Dev Area/Credits/Hotel/Airport/Ending 2
• Entrance is through Env Puzzle in starting area
• As posted by Ericsz, can be reinitialized after opening gate. 
• While traveling to the end2. You can see the music box room in 2+ locations, these are NOT the literal same location, but are copies of it. As discovered when noclip was functional. 
• Interesting Fact: Near the end2. You can see the man that was reaching for the holy grail near the town (but shadow can reach) falling here in space, having dropped the mug. 
• For some PS4 or un-updated copies, you can see a shorter lower quality video. This is fixed by updating version to longer 7-8 minute video. 
• Misc
• 7 lasers minimum to open mountain
• 11 lasers to power a puzzle near the end that opens 'secret underground'
• The Challenge(The Music Box), exists in the underground
• The Music Box
• Timed event. 4-5 minute timed event of random puzzles
• 3 sets of 3 screens indicate time.  Minutes, Tenths, and Eighths. 
• Right screen counts in 8ths  (0-7)
• Middle screen counts in tenths (0-9)
• Left Screen has no known upper bound, but reaches 4-7 ish?
• WR at time of this posting 2:16
• Music Box will 'shut off'/unload if you travel too far from challenge area
• No known effect from specific completion time yet

Random: End Elevator Room

The final elevator room, as seen from above.

It was theorized that it might be a walking style puzzle.  The pressure plate being the start and the elevator being the finish.   Perhaps Timed.



Discoveries:  There is a distinct clunk/clink sound about 10 seconds after pressure plate's door puzzles are closed. This was discovered to be the pressure plate rising back up to the original position. Can be seen if observed carefully.

Doritos

Doritos(Orange Triangles) Puzzles

They appear as Doritos(Triangles/Leaves) in the lake.
If they are above water, they are not found,  if below water(brownish) they have been discovered.

• 01 Start area - Path around the side of castle
• 02 Town: Clay Building Roof - On the roof
• 03 TreeTops house - Bridge
• 04 TreeTops house - Laser 
• 05 Glass Factory Roof Next to Symmetry Island: On the roof of glass factory
• 06 Mountain Waterfall - Top of waterfall, can be reached by a slightly hidden path near tree bridge
• 07 Tropical Desert Beach - On the coast, past the bunker
• 08 Town: Orange Container - In container
• 09 Keep
• 10 Mountain Elevator - Inside, upper part of the elevator ride
• 11 Tropical Jungle Forest - On a tree, hidden path from the beach side (easy to miss)
• 12 Shipwreck - Look down in a hole on the midsection
• 13 Quarry - On the roof
• 14 Windmill basement: Theater - Nearby town. underneath Windmill Behind Theater 

Thanks to MattRiz for image

Some puzzles have multiple solutions
Rule: Dorito Count indicates the number of edges that must touch with the block