Open the star fissure before visiting gehn or catherine.
Marble puzzle riven.
One of my favourites.
Marble puzzle solution once completed successfully this will restore the power to all the fire marble domes around riven.
Marble puzzle solution once completed successfully this will restore the power to all the fire marble domes around riven.
If not the marbles stay where they are and you need to try again.
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 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.
In riven two core puzzles need to be solved to complete the game.
Just finished riven for the second time.
Since a most of riven s puzzles are based on the exploration of the world there are only a few direct solutions.
After solving the fire marble puzzle there are other ways to end the game.
It is now time to leave the riven islands.
Here it is annotated.
These two core puzzles are the tombstone puzzle and the fire marble puzzle.
If you are really stuck here is the solution.
Here it is by the way.
And here is a view of the plaque from a few steps back with the catwalk retracted to match the diagram.
Mbraedley feb 2 14 at 14 15.
Visit gehn an do not capture him and do not free catherine but go directly back and open the star fissure.
There is a mistake in this diagram.
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.
As to the marble puzzle the solution lies in the colour of the grand dome.
Visit gehn and capture him in the trap book and go back and open the star fissure without freeing catherine.
Each puzzle requires a significant amount of time spent in detailed study of various clues provided in the game.
That said i noticed a design flaw in one part of the fire marble puzzle.