r/BluePrince

Hi! This was one of my favourite games in 20+ years of gaming and I had to really hold back tears when I read the >!Blue Prince manuscript!<! :) Major thanks to everyone who helped me on my previous post and recommended Blue Paths to me, I would have never gotten to the end otherwise! Managed like 80-90% of it myself, but desperately needed some nudges from there. (Especially being a non-native English speaker..! Also I would not have had the patience for the numeric cores. I understand what to do, just... no thank you. I have done enough fantasy math!)

Anyway there are a few clues that I have saved in my screenshots folder, which I haven't seen mentioned on this website: https://unsolved-puzzles.github.io/unsolved-puzzles/blue-prince/

It could be that I'm just not connecting how they're related to puzzles I've solved using other clues. Do let me know if that's the case!

1. The numbers 1-8 on the Orrsphere map. I saw the same pattern outside surrounding the birdbath in front of the tunnel and tried clicking them in that sequence, as well as a few other areas I can't remember where you can find a similar shape, but obviously nothing came of it. Is this pattern used anywhere?

2. Speaking of, there's a lot of little details on both those maps that never really went anywhere..? The tower, the guy holding some page, the degrees, the mountain path... Are those anything?

3. The Clock Tower note - was this just a hint at Eraja being a poetic society? I tried messing with the weathervane but nothing came of it.

4. The arrows on a few clocks, the board in the safehouse, the study shelf... Are these truly nothing?! From the very beginning I thought they must be something related to time, like they're clock arrows and that's some sort of key (i.e. clock 11:05 or 13:55... or because there's an arrow between them, the length between those, so 2 hours..?) but when I asked my initial questions here I was told those are just part of the game's art and not something to be worried about. But they look way too deliberate to be an accident, it's bothering me lol.

5. The "we are retreating east" note - did I miss some lore somewhere? I'm confused what this is about. Not sure what SD is either.

6. Herbert's unfinished letter - I don't have the patience anymore to try this myself, but has anyone tried applying still water to it? I assume this is just a funny note and nothing more, but the still water thing just popped into my mind as I was going through my screenshots :')

7. The blueprint at the end of the red letter with number 2 on it. I can't even tell what it's of... Is it of the closed exhibit? It doesn't look like it at all.

8. Not a clue who Marae Bohl is, is her recital date or location related to anything?

9. One of the conference rooms chairs has a slightly different marking in that blueprint cutscene that has "within a timely manner" subtitles. Tried interacting with it but didn't find anything. Is this simply me descending into madness..?

10. Laboratory blue note - just lore? I feel this way about a lot of blue notes... They were supposed to be helpful, and some were, but are a lot of them really just lore? Same for the one about Alzara, about Clara's death, about 8 gems being removed from the crown, about Herbert being born 3 years before his brother Simon, the dog names, the expedition to the south key and some others... just lore..? "Months are slightly longer than days"..?? Uh, yeah, I sure hope they are?

11. When a treasure is buried in the Pool room it opens up a hole with this little box. Same pattern as the Boiler Room belt puzzle that I've heard hasn't been solved still.

12. (no screenshot) Are the statues in the chapel... anything? I wrote down what they look like but that never really seemed relevant anywhere. Saw at least one of the same statues in the basement, possibly more elsewhere.

OKAY that's all I can think of for now! If you have any thoughts on any of these I'd love to hear them thank youuu :)

I know how the Billiard Room Puzzle works. >!Blue is add, pink is subtract, yellow is Multiply, press the number that is the answer.!<
Except the mathematical answer to this question is 100. Which isn't on the board. (9-4=5. 5*20=100.)
So I just tried pushing every button on the board.

...the answer was 16.
HOW IS IT 16??? I have to be missing something here, I've been staring at it for minutes, I can't figure it out. Please help.

Okay, so I used the monk blessing to get the foundation in my outer room. On day 149, I received a removal spray on the outer foundation to make it go away. On day 150, both foundations were gone. So far, makes sense.

On day 155, 6 days after I used the spray, I had two dice and was down to one door, so I used both rerolls to try and get a room with three or more doors. On my last reroll, I drew the foundation, and while I was a bit confused, and disappointed with the location, it was my only non-dead end, and I wasn't ready to give up on this run, so I took it, and consoled myself with at least it was slightly improved over it's original location, and worst case scenario, I can monk again.

On day 156, I make a plan for my run to full out the lower ranks to get items and specific rooms, and to then use (if necessary) the foundation to get closer to rank 8 (I was trying to draft a specific room on that rank. Imagine my surprise when I realized I no longer had a foundation. There was no blessing, there was no reuse of the spray. (don't ask why I didn't use my remaining doors in the entrance and commissary, I don't remember)

So, uh, why did I get the foundation less than a week after using the spray on it, and why did it disappear afterwards?

I have continued to not have a foundation in the handful of days I've played since. I did draw it earlier today, but I didn't draft it because I had other drawing options and I didn't like the location. Also, it's no longer in my directory, but my understanding is that, that's normal. It did tell me that I had a new room (despite long since having the explorer's trophy) when I called it a day on day 155.

Hello all! I finally did the >!blue path with help from blue paths I must admit, but when I get there it’s in the furnace so idk do I have to do it differently to get to the other moon door? And then inside there is a mora jai box with the word blue!< and then there was no cutscene and no video or anything. It feels a little empty for it being the definitive end? Idk maybe I didn’t do it right. Do I need to >!do a path that takes me where the other ones did? Or do I need to do something in the main house?!< thank you for your help 🫶

!! MAJOR spoilers !!

>!Last month, my friends and I finished our playthrough (via discord with the one who owns the game streaming - wonderful way to play this game in my experience; we do this with different puzzle games). Finished as in we ascended, did atelier, got the Blue Prince book, etc. and I’d like to share some of our experiences and thoughts! We almost never looked up clues/hints/advice, we had an embargo on looking anything up or watching any content about the game until we finished!<

>!When we ascended, we did blue on the king’s banner in addition to having the scepter, crown, and effigy, because we went entirely off of the painting of the red king’s coronation! We totally missed the “steady is the scepter” clue because we were honed in on doing throne room and secret passage as outer rooms as soon as we realized we could put outer rooms outside. Hilariously, we basically always took the high roller monk blessing and didn’t look up the others (or give different amounts of coins) until we got to the stage where ascension and atelier were all we had left to do; when we did look it up, I was like uhhhh guys I think we’re supposed to put indoor rooms outside LOL!<

>!Our first time ever digging from a treasure map, it was in the Bedroom by random chance! We spent the entire rest of the game trying to figure out how to use MANTIS, alas it was fruitless!<

>!In the drawing room, figuring out what counts as small gates and how to organize the numbers into a date was by far our hardest safe, even though we found the safe the first time we entered the room!<

>!The whole game, we were convinced something was up with the den, due to the clocks with weird arrows on them, knocked over candle, and little (music?) box on the mantle that looks like it needs a key!<

>!We brute forced a few of the sanctum sigils because we realized really late we should be looking at stamps lol!<
>!For the Aries court, we got all the letters for the hint grid except the X, so brute forced the three possible times!<

>!I was convinced for a long time you have to draft throne room off of foyer in order to ascend, because of the foyer’s hand statues, plus the carpets lining up and the fact it’s a royal looking foyer. The purpose of the hands is still unknown I believe!<

>!We finished the atelier in just two or three days after finding it!<

>!We never got the second upgrade for spare room (we did green room)!<

>!We got the final ending exactly on day 100, at like 103 hours in the game!!<

>!What a great game, it was a truly unique experience. Every time we felt lost, we found something that made it click in a beautiful lightbulb moment. We had soooo many days we thought were useless and then something happened where we suddenly unraveled a huge thread and the day takes an extra hour or more to finish. We had crazy crackpot theories that sometimes ended up being true. We thought it’d be a nice little <10ish hour experience like most puzzle games we’ve played together, we had no idea what a treat we were in for… we started Nov 22 and finished Apr 26. And we didn’t even do the special modes or try to get all the achievements!<

I finally got my day 1 clear after many months of tries. Also happened to do it in under an hour apparently. Posted the picture of the 3 trophies.

EDIT: Thanks y'all! Not a bug, I just didn't click around enough 😮‍💨

This solution does not work when I hit the red button. This should be right except for the >!crosses on the radial lines.!< I cannot figure out how to get these to show up, however. I've tried looking it up, but haven't been able to find anyone else with this issue, which makes me think it's a bug. I'd be very happy to find out I'm just dumb in this scenario. Thanks in advance!