Overview
In this Guide, I’ll walk you through on the Puzzles that are in the 7th Guest.
1. Cake Puzzle
All six guests need to receive an equal share of cake. Each share must have two headstones, two skulls and one blank piece. The pieces given to each guest must touch on a side. The final shape of the pieces for each guest doesn’t matter.
Solution:
Select each of the five pieces within the red borders
2. Tin Can Puzzle
Rearrange the cans so that they make a complete sentence.
Hint from the game: Bashful nomad, craftily, agilely, meet secretly near my underground vault.
Solution
The cans should read: SHY ♥♥♥♥♥ SLYLY SPRYLY TRYST BY MY CRYPT
3. Telescope Puzzle
Spell out a sentence by Left Clicking on the letters. After selecting a letter, the next one selected must be connected to the last via a path.
Solution
Click on the Letters starting with the T at the bottom to spell: THERE IS NO POSSIBLE WAY.
4. Bed puzzle
Make a sentence from the letters on the bedspread. From the last selected letter, the next letters that can be used are either -5, -3, +3 or +5 letters away. The * symbols are used as spaces.
Solution
Click on the letters starting with the T to spell: THE*SKY*IS*RUDDY*YOUR*FATE*IS*BLOODY!
5. Bishop Puzzle
The aim of this puzzle is to move the white pieces to occupy the squares where the black pieces are, and vice versa. The bishops can only move diagonally and cannot move onto squares where they can be taken by the opposing colour. This also means that the bishops on different coloured squares cannot affect each other.
Solution
First, work only with the pieces on one colour of squares, then use the mirror image of the moves to get the bishops on the other colour across. Alternate the below moves, with Black and White:
= Black
E2→D3
A2→B3
D3→B1
B3→C4
A4→D1
D1→E2
B1→C2
C2→A4
E4→C2
C4→A2
E2→C4
C2→D1
A2→B1
= White
E3→D2
A3→B2
D2→B4
B2→C1
A1→D4
D4→E3
B4→C3
C3→A1
E1→C3
C1→A3
E3→C1
C3→D4
A3→B
6. Heart Maze Puzzle
Open and close gates so that the blood can flow from the heart to the end. Left Click on the heart to start the blood flowing.
Solution
Left Click on the gates to form the route in the image.
7. Queen Puzzle
Position eight queens on the board so that no queen can capture another queen. Queens can move in any direction including diagonals for as many squares as they want.
Solution
For one solution, place the Queens as shown in the image. There are a total of 12 unique solutions, which may be obtained through backtracking or brute force.
8. Grate Puzzle
The aim of this puzzle is to move the two grates with the semi-circular cutouts to form a hole at the left hand side. To do this, the grates need to be slid around.
Solution
The image has the layout of the grids and below are the moves required to get the hole on the right.
iOS Version:
5 → 6 → 3 → 2 → 5 → 4 → 1 → 2 → 5 → 6 → 3 → 2 → 5 → 4 → 5
PC Version:
5 → 6 → 3 → 2 → 5 → 4 → 1 → 2 → 5 → 6 → 3 → 2 → 5 → 6 → 3 → 2 → 1 → 4 → 5 → 6 → 3 → 2
9. Maze Puzzle
Find your way to the Crypt puzzle at the end of the maze.
Solution
Follow the route from “START” to “FINISH”.
10. Crypt puzzle
Your goal is to close all the coffin lids. There is a simple pattern to the way the lids open and close:
When one of the corner coffins is clicked, the three lids adjacent to it in the shape of a square flip from open to closed or vice versa.
Left Click on the lids in the center of the sides, and all three lids on that edge flip.
Left Click on the center coffin flips the lids of the adjacent coffins horizontally and vertically.
Solution
As the layout of the coffin lids is random at the start, there is no set solution to the problem. However, you may use the following table to form a solution. Number the coffins going left to right, top to bottom so that the top left coffin is 1 and the bottom right coffin is 9. Then, to close a coffin while leaving the others in their original state:
Coffin 1:
1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Coffin 2:
2,4,6,7,9
Coffin 3:
1,2,3,5,6,9
Coffin 4:
2,3,4,8,9
Coffin 5:
2,4,5,6,8
Coffin 6:
1,2,6,7,8
Coffin 7:
1,4,5,7,8,9
Coffin 8:
1,3,4,6,8
Coffin 9:
3,5,6,7,8,9
Note that each list of coffins can be clicked in any order.
To find an optimal solution for any starting configuration simply use the table above to count the number of times each coffin must be clicked (for example if coffins 1, 2, and 6 were open at the start just blindly following the above lists you’d have to click coffin 1 twice, coffin 2 three times, coffin 3 once, coffin 4 twice, and so on.) Then, any coffin that you would have clicked an odd number of times you need only click once; any coffin that you would have clicked an even number of times need not be clicked at all. (Again, using the same example where you want to close 1, 2, and 6 you would click once on each of 2,3,5,7,8,9.) Since each coffin is clicked once at most, the puzzle is solvable in nine clicks or less.
Once the puzzle is solved clicking the cursor when it displays the ‘look to the side’ pointing finger will result in you exiting the entire room (by climbing into one of the coffins, for… Some reason), and re-emerging in the kitchen. There’s no need to traverse the awful maze again, though – just head straight to the drawing-room before you do anything else, and click on the book to be taken straight back to the crypt puzzle.