Marlena the Mermaid - Crystal Ball Puzzle

This is the one where you try to line up the outer colors to the inner colors, am I right? It doesn't help that I went in with very little time, but I'm totally perplexed -- is there some sort of pattern, or is it just random luck to get them all done? Any help would be appreciated!

I think you do need to line the colors up, but as to how, I am stumped also. Seems like clicking the inner circle makes some of them line up, but click on the next one and it removes it.

Click on the inner circle, the following outer circle will change. Work your way around.

okay, so I go around and click the inner circle, I manage to get 2 of them matched up which causes a colored light to come from those 2. But for all I have done I cannot get any of the others to match up and it seems like I cannot play with certain ones or it turns off the glowing lights from the 2 I do have.
Any more hints out there? It would surely be appreciated.

I am having the same problems, and can't seem to work out how the colours swap from inner to outer? Do you need to start on a specific colour or point of the circle?

Any help appreciated!!!

Click on the inner part and it'll send the colour to the outer part of the circle over one clockwise, I believe.

Click on the outer part and it'll send the colour to the inner one.

I think this is the way.

I believe you're right, KDM99. One thing I found that made it easier once I figured out the pattern of how the colors change was to try to work around in a circle, rather than having lit segments across from each other, because you don't have to "unlight" them as many times as you finish the puzzle. Does that make any sense? In other words, light one segment, then the one next to it, clockwise, then the one next to that one, etc.

Thank you!!! Have now done this. Seems its a case of moving outer and inner until they line up ;)

My entire game goes black when I enter this puzzle. I have tried restarting...how frustrating.

I've tried clicking on every color... both inside and outside circles, and absolutely nothing happens. Clock is still ticking down, and the "get a hint" option isn't working, either!

Any suggestions?

There are three controls in the bottom left. The one on the right selects which color wheel to turn. The other two turn that wheel either clockwise or counterclockwise.

Thank

lordkalvan wrote:There are three controls in the bottom left. The one on the right selects which color wheel to turn. The other two turn that wheel either clockwise or counterclockwise.

Thank you, LordKalvan... however that was the next puzzle. :-) (which I got with no trouble, thanks to the posts here!)

I finally just exited the game and went back in, and was able to change the colors. Don't know why they wouldn't change when I was first trying to move them!

I am having so much trouble trying to get the lights in the right order.
Is there a certain color that you start out with at the top? I can get three or four right, but that is all.
Please help,
Thanks,

BethWi1946 wrote:I am having so much trouble trying to get the lights in the right order.
Is there a certain color that you start out with at the top? I can get three or four right, but that is all.
Please help,
Thanks,

As far as I know there is no specific order. Pick a spot and work around from that point. Clicking on the inner circle moves the light color to the outer circle and one slot clockwise. Clicking on the outer circle moves that color to the same slot-inner circle.

It is not hard once you understand the way it works. Stay calm and you'll get it.

The easiest way I found to do this is to just leave the bottom colors as they are and change the top colors to match them.

Pick anywhere to start. Look at the bottom section color of the one you picked. Now find the other section (anywhere on the wheel, could be top or bottom) that matches that color. Move that second one around the wheel. You'll get the pattern pretty quick. Bottom moves to the next top. Top moves down to its bottom section. Then you can move from that bottom section to the next top. And so on.

Just move that color all the way around--it will end up in the top, matched to the bottom you started with, and a bright light will come on.

Now notice the bottom color of the next section counterclockwise from the pair you just made. Find its match. Move its match around the wheel until its in the top. Now you'll have two sections in a row lit up.

And repeat until you've done the whole wheel.

As long as you complete sections counterclockwise and leave the bottom color alone, moving its mate to match it in the top, you won't get stuck. This works because going from bottom to top is how you move from one section to another, so it doesn't change the one you're trying to match to.

There may be a faster way, but this was the method I found that meant I never undid previous matches.

Thanks so much, finally got it figured out..
Now on to the next one. :-)

Start with the last going clock wise as this is the way to move them, keep clicking the same color and follow it to from inner to outter till you get it in place , I finally did it !!!!!!!!!!!!

I have solved the puzzle and all the light beams shoot out of each section the middle turns white and then nothing happens timer continues to countdown but I can't move on

I can,t seem to find the way to solve this puzzle, can you help?

bobbiberta wrote:This is the one where you try to line up the outer colors to the inner colors, am I right? It doesn't help that I went in with very little time, but I'm totally perplexed -- is there some sort of pattern, or is it just random luck to get them all done? Any help would be appreciated!