The Fountain Puzzle in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is one of the game's trickiest but most satisfying challenges.
Players must solve tricky puzzles and get creative to uncover the secrets under the Fountain of Confession. Here's how to solve the puzzle:
How To Solve the Fountain Puzzle
To begin, you must manipulate two dragon statues on either side of the fountain.
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+ 4Head over to the left dragon statue and find the missing claw under it; just explore the nearby platform to reach it.
Once the claw is attached to the statue, rotate it to face the fountain. Move over to the right dragon statue and turn it to face the left statue.
This alignment is what gets the mechanism working. Head to the fountain's base and use your whip to tug on the central lever.
Doing this will open the fountain and reveal the next part of the puzzle. After you open the fountain gate, you'll run into the Baptism Puzzle.
You must organize statues and direct the water flow in this section.
Inside the newly revealed area, you’ll find a rotating platform with two key statues: one of a man with a bucket and another of a child in a basin.
Start using your whip to yank the chain above the man’s statue, which causes his bucket to fill with water.
Move the child’s statue to the right and the man’s statue to the left. After positioning the statues correctly, the man's bucket will tip over.
Water will pour onto the child’s head, like a baptism. The mechanism will go off when the sequence ends, and the fountain will spin to reveal the last challenge.
The puzzle's last part is about finding your way through the Ark of Bulrushes.
This section includes several overlapping rings blocking the path of a small boat.
You need to rotate the rings in the right order to get past these obstacles.
click to enlarge + 4Begin by rotating the outer ring two times clockwise, then one time counterclockwise to align the first section.
click to enlarge + 4To adjust the central circle, shift to the middle ring, rotate it once clockwise, and then make two clockwise rotations.
click to enlarge + 4Now that the path is open use your whip on the chain to move the boat ahead. The boat eventually reaches its destination, and the mechanism will wrap up.
The fountain resets, and that means the puzzle’s over. Once all the puzzle stages are solved, the angel statue at the fountain’s base will shift.
This reveals a hidden spiral staircase. Push the statue forward to get to the stairs and head down to the secret room.
What part of the Fountain Puzzle did you find the most challenging?
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