Artifact Seekers Ancient Coast Walkthrough

1. After speaking with the crew beside Kate, collect olives from the large tree and follow the left path to the archive. Take the boards from the rear corner, put the olives in the press and use the nearby bottle to collect the oil.

   

2. Return to the shore and oil the well-lid bolt. Open the well, turn the handle and take the jigsaw and Disk Fragment 1/3 from the raised bucket.
3. At the dock, inspect the small boat for Labyrinth Fragment 1/2 and Disk Fragment 2/3. Put the boards on the ship scaffold and complete both gap-free layers to reach the deck.
4. Take Disk Fragment 3/3 from the ship and open the deck box for the hammer. Back at the dock, fit all three disk fragments into the round box beneath the awning and align the toothed boards with the upper template.
5. Collect the handle and clue sign from the disk box. Return to the starting shore, break the crate behind Kate with the hammer and take Hydra Head 1/3 plus the fishing net.
6. Use the net to retrieve the floating oars at the dock. Install the oars and handle on the small boat, operate the control and sail to the island.

Puzzle solution

Scaffold Board Puzzle

Fixed solution

Quick solution

Build two complete scaffold layers with no gaps or overlaps.

How to solve it

1. Move the board groups from the top and bottom racks onto the center rails.
2. Fit the shapes together so the first layer fills the frame without overlapping.
3. Repeat the same process for the second layer to unlock the ship deck.

Puzzle solution

Disk Fragment Toothed-Board Puzzle

Fixed solution

Quick solution

Reorder all twelve boards until their raised teeth fit the template across the top.

How to solve it

1. Insert all three disk fragments, then use the arrow control to raise the board teeth.
2. Select a board and an open position to change their order.
3. Compare each tooth profile with the matching template slot and arrange the full row.

1. At the island landing, collect Pedestal Part 1/4 and take the left path into the garden. Remove the first pedestal piece from the scarecrow, then place the dock clue sign beneath the storehouse-door mechanism.

   

2. Raise the symbol boards until the two counters match the numbers printed on your sign. Enter the storehouse and take the watering can and garden shears.
3. Return to the landing, cut the vines from the temple entrance and collect Labyrinth Fragment 2/2 and Hydra Head 2/3. Fit both labyrinth fragments into the bull-headed gateway and pull the lever inside.

   

4. The Minotaur sequence is timed. Search the center room for a board, place it across the gap in the right room and take the lever from the side area. Install that lever in the left room to open the next passage.
5. Lift the wall hangings, press the concealed buttons and enter the side room for the rope. Continue to the lower passage, attach the rope to the broken chain and pull the lever to raise the gate.
6. Read the letter sequence above the closed doorway and press the matching marked stones around the chamber in that same order. Search the opened room for the blade fragment.
7. Take the remaining open route, cut the heavy vines with the blade fragment and climb out of the labyrinth. If the timer expires, restart the maze and repeat the same item chain; loose-item positions can differ between runs.

   

Puzzle solution

Garden Door Symbol Counters

Randomized puzzle

The required symbols and counts come from the sign collected at the dock.

How to solve it

1. Place the sign in the slot below the five movable boards.
2. Note the two symbols and the target number beside each one.
3. Raise boards to hide symbols in the heads above until both counters equal the sign values.

1. In the ruins, take Pedestal Part 2/4 from the broken pillar and the string near the Zeus statue. Return to the island landing, attach the string to the stone harp and collect the medallion and ladder.
2. Place the ladder in the ruins well and take the bird figurine plus Pedestal Part 3/4. Put the figurine in the garden birdbath, enter the opened recess and collect Hydra Head 3/3 and the pegs after studying the wall clue.
3. Hammer the pegs into the tall ruins pillar, climb to the nest and take Pedestal Part 4/4 plus the cross-shaped key. Return to the original shore and place all four pedestal parts in the central statue base.
4. Complete the colored-tile pedestal board; finishing within its timer awards a bonus star. Take the scroll clue, then use the dock-box handle on the archive mechanism to lower the suspended sphere.
5. Place all three Hydra heads on the sphere and take the bas-relief. Fit it into the round ruins doorway and move each zodiac symbol into the slot with the matching color to descend to the River Styx.
6. Speak with Charon. Take Crystal 1/3 near the statue, hammer the chained pillar to recover the hook and fill the watering can from the red river.
7. Water the shoot inside the garden's birdbath recess, then cut the grown golden branches with the jigsaw. Give the branches to Charon and collect the torch from the dusty stonework on the riverbank.
8. At the Underworld gate, insert the scroll clue and shift the gem rows and columns until their colors reproduce its layout. Cross the opened gate into the Underworld.

Puzzle solution

Timed Pedestal Color-Tile Puzzle

Fixed solution

Quick solution

Use the edge buttons to push each colored tile onto a center square of the same color.

How to solve it

1. Before moving anything, note every colored target because placed tiles can cover the board clues.
2. Press the four controls around each side to push that side's tile into the grid.
3. Match every tile to its same-color square; finish before the timer ends to earn the star.

Puzzle solution

Zodiac Signs Puzzle

Fixed solution

Quick solution

Move all eleven zodiac symbols into slots of the same color.

How to solve it

1. Identify each zodiac token by its symbol and color.
2. Use the arrow controls to cycle tokens through the connected web.
3. Stop when every symbol sits in its matching colored slot.

Puzzle solution

Underworld Gate Gem Grid

Randomized puzzle

Use the scroll obtained from the pedestal; do not copy a different player's final grid.

How to solve it

1. Place the scroll beside the gate board to display the required arrangement.
2. Use the arrows to shift whole rows and columns.
3. Match every gem position to the scroll to open the gate.

1. Light the ground hollow on the Underworld path with the torch and take the silver plus trowel. Remove the shield and helmet from the distant skeleton, then place the medallion in the path mechanism and align its colored rows to form the bridge.
2. Cross into the Cerberus courtyard and take the pincers. Return to the path, pull the key from the ground crack with the pincers and then revisit the River Styx plaque; use the helmet's brush to clean it and count the shield, bird and tiered-fountain symbols.
3. Open the small Underworld temple with the cross-shaped key. At the three-panel picture, press the shield, bird and tiered-fountain controls according to the counts on your cleaned plaque, then take the mirror.
4. Unlock the temple cabinet with the key and collect Detail 1/3 plus the Cerberus sedative recipe. Dig beside the garden scarecrow for valerian root, pull melissa and Detail 2/3 from the island rock crevice, collect a fish at the dock and take chamomile from the shore awning.
5. Combine the four recipe ingredients. In the small Underworld temple, light the burner beneath the pot with the torch and add the prepared ingredients to make a sedating fish.
6. Give the fish to Cerberus, take the key from its collar and unlock the courtyard doors. Push all ten demon seals into the two funnels to enter Hades' throne room.

   

Puzzle solution

Underworld Medallion Row Puzzle

Fixed solution

Quick solution

Arrange every row so its chip colors match the four-color reference on the left.

How to solve it

1. Rotate a column by pressing it so chips cycle from bottom to top.
2. Use the empty cell to move a neighboring chip sideways into another column.
3. Build each horizontal row to match the fixed color order shown at the left.

Puzzle solution

Shield, Bird and Fountain Symbol Code

Randomized puzzle

The three counts vary. One documented game showed 6-2-3, but that is not a universal code.

How to solve it

1. Clean the broken plaque beside the River Styx with the brush on the helmet.
2. Count every shield, bird and three-tiered fountain, including rotated or partly hidden examples.
3. Press the matching three picture buttons that many times, in the displayed order.

Puzzle solution

Courtyard Demon Seals Puzzle

Randomized puzzle

Quick solution

Push all ten seals off the board through the two funnel holes without trapping one in a corner.

How to solve it

1. Tap an empty square to push adjacent seals one cell away when their path is clear.
2. Work on one seal at a time and preserve escape lanes around the outside edges.
3. Reset if a seal becomes trapped, then feed all ten into either funnel.

1. Speak with Hades to learn that Hephaestus has the astronomical watch. Pull down the throne-room chandelier with the hook and take its skull.
2. Place the skull in the small temple altar and match the eight tokens to Hades and the seven deadly sins. Collect the spear and dagger after the board opens.
3. Use the spear on the River Styx floor grate for Watch Detail 1/6. Cut open the dock shells with the dagger for a pearl, then clear the bees from the ruins tree with the torch and cut out Crystal 2/3.
4. Put the pearl in the Medusa head beside Hades' throne and take Crystal 3/3 plus the mosaic piece. Install the mosaic piece in the small temple wall to collect Watch Detail 2/6 and the bellows.
5. Place all three crystals in the green courtyard gate. Rotate and slide the outline fragments until all six creatures shown on the paper have been formed; the required creatures can vary.
6. Enter the Well of Souls and locate Kate. Lay the shield across the gap to the right-hand alcove and take the second mirror, then collect the mold beside the large bell.

Puzzle solution

Hades and Seven Deadly Sins Puzzle

Fixed solution

Quick solution

Sloth–pillow; Anger–shield and sword; Envy–frog; Pride–mirror; Hades–skull; Lust/Wantonness–jewelry; Avarice–coins; Gluttony–bread.

How to solve it

1. Rotate the center pathways until two token positions are connected, then swap those tokens.
2. Move each object beside the figure or sin it represents.
3. Check all eight associations before closing the board.

Puzzle solution

Six Mythical Creatures Puzzle

Randomized puzzle

The six target silhouettes can differ by game.

How to solve it

1. Study the six outlines on the paper, then close it to work on the mechanism.
2. Rotate the fixed center disc and slide both semicircular strips left or right.
3. Complete one recognizable silhouette at a time until all six are checked off.

1. At the archive forge, attach the bellows, place the mold and melt the silver. Break the cooled mold with the hammer to obtain a silver sandal.
2. Put the sandal on the Achilles engraving at the island temple and restore the rotating picture. Completing it within the allowed moves awards a bonus star; the opened compartment contains the spider and Watch Detail 3/6.
3. Place one mirror on each courtyard pedestal. Follow the reflected light to the circular wall pattern, then fit the spider into the throne-room mechanism and rearrange its chained stones to reproduce that clue. Take the lens and lever.

   

4. Install the lever beside the bell at the Well of Souls and raise it for the sapphire and button. Put the sapphire in the throne-room beam board, redirect the light to the lower crystal and collect Watch Detail 4/6.
5. Fit the lens to the archive telescope. Try lens-color combinations until the three displayed symbols reveal their numbers; these numbers vary, so record your own result.
6. Install the button in the blue shore door and enter the three telescope numbers beneath their matching symbols. Take the bas-relief and Watch Detail 5/6 from the pottery room.
7. Place the bas-relief in the desk beside Hades' throne for Detail 3/3. Use all three details on the Well of Souls alcove box, separate its red and blue balls into opposite loops and collect Watch Detail 6/6 plus the pedal.

Puzzle solution

Achilles Rotating Picture Puzzle

Fixed solution

Quick solution

Rotate the overlapping circular sections until every line in the Achilles image joins correctly.

How to solve it

1. Identify the small overlapping circles that control groups of picture fragments.
2. Restore the outer contours first, then align the central figure.
3. Finish within the move limit shown by the game to receive the bonus star.

Puzzle solution

Spider Chain Pattern Puzzle

Randomized puzzle

The target pattern is the circular clue revealed by the two courtyard mirrors.

How to solve it

1. Place both mirrors and record the illuminated wall pattern before entering the throne room.
2. Fit the spider, then move the outer balls within their quadrants to change the chain lines.
3. Reproduce the mirror pattern to open the panel and collect the lens and lever.

Puzzle solution

Sapphire Beam Puzzle

Randomized puzzle

Quick solution

Position the movable sapphires so the beam from the upper-left source reaches the large lower crystal.

How to solve it

1. Trace the current beam path from the fixed sapphire.
2. Move the left and right reflectors one at a time and watch the new angle.
3. Create one continuous path into the lower target crystal.

Puzzle solution

Telescope Lens Code

Randomized puzzle

Do not force 195 or any code from another walkthrough; use the three values shown in your telescope.

How to solve it

1. Press different colored lens controls until one of the three target symbols becomes clear with a number.
2. Record the number associated with each symbol and repeat until all three are known.
3. At the blue shore door, set the three number buttons beneath the corresponding symbols.

Puzzle solution

Well of Souls Red and Blue Ball Box

Fixed solution

Quick solution

Move every red ball into the left loop and every blue ball into the right loop.

How to solve it

1. Slide balls around either loop to bring a mismatched pair beside the center transfer track.
2. Use the center slider to exchange two balls between the loops.
3. Repeat until the left loop is entirely red and the right loop entirely blue.

1. Return to the archive clock and install all six watch details. Take the completed Hades' Watch back to the throne room and exchange it with Hades for clay.

   

2. Go to the pottery room behind the blue door, attach the pedal to the wheel and shape the clay into an amphora.
3. Use the pot grasper beside the kiln to fire and retrieve the amphora. Carry it to the Well of Souls and capture Kate's soul from the green water.

   

4. Return to the opening shore, use the soul amphora on Kate and complete Episode 5.

   

1. Morphing objects (12): distant monument at the opening shore; changing symbols on the archive hanging; anchor above the dock awning; symbol on the island walkway; red garden flower; star or flower at the ruins; boot beside the River Styx statue; rock stack on the Underworld path; large courtyard urn; carving atop the small-temple column; changing throne-room flame; statue near the Well of Souls steps.
2. Collection artifacts (12): spear beside Kate; trident in the archive floor hollow; trident by the dock column; spear on the island stone-harp building; trident among the garden tools; trident in the ruins well; lightning bolt on the Underworld rocks; lightning bolt above the Cerberus courtyard wall; trident on the small-temple table leg; lightning bolt beside Hades' throne; lightning bolt inside the River Styx grate; trident in the Well of Souls alcove.
3. Horseshoes (5): roof above the blue shore door; archive anvil; lidded dock pot; behind the loose stone at the island landing; behind the curtain above the garden birdbath mural.
4. Coins (5): behind the three pressed garden bricks; beneath the leaf near the ruins nest; under the gold-colored paving brick beside the dock fish basket; inside the Underworld skeleton's mouth; beneath the paper beside Hades' desk.
5. Hourglasses (5): circular opening on Charon's boat; pots beneath the small-temple picture; lower cabinet in the same temple; foot of the courtyard statue after Cerberus sleeps; balcony above the Well of Souls.

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