Using Incredible Improvisation to Beat Quarry Puzzles

The Witness Part 5 - The Quarry. All quarry levels, as well as an environmental puzzle! Beam number three is down, let's keep this hot streak going.
Edited by: Tyler
The Witness is a maze-based puzzle game, where the difficulty lies not only in solving several mazes types, but also locating the puzzles themselves. Explore this beautiful island and solve over 500 puzzles with various mechanics and rules!
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[@Aliensrock]

Beat the two hardest boathouse levels with no Tetris tutorial, and hardly any sun tutorial. If you don't like that, you don't like The Witness.

[@omargutierrez1909]

When do you stream

[@Saposhiente]

@@malachiluna9777 Those are spoilers.

[@rasilu93]

Nah, that's definitely spoiler territory. I'm here to see him suffer anyway! >:)

[@miletilblight2181]

Aliensrock: What if colors don't matter when pairing Ah yes even more advanced forms of really bad things This can be a metaphor for so so many things even if it's completely unintentional It's literally just puzzles yes but it could be inferred as a metaphor for sexual segregation ie homosexual relationships as well as interracial relationships

[@Saposhiente]

@@malachiluna9777 perspective stuff is extremely spoiler, he missed the tutorial on that, combining mechanics technically a small spoiler but he can figure it out, he'll be fine

[@Mr.Uselessness]

“This isn’t easy segregation; this is advanced segregation.”

[@acblook]

- the deep south trying to come up with racist laws after the 13th amendment

[@armansagmanligil1144]

@@acblook yes

[@hsckye]

"This isn't just cannibalism, this is advanced cannibalism."

[@codemob]

*normal not easy

[@glitch_the_silly]

Segregation Battle Advanced

[@OrchidAlloy]

"This is the first segregation that doesn't make sense" tyler nO

[@pie6029]

It sounds so wrong when out of context

[@тралльилитный-ь7я]

Tyler YES

[@KeyboardQuartz8801]

@@pie6029 yea

[@FunnyMemes-dr3se]

24:47 No one mentioned this...

[@FunnyMemes-dr3se]

It's the only one that mentions color 🤷🏿‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

[@kadboodle]

Sometimes you look too hard for patterns and you miss the obvious lmao.

[@dronkusdonkus9190]

Yeah this was one of the hardest to watch lol

[@Greatsword585]

At the end of the video? Jesus Christ. What is it with smart people missing the stupidly obvious?

[@hiimapop7755]

And other times, he just wings the difficult puzzles like it was nothing.

[@jodysgamingchannel9480]

@@Greatsword585 Different brains work different ways. Enjoy building empathy!

[@ohshizle_ftw6945]

You can ignore one of the dots as long as the triangle shape isn’t cut of of accessing it to complete it

[@achunkofbutter]

Tyler is very big brained _after_ he understands the mechanics

[@Henrix1998]

Before that he just bruteforces different ideas which is not intended at all

[@Doglover9190]

@@Henrix1998 but you gotta respect the hustle

[@EvanG529]

takes him a while though

[@moth7134]

more like WHEN he understands the mechanics

[@thesupremepotato7850]

Im the opposite. I can get it quickly, But i suck at the harder versions of it or maybe not i dont play puzzle games

[@samspence687]

21:48 "Ahhh here we go the first segregation that doesn't quite make sense" - aliensrock, 2020

[@lasiafde9021]

Tyler is sometimes thinking way too complicated how a Puzzel works. But Kudos for getting everything quite fast

[@jodysgamingchannel9480]

That's how science works. It's not enough to know how something works, you also have to know how it DOESN'T work. It's going to serve him well in about 2 more videos...

[@MelvinDorkus]

Every time he overthinks something all I can do is spam frogs with teeth in chat

[@lsvensson2166]

He doesnt know PepeLaugh

[@futrey9353]

5:09 The opposite of insanity : Doing the same thing and getting different results

[@ferdinandpurczeld234]

14:29 "Once you know the game, it's super obvious, but if you've never played before, it's super hard. I feel like chat needs to learn that." The same could be said about the KZbin comments, heh.

[@teliots]

Before watching this game, I though tyler had super low IQ. Now I know it's true.

[@sox9445]

Remember how he 100% baba is you and is a few levels away from 100% in polybridge. I don't think he has a low IQ just because he can't finish a puzzle in the witness.

[@nyphakosi]

cant wait for him to reach "The Challenge" minor hint down below you only need 7 lasers to beat the game, but 11 for bonus content, like a special challenge

[@aturchomicz821]

He already said hes doing 100% so yeah

[@DeadMansOdyssey]

i hope he doesnt. for his own sanity i hope he doesnt.

[@fluDragon]

@@DeadMansOdyssey too late. Stream last night was a lot of fun

[@CastafioreOnYoutube]

I really don't think he'll be able to beat The Red Door without a guide. It sucks soooooo much.

[@DeadMansOdyssey]

spoilers its not the red door im worried about, its the movies.

[@TheVercci]

To everyone worried about spoilers in comments, 12 hours ago he used the elevator.

[@TKDWN_YT]

Vercci Yeah, in the last livestream he already got the normal ending. This video is _really_ far back compared to the live-streams.

[@TheVercci]

@@TKDWN_YT I mentioned the hours because two days before I commented that, this video would have ended stream one of two and the comments would be major spoilers already. Instead they're pretty much fine now, in-fact the only person who almost ruined the real ending during the stream got banned instead.

[@HPOfficeJetProAll-In-One]

Vercci “lemme just drop a perma ban real quick, fuckin moron”

[@BaconNuke]

@@TKDWN_YT What do you mean "normal ending?" o.o

[@davidmorley7495]

@@BaconNuke he meant there are 2 endings

[@Tiguiso]

I was literally about to watch VODs because you trained me to expect a video bruh

[@TheVercci]

Lots of vod content came out in the past two days but they seem to be CBT as well.

[@fieldtm1able]

This game is amazing! Puzzles here, puzzles there, literally everything is puzzle! This is the heaven for gamers.

[@benjamincurran5799]

Puzzles lying round every corner eh? Well, I've got something coming that just has that stuff...

[@catcatcatcatcatcatcatcatcatca]

"This isn't normal segrecation - this is ADVANCED segrecation" must be the best description of american prison-industry I have heard in a while.

[@Ronin11111111]

It's so entertaining to watch you solve puzzles, even when somehow it takes you the longest to solve the easiest mechanic. Though everybody learns differently and I couldn't actually solve the hard puzzles anyway even if I understand the mechanics of it.

[@BaconNuke]

Understanding and doing are very different honestly

[@Ronin11111111]

@@BaconNuke Yep. I can get a good grasp on rules and mechanics prety quickly but it's harder for me to make strategies with said rules.

[@theowinters6314]

Man, you worked out the eraser glyph faster then anyone else I've seen. You have a real good intrinsic understand of the puzzles as the whole and are picking things up really quickly.

[@BaconNuke]

I'm glad he picked up on it's purpose and didn't just.. have a partial understanding and brute force it

[@aturchomicz821]

"Advanced Segregation" Aliensrock 2020

[@Henrix1998]

I'm bit disappointed how Tyler doesn't think environmental puzzles are **that** special

[@jodysgamingchannel9480]

1. Did you see his reaction when he solved his first one? Mind. Was. Blown. 2. He just came out of Baba Is You. After the meta puzzles there, Witness is neat, and beautiful , but actually kinda tame.

[@GygasDistruttore]

@@jodysgamingchannel9480 The solution is fusing Witness and Baba is you. And maybe some SuperLiminal, just to kill everybody even accidentally gazing at any part of the game. ... What? That would be bad for sales?

[@lifinale]

@@GygasDistruttore people would buy it, and then their family’s would sue you because you melted their brains and they no longer are alive

[@wingedfish1175]

I know he gets them eventually but seeing tyler miss the environmental puzzles kind of hurts my brain

[@scrappedmetal]

watching these videos is making me mad not because you don't get things immediately but its making me realize how many easy puzzles i missed that i could've done before giving up. finding tutorials was hard when i didn't find the boat!

[@pyrokitfx5834]

Going back before finishing the star land zone reminds me of Ang leaving before finishing clearing his chakras

[@TechSupportDave]

Do you mean Aang? Who's Ang?

[@pyrokitfx5834]

@@TechSupportDave yes I did sorry

[@Dschoanig]

40:33 *Superliminal flashbacks*

[@maxwilkinson9647]

I didn’t even understand the eliminator when I finished the tutorial. I unfortunately had to look it up. You figured it out waaay quicker than me.

[@potatoaccuracy1276]

20:32 The south implementing Jim Crow Laws

[@justarandomgamer7667]

6:10 I know this video is three years old and you probably understood after a while, but the white caltrop thing is in fact the "not" symbol, it cancels one of the required dots out. But they have to be in the same section, there can't be a line blocking them. I'm happy I managed to figure that out lmao

[@ratzertherat]

This episode was so painful, watching Tyler trying to figure out the not function while everybody else already figured it out (I haven't even played the game). Still, good episode

[@dadutchboy2]

this series is really nostalgic to me, i watch it again every once in a while

[@champagnepandaog3305]

How is Tyler so good at Tetris? The boathouse took forever for me

[@tonyt987]

For those saying Tyler is a slow learner... No. He isn’t. He recognizes patterns that aren’t solutions to the puzzles, but that doesn’t mean he’s necessarily slow. Especially because this game is VERY limited in teaching the player what specific objects ACTUALLY mean. It’s like trying to guess the sound of a letter from a language you’ve never heard of. For those who speak the language, OF COURSE ITS GONNA BE EASIER.

[@smokey3764]

What if it's your first time seeing the puzzles being attempted yet you've already learnt the pattern before Tyler has

[@tonyt987]

Smokey /Commie Crusader Then... congrats? I don’t know what your ability has to do with Tyler’s. Your reply was pointless honestly...

[@condorb7756]

@@tonyt987 oh fuck off

[@brennanruiz1803]

When you just beat the Challenge yesterday and know how everything works, so you just cry at KZbin Tyler not being as smart as Twitch Tyler who’s much farther along in the game.

[@attekiiskinen2168]

39:12 This is just Superliminal all over again

[@ithingys4408]

I used to watch your videos every now and then, but since youve been putting out witness videos i find myself coming back every day to see if there's more, and ive been watching more of your polybridge content as well. Keep up the great work!

[@devini15yt]

I feel like I'm very lucky to have figured out the cancelation as quickly as I did in my own playthrough. So happy you figured it out, because I was watching another streamer play and they literally never understood this symbol and brute forced every puzzle

[@BaconNuke]

That does not sound fun for viewer or streamer... did.. they ever ask chat what it did?

[@devini15yt]

@@BaconNuke nope, they didn't want spoilers, which is understandable, they wanted to figure it out on they're own. But they didn't

[@LeetleToady7]

Tyler grasps the mechanics slowly, but is big brain once he gets them I get mechanics quickly and then think he’s an idiot for not getting them, but really hard puzzles are, well, what do you think

[@jodysgamingchannel9480]

Loving the longer videos! One laser in one hour (post-process) feels like a good pace.

[@pafnutiytheartist]

This video should have been titled "Advanced Segregation".

[@lagg1e]

But he likes having a youtube account without strikes.

[@DodgeThatAttack]

When the quarry leads you in with a segregation puzzle and you get to the puzzles because of a dot being eliminated, but don't realize you eliminate a dot in the same segment.

[@Treeko13]

When you think the game is almost done but it hits you with twice as much as you expected

[@tzisorey]

Not expecting a 100% on the -environmental- meta-puzzles, since there's one that takes like 52 minutes to complete.... but if you wanna go for it, there's your clue ;)

[@eternaldreamerofsleep]

Tzisorey Tigerwuf I think he found it on stream, but he hasn't yet tried it

[@tzisorey]

@@eternaldreamerofsleep The 52 minute one? Good on him - I don't think I'd *ever* have seen it, if it wasn't for seeing a 100% speedrun (where the speed-runner went out for McDonalds while waiting for that one to finish)

[@BaconNuke]

What do you mean.. there is one that takes 52 minutes? I have an idea of what that would mean but also.. scared to actually know

[@zombeeCAL]

i remeber the swamp and those other places from playing myself, classic tyler always picking the hardest puzzles 😂hah

[@jmj0795]

11:34 "it makes way less sense" Super late but it just doesn't make less sense. You'd come to the same conclusion if you had the squares first. Since your first thought was you have to find the fake one then solve around it. There's no reason to say you wouldn't do the same if it started with the harder ones

[@KeyboardQuartz8801]

i beleve that the three line star thing,for instance the one on 8:07 means bypass one in group

[@KeyboardQuartz8801]

i havent completed this video yet and I dont know how to edit

[@lilyjade6456]

i love the dude who consistently donated to say B E A M

[@Aronstorme]

I'm really impressed how fast he understands everything. Those quarry puzzles are some of the most advanced ones in the game!

[@centdemeern1]

I've been watching since your Bloons days. (Since TD 6, exactly) Man, you deserve way more subscribers. Everyone; help Tyler out by sharing his videos!

[@Egornnn]

I’ve never seen that game but I had the idea that ( 18:30 ) the line should touch all white and none of the black. Yet to find out if I am correct

[@vibeguy_]

Love this series! I've heard this game is much longer than you think, and I think you got a sense of it at the weights at the end... looking forward to more!!

[@sunbleachedangel]

Witness relies way too much on the player "just getting it", Joseph Anderson describes it very well in his critique

[@IAmUnderscore]

That’s why there’s a lot of tutorials. Yes, the player has to understand the mechanic (like all games), but there’s really only one area (sound jungle) that has a somewhat poorly laid-out tutorial.

[@sunbleachedangel]

@@IAmUnderscore That's the thing, different people could struggle with different areas. Some struggle with the apples area, just not realising they have to look at the trees, does it make them stupid? I don't think so

[@IAmUnderscore]

@@sunbleachedangel I never said people were stupid for not getting the puzzles, but look at how that area is laid out. First of all, people may try to guess, but the fact that each panel turns off for a wrong answer dispels that easily enough. Next, every time the first panel is selected, the camera shifts to a position where the apple tree is clearly visible. Also, keep in mind that every other tree around is pink, so it stands out. The panel is green too, to really hammer in the correlation between panel and tree. And of course, the puzzle itself is laid out like a tree. If someone doesn't understand even after the game doing all it can to help the player, it's not the game's fault. That person is maybe just too focused on the panel itself, or got frustrated and can't think logically.

[@zombeeCAL]

tyler's puzzle solving skills is the 8th wonder of the world

[@teodorlb]

New game: Take a shot every time Tyler overcomplicates something You won't last long

[@navyntune8158]

It took a while but I'm glad you figured out the exception symbol.

[@supercables251]

Dude, that eliminator symbol was so confusing, i couldn't figure it out after reading the answer. Nice job!

[@therappingdog7291]

Me: trying to go to sleep at 3:00 AM Aliensrock: *uploads* Me: you son of a bitch I’m in

[@reformatted6272]

21:48 "aah here we go! The first segregation that doesn't quite make sense!" -Aliensrock, 2020

[@YouVidTuber]

"Its gotta be either some combo of segregation or its gotta be like one white one black"

[@NoahCaple]

I like this series a lot, keep it up!

[@WanderTheNomad]

21:34 This is not a puzzle - This is a bridge

[@OrchidAlloy]

rofl

[@benjamincurran5799]

This is not just a bridge - It's a bridge made of *PUZZLES!*

[@pigeonfog]

The stars are real segregation, separate AND equal.

[@TehLiquid]

42:20 I loved that reaction

[@patchey8019]

tbh it made me cringe that it took you so long to figure out the negator, it really wasn't as difficult as you were making it out. Where-as other puzzles you are genius level at and takes me ages to solve. the simplest ones break you, thats hilarious!

[@Anubis_YT]

37:02 me making a chestplate

[@justcallmeluke7254]

Love your channel

[@professornope4792]

These videos genuinely make my day man. Keep it up Also stop talking about segregation in your videos

[@benjamincurran5799]

For the Black and White Squares puzzle I associate the squares with wolves and sheep. The white squares are sheep and the black squares are wolves. As for the puzzles involving squares with colours other than black and white, I'm drawing up with a blank as to their associations...

[@ghost_ship_supreme]

16:01 lol he’s staring straight at it and didn’t notice. He has some sort of funny tunnelvision sometimes.

[@vizthex]

"this isn't normal segregation, this is advanced segregation" man i bet nothing would go wrong if you take that out of context.

[@scovixe2405]

Love this series! Keep it up!

[@AJGlitchesHD]

Alienrock is already in 2090 trying to segregate greens from reds

[@puggyzcool]

This is ADVANCED SEGREGATION

[@m4rt_]

11:35 it made sense to me... I figured it our right after doing the triangle one at the start

[@thesupremepotato7850]

parents must not like the witness; the child is looking at screens while looking at a screen

[@zenithmalijan8720]

YT Tyler = OP Twitch Tyler tho... Jk love ya no homo...

[@amythystz_]

@aliensrock If you want a beautiful puzzle game which has so much depth and an interesting yet confusing story line you should play The Sojourn

[@funnygeeks8126]

I got it. The tri-star needs a buddy. You cover up all the black dots, but leave 1 black dot to be friends with the tristar. But, the lines you draw separate different regions of the puzzle. The tristar also needs to be in the same region as his black dot buddy.

[@benjamincurran5799]

Now *that* would be another step of the puzzle...

[@Martin_FTW]

What you said was very true, you just cannot see it if you don't know the game, and all about the game is that "aha" moment like in baba. I would say chat maybe be smart enough to solve puzzles, but anyone can if they know the rules, and chat rlly just is too stupid to realize that theres no clear tutorial or indications. Only logic and trial&error. But eh, I guess you can't please everyone

[@Martin_FTW]

No saying ALL people in chat, only the specific ones saying I SEE IT LOL SOLVE IT ALREADY IM MAD over and over again

[@mawillix2018]

@@Martin_FTW He responded to someone saying that it's frustrating to watch this. Considering that he spent 18 minutes repeatedly solving the first four levels of the tutorial for this mechanic, I'm sure the entire chat was frustrated by the end of it. Even without knowing the mechanic in advance I'm sure most if not all people could figure out what the little fidget spinner does, faster than the 24 minutes it took him. Yet he implies that chat are frustrated because they already knew. (Haven't watched all of the video yet, so I don't know how it is edited, but I was watching this VOD when I saw the notification)

[@microman502]

@@mawillix2018 I legit watched to when i think he figured it out, around 8 minutes, and i still don't get it. I guess all that says is he's smarter than me, but i have no idea. I do have less time but he explained it and i'm clueless.

[@mawillix2018]

@@microman502 The video is edited, it takes about 7 Minutes for him to reach what took him 24 minutes during the stream.

[@Aliensrock]

@MawilliX The entire chat was literally telling each other how the mechanic worked the second they saw it show up, there wasn't a single person there who didn't already know because of that. And honestly, 24 minutes isn't very long for learning a mechanic at all. I can guarantee that you took longer, and that most people without help took longer.

[@pyk_]

My favorite part about watching different people play this game is how everyone has trouble with completely different stuff.

[@zombeeCAL]

the witness def needs a part 2

[@mryeeter2522]

Just gonna remind you of the elemental puzzels there was one in the quarie look at the tracks from the elevator.They look like simple line puzzles like on the mountain and the desert area

[@mryeeter2522]

I feel so fucking dumb now that i finished the vid

[@biscuitface7245]

interesting how the first 3 colors on the segregation puzzles are black white and orange...

[@AlexN5142]

I'd love to see you play return of the obra dinn.

[@bobbyjohn7225]

I hope he knows that once you beat the game it resets your file lol

[@FinnishArsonist]

He did not know. Saw it on twitch.

[@Foober21]

Oh how it feels to know the puzzle mechanic is before tyler

[@AdeonWriter]

The line lights up as wrong when the panel is testing if you know how the thing works. Otherwise it would tell you what was wrong with it

[@m4rt_]

1:13 ... there was an elevator right beside you

[@cparks1000000]

19:01 Sad that he didn't notice any of the environmental puzzles.

[@hg5172]

Alternate title: Hiring an Eliminator to Pick off Unruly Shapes

[@grimreaper1542]

42:00 mins, holy shit. Might have to go get some popcorn haha

[@princelonestarr2330]

Gotta love staying up late waiting just for your videos

[@tristenarctician6910]

The asterisk is basically "STOP COMPLAINING!!!" - Bubby, HLVRAI

[@MightyCaesar37]

Woo more witness

[@XaviusNight]

Those little three-point asterisks are a 'null one connected dot' symbol. Putting in my two cents at the six minute mark, in case he figures it out later.

[@nebbengd839]

The number of likes on the video is how many times I face palmed watching Edit: I have never played this game and have just learned of it by watching Tyler, I also got the answer to the puzzles almost immediately

Tyler's first env puzzle at 39:40 :)

[@ellismiles9109]

Look under the box on the mountain...

[@emilianozamora399]

The United States after freeing the slaves: "This isn't normal segregation, this is advanced segregation"

[@darr0w2]

I like how tyler overthinks stuff so much. Yet says some things don't make any sense. Remember the little bonsai tree? I remember

[@badmanjones179]

mechanic spoiler: the way the black n white star puzzle works feels super wrong to me, but i guess them being stars overrules them being different colored

[@gamercoolihopeyouenjoymyvi5055]

23:19 i caught onto that wayyy faster

[@pepermintf]

Your godly power has returned from the sun to now.

[@andriksbeaver]

"This is not normal segregation, this is ADVANCED segregation" - aliensrock 2020