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Overlapping Issues, Episode 10: The Witness

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Episode 10 of The Witness picks up at the red panel by the stairs, where Episode 9 left off. Nothing on it works for a while, until the second red panel in the metal cage finally lights. With that, the block shapes start to make more sense, and a row of three red panels by the stairs falls one after another. The video ends walking off toward new panels in the grass.

Back at the red panel

The red panel has a row of four small squares and two short bars, next to a dark panel. "So this is the one that I thought I had solved enough." The lines look right but nothing takes: "This looks good to me, but neither of them are happy." The plan, as the commentary puts it: "once I solve these, it looks like it unlocks that door and I can solve those and then continue on." But "I have the four across, I have the three down," and still no.

A dark red grid panel with a row of four small yellow squares on the left and two short yellow bars along the bottom, a white line drawn from the bottom left corner along the bottom, up the right side and across the top, beside a black blank panel, with rocks, trees and a red-and-white structure behind

Stuck on this side

Down on the walkway over the water, Basket traces a gray panel. "Let's see if this bridge will actually go back or I'm stuck over here." Back to the red panel, over to the cage, and back to the walkway panel: "Maybe if I solve it again, it'll switch." The verdict: "So I'm stuck over here," with "a puzzle here I can't figure out."

A gray panel on a post above teal water and tall grass, its long white grid holding small yellow block shapes, with a glowing white line traced around most of the grid, and a black cable and a white cable curving away from it

The cage panel gives

So it is back to the second red panel in the cage. Something new turns up: "Oh, that's interesting, these two are happy even with the shapes being in the wrong orientation." A couple of minutes later the panel lights yellow, a wide bracket across the grid. The commentary sums it up: "you can rearrange them, you can't rotate them."

Two red grid panels on the metal mesh of a cage beside a pale rock, both lit with bright yellow lines: the left one winding back and forth across its whole grid, the right one tracing a wide bracket shape from the bottom left start up to the top right

Three in a row

Now the red panel by the stairs goes too, with a line that runs up, across and back down. The dark panel beside it lights up as a new red grid, with a third, still black, beyond it. More rules show up the hard way ("probably can't overlap," "I guess it needs to be inside the same shape"). The second panel falls after a long run of tries: "Will this work? Yes." And then: "I didn't consider going up and then down and around."

The third takes the longest. The commentary counts its shapes as "3 across, 3 up," an "L-shape" and a two. "It's almost like I need construction paper or like graph paper and then cut out these shapes." When it finally lights, a thick yellow cable glows beside it. "It only gets harder from here."

Two dark red grid panels side by side, each with a yellow line drawn from the bottom left start around small yellow block shapes, and a thick yellow cable curving down past trees on the right

Where it ends

Basket heads down the stairs, across the walkway over the water and through a mesh gate to a row of small panels in the grass, one of them lit yellow-green. The video fades out there.

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