Skipping Stones: Six Treasures

Start here: stone A is on the western bank, stone B is on the orange bank, and the two left-hand lily pads already connect the banks. Leave the two pads on the right unused for this route.

A and B match the marked positions. The pink island is to your upper right.

Move A north to the top launching row. Stand on its west side and push it east toward the pink island. The arrow traces A’s route; the picture shows its resting position.

A rests at the upper gap beside the pink island. Its original position on the western bank is empty.

Push B south onto the lower spur of the orange bank. Get to its east side, then push it west to the land on the left.

B is on the western shore, ready to be brought round to the upper launching row.

Use the western land route to bring B back round to the upper bank. Move it north into the same top launching row used for A, then stand on its west side.

B is ready to follow the same eastward line. A remains in place beside the pink island.

Push B east along the upper row. It stops just before A and completes the crossing. Walk back onto the orange bank while it travels.

Two adjacent stone tiles connect the orange bank’s upper tip to the pink island. Use the visible settled state, not a fixed number of seconds.

From the orange bank’s upper tip, cross the two settled stone tiles onto the pink island and walk to the treasure.

The hero is on the pink island and the dialogue about the hidden treasure is shown. Returning to the previous shore is a separate step.

Stand north of the stone on the upper bank. Compare the two lily pads: the upper pad is your ride to the treasure island; the lower pad stays beside the bank.

The hero can push south and then move west onto the upper pad.

Push the stone south. In this observed setup, that move starts the adjacent upper lily pad travelling west. Prepare to step onto the pad immediately.

The stone moves south while the upper pad begins its westward trip.

As the stone moves away, move west onto the upper pad from the vacated bank edge. The frame shows the hero already aboard.

The hero stands on the travelling upper pad. The lower pad is still at the inlet.

Stay on the pad as it travels west toward the rocks beside the pale island.

The pad approaches the island-side rocks; the departure bank is behind you to the east.

When the pad reaches the island-side rocks, walk west across them onto the pale island. Continue inward toward the treasure.

The hero is safely on the pale island; the lily pad remains beside the rocks to the east.

Walk to the treasure inside the island. The retained frame shows the collection dialogue after reaching it.

The dialogue confirms the second treasure and describes a sea-chart measuring ruler. The return trip and the next three-stone puzzle are outside these six stages.

Match the two stones on the island’s eastern upright path. Identify the junction and the short branch below it.

The hero is beside two stones; the treasure branch lies southwest of them.

Walk west from the stones to the junction, then turn south down the narrow branch.

The hero enters the southern spur.

Continue to the end of the spur and step onto the native treasure position.

The hero stands at the treasure spot on the end of the southern spur.

Compare the same end of the spur with the preceding frame, then return north to the junction.

The creator has visited the southern treasure spot; the treasure-description dialogue appears later.

Use the later dialogue as supporting confirmation: it describes another treasure as a gold pin.

The later dialogue describes the newly found treasure as a gold pin; the camera is now in another area.

Match A at the east edge and B farther west. Keep the red-island stone in place; it is the far-side stepping stone.

Two staging stones and two southern pads are ready beside the current.

Stand north of A and push it south. Then move toward the north side of B.

A is travelling south; the first pad is being activated.

Push B south next, then move to the eastern crossing edge.

B travels south while the first pad approaches the crossing.

When the first pad is level with the red island’s lip, walk east across it and the island-side stone.

The hero crosses from the pale staging island to the red island.

Walk inward from the lip to the treasure spot. The dialogue describes a portable sundial.

The hero has collected on the red island; the portable-sundial dialogue appears.

Return to the red lip. As the second pad reaches the crossing, walk west back to the pale staging island.

The hero returns west to the staging island on the second crossing window.

Identify A southwest of B, and the C–D pair to their east. Check the green ledge north of the staging island and the pad to the south.

Four staging stones, a northern ledge and a southern pad match the successful setup.

Stand east of A and push it west. Reposition B onto the staging row below the northern ledge, then push it north into the water gap. Use the pictured final column; the earlier extra southward push and undo are not required steps.

A has reached the western bank; B stops below the northern ledge.

From the eastern pair, push C north onto the upper staging row. Stand east of C and push it west into the column directly below B. Leave D in place.

C is below B in the launch column; D remains on the lower staging row.

Stand south of C and push it north against B. B moves onto the upper ledge and C becomes the crossing. Walk north across it onto the ledge.

The hero reaches the upper green ledge beside B; the crossing is below and D stays on the lower island.

On the upper ledge, reposition B so you can stand north of it, then push it south back onto the staging island. Go around to B’s east and push it west; it stops at the tip of the western bank’s branch.

B sits on the eastern tip of the western bank’s horizontal branch.

Push the remaining lower stone D south to start the pad, board promptly and ride west around the lower edge of the green island.

The hero rides west on the activated pad toward the eastern side of B.

Step onto the western bank east of B and push B west along the branch. Walk south around the bank to stand below B, then push it north into the next westbound row.

B is recovered onto the western bank and can be moved north; A remains below.

Push B west first from its new northern row. Walk south around the bank to stand below A, then push A north from the lower bank into B’s row. Stand east of A and push it west along the same row.

A and B form the westbound crossing; the hero reaches the treasure island. The original northern-tip stone stays in place.

Walk southwest into the small pale island, past the landing stones, and onto the treasure spot.

The hero stands inside the treasure island and the ink-bottle dialogue confirms the pickup.

Match A on the left, B on the right, and the pad inside the bay. If either earlier prerequisite stone is missing, review the linked preparation before starting.

Two stones are on the inner shore of the crescent and the pad lies north of them.

Stand south of A and push it north toward the pad. Move to B’s east and push B west into the vacated launch row, then move below B.

A is travelling north; B has been moved left into the same launch row.

When A has reached the upper bend, push B north along the same launch row. Then immediately begin running west around the crescent.

B moves north while A is near the top of the bay; the hero starts toward the outer path.

Follow the crescent’s connected ground west and north to its upper tip. Keep moving while the stones and pad continue their trips.

The hero moves up the crescent toward the boarding edge.

Step onto the pad when it is beside the northern tip and travelling west toward the small pale island.

The hero is aboard the pad between the crescent and the small western island.

Ride to the island, step onto solid ground and walk to the treasure beside its stone.

The hero has reached the small island; the rotating-dial pen description confirms the treasure pickup.