I have encountered two kinds of pillars in the game: I've solved the vibrating type, but I'm having trouble solving the white or purple pillars (that have floating dots in their hollowed tops).
How do I solve these pillar puzzles?
Fez – Solving the Purple and White Pillars Puzzle
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Related Solutions
As discovered by a person on the Xbox360Achievements forum in this post, this puzzle can be solved just like the first puzzle in the same room. The following picture shows the floor of the room, which can be seen in first person view:
The first puzzle required a button input sequence while standing on the square with no line in it (circled in blue in the picture). This puzzle similarly requires standing on the square with a line in it (circled in green in the picture) and inputting the following button sequence.
down down LT RT RT A up
The left and right motors in your controller will play a pattern when approaching these. It will pause briefly before repeating. You need to mime the pattern back with your left and right triggers.
My vibration was off, so I missed this the first time through. If you're having trouble, the right motor was a higher pitch in my case. Instead of feeling the sides, I listened for the pitch.
As far as I know, across ports, you can't solve this on your own without a vibrating controller.
Here are the codes, if you're lazy or without:
- Waterfall neon pink/blue subroom tuning fork:
LT RT RT RT LT RT RT LT - Lighthouse tuning fork:
LT RT RT LT LT LT RT RT RT RT - Sewer tuning fork:
LT LT LT RT LT RT LT RT - Lava tuning fork:
LT LT RT LT LT RT RT RT
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Best Answer
Upon completing the game, you'll unlock New Game+, which transfers your stats and adds first-person view after the intro.
Near a purple or white pillar, go into first-person view and look for a string of white tetrominos (Tetris blocks). They can be converted to buttons with the tetromino cipher.
If the white string is vertical, read it with your head tilted to the right. Then convert the tetrominos and punch them in. The sequence should be about eight units long, and unique for each game. An anticube will appear above the pillar.
Here are the codes, if you're lazy:
↑ LT RT ↑ LT ↑ RT ↑→ RT ← LT ← ↑ ↓ ALT A RT ↑ ↓ LT RT A← ← ↓ ↓ → → ↑ ↑The U-shaped tuning fork pillars work differently.