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Early on in your trek throughCrow Country, you’ll come across your first puzzle you won’t be able to solve from the get-go. Found within Fairytale Town, you’ll find a room filled with broken machinery and swan boats scattered throughout a body of water. To operate these boats, you’ll need an egg-shaped object.
Completing the Swan Boats puzzle is necessary to obtain the Chain. The chain is used at the Dig Site to complete another puzzle, which also rewards you with another item. As the cycle goes, the item gained from the Dig Site is used in another puzzle you’ll need to complete to advance.
How To Get The Crank Handle
To get the necessary items to complete the Swan Boats puzzle, start by heading over to Haunted Hilltop. To get access to Haunted Hilltop, you’llneed the Bronze Key from the Fairy Pond.
Once you’re at Haunted Hilltop,head over to the Cryptand make your way inside. Inside the Crypt you’ll find four tombstones with stone heads on top. Interacting with a tombstonereveals the name of the deceased and allows you to turn the tombstone’s head.
To solve this puzzle and escape the crypt, you need to turn each head so that they’re facing the correct direction. The name on each tombstonecorrelates to which direction the head should be facing.Norbert Easley needs to facenortheast, Soulina needs to facesouth, Estelle needs to faceeast, and Solomon Weselby needs to facesouthwest.
After completing the puzzle, a monster will jump out at you when you approach the stairs to the right of the clock.As long as you have ammo, this fight isn’t very difficult. Go over to the wall where the monster came from andpull on the handle to open the gate blocking the stairs.
Standing closer to the monster andaiming at its head will deal more damage.The monster can be killed quicklywithtwo grenades.
In the Utility Corridor,go down the hall to the right to find a metal safecontaining the crank handle. The book next to the safe reveals that the code is the year Soulina died, sothe code is 1872.
How To Get The Gemstone
Go to the front door of Haunted Manor andring the bell on the porch five timesto open the manor’s front doors. On the right side of the room, there are two clocks thatcan be manipulated with the Crank Handle.
Change theleft clock’s time to 10:20and theright clock’s time to 11:15.Once the time is set, the painting between the two clockswill spit out the Gemstone.
How To Complete The Swan Boats Puzzle
Back in the Swan Boats room, interact with the wheel, thenselect the Gemstone when prompted.You’ll now be able to control the swan in the back left corner of the water.
Maneuver the swan over to the front of the room,in front of the open fence.Once in place, go to the fence and reach over to the swan totake the Chain off of its neck.
