The Mirror Isles Walkthrough (East World)

The Mirror Isles is the east road from the Crossroads and the second-easiest starting world. You play a trader who crosses scattered islands by teleporting with mirrors. The full region has 27 puzzles, moving from green islands into snowy and sandy ones. Finishing its later screens unlocks the golden mirror needed for the HxM Gold Room.

Puzzle 10 has three goal circles, so you need three copies of yourself. With two mirrors facing each other, using one leaves the original in place and makes a clone.

Mirror rules

• Walk into a mirror's line to teleport to your reflected position on the other side.
• The trader can push mirrors but never pull them. A mirror shoved to an island's edge may be stuck there.
• Mirrors copy other objects too. You can send stones and crystals through them.
• When mirrors reflect each other (the mirror-in-mirror effect), using one leaves you behind and creates a clone. Clones all move together, so use the island's edges to change the gap between them.
• Two mirrors facing each other with an odd number of tiles between them merge two characters into one.
• Wooden-frame mirrors cannot teleport on their own. They only extend the reach of a real mirror.
• Stones dropped into water become walkable squares. Dark stones cannot be moved.
• Hold rewind (Z on PC) to bring a used mirror or stone back to an earlier position.

The solutions below follow GameRant's three-part guide. It numbers puzzles 1-22 and lists the puzzles that link screens separately as hub puzzles. The Gamer Guru video counts 27 puzzles, so later numbers may not line up with ours. Use the video table at the bottom as a visual check.

First islands: puzzles 1-8

Puzzle 1. Teleport to the top-left isle, walk to its leftmost square so the mirror lines up with the southern isle, teleport again and stand on the circle.

Puzzle 2. Push the northern mirror all the way left, then walk right along that row to land on the western isle. Teleport to the bottom isle, push the second mirror up two, go to the bottom of that column to reach the eastern isle and step on the circle.

Puzzle 3.

1. Push the southern stone right one and up three into the water to bridge to the central isle.
2. From the central isle's leftmost square, reflect onto the western isle. Push that mirror up four and walk down until it reaches the northern isle, then teleport.
3. Push the left stone down into the water. Push the other stone left two, down seven and left four.
4. Carry the mirror back over the bridge to the central isle's rightmost square, then stand on the southern isle in the same column to reach the eastern isle.

Puzzle 4. Push the mirror right two, walk all the way left to reach the top of the isle and teleport. Push the stone left one and up two, then all the way left into the water. Stand on it to line up with the eastern isle and step on the circle.

Hub 1. Push the mirror up two, go back to the bottom of that column and teleport to the eastern isle.

Puzzle 5. Push the stone down one and left two for a bridge. Push the mirror down one and left five, then walk all the way right to teleport to the bottom isle. Push the top stone up into the water and line the second stone up behind it to finish the bridge. Push the mirror down one, right two, down four, then up two, and stand on the isle's lowest square to reach the circle.

Puzzle 6. Push the right stone left four and down into the water, then push the second over the first. Stand on the second stone to reach the southern isle. Push both stones to the leftmost square and into the water, push the mirror right, up and all the way left onto them, then step right to reach the goal isle.

Hub 2. Hold rewind until the western mirror is back where it started. Push it up one and walk south to reach the eastern isle, then go all the way right along that row to reach the southern isle. This also collects the map.

Puzzle 7. Push your stone up two into the water. On the upper isle push the mirror up one and left one into the corner. Bring the other stone down two, left two and down three to the southern isle and push it right to bridge to the eastern isle. Return north, stand in the mirror's row to land left of the stone, and push it right.

Puzzle 8. Push the mirror right one. Push the nearby stone right two and up one into the water. Push the mirror down one and left four. Push the other stone right three and down four into the water. Push the mirror down one and left five, teleport onto the submerged stone, push the mirror up three and left four, then walk all the way right to finish on the western isle.

Hub 3. Push the stone right one, teleport behind it, push it all the way down into the water, push the mirror right one, stand on the stone and teleport to the next screen.

Clones: puzzles 9-16

Puzzle 9 (two circles). Push the right mirror up one and right one. Push the left mirror left one, down one and left three. Teleport from the right side of the left mirror to leave a clone on the south-east isle. Push the right mirror up one to break the mirror-in-mirror effect, then teleport from the left mirror's row to the south-west isle. Park the left character on the top square of its isle and move the other until both stand on circles.

Puzzle 10 (three circles). Leave the right mirror alone and push the left mirror down two. Stand one square from the right mirror and teleport to make a clone on the southern isle. Close the horizontal gap with the edges, teleport again for a second clone, then push the left mirror into the water and bring your original over with the right mirror. Use the edges until all three stand in separate rows one square apart.

Hub 1 (into the snow). After puzzle 10, head up toward the clay platforms. Stand at the right distance from the top-right window and teleport into the snowy area.

Puzzle 11. Push the southern stone right one and up into the water. From the central isle, teleport west, push the mirror up six and teleport north. Push the pink stone down one and send it through to the western isle, then follow it, standing one square closer to the mirror. Push it up one and right into the water, carry the mirror over to the central isle in the column of the first bridge, and walk south to reach the eastern isle.

Puzzle 12. Teleport east. Push the mirror up two and left one, send the yellow stone to the top, push it up one, push the mirror down two, send the stone to the south-west isle and follow it. Push it left one and all the way up to bridge to the circle.

Puzzle 13. The dark stone never moves. Push the mirror up one. Push the pink stone down one and right two, send it through and push it right three. Push the mirror right until it hits the stone, send the stone through again, then push it all the way right from behind.

Hub 2. A new pink stone appears. Push it left one, down one, right one, down one, then all the way right, stopping on the last square without dropping it in. Send it through the mirror. Walk to the clay square above where you pushed it, teleport beside it, push it left one and send it through again. This builds the bridge to puzzles 14-16.

Puzzle 14. Push the purple stone down one, right one, down two and right six to the southern isle's last tile. Push the mirror right two, down one and right one, send the stone through to bridge the gap, and walk to the circle.

Puzzle 15. Push your pink stone up one, left one and up two into the water. Push the mirror over it and teleport north. Push the next pink stone down two and left one and send it into the water beside the southern isle. Teleport onto it and step on the circle.

Puzzle 16 (order matters).

1. Push the mirror right one. Push your stone left one and down one. Push the mirror up one, right one and up two onto the isle's top tile.
2. Move the stone right two and send it through to finish the right side of the bridge. Teleport onto it to reach the northern isle.
3. Push the left stone onto the stone in the water and send it to the western isle. Stand mid-bridge and follow it.
4. Push the western stone left one and all the way up so it drops just left of the mirror. Teleport north again and push the last stone into the remaining gap.
5. Teleport west, push the mirror right, carry it north over the bridge, set it beside the bridge's end and teleport south to the circle.

Hub 3 (leaving). Either go back down the way you came in, or hold rewind to get the pink stone back. To open the northern area, send the stone to the top clay row and push it into the water. To open the eastern area, push it all the way left along the clay row, send it to the bottom row of the snowy area and push it right once to make a bridge.

Merging and wooden mirrors: puzzles 17-22

The last Mirror Isles puzzles use several mirrors at once. Before you push anything, check which island each mirror would send you to.

Puzzle 17. Stand halfway between the starting mirrors to clone yourself. Push the right mirror left one, push the left mirror down one, right two and up one, then push the right mirror left one and down one. Clone again so both clones reach the south-east isle. Drop the left mirror into the water, push the right mirror up one and right two, and send one clone to the bottom of the south-east isle and the other to its top half. The top clone pushes the stone left and the bottom clone pushes it up into the water. Finally, trap one clone against the top edge and move until two tiles separate them, then close the vertical gap.

Puzzle 18. Set two mirrors facing each other with an odd number of tiles between them. Stand each character the same distance from a different mirror so both land on the middle tile and merge. Take the merged character east, open a gap of four by four, then move the mirrors one square closer to shrink it to two by two.

Puzzle 19. Go back north into the snowy region to the single-puzzle area. Push your mirror right one and up three into the corner, teleport north and set the second mirror directly in front of the first. Push it up one, left one, down two and left two, return south and teleport from the leftmost tile of that row.

Puzzle 20. Push the real mirror up four and left four. Teleport to the tiny southern isle and push the stone up into the water to bring the first wooden mirror over. Push it right four and up six into the real mirror's row. Fetch the second wooden mirror the same way after pushing the top stone into the water. Keep the real mirror in place, put one wooden mirror to its right and the other below that one, then teleport from the tiny isle to the eastern isle.

Puzzle 21. Teleport to the central isle. From the left edge, second row from the bottom, teleport west. Push the top mirror up three and the bottom mirror up one, return to the centre in the top mirror's row, then teleport from the far top-right edge.

Puzzle 22. Push the bottom-facing mirror down one and the top-facing mirror down four so they sit side by side. Step onto the isle tile to reach the southern isle and push the pink stone up two. Return north, then push the top-facing mirror down one, the bottom-facing mirror left two and the top-facing mirror left one, which sends the stone into the water by the eastern isle. Push the bottom-facing mirror left one and walk to the top of your isle to land on the stone.

Finishing puzzle 22 clears the block between the snowy region and the eastern screens.

Video solutions for all 27