Stones Illuminated is the area behind the SxB Gold Room, where Skipping Stones meets the Vault of the Beamcasters. It has 23 puzzles, and the gold room puzzle is the first of them. The table below gives the start of each one in a full solution video, so you can jump straight to the room you are stuck in.
Stones Illuminated puzzle 3. Green beams cross small stone platforms on open water, so every stone you skip also changes what a beam can reach.
Where it is and how to get in
Reach the SxB gold room through Torc (the route is in that guide), then solve the gold room. In The Flying Chungus video the gold room is puzzle 1 and the rest of the area follows from it. On Steam, opening the room is the “Gold SxB” achievement. In Mikan Hako's full playthrough series the area is two videos (#22 and #23), played after Mirrors and Stones and before the first ending.
What to expect
- Stones and beams in the same room. The footage shows stone platforms, lily pads and water together with the coloured beams from the Vault. Our Vault page has the beam colour table, which still applies here.
- Beam colours arrive in a rough order. In the solution video the first green beam is in puzzle 2, violet in puzzle 5, orange in puzzle 8, red in puzzles 18 and 19, yellow in puzzle 21 and cyan in puzzles 22 and 23. If a colour is new to you, you are probably at the start of its run of puzzles.
- Puzzle 6 is the big one. The video splits it into a surface part (5:03) and a below part (11:37), and together they take 10:35 of solution time, about a third of the whole area. Puzzles 9 and 10 are the next longest, at a little over two minutes each.
- Short stretch in the middle. Puzzles 11 to 15 each take under a minute in the video, so a long puzzle is not always followed by another one.
The surface part of puzzle 6. The boat character comments on screen as the puzzle starts: “I warn you, though: you're in for a complex time.”
All puzzles
How to use the table: “Starts at” is the point in the solution video embedded below where that puzzle begins, and “Solution length” is how long the finished solution runs. Puzzle numbers follow the video, which is the order the player solved them in, not a number shown in the game. You can also jump to any of them from the Puzzle Finder.
| Puzzle | Starts at | Solution length | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Puzzle 1 (SxB Gold Room) | 0:00 | 1:08 | The gold room puzzle itself. Written steps are in our SxB Gold Room guide. |
| Puzzle 2 | 1:08 | 1:28 | First green beam in the footage. |
| Puzzle 3 | 2:36 | 1:06 | |
| Puzzle 4 | 3:42 | 0:52 | |
| Puzzle 5 | 4:34 | 0:29 | First violet beam in the footage. |
| Puzzle 6 (Surface) | 5:03 | 6:34 | Split into a surface part and a below part. The longest puzzle in the area. |
| Puzzle 6 (Below) | 11:37 | 4:01 | Second half of puzzle 6, with three violet beams. |
| Puzzle 7 | 15:38 | 0:54 | |
| Puzzle 8 | 16:32 | 0:38 | Orange beam. |
| Puzzle 9 | 17:10 | 2:22 | |
| Puzzle 10 | 19:32 | 2:31 | |
| Puzzle 11 | 22:03 | 0:25 | |
| Puzzle 12 | 22:28 | 0:20 | |
| Puzzle 13 | 22:48 | 0:41 | |
| Puzzle 14 | 23:29 | 0:35 | |
| Puzzle 15 | 24:04 | 0:44 | |
| Puzzle 16 | 24:48 | 1:21 | |
| Puzzle 17 | 26:09 | 1:54 | |
| Puzzle 18 | 28:03 | 0:22 | Red beam and red blocks. |
| Puzzle 19 | 28:25 | 0:37 | Red beam and red blocks. |
| Puzzle 20 | 29:02 | 0:51 | |
| Puzzle 21 | 29:53 | 0:36 | Yellow beam. |
| Puzzle 22 | 30:29 | 0:44 | Cyan beams. |
| Puzzle 23 | 31:13 | 0:33 | Cyan beam. The last puzzle in the video. |
The below part of puzzle 6. Three violet beams run down the room, each ending at a blue gem holder.
Puzzle 18, where the red beam first shows up. The red blocks sit in the beam's path, so what you push into or out of that line decides the room.
Solution video
Puzzle list and timestamps from The Flying Chungus solution video (23 puzzles, with puzzle 6 shown in two parts). Beam colours and the layout notes above come from watching that footage. If a step does not match your screen, press undo and compare with the video.
More videos for this area
- Mikan Hako, Stones Illuminated 1/2 (50 minutes) and 2/2 (54 minutes): the full playthrough, with no chapter markers.
- McNikola, Orange Beams Alternate Solution (1:41): a second way through one of the orange-beam puzzles.
- Mikan Hako also has a separate SxB area called Beams, Mirrorably (22 minutes), played after the first ending. We have not covered it yet.