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The Monolith puzzle. It confounded players for nearly a week after Fez was released, and ended up being solved by brute force. Surely after all the careful design and five years of development that were put into this game, this puzzle was not meant to be solved in such a way.

I have found a number of threads trying to unearth a solution, but nobody seems to have made any real headway. One would think that after three months, somebody would have figured it out by now. However, those few who have fully completed the game appear to have used the brute-forced solution (or been told said solution by a developer).

My hope is that someone somewhere has figured this out, but I fear that this question will remain unanswered.

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I wouldn't hold my breath on this one. I would bet that most of the people working on it just wanted to finish the game. The fact that the puzzle was most quickly solved by brute force was a pretty disheartening outcome, and few people wanted to continue working on a puzzle that was not known to have a solution. That said, I would also be quite interested in knowing this. – murgatroid99 Jul 16 '12 at 17:51
Out of curiosity by someone who has seen some notes on Fez, but not played it, would you mind expanding a bit on 'brute force'? I can't imagine what that means in a puzzle game context. If you don't want to spoil the brute force solution, maybe you could cite an analogous situation in Portal or a similarly popular puzzle game. – Cort Aug 19 '12 at 21:15
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The answer to the puzzle is a sequence of button presses (This is fairly evident once you get to the point that you're trying to solve this puzzle). Someone put up a website to crowdsource a brute-force solution by trying every possible combination. There would have been 823543 possible combinations, but a Polytron staffer gave a couple hints that reduced the set of solutions to a more reasonable 17k or so. – robalan Aug 21 '12 at 15:02
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@robalan "... more reasonable 17k or so." lol – Lemmings19 Dec 24 '12 at 6:07

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