MONOMOON: All 9 Red Temple Puzzle Solutions

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The Red Temple sits at the bottom center of the map, at coordinates (15,08). You will probably spot its outline while exploring long before you find a way in. Getting inside means catching a lift, and the front door opens only once you can read the game’s number symbols.

Inside are nine logic puzzles. Each one ends in a code you enter with the buttons in its room, and in the first three, a chalk drawing on the wall shows how to read the figures. Puzzle 9 breaks the pattern: its code is built from three puzzles you have already solved on the second floor.

How to Reach the Red Temple

The entrance is at (15,08). Start from (13,07).

Hints:

  1. There are two ways in. A button blocks one of them, which is likely a shortcut. The other is a lift you can send down.
  2. Where does the lift end up? Can you reach that spot while still holding LMB?
  3. Would letting go of LMB really be a problem?

Solution: Get the lift fully active, then teleport straight to the save point at (13,05). Move up one screen and step onto the lift before it leaves.

Opening the Door

If the front door won’t open and the symbols on the wheel make no sense yet, leave and return later.

Hint: The symbols are numbers. You need to know how the game’s language counts.

Solution: Turn the symbols until they go from 0 to 9 in clockwise order, using the number of dots as your guide. The image shows the exact setup.

Red Temple door wheel with the number symbols set in clockwise order

Puzzle 1

Hints:

  1. Treat the code as three separate digits, not as a single three-digit number.
  2. The chalk drawing on the wall shows that one horizontal line equals 1.

Solution: Count the horizontal lines in each figure and enter those numbers as the code.

Answer: 503

Puzzle 2

Hint: The chalk drawing on the wall gives its figure a value of 0. Look for something the chalk figure has none of, but the puzzle figure has several of.

Solution: Count the twists and turns between the circles.

Answer: 12

Puzzle 3

Hints:

  1. Take a close look at the three buttons. Do you notice anything?
  2. The chalk drawing on the wall gives its figure a value of 2. What does that drawing have two of?
  3. Treat the second figure as symmetrical.

Solution: Count the lines that cross each other in each figure.

Answer: 616 (6, then 16 = 8 × 2)

Puzzle 4

Hints:

  1. Compare the four figures. What do they share, what sets them apart, and do you recognize any of them?
  2. There are four figures and four buttons. Could each figure give one digit of the code?

Solution: Every figure hides a number inside a square. Find the “hidden” number in each one.

Answer: 5297

Puzzle 5

Hints:

  1. There are three columns and three buttons. Could each column give one digit of the code?
  2. Draw each pair of symbols side by side. Note what they share and what differs, and draw those parts separately.
  3. A logic gate between the symbols brings out the result.

Solution: Apply the XOR gate to every segment. Keep only the segments found in one symbol and not the other.

Answer: 357

Puzzle 6

Hints:

  1. The missing piece of the mural isn’t needed to solve this one.
  2. This puzzle copies an earlier one exactly, only with some information missing.

Solution: Use the same idea as Puzzle 4. Find the number hidden inside a square in both figures.

Answer: 64

Puzzle 7

Hints:

  1. Try shining a light on the wall.
  2. Which number symbols could you draw inside this figure?
  3. The three buttons on the side show which digit of the code each line gives. For example, the top line helps with the second digit.
  4. Combine some of the numbers from Hint 2 into one figure.

Solution: Find the three number symbols that make up the original figure when combined. Each one has to be drawn using one of the highlighted lines, and those lines also set the order of the three digits.

Answer: 523

Puzzle 8

Hints:

  1. Try shining a light on the wall.
  2. Why do some triangles have one dot and others two?
  3. The missing piece of the third figure isn’t needed to solve this one.
  4. Draw random number symbols in each figure. Do the dots fit any of them?

Solution: When you draw a number symbol in the grid, each dot counts how many of its lines touch that triangular cell.

Answer: 097

Puzzle 9

Hints:

  1. This puzzle is very different from the rest.
  2. Try shining a light on the wall.
  3. Take a close look at the buttons. Do you notice anything?
  4. The three small rectangles of different widths that interact with your Moon all look like something else in this room.
  5. Open your map. Do you see anything similar?
  6. This one gives a lot away: the three big blank squares stand for puzzles you have already solved.

Solution: The three puzzles are the ones on the second floor: Puzzles 4, 5, and 6. Take the correct digits from each of their answers and put them together.

Answer: 9374