Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced: How to Solve The Sage’s Buried Secret Statue Puzzles

The Sage’s Buried Secret sends Edward Kenway and James Kidd deep into a Mayan temple, and the only way forward is a set of statue puzzles built around lowering colored figureheads into matching floor slots. There is no combat to fall back on here. You solve each room by climbing onto the right block at the right time, and by rotating a floor wheel so the colors line up.

Quick answer: Lower each colored statue onto the floor tile of the same color. In the wheel rooms, spin the lever until the matching tile sits under a statue, then climb the statue to press it down. In the final room, use the counterweight beside a statue to lift it off a wrong-colored slot before rotating the wheel again.

How the statue puzzles work

Every puzzle in this mission follows one rule. Each raised statue must drop into the floor slot that shares its color. Standing on a statue with Edward’s weight pushes it down, and each statue that lands in the correct slot removes one layer of the locked wall ahead.

Two extra mechanics appear as you go. A rotating floor wheel, color-coded blue, red, and green, spins the slots around so you can bring the right tile under the right statue. A stone counterweight next to a statue lifts it back up when it has landed on the wrong color, which lets you free it and try again.

Puzzle 1: Lower the red and blue statues

Follow Kidd through the ruins until you reach a chamber with two ornate statues raised above their slots. As Kidd crosses the wooden bridge, it collapses under her feet.

Head to the left of the broken bridge, climb the vines on the wall, and mantle across the gap to reach Kidd on the far side.

Climb onto the red statue on the left and stay on it until it sinks fully into the slot below. The first layer of the wall ahead opens.

Move to the blue statue across from it and do the same. Once it settles, the last layer of the wall clears, and you can continue deeper into the temple.

Puzzle 2: Rotate the floor wheel

This room introduces the spinning floor. A wheel with a central lever sits on the ground, and the floor is split into blue, red, and green sections. Your goal is still to lower the raised statue onto its matching tile.

Grab the lever and rotate the wheel until the red floor tile lines up directly beneath the red statue. A single turn counterclockwise brings the red tile under the red head.

Climb onto the red statue and let Edward’s weight press it down onto the red tile. The door opens, and the path forward is clear.

The following room is broken, so drop into the large hole with Kidd and swim through the flooded tunnels. Stay close to her to find the air pockets, and watch the blue air meter so you keep topping it up before it runs out. Surface in the cavern and platform your way up to the temple.

Puzzle 3: Free the wrong-colored statues and set all three

At the top of the temple, the final puzzle starts in a tangled state. Two statues already sit on the wrong colored slots, and the green statue is raised but can only reach the blue part of the disk from its current spot. You need the counterweight next to a statue to lift it clear before the wheel can help.

Climb onto the stone counterweight to the left of the blue statue to raise it off the wrong tile. Then grab the wheel with Kidd and spin the disk until the blue slot sits under the blue statue.

Climb onto the blue statue to lower it into the blue slot. This opens the first door.

Grab the wheel again and rotate until the red section of the disk sits under the raised green statue. This also carries the red statue over to where the blue one used to be.

Use the counterweight again to lift the red statue off its colored slot so it is free to move.

With both the green and red statues now raised, spin the wheel so each color matches its own slot. Climb onto the red statue when it is over the red tile, then the green statue when it is over the green tile, to open the final two doors.

Setting all three statues triggers a cutscene between Kidd and Kenway, which ends the mission.

Color and slot quick reference

Puzzle	What to do
Puzzle 1	Stand on the red statue, then the blue statue, to remove both wall layers.
Puzzle 2	Turn the wheel one turn counterclockwise so the red tile sits under the red statue, then press it down.
Puzzle 3	Counterweight the blue statue up, set it on blue. Free the red statue, then match red and green to their own slots.

If a statue will not lower, it is sitting over a tile that does not match its color. Rotate the wheel until the colors agree, or use the counterweight to lift a statue that has landed on the wrong slot. Once every color matches and all doors are open, the quest completes and hands off to the next mission, Overrun and Outnumbered.