Big Walk: How to Solve the Yellow Maze Puzzle for the Red Tower

The yellow maze is one of the first real teamwork tests in Big Walk, and it hands you a gourd for the Red Tower once you clear it. You solve it in co-op by splitting up inside the maze, carrying a wind-up timer from one side to the other, and dropping it into a green pot before the clock runs out.

Quick answer: One player grabs the wind-up timer on the left path, passes it through a hole in the maze wall to the second player on the right path, and that player places it into the green pot’s indent before the timer hits zero. The gourd then drops near the maze entrance.

Where the yellow maze sits in the Red Tower run

After you cross the red bridge and reach the Red Tower, the second region of the game, the terminal at the top asks you to collect five gourds before it releases its key. The yellow maze is one of those five puzzles, and it sits in the second section along the shoreline. Climb to the top of the tower and use your binoculars to spot the maze below before heading down to it.

What you need before you start

This puzzle is built around a two-player split. You need one person on each side of the maze, and clear voice communication helps you line up the hand-off through the wall. With larger parties the core logic stays the same, so you still only need two people actively running the timer relay.

Solving the yellow maze step by step

Enter the maze together and split at the fork. The left path leads to the red circular wind-up timer, and the right path leads to the green pot with a round indent in the middle. Send one player left and the other right.

The player on the left path picks up the wind-up timer. Grabbing it starts a short countdown, so you have to move fast from this point on.

Carry the timer to the nearest hole in the maze wall and hand it over to your teammate on the right path. Meanwhile, the right-side player should find the closest hole near the green pot to signal where they are, so you both meet at the same opening.

Yellow Maze Pass the Wind Up Timer Big Walk-1

The right-side player grabs the timer through the hole as their teammate pushes it across. Once you have it in hand, turn and head straight for the green pot at the end of the right path.

Yellow Maze Place Timer in green Pot Timer Big Walk-1

Place the timer into the circular indent on the green pot before the countdown ends. Setting it in on time completes the puzzle.

Claim the gourd and confirm the puzzle is done

When the timer lands in the pot in time, the puzzle registers as complete and a gourd drops to the ground back at the maze entrance. Both players should head back to the entrance and pick it up.

Carry the gourd back up to the top of the Red Tower and drop it into one of the terminal’s containers. That fills one of the five slots and moves you a step closer to releasing the tower’s key.

Why the timer runs out before you finish

The whole puzzle hinges on the countdown that starts the moment the timer is picked up. If you fail, it is almost always because too much time was lost between grabbing the timer and reaching the pot.

The players used different holes, so the hand-off couldn’t happen through the wall.
The right-side player wasn’t already waiting at the pot when the timer came through.
The timer was carried the long way instead of passed at the nearest opening.

If the countdown expires, the timer resets to its starting spot on the left path and you simply pick it up and try the relay again. Once you have this gourd, the yellow maze is behind you, and you can move on to the remaining Red Tower puzzles to finish the terminal and earn the map.