Order of the Sinking Star: Mirror Isles Part 3 Puzzle Solutions (Puzzles 17-22)
Exact mirror and stone moves to clear the final six Mirror Isles puzzles and open the eastern path.
Exact mirror and stone moves to clear the final six Mirror Isles puzzles and open the eastern path.
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The third stretch of the Mirror Isles in Order of the Sinking Star holds the last six puzzles, numbered 17 through 22. There are fewer of them than in the earlier parts, but each one leans harder on cloning, merging clones back into one, and chaining mirror reflections across islands. Below are the exact moves for each.
Quick answer: Puzzles 17–22 mix cloning, clone-merging, long-range reflection chains, and one-way wooden-frame mirrors. Finishing all six removes the object blocking the snowy region’s eastern path.
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Mirror Isles Puzzle 17
Follow the pier toward the southern area until you reach two mirrors that clone you. Stand on the middle tile between them so you can split into two paths. Activate the puzzle on the right. The goal is to drop a stone into the water so it bridges the southeastern isle to the northern isle, which means sending both clones to the southeastern isle to move that stone together.
You are finished with the left-facing mirror, so drop it into the water. Push the right-facing mirror 1 square up and 2 squares right. Now a character on the bottom-most tile in the mirror’s column can teleport to the neighboring isle.
Send the first character to the southeastern isle and bring it to the bottom. Send the second character to the same isle and keep it on the top half. Have the top character push the stone 1 square left, then have the bottom character push it all the way up and into the water to form the bridge.
On the target isle, line both characters up on their circles. Trap one character on the top edge tile, then move right until there are two tiles between the characters. Once the horizontal gap is right, move all the way down to close the vertical gap, and the circles activate.
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Mirror Isles Puzzle 18
This one reverses the usual trick. Instead of cloning, you merge two characters back into one. To do that, two mirrors must face each other with an odd number of tiles between them, and each character must stand in front of a mirror at an equal distance. Both reflections then land on the tile between the mirrors, fusing the characters.
Use the mirrors to move both characters to the eastern isle and set the mirrors in the positions shown in-game. Create a gap of 4 tiles horizontally and 4 tiles vertically between your characters. Bringing the mirrors 1 square closer to each other drops that gap to 2 tiles in both directions, which is what lets the two characters meet and merge.
Mirror Isles Puzzle 19
After clearing the two puzzles in the southern sub-region, head back up to the snowy region and go up once more to reach a sub-region with a single puzzle. The whole thing is about putting two mirrors face to face to extend your teleport range.
Use the paired mirrors to return to the southern isle. Follow the row to its leftmost tile, then teleport from there to the target isle and activate the circle.
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Mirror Isles Puzzle 20
Puzzle 20 adds one-way mirrors set in wooden frames. These mirrors cannot teleport you by themselves; instead, they extend the reflection from a real mirror. When that reflection goes through a real mirror, it continues through the wooden-frame mirrors. You also need the stones to make bridges that move both wooden-frame mirrors onto the eastern isle’s main body.
Move the real mirror four squares up, followed by four squares left, until it reaches the leftmost tile. Teleport to the tiny southern isle, shift the stone one square upward, and let it fall into the water so you can reach the first wooden-frame mirror.
Go back to the place where you picked up the first wooden-frame mirror. From there, you can teleport beside the wooden-frame mirror on the top isle. Get behind its stone and push the stone down into the water.
Move the second wooden-frame mirror right, then down, until it reaches the main body. Group the three mirrors together: leave the real mirror where it is, place the top-isle wooden-frame mirror to its right, and position the remaining wooden-frame mirror below that one.
Go back to the tiny southern isle one last time. You can now teleport to the eastern isle and finish the puzzle.
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Mirror Isles Puzzle 21
This is the easiest of the six. Use the mirrors to teleport to the central isle, then stand at the left edge of the second row from the bottom. From this spot, closest to the bottom mirror, teleport over to the western isle.
Push the top mirror up by 3 squares and the bottom mirror up by 1 square. Use the top mirror’s row to teleport back to the central isle, then move to the rightmost edge at the top, in the same row as the top mirror. From there you can teleport to the target isle and activate the circle.
Mirror Isles Puzzle 22
The final puzzle uses the mirror-in-mirror effect again, this time to teleport a pink stone next to the target isle so you can stand on it.
Move the bottom-facing mirror one square down. Next, lower the top-facing mirror four squares so the mirrors are side by side. Step onto the tile and teleport to the southern isle.
Push the top-facing mirror 1 square down, the bottom-facing mirror 2 squares left, and the top-facing mirror 1 square left. This teleports the pink stone into the water right next to the top edge of the eastern isle.
Push the bottom-facing mirror 1 square left. Move to the top of your isle, and the top-facing mirror teleports you onto the pink stone to complete the puzzle.
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Completing Puzzle 22 removes the object that blocks the route east from the snowy region, giving you access to the eastern sub-regions.
