Islands of Insight: All Mysteries Solutions (+Hints)

This is a simple guide where you can have hints and descriptions of locations/solutions for various “mysteries” the game hides. Keep in mind that Mysteries are essentially end-game puzzles, so do try and solve them yourself!

You don’t need to uncover the mystery text to solve the mystery itself, so if you want you can speedrun them all and not worry about finishing all the Enclaves.

DISCLAIMER! I’m still working out few of the quests. I’ll most likely add them to the guide in the next day or two, but figured that there is enough meat to already share this guide. And what’s there is enough to get you to the top of the rhombus, which is the most important thing imo.

Disclaimer 2: Electric Boogaloo Steam is giving me issues with file uploads, so for now all the images are going to be links. I’ll try and sort things out so you can view everything easily, but better this than nothing.

* “Our” means yours
* Five wise orbs are each atop a pillar of wisdom
* You’ve got to search the 0’th area of the game
* Sentinels is the name for the big pillar puzzle

Go to the last island of the tutorial section, where you’re introduced to multiple puzzle types. Next to the Sentinel Stones you can find a logic box. Solve it with all light tiles connecting, and no 2×2 of light tiles.
Location -> https://i.imgur.com/q7trVsw.jpeg
Solution -> https://i.imgur.com/dlHfGIu.jpeg

NOT SOLVED
Puzzle: Seek a place where a Skydrop encircles the light and ascendance is guarded by ancient birds. There, amid the misty gold, seek the lone Logic Grid. Treat Areas as Viewpoints and keep dark tiles from sharing a side.
Discussion: I believe that I’ve previously solved the skydrop the puzzle speaks about, but I’ve no clue where it might be. There are a few Enclaves that make use of skydrops which I will search through, as those are the only static skydrops I’m certain of.

NOT SOLVED
Puzzle: Stand on the bridge that connects two curved promenaades. Face the one parent and its four children, who each have eight legs. Solve the Logic Grid on your left using the rules of the Logic Grid on your right, replacing [B, D, C, A] with [1, 2, 4, 8]
Discussion: I’m suspecting the “Eight legged children” will be something like columns or supports on a pagoda, but have not quite figured out what the game considers as a promenade.

* The bell holds a matchbox inside of it at all times
* You are not looking for a location on the mainland
* Search Autumn Plains Enclaves for the bell
* Your goal is in “All Things in Twos”

Go to the “All Things in Twos” Enclave (Autumn Falls) and on the southern side of the main island, there is a bell. Go behind it, and you should find a puzzle box. Solve it so that all light regions connect, and all dark regions have area 3.
Location -> https://i.imgur.com/nRu1xV2.jpeg
Solution -> https://i.imgur.com/SB25Zw9.jpeg

* There is no actual gravity altering mechanics in the game
* You’re looking for a location that looks like it defies gravity
* Existing in a reflection is like walking on the ceiling
* Your goal is in the As above, so Below Enclave (Shady WIldwood)

In the As above, so Below Enclave (Shady Wildwood) you have to go under the island that’s below where you start. On the underside there is a structure where you can stand on its ‘ceiling’, and solve an upside-down logic cube as if each Area had 1 more than the Area Number in it.
Location -> https://i.imgur.com/AWq9rRT.jpeg
Solution -> https://i.imgur.com/oUfPJTt.jpeg

NOT SOLVED
Puzzle: Remember the rules of the puzzle above (https://i.imgur.com/6L60Pux.png), then travel far away to a memory of a different sort, resting atop a precipice where a stone face smiles upon the pink waters. Descend halfway down the waterfall and solve the Logic Grid with three orbs. Use the rules you remember.
Discussion: The puzzle on the image is quite easy to find, but the rest of it is a mystery. I’m assuming a stone face is a statue, and pink waters might be the pools at the south of Lucent Waters? But I have not found a logic box half-way down a waterfall just yet

* There are 5 lands on this world, colliding with each other.
* Light in the world comes from a particular angle. It has to be the same as the gate the lights shines through
* The “path upwards” is not that steep, and in fact goes down at first
* Try searching the bordent of Verdant Glen
* The three siblings are 2 stars, 4 circles, and 1 circle

Your target is the smallest logic box on top of the roof above the Symbolic Duality Trial (Verdant Glen). Solve it while adding 2 to every Area Number.
Location -> https://i.imgur.com/ixY0lXk.jpeg
Solution -> https://i.imgur.com/VtjBIaG.jpeg

* The grass color might help you figure out the area
* This pit is visible on the map
* Look around Verdant Glen

Go to the hole in the world that’s south of One Way Elevator trial (Verdant Glen). You should find the logic box easily, now just solve it so that the T-shape never appears in dark cells
Location -> https://i.imgur.com/8M87reE.jpeg
Solution -> https://i.imgur.com/2qEoMlD.jpeg

* Chains of puzzles are considered Trials, and are marked on the map
* The shape is not exact, but it’s clearly a 2 from the correct angle
* If you fly high up, logic boxes despawn and you can see the shapes easier
* If you don’t know where the chain is, start somewhere in Serene Deluge and fly towards the rhombus, zooming down on the rivers below

Starting near the Cornered Numbers Trial (Lucent Waters), go north following the river. Your goal is a puzzle box with 3 circles in the center of the aqueduct that separates Lucent Waters from Serene Deluge. Solve it while: not making 2×2 of light, not making 4×1 of dark, and connecting all dark cells
Location -> https://i.imgur.com/a7V7wUr.jpeg
Solution -> https://i.imgur.com/qWOhvav.jpeg

NOT SOLVED
Puzzle: Among all faces of stone, there is one that is far larger than the rest. Beneath that face, a logic grid is cradled by the three trunks of a small tree. Solve it by connecting dark cells instead of light ones.
Discussion: Seems clear that the face of stone has to be a statue of sorts, maybe in the Shady Wildwoods? I’ve no clue just yet

* The picture showcases elements from two different areas. It’s on the edge between them.
* The directions are pretty straighforward, and will not require you to go for a long time at any step

At the top of the roof above “In Matters of Size” you will find a puzzle box (2 circles). Solve it as if all dark regions had area of 3.
Location -> https://i.imgur.com/e6JzIcv.jpeg
Solution -> https://i.imgur.com/efdJJMg.jpeg

* The description suggests a very particular Area
* Only two Enclave entrances are on islands, and only one of them matches the flora
* You’re looking around the Eye of the Needle Entrance

Right next to the entrance ring to the “Eye of the Needle” Enclave you need to climb a small boulder. At the top there is a logic box with 2 circles on it. Solve it with all of its rules, but with all the Darts pointing up.
Location -> https://i.imgur.com/A7Xy4sb.jpeg
Solution -> https://i.imgur.com/gmdOwUm.jpeg

* The map will not be useful for locating the river fork
* The broken ring is one of the Enclave entrances
* Try looking around Shady Wildwood
* Rules and Symbols are different things. Ignore one, keep the other.

Go to the ring that brings you to the Cloud of Pearls Enclave. Behind it there should be a sneaky logic box, which you need to solve using only the symbols (area numbers and symmetry lotuses), and not the “Numbers are off by one” and “connect all dark cells” rules.
Location -> https://i.imgur.com/e1IDQXZ.jpeg
Solution -> https://i.imgur.com/NRqeHYH.jpeg

NOT SOLVED
Puzzle: Stand upon the highest land in the Known Realm, and fly towards the Worlds Within Worlds. Halfway there, drop to the ground and solve the lone Logic Grid in the area. It harbors a secret if all Lotuses are rotated an eight of a turn clockwise.
Discussion: When first trying to solve this, I went on a completely wrong course. I now notice that the droplet enclave is called World within Worlds, so it’s most likely related to this.

* The image is taken near one of the fast travel points
* It may be worth looking at the map of the area
* Lions are not only outside the temple
* Only one of the boxes can follow the rules of the mystery

Go to the temple atop which there is the “Heads in the Clouds” pillar(s). Inside of the temple you will find two lions with two boxes, each having a single orange star of difficulty. Facing the lions, left box is your target, following the rules of “All dark regions have area 4” and “All light regions have area 2”
Temple -> https://i.imgur.com/CN0hfGD.jpeg
Lions -> https://i.imgur.com/Ffx8OzC.jpeg
Solution -> https://i.imgur.com/u5kYchj.jpeg

* What’s an area with a lot of waterfalls?
* The description of the waterfall and temple is not a metaphor
* If the puzzle box you’re looking in doesn’t have area and view numbers, you’re not looking at the right one
* The puzzle box is physically underwater, but it is not directly underneath the temple

You need to go to the temple at the Eastern side of Serene Deluge, at the top of which is the Shifting in Phase Enclave. Go to the bottom of the temple, and follow the swirls in the current to the ‘basement’ of a nearby structure. There will be a logic box submerged in the water. Solve itas if the symbols for area numbers were viewpoint numbers and vice versa
Location -> https://i.imgur.com/IL7gzFe.jpeg
Solution -> https://i.imgur.com/Tl3n7c3.jpeg

* The image is really not too useful, but it can let you figure out the general location
* You can get this one easily on accident if you’re just exploring every island
* Your goal is isolated to an enclave
* There is a particular enclave wiht a lot of Skydrops
* In the Worlds within Worlds Enclave, there is an extra island that belongs to it

In the Worlds within Worlds Enclave (Shady Wildwood) there is a solitary island off the Southern side. Glide to it and look back towards the main island. You should be able to line up the floating stones like a Skydrop. See image.
Solution: https://i.imgur.com/BcSQHtI.jpeg

* The behemoth is very geometrical
* You’re looking at the rhombus in Verdant Glen
* This mystery simply requires you to solve an environmental puzzle box
* If you’re stuck, try solving the A Connected Wall Trial

The massive rhombus in the Verdant Glen has a small ledge about a quarter of the way from the bottom. On the southern corner of the ledge, you will find a puzzle box with one star. Solving it finishes the mystery. Solution requires you to look into the puzzle chain below, and remember the coloring of differently shaped regions, and then copy it here.
Location -> https://i.imgur.com/ypWHTDp.jpeg
Solution -> https://i.imgur.com/fsVGFhE.jpeg

* The tree in question is very out of place
* The tree in question is very high up
* Try looking down at the tree so that the Autumn Falls are in the background

Stand up on the plateau south of the Parity Matters pillar of insight (Serene Deluge). Looking down at Autumn Falls, you should notice a circle forming with the red-leafed tree that’s standing on a solitary pillar South-West of you. Complete the puzzle like a Skydrop.
Solution -> https://i.imgur.com/wMIXDYe.jpeg

* The two waterfalls share a source, yet come from different lands
* You’re looking for a corner between two areas
* Something shiny can be found in the Autumn Falls riverside, on the corner of Lucent Waters.
* If you still don’t know, try looking towards Verdant Glen and you might figure it out.

At the corner of Verdant Glen, Lucent Waters, and Autumn Falls; you can find your target by the Autumn Falls river, hidden within some rocks. Use it like a matchbox with the giant rhombus in the first area.
Solution -> https://i.imgur.com/pD7yQ0B.jpeg

* Try left-clicking on a monolith after you complete it!
* There is a lot of places where you can complete this
* If you think you got it but it’s not working, hold left-click harder

After completing the monolith in every area, stand anywhere where you can see all five of them. For example, you can stand on top of the “Off by One With Two Colors” pillar at the south of Autumn Falls. Look at any of the monoliths and hold left click, and then continue looking at all the other ones without letting go. You should hear a soft noise every time you hover over a new monolith, and unlock the mystery after looking at all of them.
Example solution -> https://i.imgur.com/XHdAwoj.jpeg