InIslands of Insight, you may need to approach puzzles in very different ways. The game features a wide variety of puzzles. Some involve simple tasks like chasing a sphere or passing through an almost invisible circle.

Logic Grid puzzles, on the other hand, involve placing black and white tiles and can be quite confusing. Especially when it comes to the game’s mysteries, you must ignore the rules shown to you while solving these Logic Grids. The puzzle related to the mystery called ‘Son Of The Sun’ is one such example.

The orange circle on the map shows the location of the ‘Son of the Sun’ mystery in Islands of Insight.

How To Solve ‘Son Of The Sun’ Puzzle

This mystery description involves a Skydrop surrounding light, protected by ancient birds amidst misty gold, where you seek a lone Logic Grid, treating Areas as viewpoints and keeping dark tiles apart. Let’s dive into how to interpret and solve this puzzle.

The place associated with the birds mentioned in this puzzle is ‘The Empyrean Journey,‘one of the Enclave areas east of the first main unlocked area, Verdant Glen. The reason for this is the bird statues on the columns at the entrance of this area.

Player inspects a statue that resembles a bird in Islands of Insight.

Now you need to find the location mentioned in the puzzle’s phrase’Seek a place where a Skydrop encircles the light.‘Skydrop puzzles arefloating orbs in the airthat you solve by looking at them from a certain angle to see them as a circle.

Head further east in The Empyrean Journey to find the mentioned area. As you progress, you willsee a circular openingon one of the flying rock islands in the eastern part of this area. Through this opening, you will seea beam of sunlight passing through the Skydrops.

The player is looking through the Skydrop orbs at the sunlight in Islands of Insight

If you look at the spot where the sunlight hits, you willsee a lone Logic Grid Box, as mentioned in the mystery. You need to solve its puzzle to complete the mystery. However, contrary to the usual rules of this puzzle, you need totreat the tiles with areas on them as viewpoint tiles, as stated in the mystery.

If you haven’t done this before, here’s how the viewpoint tiles work: For example, if a viewpoint tile has the number three on it, you should check the number of white tilesit can see in a horizontal or vertical line.

A completed logic grid puzzle but player treats light tiles as viewpoints in Islands of Insight.

The tiles you place as black tiles block the viewpoints. Solve this puzzle by thinking of each white tile’s numbers as viewpoints. you may place dark tiles horizontally or vertically, butyou must not place them in a L shape.

If you solve the puzzle this way, the background will turn red, indicating that you have completed the puzzle.