The Witness is a very good puzzle game. So good that folks just can’t get its puzzles out of their head. At the airport, at a nice restaurant, everywhere.
I don’t remember this puzzle from The Witness pic.twitter.com/7X6FRgIJFa
— Cooper Lund (@cooperlund) February 4, 2016
Pop quiz: Puzzle from The Witness or early 90s experimental techno album? pic.twitter.com/u4jXYs8xYi
— Chris Person (@Papapishu) February 1, 2016
argh this entire restaurant is nothing but puzzles and Easter eggs for The Witness pic.twitter.com/KhsCRqs3Il
— Grant K. Roberts (@gkr) February 3, 2016
@bradshoemaker My tap is taunting me. If I can just find the correct angle… #TheWitness pic.twitter.com/H26bqkgeTe
— Stuart Buck (@TastyMcFunk) February 4, 2016
The Witness has changed me pic.twitter.com/q0jJoGfPMx
— David Ballard (@DBal) February 4, 2016
After a week of playing @witnessgame I’m like https://t.co/Jn9RuiMDqe
— Noel Cody (@noelcody) February 4, 2016
This actually made me stop in my tracks when I saw it #thewitness pic.twitter.com/CEL0nDl6BA
— Stuart Walton (@StuartIWalton) February 4, 2016
In a webinar and I can’t not see this as a puzzle from The Witness. pic.twitter.com/4wQtLQKHxU
— Greg Royalty (@RustiestSpoon) February 4, 2016
That moment when you try to solve your @GoogleMaps directions b/c you’ve been playing the Witness all night. pic.twitter.com/FDPjw9pRwC
— Start Democracy (@VideoGameVoters) February 4, 2016
Found a new variation of line puzzle: avoid the floor mat. #TheWitness pic.twitter.com/3kGCc5AghC
— Todd Little (@tikilittle) February 4, 2016
This album cover looks like a really hard puzzle from The Witness pic.twitter.com/DeWAc9lyiK
— Jim Challenger (@jim_challenger) February 4, 2016
There’s a load more of these at Kyle Orland’s “The Witness” Puzzles In Real Life compendium.
Crazy. I mean, it’s not anyone sane would ever-
*looks down at keyboard while typing, sees illuminated lines making patterns, breaks into a cold sweat*
Shit.
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6 responses to “People Can’t Stop Seeing The Witness’ Puzzles, Even In The Real World”
I still to this day see epic grinding lines thanks to hours and hours of Tony hawk in my teenager years. It’s a sickness.
oh man…. the hours and hours that turned into days and then into years, im in the same boat
Yep. Every time I see a shipping container, I see a fulton extraction. Every. Single. Time.
Thanks MGSV.
Visiting Italy after playing Assassins Creed 2 was a bit surreal. I couldn’t help but notice all the conveniently spaced handholds on all the buildings.
Burnout taught me every single path locked off with yellow barriers is worth far more points than the main path.
You guys are lucky – thanks to countless years of playing Mario, I have a compulsion to eat every mushroom I see.
Been hospitalised eighteen times.