Can someone explain the Glissandian Protolock puzzle to me?

I am attempting the World Quest Puzzling it Out and I can’t figure out this puzzle. There was no tutorial for this one. I did the three other tutorial quests and know how they work.
This one just threw a bunch of coloured blobs at me and said solve it. I tried clicking all the red one and not much happened. I clicked all the yellow ones and not much happened.

I have no idea what’s going on.

You make 3 in a row of the colours I think, well that’s what I did and then when I do enough of them it seems to complete the puzzle after that. You click the coloured things to swap them round. Hope that helps.

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Thank you.
Sorry, still not making any progress. How do you make them in a row?
I have a 9x7 grid of coloured blobs. You can click them but if you click two next to each other them spin around for a second. That’s about all I can get from this so far.

hmmm can’t remember, maybe both but I think but I don’t think diagonal works, The ones in the same colour vanish when you put them in the same row. I just kept doing it until it went complete not sure if it is more complicated? or somebody has a pro strat :smiley:

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OK. gave up. Got r2d2 to do it for the world quest.
A tutorial would have been nice. I get 3 tutorials and the first WQ I get in the wold is one with no tutorial and I’m befuddled.

You can only switch the position of the two next to each other (and only if the switch results in a triple of one of the switched colors). It’s the exakt same puzzle as the rune puzzles in Nazjatar were (probably also the reason why there’s no tutorial for this one). Just this time there is no quest telling you, you need X runes of green/red/blue/yellow runes… because you always had to do it the same way, no matter the wanted runes: to progress get three same colored runes into an either horizontal or vertical line. Preferably pick those at the bottom of the grid, that way more things above will automatically match up when the lower runes despawn after matching.

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OK. thanks for the advice. It may help next time I see one.
I never did the runes in Nazjatar. By the time I’d earnt flying there I was sick of the place and didn’t do much there after. I think they’re being wiser here and not making the route to flying so long that by the time you have it you no longer wish to be there.

That puzzle is WoW version of Candy Crush, if that helps

Never played that either :slight_smile:
I guess they assumed everyone in the entire world played Candy Crush and they didn’t need to explain it.
I think I understand the comment above about swapping two next to each other if that makes a set of suited colours. Next time I see the puzzle I’ll try that.

Do you know what Bejeweled is?

You make a color get three in a row (or more, if possible)

Y X P T
X P X Y

^---- Click on upper X, then click on the P underneath it. Bam, it’ll now be 3 X’s in a row, and they’ll disappear - continue with that (be it as X, P, T, or Y). That’s how it works - just match the icons.

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Again, never played it.
I’m obviously missing some massive chunks of cultural references here.

I put in an Edit on how to do it.

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Thank you all. I think I understand it now.
Having never played Candy Crush, Bejeweled nor Nazjatar puzzles I had a gap in my knowledge and you guys have (I hope) resolved that.
Being faced with a grid of colours without know what to do was befuddling.

X O X O X O X O X O X O
X Y X Y X Y X Y X Y X Y X
O X Y X Y X Y X Y X Y X Y

imagine those are the colours.
on the left, going down in the column is x x o.
to make the 3 xs’ match (and thus disappear) you click the X on the bottom left of the bottom line and the O on the bottom left of the bottom line … they then exchange places so that there is 3 Xs on the left hand side, going perpendicular. This then causes the 3 Xs to disappear and move down the column. This process can also be done horizontally.
You have to get 3 of any particular colour in a row, horizontally or vertically.
To get colours to exchange place, they have to be beside each other. You click one, then click another that is beside it. They, then, exchange place.
As far as i can tell, you have to get maybe 10 colour matches (irrespective of colour, im not sure) and then you complete it.
Pretty simple, once you get used to it.

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It seemed an easier version of the Nazjtar puzzle

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/zereth-mortis-puzzle-helper/download

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Do you mean the WoW version of Bejeweled with lots of coloured symbols.

The aim is to match three (or more) in a line. You can swap two pieces around and they will only be eligible to move if they are forming at least a line of three vertically or horizontally.

In this example you could start by swapping the blue and the orange symbol around, this would form a row of three orange, they will then disappear and all the puzzle will drop down and you can make another swap to make the next line of three.

Just another example of two symbols you could swap to create a line of three.

If a move (swap of two symbols) does not result in a line of three, it wont let you make the move.

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