MADiSON: How To Solve The Well Puzzle

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The well puzzle in MADiSON is required for players to progress, but it involves a bit of backtracking to find the right combination of symbols. MADiSON is an indie first-person psychological horror survival game that requires players to solve puzzles and defeat enemies to progress through the story. Like other puzzle-based survival horror games, players need to decipher cryptic clues in order to complete the game. One of the main features to help players with this is the instant camera; when the main character Luca uses it, it will cause changes in the game's story.

Players will find the well when searching the basement of Grandpa's house in MADiSON after exploring through some narrow shelves at the end of the long basement hallway. First, take a picture of the red door in the basement; this will give players entry. When players first approach it, the character will remark that he must be unwell, as the sight is pretty unsettling. There are two lines of candles leading up to the well, and the whole area is surrounded by crime scene tape. The rest of the room must be impossibly large, as there is a fog obscuring the edges that makes the whole basement seem otherworldly. There are three locks keeping the lid on the well, and when players interact with them, the character will remark that he's seen the symbols on the locks before.

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To solve the well puzzle, players need to backtrack from the basement. The symbols that Luca sees on the locks come from the sigil on the wall of the red safe room, next to the dining room, so players must head back up to get them. The symbols are randomized in each game, so there is no one code that will open the locks;