How to solve the Indiana Jones baptism and Ark of Bulrushes puzzle

The Indiana Jones baptism and Ark of Bulrushes puzzles let you finally get through the Fountain and into the secret monastery. The baptism puzzle is quite easy, just requiring you to transfer some water, but the Ark of Bulrushes tasks you with rotating large rings – forming a Great Circle, you could say – to create a clear path for baby Moses to sail through.

Both puzzles are critical to getting to the end of the Vatican leg of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, so if need some assistance, I’ve laid out the solutions to both Fountain puzzles below.

Indiana Jones Fountain puzzles explained

Having just solved the Indiana Jones Fountain of Confession puzzle featuring some dragon statues, you now have to solve two more puzzles on either side of the gate: a baptism water puzzle and a rotating ring puzzle featuring the Ark of Bulrushes.

The gate structure sits on a massive rotating circle, and to properly access these puzzles, you need to rotate the whole thing into position. This is done by moving the handle underneath where the fountain’s main dragon statue was, with Gina’s help – push it all the way to the left to reveal the baptism puzzle then all the way right to reveal the Ark of Bulrushes puzzle.

With both puzzles completed the small statue on a raised plinth directly in front of the gate will be unlocked, and you can then push it through the gate to reveal a spiral staircase leading down.

Here’s how you solve the baptism water puzzle and the Ark of Bulrushes puzzle in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle:

Indiana Jones baptism water puzzle

The Indiana Jones baptism puzzle is definitely the easiest of the two Fountain puzzles as all you need to do is push some statues around to pour a bucket of water into a basin. Before starting, make sure you take a photo of the statues to gain 15 Adventure Points which you can put towards unlocking one of the many Indiana Jones Books.

Here’s how you solve the baptism puzzle in Indiana Jones:

1. Push the left statue of a boy in a basin to the right until it can’t move any more.
2. Use Indy’s whip on the ring above the right statue of a man holding a bucket. This will release some water into that bucket.
3. Push the bucket statue towards the basin statue until the water pours into the basin and the first gate mechanism activates.

With this completed you can now use the handle on the fountain to rotate the gate structure and reveal the second puzzle.

Indiana Jones Ark of Bulrushes rotation puzzle

The Indiana Jones Ark of Bulrushes puzzle features three rotating sections of a circle with clear channels cut out. You need to rotate the sections to create a straight path from left to right so that the little ark can cross to the other side.

You can rotate each ring 90 degrees clockwise or anticlockwise by grabbing the corresponding vertical stone handle and then moving left or right. Although, there are two wooden planks that block certain channels, so part of the puzzle is getting those out the way too.

Knowing all that, here’s the easiest method to solve solve the Indiana Jones Ark of Bulrushes puzzle:

1. Rotate the outer ring clockwise twice. This gets one of the wooden planks out the way.
2. Rotate the outer ring anticlockwise once.
3. Rotate the middle ring clockwise once.
4. Rotate the central circle clockwise twice. This gets the second plank out the way and completes the straight path.
5. Use the whip to pull the ring above and to the right of the puzzle mechanism to get Moses in his ark to cross all the way to the right.

With the Indiana Jones Ark of Bulrushes puzzle completed, the gate structure will rotate back to its starting position. As I said earlier, you now need to push the small statue through the gate until it unlocks a spiral staircase, letting you descend into the secret Nephilim Order monastery for… even more puzzles! Here you’ll encounter the Indiana Jones Silver Path Puzzle and the Indiana Jones Gold Path puzzle, and all sorts of trials.

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