The Indiana Jones Fountain of Confession dragon statue puzzle has a simple solution in the Great Circle, but there are some very cryptic clues, a bit of legwork and at least one bit that's just 'randomly look in an unspecified direction to find what you need'.
It can make the whole process a little daunting but more because of communication than any actual difficulty. It starts with working out how to reach and position two dragon statues, one which has a missing claw needed to move it, adding another complication to this conundrum. Then there's making sense of the light and dark clues relating to the statues themselves. If you’re stuck figuring all this out, I’ve explained the entire process below to help you with the Fountain of Confession puzzle solution.
The Indiana Jones Fountain of Confession dragon statue puzzle has a simple solution but you've got to do a whole bunch of climbing around and moving heavy things based on some slightly unclear clues. Firstly, you’ve got to figure out how to even get to the two dragon statues on the fountain and then you’ll notice one of them has a missing claw, making this Indiana Jones and the Great Circle conundrum a little more complicated. After that, it’s all about making sense of the light and dark clues relating to the statues themselves, but if you’re stuck figuring these out, I’ve explained how to solve this dragon statue puzzle below, which is the first of several Fountain of Confession puzzles.
Indiana Jones Fountain of Confession dragon statue puzzle solution
Indy must figure out how to reveal the secret entrance to a monastery within the Fountain of Confession, which is done by rotating two dragon statues on top of the fountain’s pillars so that they face each other. On each of these pillars, you’ll also spot some photo opportunities tied to the inscriptions, which actually provide clues that hint at the solution and are an easy way to get some Adventure Points for any Indiana Jones Books. This is the conclusion to mysteries that started to reveal themselves when you solved the Indiana Jones Jesus puzzle that let you first start exploring secret underground areas beneath the Vatican.
To solve the Indiana Jones Fountain of Confession puzzle the clues indicate you have to turn the dragons in the following directions:
- A light-scale dragon turned to the dark and saw his hoard unveiled = make the light dragon statue face the dark one
- A dark beast looked upon the light, and the den of dragons opened = make the dark dragon statue face the light one
However, there’s a lot more to this puzzle than just rotating the statues, so here’s a step-by-step walkthrough on how to rotate the dragon statues in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle:
- To get started open the fascist rations chest in front of the steps to the left of the fountain and take the Fountain Gate Key inside.
- Turn right from the chest and open the gate surrounded by scaffolding using the key.
- Climb up and then swing across to the upper level using your whip. Now you can hop out the window to get onto one of the pillars flanking the fountain, where you’ll find the light dragon statue.
- Using the whip and the pole sticking out the wall swing across to the dark dragon statue on the other side of the Fountain of Confession.
- Twist the dark statue’s raised claw to reveal a handle you can then use to rotate the entire statue. Rotate it so that it is facing the light statue.
- Swing back across to the light dragon statue and you’ll notice the claw you need is missing. Look over the edge of the pillar where all the scaffolding is, and you’ll spot the missing claw below. After collecting it a cutscene plays in which Gina causes Indiana Jones to fall off the platform, once that's done climb back up to the light dragon statue.
- Attach and twist the claw to reveal the handle and use it to rotate the statue to face the dark dragon. You’ll know if you’ve lined it all up right to solve the puzzle as Gina will say “incredible!”
- Get back down to ground level and use Indy’s whip to pull on the main dragon statue in the fountain itself to finally complete this puzzle.
With that all done you’ve solved the Indiana Jones Fountain of Confession dragon statue puzzle only to reveal… more puzzles. Specifically the Indiana Jones baptism and Ark of Bulrushes puzzle which you'll find inside the fountain. Before you can properly enter this mythical monastery for real, you have to complete these two challenges. Fortunately they aren’t too complicated and thankfully don’t require any extra keys or climbing around.
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