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Puzzles in The Outer Worlds 2 are optional activities that often rewards you with unique equipment or access to hidden content. See all puzzle solutions by planet and all of their locations in the game here!

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All Free Market Station Puzzles

Otto Puzzle

During "The Last Voyage of the ACS Free Market", you can optionally obtain Otto's information about his time on the ship by getting through a complicated lever puzzle. Simply follow the order indicated on the image above!

You can use to extort information from him. Doing so awards you with more Bits and EXP when you tell the story to the reporter.

Free Market Puzzle Solution: How to Solve Otto Puzzle

All Dorado Puzzles

Plaque Puzzle

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While exploring the wartorn areas of Golden Ridge, you will come upon a plaque that is the honoring fallen but notable soldiers of The Order. To complete the puzzle, simply replicate the year of the event, which is 2359.

Doing so opens a hidden wall that contains a full Order-brand armor set focused around Energy regeneration!

How to Solve the Plaque Puzzle

Order Initiate Scavenger Hunt Dial Puzzle

Observatory Puzzle
Before reaching the end of the "On the Trail of the Traitor" quest, you will be presented with a dial puzzle about the moons and rotation around the planet Elysium. The code itself is 414, wherein after logging it in, rewards you with a significant amount of bits and a collectible card!

Order Initiate Scavenger Hunt Dial Puzzle Solution

N-Ray Puzzle

Inside the N-Ray Range, you'll find a small room with eight power levers. Pull the lever on the far left on the bottom, the second from the left on top, then the far right on the bottom.

This will open a door nearby, allowing you to progress further into the N-Ray Range.

N-Ray Puzzle Solution

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EARL Puzzle

Outer Worlds 2 EARL Puzzle Solution

Inside EARL, you’ll need to redirect the power to the door using only four brokers to open a door. Flip the brokers in the following order: upper right, upper middle, center middle, and lower middle.

This will open the door that leads to the Big Bang, a Science Weapon that deals a massive 999 damage

EARL Puzzle Solution

Archive Safe Puzzle

Outer Worlds 2 Safe Switch Solution

Inside The Archive, you'll find a set of six switches connected to a safe. Flip only the third switch from the left and the second switch from the right. This will unlock the safe.

Archive Safe Puzzle Solution

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IRC Security Console Puzzle

Inside the security room of the Rift Containment Lab, you'll find five console power levers on the wall. You must turn all the console power lights blue by flipping the levers. However, flipping one lever will also flip the levers next to it.

Check our solution above for the correct sequence to pull the levers, including how to make only the middle console power light turn blue to unlock a secret reward!

How to Solve IRC Security Console Puzzle

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Puzzles are completely optional content that will reward the player with a significant amount of loot upon being solved. While challenging, the items you gain are nothing to scoff at!

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