Beach house (count, then encode in tiles)
Also searched as: Beach House / tile encoding
The short answer
The two beach houses must be occupied at the same time. On the ground floor of house A, note how many images are shown, then go upstairs and encode that number with three tile types: triangle = 10, asterisk = 5, single line = 1. Press the button, house B's display board updates, and the player in B reads the number off the board with a telescope and enters it.
- Players
- 2 players
- Time
- 15-25 minutes
- Location
- Beach north of the green tower (two adjacent buildings)
- Reward
- 1 green tower part (gourd)
This one tests encoding at a distance: you build any number you like out of three symbols worth 10, 5 and 1, and then somebody reads it back across a stretch of beach.
Before you start
- 2 players (both houses occupied simultaneously)
- Agree on a channel first (a radio is the cheapest option)
Step-by-step 6 steps
- 1
Write down the coordinate near the green tower first
A red platform near the green tower displays the coordinates for this puzzle pair. Note them so you can mark the two houses on the map, then head north to the beach.
- 2
Find the two beach houses side by side
The two houses sit right next to each other, and you need to be inside both at once - a hard requirement, and impossible alone.
- 3
House A, ground floor: count the faces
House A is the one with the collectable, the ground-floor screen and the upstairs tile panel; house B is the one whose board you read with a telescope. In house A, activate the mechanism beside the collectable and a screen on the ground floor shows a set of images - mostly human heads. Work out exactly how many there are.
Faster: Get this number wrong and everything after it is wrong. Count twice before you go upstairs.
- 4
House A, upstairs: encode the number with tiles
Upstairs there is a tile system with three tile types. Use it to represent the number you just counted: triangle = 10, asterisk = 5, single line = 1, in combination.
Faster: For example: count 20, place two triangles. Count 17, one triangle plus one asterisk plus two single lines.
Schematic: beach house tile encoding. Triangle = 10, asterisk = 5, single line = 1, combined to express any number. - 5
Press the button and house B's board updates
Pressing the button raises house A's pin board, and house B's display board changes to match it.
- 6
House B: read the board through a telescope and enter it
The player in house B reads the number off the display board through a telescope and types it in, and the puzzle is finished.
Where it goes wrong
These are the places players actually get stuck most often. Working through them in order usually finds the cause.
Other Green tower puzzles
After finishing: 1 green tower part. Put all five parts into the five-slot receiver on the green tower top, get the green key, start the chairlift.
Where this solution came from
The tile encoding - triangle 10, asterisk 5, single line 1 - matches item by item between games.gg and allthings.how. Both houses occupied at once, with house B reading through a telescope, is confirmed by allthings.how, games.gg and bigwalk.tips.
Puzzles in this game are not assigned in a fixed order: each tower needs a set number of gourds and has more challenges around it than that, so you choose which ones to clear, in any order. That is why two guides list different puzzle line-ups for the same tower — neither is wrong. Unless a coordinate is credited to a named source it is a community measurement, and later versions can shift it; once you are in the area, trust the landmark over the number.