Puzzle Gauntlet - Changing the Game - any tips?

stef_focus
stef_focus Posts: 204 Tile Toppler
in MPQ General Discussion

Is this just getting lucky or is there some magic character + support combo I haven't tried yet.
The only somewhat useful characters are Silk, but she also makes fortified web tiles that get in the way, and Magneto to remove team-ups, but he does nothing to get strike tiles.

Any tips?

Comments

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 12,148 Chairperson of the Boards

    I used Low level AI Support on Silk. I can't tell you that is why I won or it sped things up but I guess passive strike tiles must help, eh? I tend to find with Silk you either win eventually or you kill the enemy team.

  • LavaManLee
    LavaManLee Posts: 1,858 Chairperson of the Boards

    These two are the worst "puzzles" in the entire Puzzle Gauntlet rotation. They are boring and completely random. No thought at all. Just luck.

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 6,800 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 4 December 2025, 19:25

    My Dagger is already rank 5 so I might skip some of these awful things this time. I have better things to do than RNG dependent goals.

    At one point s0kun said they'd look at these travesties of game design but so far it's just repeat ad nauseam.

    Maybe IP2 will do something different with the PG.

  • KGB
    KGB Posts: 4,004 Chairperson of the Boards

    TUs like Polaris's Blue, 3 Panther Yellow help since they put a bunch of strikes on the board.

    Low Level AI Support for sure really helps.

    One of Silks powers only puts strikes on Green. That's the one to pay attention to as you match tiles and wait for strikes to gradually appear. If you can get a column with only Green tiles as non-strikes that's the time to fire that power. Otherwise you need to be patient and wait for a column of 6+ strikes before firing her powers and hoping to get the win.

    KGB

  • Hellblazer666
    Hellblazer666 Posts: 434 Mover and Shaker

    Is that the one with daken and mantis? Ya that one sucks major balls

  • stef_focus
    stef_focus Posts: 204 Tile Toppler

    @KGB said:
    TUs like Polaris's Blue, 3 Panther Yellow help since they put a bunch of strikes on the board.

    Low Level AI Support for sure really helps.

    One of Silks powers only puts strikes on Green. That's the one to pay attention to as you match tiles and wait for strikes to gradually appear. If you can get a column with only Green tiles as non-strikes that's the time to fire that power. Otherwise you need to be patient and wait for a column of 6+ strikes before firing her powers and hoping to get the win.

    KGB

    Thanks, I didn't notice her black power only converted green tiles. That did the trick (...eventually)

  • kuntilanak
    kuntilanak Posts: 292 Mover and Shaker

    This 'puzzle' is the worst... And they're not going to change it, if at all. They just don't care, so neither do I.

  • MegaBee
    MegaBee Posts: 1,347 Chairperson of the Boards

    Any hints for the other one? This is maddening.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,983 Chairperson of the Boards

    @MegaBee said:
    Any hints for the other one? This is maddening.

    The Lockheed support fortifies a random friendly special tile every 2 turns.

    The answer to most of these is actually "use weird supports."

  • TheXMan
    TheXMan Posts: 281 Mover and Shaker

    Or Avengers Tower which fortifies 67.5 percent. But you still need to get special tiles in corners

  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,981 Chairperson of the Boards

    @MegaBee said:
    Any hints for the other one? This is maddening.

    I did the fortify one pretty easily with silk and AI support. She fortifies web tiles and creates special tiles that prowler will fortify.

    The column of strike tiles took me like 20 times because I. COULD. NOT. STOP. KILLING. THEM.

    every single time I'd be so close but one TU tile or web tile would F things up, and ascended silk would kill them passively before I could fix it.

  • Hellblazer666
    Hellblazer666 Posts: 434 Mover and Shaker

    @MegaBee said:
    Any hints for the other one? This is maddening.

    Storm get black and use hailstorm that will trigger prowler fortifying tiles

  • MegaBee
    MegaBee Posts: 1,347 Chairperson of the Boards

    @MegaBee said:
    Any hints for the other one? This is maddening.

    Right after I asked this, I lucked into a win with Silk and Sanctum Sanctorum.

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 6,800 Chairperson of the Boards

    @kuntilanak said:
    This 'puzzle' is the worst... And they're not going to change it, if at all. They just don't care, so neither do I.

    They thought about caring but realized it wouldn’t make anyone spend one penny more if this travesty of “puzzle design” was improved so they were told to stop.

  • Hellblazer666
    Hellblazer666 Posts: 434 Mover and Shaker

    Funny enough I beat the silk one in the first try. I gave her low level ai saved up her blue and matched green to get daken to make strike tiles

Categories