- Type: Elemental puzzle
- Location: An island
- Difficulty: Difficult
Background:
You are a group of adventurers who have been hired to retrieve a holy fire lantern from a remote island. To get to the lantern, you must navigate a series of puzzles and traps designed to keep intruders out.
The Puzzle:
As you make your way through the island, you come across a room filled with a variety of different fuels. There is a locked door on the other side of the room, and a riddle inscribed on the door: “To pass through this door, you must use the fuels to light the fuels in the correct order.”
There’s also a depiction of islanders lighting fires with blue, red, green, yellow, and brown smoke. And there’s a chimney shoot in the room to catch smoke.
Solution:
To solve this puzzle, players light exotic things found around the island to see what color smoke they produce. Then, they have to feed the objects in the correct order to the flames so the chute will catch the smoke in the correct order.
Once you have done this, the door will unlock and you will be able to continue your journey.
More fire ideas:
Here are some additional ideas for D&D fire puzzles:
- You come across a room with a locked door and a small pedestal in the center. On the pedestal is a note that reads: “To unlock the door, you must light the candle on the pedestal using the fire from the fireplace. But be careful, for if you let the candle go out, the door will remain locked.”
- You come across a room with a locked door and a series of torches on the walls. The door has a riddle inscribed on it that reads: “To unlock this door, you must light the torches in the correct order. The clues can be found in the different colors of the flames.”
- You come across a room with a locked door and a small puzzle box on a table. The puzzle box has a note attached to it that reads: “To unlock the door, you must solve this puzzle box. The clues can be found in the different temperatures of fire.”
- You come across a room with a locked door and a series of candles on the floor. The door has a riddle inscribed on it that reads: “To unlock this door, you must light the candles in the correct order. The clues can be found in the different shapes of the flames.”
- You come across a room with a locked door and a small fireplace in the corner. The door has a riddle inscribed on it that reads: “To unlock this door, you must use the fire in the fireplace to solve this riddle: I am not alive, but I grow; I don’t have lungs, but I need air; I don’t have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?” The answer to the riddle is fire.