How to get the torch past the water in Indiana Jones

indiana jones torch water puzzle
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The Indiana Jones torch puzzle sees you trying to get a flaming torch past some water during The Stolen Cat Mummy mission in the Great Circle. It's a simple physics puzzle that will challenge you to get some fire into a room without the water putting it out. Solve that as a problem and you can then burn away a door inside to get at a collectible. Here's what you need to do.

How to solve the Indiana Jones water and torch puzzle

How to solve the Indiana Jones water and torch puzzle

(Image credit: Bethesda)

The Indiana Jones torch puzzle happens not long after you've found the Giant's Tomb accessed via the Indiana Jones Sacred Wounds puzzle. Past the watery gap you'll find a door that Indy says would be easy to burn down, so getting some sort of fire inside is crucial. You'll probably work out pretty quickly that throwing anything through the gap doesn't work, and will likely lose you the torch, so what to do?

There are two options here. The first is solve the puzzle as intended when you reach it, which I'll cover below. The second is to ignore it for now and play on to Gizeh where you'll have to buy a lighter to continue a mission and can then return with it to skip the whole puzzle completely.

Assuming you haven't got the lighter then the answer is to ignore the water gap completely while you have the torch and find the hole I've marked on the map above in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. To find the hole, face the water and look left to see the passage out of the chamber and follow it. Turn right as soon as you can and look for this hole in a wall behind a pillar:

indiana jones torch water puzzle

(Image credit: Bethesda)

Throw the torch through there and then return to the water gap and squeeze through. Once inside the chamber you'll find the thrown torch, still alight. You can then use it to burn the door away, where you'll inside you'll find an Ancient Relic hidden inside.

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