Hogwarts Legacythe successful game based on the world of Harry Potter, successfully mixes action, role-playing, exploration and some puzzles, because if Hermione taught us anything, it’s that you have to be decisive.
However, this Hogwarts Legacy puzzle would suit you better. Ron Weaslysince he is the chess expert.
In a good tribute to the end of The Philosopher’s Stone, in this puzzle of the environment, which we find in the Poacher’s coast and the marumweem lake, we must checkmate in one move. But how?
Solution to the chess puzzle at Hogwarts Legacy (Lake Marumweem)
This giant chess board is inside a cave where there is a safeone of the many chest rooms that are scattered throughout the map and that you can go looking for as a side mission.
We have found two caves with chess puzzles in Hogwarts Legacy: in the Poacher’s Coast and the Lago Marunweem. You will recognize the caves by two pillars that you must rotate with I was knocked down to open it.
Inside, you must search the room for any objects that you can transform into chess pieces with your magic spell. transformation. It can be a chair, a vase… If you can’t find it, use the “scanner” to look for hidden objects.
When transforming it, you will have a chess piece: it can be a queen, a bishop, a horse… You must move it, with Windgardium Leviosaon a square on the board where you can do checkmate.
Unfortunately, there is no single solution: the puzzle seems to be “randomized” already each player will get a piece and a different move. You have to know, therefore, playing chess, how the pieces move (knight in L, bishop diagonally) to deduce what is the (legal) position in which that piece can checkmate.
Doing so will break the opposing king and you will be able to open the chest. In the video above you have an example of how we did it.
Hogwarts Legacy is available now on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, with versions for PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch coming later (here are the dates).
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