God of War Ragnarök: How to Solve Every Puzzle from a Pro Gamer

As a professional gamer and content creator specializing in the God of War series, I‘ve painstakingly dissected each perplexing puzzle across the Nine Realms. Commit my comprehensive solutions to memory, and you‘ll shatter Thor‘s defenses in no time.

Below I detail insider strategies and obscure solutions for even the most obscured puzzles. I also provide specific button inputs and visual references where relevant. Feel free to skip to sections for early-game puzzles in the Jarnsmida Pitmines and Svartalfheim, or late-game puzzles littered throughout Alfheim and Vanaheim.

Let‘s crack some skulls and get to the good stuff!

Outsmarting the Jarnsmida Pitmines

Kratos faces his first brain teaser in the ominous Jarnsmida Pitmines. You must manipulate various water wheels, hooks, and platforms to escape the claustrophobic tunnels.

The steps seem straightforward enough: destroy a soundstone for access, freeze a water wheel to hoist your escape boat, then reconstruct the machinery to ride water flowing from shattered stone droplets.

But beware: many gamers miss the hidden soundstone tucked around the tunnel‘s bend. Peer closely at the walls before proceeding deeper into the Pitmines where you can‘t turn back!

Jarnsmida Pitmines puzzle solution:

1. Eliminate draugrs and noche first.
2. Locate semi-obscured soundstone embedded in right tunnel wall. Use Atreus‘ Sonic Arrows to shatter it.
3. Descend until you reach the large water wheel machinery lifting your escape boat.
4. Fully freeze the water spout with R2 for maximum effect.
5. Let the icy axe grind up the water wheel, locking your boat in place above you.
6. Grapple the nearby chain swinging from your boat to cross the deadly chasm.
7. Wedge your axe in the rotating cogs on the left which act as a bridge to deeper tunnels.
8. Destroy two dangling water pouches below the crane arm so liquid flows again.
9. Ride rotating hooks and newly operational water wheels to the cliffside exit!

With my guidance, you‘ll escape the Jarnsmida Pitmines unscathed. But greater challenges lurk in the verdant forests of Vanaheim…

Applecore‘s Perplexing Puzzles

Your next conundrums lie in Applecore, Svartalfheim where three scrolling water puzzles block your path across the chasmic mines. Utilize Atreus‘s keen sight and Kratos‘s brawn in tandem to reroute roaring rapids and giant metal boxes.

Applecore Puzzle #1

This puzzle trips up even hardened adventurers with its obscured design. But I‘ll outline the cryptic steps here:

1. Enter the first Applecore room and cast your gaze upward. Spot two tiny openings emitting an aqua glow thanks to trapped ores.
2. Without these arrows, you‘ll never progress! Have Atreus snipe each occlusion with R2 to get water flowing.
3. Next, fully freeze the massive water wheel propelling your literal dead weight – a hanging boat carcass.
4. Chip away at the ice with circle attacks until the frigid axe cuts the wheel‘s rotation. Now ride the dangling chain upwards!

Applecore Puzzle #2

Behind Svartalfheim‘s shimmering golden doors lies your next challenge. Manipulate gigantic cogs and a precarious pulley system to allow safe passage.

1. Smash through wooden barricades first to draw out deadly enemies. Best clear the room!
2. In the rear corner hangs a gargantuan metal box, fastened to the ceiling by one feeble chain. Target this metallic piñata carefully with R2 and reap the rewards of a collapsed crossing point.
3. Find the staircase right of the giant serpent statue leading to elevated terrain.
4. Pull the first chain in view to lift the red-runed barrier and unleash the cavern‘s deluge.

I‘ll spare you the full Solução God of War for this zany mechanical maze! But utilize every tool the Leviathan Axe and Atreus afford – collapse walkways and refreeze geysers to lift sunken stones. Soon you‘ll ride waterwheels to freedom once again!

Applecore Puzzle #3

Both Kratos and Atreus play equal parts in solving Applecore‘s last ingenious obstacle. Communicate across the frothing canal to simultaneously freeze and release torrents of water, rotating massive cogs in sync.

1. Initiate the first phase by having Atreus shoot ore outcroppings, blocking the waterway‘s natural flow.
2. While the canal lies placid, have Kratos freeze the liquid to form Solid platforms across the mammoth wheel.
3. Next, order Atreus to explode his ore blockade with R1 detonating arrows. This sends water gushing again.
4. Lastly, have Kratos reinforce frozen geysers on the right canal, allowing access to Atreus‘s isolated platform.

Then simply ride rotating aqueducts and staircases to safety! With proper timing, Applecore‘s hydro-puzzles don‘t stand a Ragnarök‘s chance.

Conquering Complex Nornir Chests

Scattered across the realms lie Nornir chests, each granting permanent boosts to strength, defense, luck, or other attributes. But these shiny coffers remain locked to all by the cleverest adventurers capable of lighting three elusive runes.

I‘ll expose solutions below for some of the most obtuse Nornir chests that reinforce combat prowess from Vanaheim to Helheim itself!

The Ruins of the Ancients

Many gamers overlook this tucked away Nornir chest in Midgard, but the reward proves well worth the effort. You‘ll gain a permanent buff to all attributes – extremely useful against The Allfather himself.

Here‘s how to snatch victory from the ruins:

1. Dock your boat at the south-central Midgard beach to spot a decrepit tower with precarious footing.
2. Have Atreus shoot arrows into the tower‘s crack to reveal grapple points to higher terrain.
3. Scale the interior bricks until you can hop outside up to a tattered rope bridge, leading left.
4. Follow the cliffs and lift a metal barricade with circle attacks to sneak into the ruins‘ rear.
5. Smash through cracked bricks to your prize! But first light the ‘R‘ rune hieroglyph deeper into the ruins, the ‘N‘ rune under the elevated grapple point, and an ‘A‘ rune wedged at the top of the ruins behind a metal gate.

With all three lit, the Nornir chest eagerly opens – boosting your combat efficacy against the realms‘ nastiest foes!

The Sinkholes – Vanaheim

While most Nornir chests reward stat boosts, some offer powerful armor upgrades or enchantments. Such sweet spoils hide deep in Vanaheim‘s Sinkholes after draining fetid water.

Here‘s how to uncover this sunken treasure:

1. Journey through the Sinkholes until you reach a raised carved stone platform with unlit braziers.
2. Use Blades of Chaos to ignite all three beacons surrounding the central platform. This will reveal a spiraling staircase with a precious Nornir chest below!
3. But first you must light the ‘N‘, ‘R‘ and ‘A‘ runes to unlock the prize. The ‘N‘ lurks behind a torchable spiderweb to the right of the platform. Burn it!
4. Next swim behind the central platform to ignite an ‘A‘ rune carved into the greater ruins.
5. Lastly run counterclockwise around the spiraling steps to light the final ‘R‘ rune tucked away und

And Voila! The Nornir chest opens to reveal a powerful Gift of Strength to amplify Kratos‘s punishing punches against all nine realms! Act fast before the reward rotates away…

A Complete Compendium of Puzzles

For handy reference while traversing the realms, record each tricky puzzle and its step-by-step solution below:

Jarnsmida Pitmines

• Destroy soundstone with Sonic Arrows
• Freeze water wheel to lift boat
• Cross chasm using boat chain
• Wedge axe into rotating cogs
• Shatter stone droplets so water flows

Applecore Water Puzzle #1

• Destroy overhead ores with arrows
• Freeze and break water wheel to lift chain
• Ride chain upwards

Applecore Water Puzzle #2

• Drop hanging metal box
• Open red water gate with chain
• Alternate freezing geysers to lift metal box with water
• Take boat through open gate

Applecore Water Puzzle #3

• Have Atreus shoot ore deposits
• Freeze water wheel and ride platforms
• Have Atreus re-enable water flow
• Freeze right canal to create another crossing

The Ruins of the Ancients

• Shoot tower interior to reveal grapples
• Access exterior brickwork and cross rope bridge
• Smash cracked bricks for prize
• Light ‘R‘, ‘N‘, ‘A‘ runes to unlock chest

The Sinkholes

• Ignite all three braziers on central platform to access prize
• Burn spiderweb for first rune
• Ignite rune behind central platform
• Run clockwise lighting final rune

And those represent all puzzles I‘ve completed so far! But if any other brain teasers trouble your journey, comment below or message me. With over 50 hours solving God of War‘s stealth sections and Nornir chests, I‘m happy to lend my expertise dissecting intricate puzzles!

Now go forth through the realms, never hesitating when faced with complex machinery or magical wards. The knowledge shared here will transform you into a true God of Puzzles!