One crystal, a pad and a lower gate (Heroes 3)

Compare the gate while the hero stands on the pad and after the hero steps away.

Approach the crystal from the east and leave it covering the pad while you cross the gate.

The route uses four crystal pushes, as the written retail guide gives them. The pad must stay occupied while the hero crosses; it is not a gate toggle that only needs to be touched once. This is not a minimum-move claim.

Cappa Games’ June 2026 demo recording solves the same room by circling below the crystal instead; either side works if the tiles are free. The clip under the last step is the same room in the released game: Retail puzzle 3 in Game Guides Channel’s October 2026 retail recording (see Sources). Its on-screen input strip gives the press counts used above.

1. Walk right four tiles, across the yellow pad and through the left divider into the middle section. Standing on the pad opens the right gate; leaving it closes the gate again.
2. Go around the top of crystal A: up one, right two and down one. You now stand immediately right of A.
3. Push A left four times, onto the yellow pad. Leave it there so the gate stays open.
4. Walk back through the middle section and along its bottom row, cross the open gate and step up onto the green exit.
   Spoiler clip · Leave the crystal on the yellow pad, cross the open gate and step onto the green exit · reveal

   Checked on screen · Oct 16, 2026

   1:32–1:45 · 13 sLeave the crystal on the yellow pad, cross the open gate and step onto the green exit

   1:32–1:45Spoiler clip