The Geo region of Liyue in Genshin Impact has once again brought back its annual Lantern Rite festival packed with content for players to delve into. Lantern Rite comes with a variety of gameplay modes and story quests for players to explore including the Paper Theater gameplay mode.
Liyue’s annual festival has thus far always boasted a wide variety of activities but prominently focuses on bringing people together. This year, the theme of community runs stronger than ever with a wide variety of Teyvat characters joining in on the festive fun and some of them even hanging around Liyue for players to find.
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Among the many activities that Lantern Rite features are a select few gameplay modes that players can participate in for plentiful rewards. These rewards include exciting treasures like precious Primogems and a free-four-star Liyue character as well as more simple loot like Mora and character ascension materials.
The Paper Theater gameplay mode is one of four unique games players can partake in during the 2023 installment of the event. The other gameplay modes are Radiant Sparks, which tasks players with navigating an explosive parkour course, Vigilance at Sea, which places players in the Waverider as they traverse through complex sea obstacles for coins, and Behind the Scenes, which has players venture out around Liyue to vanquish foes.
While the other games featured in this run of the Lantern Rite event are fast-paced and action based, the Paper Theater puzzles are more laid back and task players with helping various theater performances be put on successfully. This might sound easy, but it is a very puzzle-based game mode that may leave players rather stumped.
This game mode can be rather tricky since it requires precision and quick thinking. Thus, here are the solutions for all puzzles in the Paper Theater gameplay mode of the Lantern Rite festival.
All Paper Theater puzzle solutions in Genshin Impact
The Paper Theater puzzles are divided into four distinct shows. These shows are:
- Homecoming
- Across the Mountains
- Over Peaks
- Adeptus Ex
Day one Paper Theater puzzle solutions in Genshin Impact
Homecoming: Scene I
- Swap the location of the first and second panels immediately after starting the performance. This must be done before the actor leaves the first panel.
- After the panels have been swapped, simply wait for the actor to reach the door and you’ll succeed.
Homecoming: Scene II
- After clicking start, immediately swap the first and second panels.
- Before the actor can leave the panel, swap the panel that the actor is in, which is now the second one, with the third one. The actor will walk to the edge of the screen before turning around and entering the door which yields a successful performance.
Homecoming: Scene III
- This scene might appear to be tricky because the first panel is locked and cannot be moved. Thus, players need to act fast and immediately swap the second and third panels after starting this performance.
- Wait until the actor enters the same panel as the vase before then swapping it back to its original position as the third panel. This might seem counterproductive but will allow the actor to turn around after nearing the vase and thus reach the end goal of interacting with the other actor on-stage.
Day two Paper Theater puzzle solutions in Genshin Impact
Across the Mountains: Scene I
- These challenges become significantly more tricky from now on and require players to act fast or the performance will fail. After beginning this scene, immediately swap the fourth panel with the actor to the third panel located in the top right corner.
- Wait for the actor to turn around and enter the second panel which is located in the middle of the top row.
- Once the actor is in the second panel, swap the first and third panels.
- Wait for the actor to fall through the hole and open the treasure chest and you’ll have succeeded.
Across the Mountains: Scene II
- Immediately swap the first and third panels.
- Wait for the actor to reach the edge, turn around, and enter the second panel. As soon as the actor enters the second panel, swap the first and third panels again.
- As soon as the actor enters the third panel, swap it back to the first panel and the actor will fall off the edge to obtain the treasure chest. Timing is everything in this specific puzzle and players may need to try a few times if they are not quick enough.
Across the Mountains: Scene III
- Quickly swap the fourth panel, which is the one where the actor begins, with the third panel in the top right corner.
- Wait for the actor to then turn around and walk all the way to the first panel before quickly swapping the first panel with the third one before the actor falls over the edge.
- Let the actor fall off the edge and swap the panel with a rock on the right far right edge of it, the very same panel that the actor started in, with the panel that has vines and a rock in it as is pictured below. The actor will then turn around since a rock blocks his path and will thus turn to open the treasure chest.
Day three Paper Theater puzzle solutions in Genshin Impact
Over Peaks: Scene I
- The third set of Paper Theater puzzles adds a unique wind current flying ability that makes these puzzles a tad bit more complicated. This new ability comes into play immediately as players need to swap the first panel in the top left corner with the sixth panel in the bottom corner.
- As soon as the actor enters the panel with the wind current, quickly swap it with the fifth panel right next to it. If this is not done quickly enough then the actor will fly upward straight into a vine trap and the performance will fail.
- After swapping the fifth and sixth panels, the actor will turn around and reenter the panel with a wind current. The actor is now facing the correct way, which is left toward the treasure chest sp players can swap the wind current back to the sixth panel and the actor will fly upwards and unlock the treasure chest.
Over Peaks: Scene II
- The next puzzle adds yet another ability which is to open and close gaps on the stage. Players will once again need to utilize the new ability almost immediately. The first step is to wait for the actor to reach the fifth panel with the wind current before then quickly swapping it with the sixth one.
- Although it looks like the actor will fall back down due to the gap, the wind current will carry the actor across the gap to successfully activate the mechanism, as long as players have done the previous step correctly.
- Once the mechanism has been activated, wait for the actor to leave the third panel with the mechanism before then immediately switching the third panel containing the mechanism with the wind current panel that should be situated in the sixth slot.
- Wait for the actor to walk back to the sixth panel before then quickly swapping it with the fourth panel located in the bottom left corner.
- Watch as the actor floats up through the now-open gap and successfully reaches the treasure chest.
Over Peaks: Scene III
- Wait for the actor to leave the fourth panel and enter the fifth one.
- After the actor has reached the fifth panel and utilized the wind current, quickly swap the placement of the fifth and sixth panels.
- Now that the actor is in the third-panel slot, players must act extremely fast to ensure that he does not jump back down into the wind current. To avoid this, players need to once again swap the location of the fifth and sixth panels so that the actor will fall down and trigger the mechanism.
- After activating the mechanism, wait for the actor to reach the wind current before then swapping the wind current panel with the very first panel located in the top left corner.
- Wait for the actor to reach the edge, turn around, and walk back into the wind current before moving the wind current panel for the final time to the fifth-panel slot right beneath the treasure chest.
Day four Paper Theater puzzle solutions in Genshin Impact
Adeptus Ex: Scene I
- The final set of Lantern Rite puzzles adds another ability for players to master which is that they now must attain a key before they can unlock a door to complete the puzzle. Thus, players will need to first work on obtaining the key by waiting for the actor to reach the third panel in the top right corner before then quickly switching the second panel in the center of the top row with the fourth one in the bottom left corner.
- Wait as the actor turns around and enters the second panel then quickly grab it before that actor falls and switch it with the third panel that the actor just exited. The actor is now good to fall down since he will grab the key when he does.
- Right after the actor grabs the key, move the panel with the door from the second slot located in the center of the top row to the fifth slot located in the middle of the bottom row.
Adeptus Ex: Scene II
- Wait for the actor to reach the second panel, which is located in the middle of the top row, and activate the mechanism there before then grabbing it and switching it with the sixth panel in the bottom right corner.
- Wait as the actor walks toward the wall before turning back around to face left. Once the actor is facing left, grab the sixth panel that the actor is currently in and switch it with the fourth panel in the bottom left corner.
- Allow the actor to walk left until they turn back around to face right and then immediately swap the fourth panel they are currently in with the second panel that is located in the center of the top row with the key.
- Right as the actor begins to fall, swap the fifth panel that the actor is about to fall into with the fourth panel right next to it containing the key. Acting quickly here is key to success otherwise the actor will fall all the way through and the performance will fail.
- Before the actor leaves the fifth panel, quickly swap it up to the second position and wait for the actor to reach the door. This will successfully conclude the puzzle.
Adeptus Ex: Scene III
- The final puzzle in the 2023 edition of Lantern Rite adds one last mechanic for players to master. This new function lets locked panels be unlocked utilizing keys and is instrumental in completing the final puzzle successfully. First, players need to wait for the actor to walk into the fifth panel located in the center of the bottom row before swapping it to the first-panel slot located in the top left corner.
- Ensure that the actor is facing right and then swap the fourth panel in the bottom left corner with the fifth one in the center of the bottom row.
- Wait for the actor to jump down. Once he does and deactivates the mechanism in doing so, wait for him to walk into the sixth panel and turn around before then quickly swapping the fourth and fifth panels.
- After the actor reaches the fifth panel, switch its location with the very first panel in the top left corner.
- Before the actor can fall down, swap the fourth panel with the sixth one containing a key.
- The actor will now be stuck between the wall and the vase. Players now need to swap the fifth panel with the first one.
- Move the panel that the actor is in, which is the fourth one in the bottom left corner, to the second panel slot.
- Wait for the actor to turn to the left and walk all the way to the wall before he then turns to face right. Once he is facing right, swap the first panel with the second one and the actor will successfully finish the puzzle by talking to the other actor onstage.
When Liyue’s 2023 installment of their festival began, players had to wait for new Paper Theater puzzles to unlock on a daily basis. Now, all four of the distinctive puzzle performance sections have been unlocked and can be completed by players.
Liyue’s Lantern Rite festival is a limited-time event, which means any players hoping to participate in the 2023 installment and its unique gameplay modes should do so soon. The event will officially end on Feb. 6 and Lantern Rite won’t return to Teyvat until 2024.
