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Security Question Room

From FEZ
Front side of a Security Question Room

Security Question Room is a space-themed puzzle room hidden behind the doors in Waterfall Island, which are initially submerged in the water. The room is a meta puzzle, heavily related to the Zuish Script. It contains a hovering monolith with Zuish writings on it, along with 8 cubes, each containing four different orientations of a Zuish symbol carved into its walls. Solving this meta puzzle is rewarded with a Heart Cube.

Security Question

The monolith has the following text engraved into it (with punctuation added):

PLEASE ANSWER THIS SECURITY QUESTION: WHAT'S MY NAME?

SECURITY QUESTION HINT: MY FIRST HALF IS WHAT I AM, MY SECOND HALF IS HALF OF WHAT MADE ME

This text is split between two faces, repeated on opposite faces.

The solution

A visualization of the Security Question Room puzzle solution

To solve this puzzle, the security question needs to be answered by rearranging the Zuish letter cubes in a way so it forms an 8-letter word on a screen. Since cubes can only be arranged horizontally on a ground, the solution has to be "typed in" as if it was a Zuish writing already rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise for decyphering.

Given hint is essential to figuring out the answer. WHAT I AM is META, because it's a meta puzzle. WHAT MADE ME is Polytron, the company under which the game was produced. Half of it is just TRON. Together, these halves form a final answer: METATRON.

Once the letter cubes are arranged to say that word on a ground, they will dematerialize, and a Heart Cube will appear.