Mass Effect – Fixing Mira Up

On a couple of occasions, I have been asked how to solve the puzzle that is presented to you when trying to get Mira (the station VI) back online when you’re on Noveria.

Actually this puzzle is pretty old. I first heard of this back in the early 1980’s, and it was called “Towers of Hanoi“. If you google it, you can probably find it. For the benefit of you readers, I’ll outline the rules here.

In the puzzle, you have a “tower” of progressively smaller blocks towards the top. The aim is to move these blocks from one place to another, using 2 other locations. The rule is simple – a smaller sized block can be placed on a bigger sized one, but not the other way around. You can only move one block at a time. In the original game, the aim was to move the blocks in the fewest steps possible to reconstruct the original tower in a new location. In Mass Effect, there’s no such restrictions.

I made a video clip of this puzzle to show the solution, and I hope you benefit from it.

As you can see, it’s actually pretty straightforward.

Hope you guys enjoyed the video!

(I’m on my 6th playthrough the game now, and trying every combination of “classes” of characters).