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Abraxas is a secret society at Caledon University inLife Is Strange: Double Exposure. It’s still unclear what exactly the society does, but they seem to be made up mostly of students majoring in the arts. Abraxas members tend to have a flair for the dramatic, from playing pranks on other students to arcane puzzles that need to be solved.
You’ll encounter one of these puzzles during the last scene of Chapter 1, and you’ll get the opportunity to solve it. To learn how to find and solve this fun little puzzle box so you can find out what goodies are hiding inside, read on. And don’t worry, we won’t make you solve anymore Abraxas riddles.
How To Find The Abraxas Puzzle Box
During the last scene of Chapter 1, Max visits the Caledon campus to speak with Safi’s mom, Yasmin. You’ll arrive in the North Quad, and if youwalk past the Pergola on the left side, a cut scene with Reggie will trigger.
You’ll watch himget upset with a puzzle boxand throw it to the ground. When the cut scene is over,pick up the puzzle box and ask Reggie about it. He tells you it’s an Abraxas Puzzle box meant to test a key Abraxas virtue called “The Eye For Detail”.
The game will then put you in examine mode, where you canrotate the box and interact with it. From here you can attempt to solve it, or leave.
How To Solve The First Layer Of The Abraxas Puzzle Box
The first layer of the puzzle box is very simple to solve if youlisten to Max’s dialog cues.
As you rotate the box you can interact withthree different facesof the box:
The eye does nothing important, but when you interact with the Thomas Caledon face, Max and Reggie will talk abouthow he’s missing a bird, as on the statue he has two birds on his shoulder.
Rotate the box to the side with the bird and interact with it. Max will note that there’swax around the crow, and a new cut scene will start with Reggieusing a lighter to melt the wax.
The medallion with the crow drops into Max’s hand, then you’ll go back to examine mode. Rotate the box back to Thomas Caledon andinteract with it to place the bird on his empty shoulder.
The box opens, and a smaller box,the second layer of the puzzle, falls out. Reggie tells you to keep the box, and Max puts the box in her bag.
How To Solve The Second Layer Of The Abraxas Puzzle Box
You don’t get another chance to examine the puzzle boxtill the last scene of Chapter 2, when Moses is waiting for you in the dark room. Before you head downstairs, go into the kitchen andthe box is on the countertop by the sink.
The second layer of the Abraxas puzzle box is abit trickier than the first. You can interact with many of the different faces of the box, but theonly two that matter are the constellation face and the Abraxas logo face.
You won’t be able to do anything with the dial yet, sorotate the box to the constellationsand interact with that to get a closeup where you canmanipulate the pegs.
Essentially what you want to do here is use the pegs tocreate points of a constellation.
Here’show to solve the constellation face:
A panel on the Sense Of Justiceface opens up and a dial pops out. Take the dial, then rotate the box back to the Abraxas Logo face andattach the dial to it.Now you can examine this face and move the dials.
You can select either dial androtate them either left or right, but the solution is much simpler than you might think. Leave the outer dial alone, and switch to the inner dial you just attached to the face. Then,turn the dial to the right two times.
Another panel will open up. Rotate the box to where the panel opened and remove the lid toreveal an Abraxas Society pin.
Solving the Abraxas puzzle box willunlock the Thinking Outside The Box trophy/achievement.
What Happens After You Solve The Abraxas Puzzle Box?
Honestly, the result of solving the puzzle box is a little anticlimactic. Max will attach the pin to her bag. Then, while you’re in Admin talking to Vinh and Diamond during thethird scene of Chapter 3, you’ll get a text from an unknown number in Dead World,congratulating you on solving the puzzle boxand welcoming you to Abraxas.
Max doesn’t seem thrilled about it, though, and the only other time it comes up is atthe Krampus party in Chapter 4, in the Living World. After conspiring with Safi, when you walk past the two kids in the corner by the pirate mural,one of them will shout out “ONE OF US!”.
