If you are really stuck here is the solution.
Riven colored marbles puzzle.
For me the worst part is the marbles puzzle.
If not the marbles stay where they are and you need to try again.
You must place five colored marbles on the grid to represent the locations of the five fire marble domes on riven s islands.
Since a most of riven s puzzles are based on the exploration of the world there are only a few direct solutions.
To access the other doors in the rotating room press the button four times.
We finally solve the much talked about but so far unseen fire marble puzzle and power up the book domes so that next time we can finally pay a visit to gehn.
Go up the stairs on your left.
Marble puzzle solution once completed successfully this will restore the power to all the fire marble domes around riven.
Others change randomly each time the game is played so they have to be discovered during gameplay.
Often there is a lot of area that you can explore with access to lots of devices that seem like puzzles.
Go round the rock and take your first proper look at the riven isles.
However the fifth is inaccessible until after you solve the puzzle to the best of my knowledge so you end up having to guess the final colour granted from only two choices.
Each of the five spinning domes is associated with a colour and you can determine four of them through the nearby viewfinders.
The map room on plateau island helps determine the exact grid location of each dome and the survey room on plateau island helps determine the appropriate colors to use.
Riven like myst is a very open game.
Myst journey puzzle solutions.
At the top left is the entrance to a round rotating room some stairs leading down and a bridge to the right.
The puzzles to be solved are scattered around the world and are often integrated very naturally into the environment.
If you have solved the puzzle you should hear the system powering up the linking books and see the marbles ending back on the right.