Take the tour ×  The very final puzzle of The Pandora Directive,
where you have to find the right sequence of  symbols on the
control panel of the alien spaceship,  is one I've only ever
solved myself via the game's interactive hint system. You're
given an initial segment of the sequence but I can't identify
either a pattern to it or any relevance to the
symbols/directions/colours. How am I supposed to determine the
rest of the sequence from there?  The sources I've found seem to
imply that there IS no way of working it out and you just have
to do it by trial and error, but that would strike me as very
strange if true.  I know what the sequence is (because of the
hint system, and walkthroughs on the web) but I'd really like to
know if there were any in-game clues that I missed which were
supposed to help me figure it out.  For example, if I asked the
same thing about  the puzzle in the dagger room of the Mayan
temple, an acceptable answer would be "on the wall paintings,
the same designs as are on the daggers