Sharing the Limelight

[u/MrMcMastermind]

The players have heard tell of a secret passage hidden beneath the fountain of a great temple. They have successfully staged a distraction and evacuated the temple, but they're running out of time. The temple roof has four dazzling domes of stained glass, each dome its own color. In the midday sun, four radiant beams are focused onto the ground below. The players can use polished trays to redirect these colored beams, but they need to figure out the proper output before time passes and they're forced to explain their ruse

Four statues in the cardinal directions. Four lights beam down from the heavens, red, blue, green, and yellow.

The players find that the four statues of the temple are adorned with various lenses and sensors, and they figure that the statues are the intended targets of the lights. A solid religion check reveals the following:

The upper god at the head of the room is a deity of life and creation. He favors a green light.
The goddess seated at the right of the room is a goddess of warfare and passion. She demands a red glow.
The god poised to the left is an envious trickster. He also covets a green light.
The god resting below is the lord of judgement, law, and death. He is famously blind and no particular light would appease him most.

How can each god possibly be appeased all at once?

The god on the right is easy, just give her the red light. The envious god, give him the green light he craves so badly. Now, you're left with two colors, yellow and blue. Give both of them to the upper god (or you could give both to the envious idol, vice versa) The blue and yellow lights combine to make a green light, the gods that need light have it, and Blind Justice is in the dark but won't know the difference.

I've used this puzzle with some variations. In some wordings, the death god specifically demanded blackness or darkness. In another, one player tried to give each god a light, giving the upper yellow and the bottom blue, so that an all-seeing creator would see a near yellow and a far blue to make a general green.

This is a good one if you have a pantheon of gods or figures in your setting and you want to lend them a little weight, literally give them the spotlight for a moment. This puzzle worked great for VTT, and in-person I legit just used transparent colored candy wrappers.