🦨oh yea, that seems to be the hardest puzzle in the game. we actually considered making it easier but friends playtesting it said that it feels *so good* when you finally solve it that we decided to leave it as is. my advice is just to leave that puzzle until later
as for the hints, unfortunately we had to cut back on the amount of hints because we just didn't have room for them. that puzzle in particular coulda probably used more though