The Little Sister is trapped at the top of a malfunctioning Ferris wheel! To bring her down safely, you need to find ways to electrify the Ferris wheel controls. Can you solve this shocking puzzle?
Step-By-Step Solution
In order to free this Little Sister you must deliver six doses of electricity to the Ferris wheel controls. The only problem is that you don’t have access to Electro Bolt. You’re going to have to use Trap Bolts, Electric Buck, the Chemical Thrower, and even some Thuggish Splicers to power the device. Luckily, there’s enough juice lying around to charge the Ferris wheel nine times. Follow along with the tips below to solve this puzzle.
The first step is getting inside the carnival, and the only way is via the Vita-Chamber. Pull the Broken Bathysphere Lever to electrocute yourself until you resurrect in the Vita-Chamber.
Grab the Shotgun and Electric Buck near the Vita-Chamber, pull the door lever to exit the room, and shoot the short-circuiting electric door control to exit the room via the red door.
Watch the Splicer electrocute herself, then ride the elevator down. Ride it back up and carefully step off the ledge near the fallen sign to land on the balcony below. Obtain the Static Discharge tonic. Now you’ll emit a burst of electricity when struck by a melee attack. Collect the Inventing Supplies and the Trap Bolt from the corpse that is near the slot machine. Drop down the elevator shaft to safely reach the ground floor.
Locate the Ferris wheel controls and pick up the box of Electric Buck located there. Shoot the controls with the lone shell to electrify the system. Pull the lever to rotate the Ferris wheel a slight bit. You’ll need to do this five more times to rescue the Little Sister, but don’t expect additional free ammo.
Get the attention of the Thuggish Splicer near the record store. Have him chase you back toward the Ferris wheel controls and let him hit you while you’re standing in the water. The Static Discharge tonic will electrify the controls.
Collect the Inventing Supplies from within Rapture Records and the ladies’ restroom. Then, get the attention of the Thuggish Splicer in the restroom and have her chase you back to the Ferris wheel. Let her hit you while standing in the water, near the Ferris wheel switch.
Acquire the Inventing Supplies and the Telekinesis plasmid near the entrance to the Grand Carnival and enter the camera store on the left, behind the teddy bears. Interact with the safe and quickly crouch down as an elaborate array of Trap Bolts are fired. Use Telekinesis to drag a Trap Bolt past the electric safe to open it. Search the corpse near the balloon game for a Trap Bolt. Now you can use the two Trap Bolts to rotate the Ferris wheel two more times.
Locate the Chemical Thrower and Inventing Supplies, behind the massive bronze statue, at the end of the carnival area. Open the door to Zimmerman Chardonnay by entering the year shown on the posters throughout the area—1951—and lead the Splicer back to the Ferris wheel. Get her to hit you and electrify the switch for the sixth and final time needed to rescue the Little Sister.
Collect the Inventing Supplies from Zimmerman Chardonnay, then locate the frozen room near the food stand. Use Telekinesis to pick up the cash register, get it to catch fire in the flames nearby, and hold it under the ice to melt the Electric Buck free. Extract it from the grate with Telekinesis, then use it to shoot the Ferris wheel controls to rescue the Little Sister.
Collect the Inventing Supplies from Zimmerman Chardonnay, then return to the frozen storage room. This time use Telekinesis to light a stuffed bear or tennis ball on fire and drop it down the broken pipe to melt the ice below the grate. This allows you to get the Automatic Hack Tool with Telekinesis. Don’t miss the Inventing Supplies under the stairs. Hack the U-Invent to lower the crafting requirements for the Electric Gel and Trap Bolts. Purchase all of the ammo that you can and use it to rotate the Ferris wheel a total of three more times.
Collectible Roses
There are ten collectible Roses in this area. Most can be collected during the course of solving the puzzle with minimal additional exploration. One of the Roses can only be collected after rotating the Ferris wheel additional times, so be sure to not interact with the Little Sister once she’s stepped off the Ferris wheel.
When you first enter the main area with the Ferris Wheel, call for the elevator and jump down onto the roof of the car as it rises. The Rose is inside the elevator shaft, at the very top.
After getting the Rose inside the top of the elevator shaft, press the button to send the car down and quickly step off onto a small ledge between the two floors. The Rose is near a corpse.
Tucked behind the gate inside the Rapture Record store. It’s on the floor behind the middle of the gate.
Inside the ladies’ restroom, atop a billboard off to the left. Jump up to reach it.
Use Telekinesis to break the balloon to the lower right of the corpse at the carnival game to find a Rose.
Inside the tilted wooden barrels that you can throw a tennis ball into along the midway. Leap over the counter and look into the barrels to spot it.
Inside the Little Sister Vent, near the entrance to the carnival area. Jump up to get it (it’s hard to see).
Enter the Zimmerman Chardonnay store and climb on top of the left-hand shelves to find the Rose on the chandelier.
Melt the ice inside the frozen storage area and look up inside the broken pipe beneath the pneumo tube to find this next Rose.
Make the Ferris wheel rotate seven times and watch as a piece of its motor falls off. The Rose is tucked inside the machinery on the left of the Ferris wheel, as viewed from the controls.
