Braid/Stars

On certain places in Braid there will be extremely hidden puzzles for Tim to solve. Each one of them will reveal a star to pick up. In total, there are eight of them. Up in the sky outside Tim's house, there is a constellation showing you which stars you've collected so far. Collecting all eight will reveal the games true ending.

Braid icon Level 2-2.png 2-2 The Cloud Bridge
Near the upper right puzzle piece is a slow moving cloud. To reach the star, you have to get on the cloud either by bouncing on the Monstar, or by jumping on the door to jump on the cloud (the latter option requires you to enter the level from the right.) It takes two hours for the cloud to traverse the map. While waiting, read a book, cook a meal while waiting for the cloud to move. If playing on a PC, Alt-tab will not help, as it slows the cloud down by an order of magnitude.

Tim's house
This star requires you to not have put together the puzzle pieces found in World 3 as you need to use them to build the star yourself. When you have collected at least Puzzle Piece 3-3-1 and Puzzle Piece 3-6-2 as well as either Puzzle Piece 2-3-1 or Puzzle Piece 2-4-3 you can use these to get your star. Don't worry if you assembled the pieces from World 2, it's only the ones from World 3 that need to be separate.

When at Tim's house, you can see a black rectangle wall acting as a separator between the room leading to World 2 and the one leading to World 3. You can probably see that the wall between these two rooms—unlike the walls between the others—have an opening up top. You need to get into that opening if you want to grab the star here. If you've already gotten the puzzle pieces in 2-2 The Cloud Bridge, you probably know what to do. Position either Puzzle Piece 2-3-1 or Puzzle Piece 2-4-3 at the bottom right corner of the canvas, get up on its platform, jump up, open the puzzle menu, move the piece a bit up, and repeat until you're all the way up. Stay there for a while, then jump down.

Now go over to the canvas for World 3. If you look very carefully, you might notice a cone in the left window above the canvas, and also a few cracks in the wall immediately below it. Together they kind of look like the beginning to a star shape. Find the two puzzle pieces you need on this canvas and see that they too have shapes resembling parts of a star on them. Try to position these two parts of the star shape at the top left corner of the canvas, so that together with the star shape in the window they form a complete star. This is very fidgety and will probably require many tries. When you hit the sweet spot a sound will play and the star will appear. Rewind time to get back up to the opening you jumped up to before. From here you can simply walk into the star to pick it up.