However, any ranged fire and frost spells you already use are just as effective. Here's our strategy to get past this puzzle: Puzzle Solution: You may read all the tomes, but the ones you must memorize (if you haven’t already) are the Flames and Frostbite spells. I've heard rumblings that there's a bug/glitch with this. 2 answers to this The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim question