well i left this puzzle all these days without looking for the answer because i thought it was some kind of reference i didn't get. today i had some time to carefully read the hints and i can't believe how simple this puzzle is, i was overthinking it from the start 😂
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Cant help but feel folk here been trolling. Sadly im mad because of how much time ive lost trying to figure this out- in no way this is 'simple'
Ive felt like some puzzles were too much for me before, but i could see how much work or what sort of skills involved beforehand. With this one (and people saying it was simple) it ended up being worse. I feel like theres nothing else i could reach for help, only some obtuse thing i shoulve figured out/clicked in some way i havent (for hours, days)
I wont comment how far i got(and got stuck) in respect to the puzzle, came to see if there were any new clues... Im really puzzled this time around, sadly not in a good way (when i do puzzles is because i found then fun and i generally dont care, but this time i wished/hoped to get in the GA so frustration)
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I highly recommend staring at the poem for like a good 20 minutes. That's what sparked something for me.
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Nope, STILL too stupid to solve it. Well, good luck to those that did and thanks for sharing it.
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Keep entering here to see the solution posted heh as I'm still clueless at what its supposed to do scratches his head
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Now that's its over... what was the answer?!?! I got as far as figuring out it has something to do with Eragon, but that's about it...
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The answer actually didn't have anything to do with eragon except for what the tattoo read. That really tripped me up. I don't want to give away the answer before OP can, but I can tell you that.
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If this is true, then I would have never taken it out, since I also thought it was about that book and these last days and until the last moment I focused on looking for everything about that book, I even almost started to watch the movie that was being broadcasted yesterday in my country.
Now I'll wait to see what I was so blind about, of course, if the OP wants to say it :P.
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If you go to my steam profile you won't find a giveaway link,
But you might just see that which was inked.
The tattoo on his arm represents Edoc'sil = unconquerable = his username
https://inheritance.fandom.com/wiki/Ancient_Language#Words
... That's as far as I got. :P
Look at one or zero according to your needs
I guess this means one or zero vertical lines?
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I dont want to give you the direct solution, but since I feel your pain and OP is not very active, I give you a few clues:
the tattoo is a code, the hint to break it is in the 3rd verse. How can you code with 1s and 0s?
The lenght of the coded words are actually their height, so you have to read them up to bottom and not left to right.
I hope OP wont be mad, but as i said i fell your pain :D
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Lol
I was mostly going about it the right way... I was just going about it the wrong way, as I was interpreting the "full bars" as a single 0.
Thanks for the hint, even though I didn't get to the draw, I can now go in peace knowing the solution :D
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Thank you, with this info I solved it. 😊
For others: the green hint spells out GREEN
and the red hint spells out RED
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It's closed. Can you tell me the link? I'm curious about the answer.
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Wow, that's the only way you can solve this. I was trying to solve vertically only and can't figure out what this about. I thought that this is some ancient translation in books or sites with fantasy/history and i searched all fantasy books with own language translation. I don't think about this way of solving at all, and that's so easy. But clues with Red and Green just get me lost more and i was frustrated and broken by it.
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cool puzzle . thanks for the solution. i could have never cracked it.
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I've returned here to see the explanation of this puzzle. That was the first puzzle I tried to solve and man, really. That one brought me some memories when I used to solve puzzles I found in magazines or first mobile games. Great puzzle and I hope that in the future you'll find something equally difficult or even more complicated. Have a nice day!
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Bump with the tool link if anyone wants it! https://edocsil.itch.io/edoctrinated
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After looking at the solution, I realized once again that I wasn't smart. Hahahaaaaaa...... 😂
I'm relatively close to binary, but I'm ashamed that I can't solve this.
Thank you for giving us great ideas and puzzles! 💙
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TOOL LINK - https://edocsil.itch.io/edoctrinated
-EDIT- Here is the solve!
So sorry guys! I was on vacation these past few days and then our plane had issues and I was stranded for an extra day on the way home. I thought about getting on here on my phone while away but just ended up kinda disconnecting and enjoying myself haha. That said, I hope to put a link to the tool I made to generate this tomorrow after I clean it up and make it more user friendly (basically I hard coded a few things so I'll make it have an input and a button to create an image as I was just print-screening before).
So, my tattoo reads as Edoc'sil. I wanted a neat way to show it without just writing the word. The first thing I thought of was a barcode but it was recommended to me to not do that as they can be tricky. So, I chose binary! I went through a few different designs (see image below) but in the end settled on this one. The tattoo itself reads top-down but the binary part of it reads left to right. The circles are 0's, and lines are 1's. For the design I grouped all the circles together that were in a top down line. That part is simply because I thought it looked cool haha! It just so happens that it formed an 8x8 structure, very neat.
Basically, if you could figure out what my tattoo said, it might could give you the insight needed to translate the giveaway link (you put the five characters into a link address like https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/xxxxx/). If you are still a bit lost, check out the other attached image that shows how it translates.
As far as the other clues go, the first section in the poem was to try and get you to figure out my tattoo was "Edoc'sil". I specified that you should see my Steam profile as I couldn't have the apostrophe here.
The second section was sorta filler lines but also was to hopefully get you to not overthink the puzzle and realize that the solution for those is basically right there in front of you. Those images translate to RED and GREEN and also have a little horizontal strip of 8 squares to try and clue you in on the binary part.
The third section directly referred to the binary aspect.
The last section was somewhat filler but also was just trying to get you to try and look at things differently if you think you are close. Many people did the binary vertically at first instead of horizontal and were very much lost in the translation of it. Some also thought the circles were 1's and the lines 0's which I did not expect so this was to hopefully help get them to try different things. AlohaHawaii said it best I think:
So, anyway, that's it! Thanks so much for hanging out here! It was my first puzzle and I had fun, even if it made some people want to throw things at me haha. And hey, only got added to one blacklist so that's a win in my book!
Edoc
Hello there!
In honor of my new tattoo, I figured I would do my first puzzle after enjoying so many over the years. I have one other tattoo but this is the first 'big' one I have gotten and one I have wanted to get for a while. I designed it myself! Hopefully you all like the puzzle and don't find it too difficult! Good luck!
Game is ELDEN RING and is level 3, as the thread title indicates. The method of delivery will be a key so please note that it may not be available right at the end of the giveaway depending on whether the store has given it to me yet or not. I made it end on the 28th though, so I would think it will be OK.
-EDIT- CLUES ADDED
If you go to my steam profile you won't find a giveaway link,
But you might just see that which was inked.
The new images below are another hint,
Nice and big and bold so no need to squint.
Look at one or zero according to your needs,
But two or more might put you in the weeds.
If you look and think "What in tarnation?!?!"
You might just simply be lost in translation.
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