Can you demystify puzzles?
Can you discern riddles for games?
Using basic cryptography,
Simply hidden in the open.
Can you unmask vital cypher?

The key aspect you need to focus on to solve this pizzle is the syllables of each line
here is clue split up by syllables

Can you de·mys·ti·fy puz·zles?
Can you dis·cern rid·dles for games?
Us·ing ba·sic cryp·tog·ra·phy,
Sim·ply hid·den in the o·pen.
Can you un·mask vi·tal cy·pher?

counting each syllables give you the following numbers

1,1,4,2
1,1,2,2,1,1
2,2,4
2,2,1,1,2
1,1,2,2,2

Next you need to notice that the sum of all these lines is eight. this should suggest, among other possibilities, binary, which is 8 bits
When encoding alpha numeric characters in binary the first number will always be 0 (see attached table) the numbers tell you the numbers of 1s and 0s in the binary digits.
Translating the numbers to binary we get

01000011
01001101
00110000
00110100
01001100

which then you can convert to ASCII using a table or a covert er app in the internet, the results give you

CM04L

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The answers to all of those questions is no :'(

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IovoI/\o

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\o/

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When finished can you post the solution so i can get better at these puzzles :P

i think i managed to guess that every line corresponds to a letter but thats as far as i got :P

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If you read all comments here + guide from this comment, you should find out next but not last :P step.

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+1

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any tips for popato ? (for me)

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Well start with the basic. How many lines are there?

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There's almost an unlimited number of possibilities with "the basic". Any more hints?

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Not today, I'll be adding further clues at time goes on, until there are a few solvers.

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Ok. With 0 entries, yet, that might take a while though. Thanks anyways, I'll be waiting.

7 years ago
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A trick question! "there" is a word, not a series of lines.

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Sorry?

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42

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maybe

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Any tip? I dont know how to start xD

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No to all questions. T_T

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I can't, but have a bump

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You are confused and befuddled
You lament, say: "it's very hard"
But giving a perplexing clue
Can hopefully give some insight

"Hint" encoded the same manner as the url

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doesn't seem to help..... no-one was able to crack it.

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I'm really mindfucked just right now xD.. but keep trying

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Can't decide if that's a legit spelling mistake, or a clue.....

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Read each line outloud
Find what makes them all alike
in this clue a hint

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Well they all have 8 syllables and I don't know what else.

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Very good.

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Well... I'm totally in... this weekend I'll be working around this like Jim Carrey in The Number 23 xD

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Well you'll be the first... I tried so many things, syllables, letters, words, I didn't get close to anything...

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still no entry...

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Man my mind is hurting, I might have a nose bleed (´・ω・`)

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Wait wut somebody solved it?

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:)

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SOLVED!

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You're a genius man. Are an FBI? (o_o)

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Nope. Just used the clues in this thread to figure it out.

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In all honesty you already solved probably the most difficult aspect of this puzzle,

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Thank you for the hints :D

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Dark Souls 2 vanilla or Scholar Of The First Sin? It's for the URL

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It's "dark-souls-ii-scholar-of-the-first-sin" but that part of the URL dosn't matter.

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Any more hint?

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No more hints at this point, I've provided enough that people have started solving it.

if you are still having trouble you can read https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/TLR8m/zelgh-magic-guide-to-basic-sg-puzzling-update-october-2017

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bump for solved... with the hint it's pretty straightforward:p

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Really? Then im really stupid :(.

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Just teasing! But focus on the hint -- if you know what kind of pattern you are looking for, it shouldn't be that hard to find it.

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Bump for still wishing to solve it...

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View attached image.
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Well, seems like I can't. I'm at a loss here. I think I understand the meaning of the hints, but I'm missing something anyway.
I'd like to know the solution, once time is expired, if it's not a problem. Tyia

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Solution posted.

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Just a question, can the puzzle be solved on your initial post alone?

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The hints i gave are just that hints, none were needed to solve my puzzle.

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BUMP for solved :D

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Thought I solved it but somehow ended up at a group giveaway for Numen instead, lmao
I'm gonna figure this out though!

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Bump for solved.

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I'm at a loss too, the puzzle stuff is a great thing on here but my dyslexia is specific to visual awareness - I struggle to see patterns. Like one of the others I'd like to know the approach after this closes, it might help my thought process.

I've seen Zelgh's guide and it helped me about 90% through someone else's puzzle which used a couple of things then it seemed like you need to know how the puzzles work here to get the next step.

Good luck to whoever gets through!

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solution posted

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Thanks for that, not sure I would have ever got that but at least I knew it was in the words themselves (had checked source and such already).

Think I need to look into the puzzles a bit more

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Wow, I'm really surprised anyone solved this. I only found out each line had 8 syllables because it was mentioned in the comments. Then I figured each syllable would be a 1 or 0 for binary and converted into the 5 character code, but I didn't know how to figure out the correct binary. I did some research and found out there are closed and open syllables which is determined by the syllable ending with a consonant or vowel and I tried decoding it that way, but I could never get a working code.

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Closed 5 years ago by Ceebers.