Finding Secret Puzzles Hidden Within PAINTINGS! - Taiji

[@Aliensrock]

If you haven't already, check out my Taiji playlist to make sure you haven't missed a single episode! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHnLgoewrNxljLc Below is a spoiler for the exact rule for the black/white block puzzles, as told directly to me by the developer of this game. Read with caution, it may surprise you: Take the majority of cells surrounding a cell and invert it. For example if you have 3 black surrounding a blank, then it’s white. Repeat until solved. It's an alright rule on its own, but weak given the context of players learning to look to the environment to solve these in the game's beginning. That could be remedied with an "unlearning" section, but the game doesn't give one and the puzzles provided don't succeed at teaching on their own. It definitely doesn't help that they're easy to beat by using some other incomplete rule anyway. I also don't know how you could tutorialize the idea of repeating until solved, it feels like such a stretch to figure out on your own. Any ideas?

[@Tazerboy_10]

😲

[@randomstranger623]

Yeah, that's hard. 😭 I'm losing my logic points at this poimt.

[@titusn.stipek9383]

Tbh I figured it out during your previous video and also that the mansion area is technically the first area (for the black and white statue part) you had to go to since the thing you learn at the start of the game would be easily done there

[@liamtaylor9257]

Yeah, when I played it I completely didn't get that rule. I got as far as "outline the sections and then guess the rest." There aren't enough block puzzles in the game to really extrapolate that, though the mechanic probably carries enough weight to form an entire section.

[@bang_lihat]

I kinda figured out that was the rule on your First episode and the block puzzle near the mansion confirms it. I visualize it by splitting it into parts. For example the black and white S piece I just cut it in 4 2x3. White S piece means the other 2 are black and vice versa. But I agree about the one inside the secret cave. It makes no sense to me at all.

[@danieldavid3766]

Reminder: Tyler still hasn't solved the tall pillar puzzle in the first section he did.

[@GuillaumePerronNantel]

😂

[@TKDWN_YT]

The final boss…

[@luckyluc2697]

He also missed like 7 puzzles last episode due to forgetting about negative space with floor puzzles, and even just normal puzzles as well as the puzzles he consideres to be "hard" puzzles when they are just red to show it was made by a different person

[@roowco1]

and some floor tiles that he thought are impossible

[@demonqiqi]

I was thinking about that when he is inside the house

[@herohalv4543]

i love how my perception of all the paintings instantly changed as soon as you noticed the diamonds on the snowman puzzle my lord, i didnt see any of the dots/flowers/etc. until then

[@danieldavid3766]

That revelation was the biggest plot twist in the series.

[@royaloreo1275]

3 of diamonds was also pretty obvious. The owl eyes being binary is devilish!

[@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor]

I suspected it the moment I saw the parts next to the paintings, but seeing the playing card(s) with the diamonds is what really spelled it out for me.

[@loglorn]

I noticed with the owl but didn't believe myself until tyler spelled it out

[@luckyluc2697]

I love how I understood everything from the character sheet inventory, just goes to show how much tyler cares about this, love the work tyler keep it up

[@amberbeaver2094]

I missed the joke with all except the bike, care to explain for me?

[@mcswashbuckler3833]

@@amberbeaver2094 they’re references to various objects he’s had in the background throughout his streaming career

[@L4Vo5]

@@mcswashbuckler3833 No, the bike is because his Steam (?) username (and/or his old usernames in other places) is "DildoBike"

[@danieldavid3766]

“Bike with oddly phallic seat” is his username, DildoBike “Ladder” is from his streaming days where he had a png of a ladder (I remember it from the first few Polybridge episodes) “Red curtain x2” was from his original bedroom streaming space “Christmas tree no matter the season” was from his office right after moving from the bedroom

[@D4rKSUN1]

10:14 this is my favorite realization on the series so far Myself was like "no way" then you walked and we see the flowers the dots and is like "holy shit"

[@Scuuurbs]

The Gallery is still my favorite. It’s like the Town from The Witness but then it also has its own theme, too.

[@shakewell42]

Pretty sure every statue puzzle I solved was under a different mindset...

[@TraeKryzer]

I think I *just* figured out that puzzle type after staring at 19:30 for a while. Where ever there is a white square, if a white square where actually touching it, then it would be. So, next to every white square there needs to be a black square. And then vice versa. If there's a black square, then there needs to be a white square touching each side that isn't already black. Then it seems when there is a black and a white square that make a corner, one would imply a certain color below it, and one would suggest the other color in the same spot, so it can be either. As far as I can tell, this rule works on each of that puzzle type.

[@toskakai4379]

Oh shoot yeah, took me a second but that looks… correct..?

[@1vader]

Not really sure I understand your rule but check the pinned comment for the intended rule.

[@TraeKryzer]

Ah... I see. The intended rule seems very complicated. My method appears to produce basically the same results. Everywhere there's real white square, you put a black square next to it in the puzzle. Everywhere there's a black square in environment, you place a white square next to it in the puzzle. That was my idea.

[@mawillix2018]

@@TraeKryzer The only error is if there's a black square and two white squares next to an empty square. You'll get a black, rather than a white.

[@TlalocTemporal]

The puzzle at 0:42 has an empty space next to both a white cube and a black cube. I don't know if that center square needs to be dark, but if it does, your rule is incomplete.

[@rextanglr4056]

For the folded colors puzzles, I like to imagine it this way: separate it into columns, and then label them alternately (like OEOEOE, where O is odd and E is even). Then only focus on the O columns, and make the ones where the color is relatively lighter in its row correspond to a white square. Do the same for the E columns. It's pretty hard to explain it in text but you can sorta visualize it.

[@alphaofficial6466]

smart

[@Khaim.m]

Yep. If you focus your perception correctly it jumps right out. Brains are neat.

[@luthfieyudhairawan3883]

i thought it like binary. lighter 1, darker 0.

[@slowbrofriend6526]

“I guess the windows of the castle aren’t a puzzle” little did he know…

[@antoniotrivelloni8191]

More of Tyler's new mindfuck puzzle game! Don't get me wrong, I love watching this, but DEAR CHRIST, I need Ibuprofen every time I see it.

[@Tazerboy_10]

Yup (At first, this game looked fun, but then it deleved into utter chaos and confusing problems; Like, The Witness...)

[@ChrisCronix]

So funny that you got the linegraph one straight away, which I struggled with, and you struggled with the pictures, which I got straight away x) Definitely a perspective thing and not difficulty yeah, such a cool game :D

[@TheLucydOne]

Same thing happened with me. I got the paintings quick then struggled with the whole 2nd floor

[@harsinsinquin4032]

Artists: art is in the meaning of art is in the eye of the beholder Art puzzle: doubt

[@mak_6969]

did the artists have a stroke

[@fracturedemperor]

a taiji video, just what i needed after the absolute hell that is post-corepowering in core keeper

[@SylvesterAshcroft88]

The silhouette of being inside someone's head at 19:37 was pretty cool indeed!

[@pentagonofpeople]

Absolutely amazing inventory on the character screen

[@toast3111]

My favorite part of his inventory is his other username.

[@har7891]

I love watching with this series! I love watching all of Tyler’s videos and I’m kind of surprised he doesn’t have 1 million subs honestly!

[@thonk7611]

"some of these windows are pretty puzzle like too" "like this apple!"

[@EmilyGamerGirl]

Woo, time for the door next. Though after you finish everything beyond the door, there is yet more waiting for you.

[@L4Vo5]

I'm happy to say I figured out the black/white blocks...... right before the very last puzzle with them. I think a better way to teach it would've just been bigger puzzles? that way you can learn about how the latter steps of solving it are "independent" of the black and white blocks you use to start. But a bigger puzzle would probably just lead to boring checkerboard patterns, so overall not a super cool mechanic.

[@Abcwhatever]

Your puzzle solving skills are so good that idk what your even doing

[@Jack_Wolfe]

10:26 OMG you're right and the dots on the snowman!

[@tatererer9747]

18:24 channeling your inner Professor Layton

[@sighmon5640]

did tyler ever solve that red pillar puzzle from episode 1?

[@BreadOnInternet]

No

[@cyber_dragon_123]

I'm convinced that after you finish the game you'll be writhing on the floor and speaking in tongues.

[@AMP256]

I've found 2 endings, so double that...

[@jotting2349]

XD

[@EmilyGamerGirl]

So, the blocks. I played this with my friend and we solved every puzzle in the game. I could not for the life of me figure out the rule. He did though. Rule below. Fill in whites, don't fill in blacks. For the empty spaces, count the number of adjacent blacks/whites. If there are more adjacent blacks than whites, fill in. If there are more adjacent whites than blacks, do not fill in. If the adjacent blacks and whites are the same count, you can fill it in or not fill it in, and both work.

[@jotting2349]

My brain hurts

[@kirby745i]

It sounds like the rules for Conway's game of life

[@PotofGlue]

I loved playing through this part, every mechanic hits you like a train when you figure it out

[@ChrisVenus]

I love the way in the basement you notice the window with white and black squares and then proceed to enter the black parts of the window as white and the white parts as black and then get surprised when it turns out its the other way around. :)

[@ElaDkaz]

Dang this game is sick, I'll buy it when I can just to support the dev, it show's how much love has been put into it

[@TaranVaranYT]

20:51 BRO THE 3 ON THE LEFT IS UNSATISFIED

[@FoxDog1080]

11:07 "I can't believe you've done this" - Some guy in a British accent not in 2022

[@tippybooch]

Watching Tyler playing games like this clarifies for me how dumb I really am

[@lior_haddad]

This was so insane, my mind has been blown.

[@redsnowleopard]

Tyler is going crazy now, he is seeing puzzles everywhere

[@steamedeggeggegg]

19:03 FLAME IS LIT

[@GenTheFurredArtist]

Welp... time for more Taiji ass pain! (I'm gonna edit this after viewing the video)

[@Tazerboy_10]

🤔 - Oh?

[@proffeserian219]

Very cool game, glad I finished it before watching this series

[@Jack_Wolfe]

18:52 WOOOW that was a hard to see one.

[@BlueberryCats_]

23:30 Holdup, is he standing in a head?

[@armokthebunny7409]

Man, when doing the gallery print screen+msPaint were my most powerful tools

[@Schoko4craft]

I am impressed how many shadow puzzles you mastered without realizing the shadow

[@hulfe2514]

I was walking back to my pc at around 24:10 after getting a glass of water, when I noticed the environment is two heads, nice

[@S.A.M-MK3]

3:50 Life is a journey. Not a destination.

[@杨晨-i9b]

Two best parts are waiting forward!

[@scottwestleysmith3196]

There's a secret section near the beginning of the game, but you must pay attention to the environment of the entire game to completely solve that section.

[@AzureFlash]

The thumbnail looks like a program written in the Piet esoteric programming language

[@YellowEllo]

Imma need to see some evidence for that 99+%. Also, in the begining part you can also solve the puzzles without looking at the environment, actual statues are there. I did it the first time around not even noticing the environment relationship.

[@benjamincurran5799]

I think this is the part where the game really messes with you, not just in it's puzzles but pattern seeking in the real world too! But yeah, I totally agree that the intentional rule for the Contrast Puzzles felt a little obscure (it kind of reminded me of "cellular automata" to be honest). But that's my only qualm so far with this game, The Gallery on the other hand was pretty cool, though. I liked the pattern seeking aspect of it. From comparing squares in Piet Mondrian's iconic artworks, to simply analysing frequency polygons, there certainly is a part of the game that will stick with you when you go for a stroll in the park, the city, or the lush greenery of the forest. Well, probably not as much as what The Witness pulled off, but there's still that! tl:dr Gallery great, but Cellular Automaton Puzzles bad, but let's see what final secrets this strange world has to offer! (By the way Tyler, since I can't play the game for myself anyways, I took a peek at the ending for the game in a walkthrough, and it will have a surprising twist which I'm pretty sure you'll never see coming, because I certainly didn't.)

[@brennanruiz1803]

Tyler out here seeing White ending puzzles and missing the picture on the floor

[@AMP256]

lol that rug is evil

[@belian5928]

Well, I did the same thing with the gallery. The “camera zoom out” and the contrast of Red vs White is a lot more obvious to me than “half-hidden shades of gray behind a white wall”.

[@Gurmudgin]

The moment Tyler started going into lights and rights my brain just completely shut down. There’s not enough brain power to handle this game. Although it’s a joy to watch.

[@blunderstruck1]

to be fair he explained it in a really confusing way, just for each column look for the tiles that are relatively lighter and relatively darker

[@Gurmudgin]

@@blunderstruck1 oh. ohhhhh. ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Thanks Shfjhfd. now it makes sense.

[@blunderstruck1]

@@Gurmudgin I can’t tell if that’s sarcasm but you’re welcome ig 😭

[@Gurmudgin]

@@blunderstruck1 not sarcasm! actually thankful.

[@hex7329]

I extremely enjoyed the gallery on my playthrough.

[@derikbnh]

10:30 happiness is a simple thing, isn't?

[@godlyvex5543]

Can't wait to see where this goes.

[@benjamincurran5799]

18:27 Hm, yes this almost reminds of a certain professor...

[@50u1]

22:30 realized the stone behind is a human head.

[@michaelwatkins4155]

@aliensrock For the owl puzzle at 12 minutes in the video, the eyes of the owl are supposed to represent the graveyard at the top of the map, what would a double 00 tile be? It was supposed to be the clue that gave you the first tile of the puzzle so that you could color it properly without having to depend on guesswork to start it out, but was a rather bad clue IMO, and probably should have been clearer by being something like a gravestone or something to better clue the person in.

[@dragobane4728]

Actually the yellow flower above it looks like a ':'

[@QuirkyView]

I wonder when he'll figure out the rule for the white and black tiles, I'm pretty sure I've figured it out

[@AMP256]

Wouldn't hurt to test it, right?

[@michaelwatkins4155]

They have a rather convoluted rule (Saw the dev talking about it in a steam post, it's just dumb, plain and simple), that is super easy to get close enough to right that it doesn't matter as no puzzle in the game requires you to get better than the "close enough to right" rule.

[@AMP256]

just realized that aliensrock posted the rule in his pinned comment lol and yes that's convoluted af

[@QuirkyView]

@@michaelwatkins4155 You know what it's not what I thought, but what I thought works for every one of those puzzles except the one in front of the door of the mansion. I thought the rule was literally just "complete the pattern." The one in front of the door doesn't really have a pattern to complete, but all the others kind of do.

[@michaelwatkins4155]

@@QuirkyView Yep, even when finishing the pattern isn't the rule at all, it's end result is so close to the rule that you'll just assume that it is the rule. And honestly, it IS a better rule that that convoluted mess that just seems illogical to come up with that the dev decided upon. Dev made a good game, don't get me wrong, just that single rule is just that bad that it sticks out in what is otherwise a masterpiece of a puzzle game.

[@hobbyist518]

That split up-down puzzle was a nightmare for me. Saved it for last, and ended up brute-forcing it to see if I could understand the rule after the fact. Still couldn't.

[@alphaofficial6466]

i think the rule is you just check the boxes the line would've crossed over the center of

[@adammat13]

Everything is in perspective of the middle line. The end result is that if you mirror the bottom one on to the top one you can solve it normally. (by mirror I mean the top row becomes the bottom row and the other way around)

[@hobbyist518]

@@alphaofficial6466 That's definitely not the rule.

[@hobbyist518]

@@adammat13 Don't get me wrong; I understand now that I've seen Tyler solve it. I just couldn't wrap my own head around it.

[@AndGoatz04]

*_WITNESS INSTINCT KICKING IN!_*

[@Joemama69420.]

NO I WANNA SEE MORE CARD SHARK

[@oguh4358]

4:00 that "painting" is actually a program written in the programming language called piet :)

[@alphaofficial6466]

i don't think it is, i think it's just a painting based off of the mondrian. idk though i haven't ran it yet

[@alphaofficial6466]

the programming language, piet, is also based off of the mondrian, jsyk

[@collosallsquid4001]

He still hasn't remembered negative space

[@Drachenbauer]

20:54 Just forgot ti fill in 2 squares at the right edge

[@kingambrose9919]

I thought in the owl puzzle the flowers had a dark or light centre, and considering it actually works for the final solution, I figured that was the pattern not the binary whether that wwas intentional or not

[@kalengray4073]

Does someone want to explain the block puzzles? At the very begining? I dont understand the rules...

[@censoramerica2964]

I Love This

[@loganjamesonhatch5050]

So your first video made me get the game but besides a few so far I haven’t been able to get anything in this area, let’s see if you can help me work through them😊

[@bransonator1]

Isn’t there another floor in the mansion on top? I thought I saw a staircase going up from the top floor he solved. Maybe I’m crazy

[@christealeaf6052]

Tyler is smart

[@pak6430]

the painting of the owl was just the flower puzzle, either im missing the joke or you got stupidly lucky with the binary sutff lol

[@thomasfalkiner2469]

I'm pretty sure the owls eyes were the "anti dot" (like on the second big head puzzle)

[@belian5928]

Then where are the dots they cancel?

[@alphaofficial6466]

they don't match up. Anti-dots look like this: ⬜⬛⬛⬜ ⬛⬜⬜⬛ ⬛⬜⬜⬛ ⬜⬛⬛⬜ meanwhile zeroes in XOR look like this: ⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬜⬛ ⬛⬛⬛

[@nin10dorox]

I 100%'d the game and still have no clue what the black and white block puzzle rule is

[@trevorgrover5619]

lol at least you're aware of your own character stats.

[@Akawump]

It is a good day untill you think you solved a puzzle before him and he solves it right

[@beatermike2460]

i think maybe you should pay attention to those windows

[@AMP256]

Later

[@Jack_Wolfe]

18:23 the carpets make a red and white alternation. buuuut.

[@alphaofficial6466]

finally!! :D

[@WukongTheMonkeyKing]

He says his Strength is higher than his Logic. And that his logic is lower than his intelligence.

[@kittyn5222]

The thumbnail looked like minesweeper My eyes are liars!

[@tikycarluan8147]

Good video

[@Toprak135]

Pain.

[@GA-dj1wt]

Well let's try go to the start and find something interesting there 🙃

[@checkerface]

1:34 wth I did not see anything is it me? or is it aliensrock video?

[@reason3883]

The second to last puzzle you were inside of a head inside of a sideways head

[@godlyvex5543]

what IS the rule for the black and white tiles? I got 100% in the game and I never figured out the real rule

[@qovro]

see the pinned comment

[@vicmatthew595]

The beginning reminds me of some odd history.. i dont really know why..

[@MafedsJ]

20:40 its another head

[@The.eternal.sillyness]

Yay another ti g vid👍

[@therabbithole5686]

Tyler what the fuck man, logic is hard it's 12am

[@FoxDog1080]

23:52 It was at this point I noticed that I see 1 and a half faces and 2 heads

[@cyber_dragon_123]

I saw it immediately. On the very left side of the cave area is 2 faces facing each other.

[@AMP256]

prettymuch the entire cavern is like that, faces / head everywhere... it's a bit creepy...

[@Khaim.m]

1:10 Wait, what? That's different than how Samet solved it! TF is the rule?!?

[@ComeCaramelos_]

22:07 Is that a head?

[@Wildspeck]

Can you do “please touch the art”

[@odd8149]

More Card Shark soon?

[@DLatryShankLi]

0:31 from last time i sow it i tought the one that shude be fillds is the with block and the empty spaces adjesent to the black, btw blind coment

[@lychee349]

THIS is what I wanted this game to be, relying on the environment rather than figuring out a mechanic then solving puzzles that have no real connection to the outside world like the diamonds and lines

[@showd6229]

There might or might not be another secret somewhere, small hint is below. where it all began

[@alphaofficial6466]

oh, i noticed that at the start! i wasn't sure if it led to a secret or not. would you mind telling me what the secret is when you input the pattern? (edit: grammar fixings)

[@showd6229]

@@alphaofficial6466 so you know how he said the windows looked like a puzzle they are. There’s one environmental puzzle for each area of the game, doing them all gives you the true ending, they’re pretty cool

[@alphaofficial6466]

@@showd6229 so was the environmental puzzle in the starting area meant to be the very first one where the environment didn't match the blocks?

[@showd6229]

@@alphaofficial6466 I’m confused. The point is the very first puzzle can be sliced using the island that it moves it’s an upside down L shape

[@alphaofficial6466]

@@showd6229 all the puzzles in the starting area matched the environment except for the first one. the blocks were like: ▪⬜ ⬜⬜ ⬜▪ but the environment was like: ⬛⬛ ▫⬛ ▫⬛

[@iago1]

The place where he does the last puzzle is a Head

[@Solar_Glyph]

10:36 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Jack_Wolfe]

12:00 are they not the Zeros?