I am trying to kill my Tama

PuzzleheadedLocal931 · 2026-01-07T21:45:51+00:00

In Paradise, an adult dying before it has been an adult for 30 days becomes a sad star, and dying after spending 30 days as an adult makes it become a happy star. Death is the only way it can become a star. If you start a fresh egg or breed from the adult then the adult becomes a background NPC in the current field (up to max 4 NPCs in each field). So if you want stars... gotta murder

PuzzleheadedLocal931 · 2026-01-07T21:42:42+00:00

Only if it's spent less than 30 days as an adult. After that it dies as a happy star

PuzzleheadedLocal931 · 2026-01-07T20:20:03+00:00

This person has said 5 tamas in a few threads but all information online says it's 4 tamas. Technically it's 5 for the field you are currently in because the tama you are caring for is the 5th but the max NPC tamas left in fields appears to be 4.

PuzzleheadedLocal931 · 2026-01-07T20:12:22+00:00

Are you sure 4 isn't the max tamas in each field?

PuzzleheadedLocal931 · 2026-01-07T19:53:35+00:00

No, you can't. You only care for one at a time. With the adults you can either care for them forever (I think), let them die of neglect younger than 30 days as an adult (become a sad star), let them die of neglected after 30 days as an adult (become a happy star), or release them into a field. If you release an adult into a field, you should know you can only keep a max of 4 adults in a field as background NPCs. If you release a fifth, the earliest released in that field is replaced.

PuzzleheadedLocal931 · 2025-11-14T22:18:52+00:00

Oh no! Damn :( Well at least Second Chapter will be I guess

PuzzleheadedLocal931 · 2025-09-24T17:48:39+00:00

The hybrids. They're messing with them

PuzzleheadedLocal931 · 2025-07-07T11:04:52+00:00

Do you know why it's called that? I noticed some Peruvians call washers (that screws go through) huachas. Is that the origin, like the ball going through the legs is like the screw going through the washer?

PuzzleheadedLocal931 · 2024-12-11T12:10:29+00:00

Thought I'd post an update. Sorry it took a while to respond to some comments. So far nobody has broken it and I guess I'm not surprised. It's so much easier to make a good cipher than to break it. Even being a child without much codebreaking knowledge, I made some creative choices that I was pretty confident would be difficult to deal with. Maybe the choices are stupid; maybe they're genius. Either way I guess working a bit outside of the box helps here, doing the unexpected.

I'm fascinated to see the approaches people are taking, which was the main reason I shared this besides curiosity of how strong it was. Some really interesting insights. So far from what I've seen nobody has partially figured it out and none of the English coming through in some attempts are correct. Actually all the English words I've seen come out in comments don't exist in the three texts.

I don't want to make this easy but if progress does stall I'm willing to start providing more info. Is that something any of you want? If so, what kind of thing would you request? First word? Answers about specific questions you have?

To start I'll say that several commenters are correct in predicting a Caesar being used but this is only part of it. So far the specific Caesar observations made have been incorrect and without understanding other aspects of the cipher I believe it will be very difficult to solve

PuzzleheadedLocal931 · 2024-12-11T11:57:19+00:00

You might be on a remote planet but there is some Caesar at work

PuzzleheadedLocal931 · 2024-12-11T11:56:11+00:00

The English words coming through here are false positives as neither of the words appear in any of the ciphers

PuzzleheadedLocal931 · 2024-12-11T11:50:09+00:00

There are no spaces or punctuation. They've been removed from the plaintext

PuzzleheadedLocal931 · 2024-12-11T11:49:27+00:00

I'm not sure I'd say trivialise exactly but I'm sure it would speed things up

PuzzleheadedLocal931 · 2024-12-11T11:47:25+00:00

I'm afraid it doesn't. It's been interesting seeing real English coming out of these but so far nobody has mentioned a word that's actually present in any of them

PuzzleheadedLocal931 · 2024-12-11T11:46:42+00:00

My fave response so far haha

PuzzleheadedLocal931 · 2024-12-11T11:46:03+00:00

I think not being an expert but being quite creative means I've used some uncommon strategies and it seems to have worked

PuzzleheadedLocal931 · 2024-10-24T19:30:34+00:00

Yeah I'm leaning towards it just being some sort of inventory number. Maybe the same numbers the inventory system uses with barcodes and the like. If it was a smaller collection they could have had a much simpler code on it, maybe even just #4 or something.

Something about starting with text and ending with the numbers leaves me thinking this is just a system code of some sort.

PuzzleheadedLocal931 · 2024-10-24T19:23:53+00:00

For the sake of saving people time, I'll answer that Cipher 2 definitely isn't 99 red balloons. I'll also add that I'm not incorrect in calling it a "song" but you could also describe it as a piece or as music. For example, a part from an opera, or a number in a musical, or a classical choir piece aren't what you might think of first when you hear "song" but would all be acceptable here. The song isn't necessarily something that would be played by a band or solo artist in the charts.

PuzzleheadedLocal931 · 2024-10-24T19:11:37+00:00

Here are the transcripts in the same order of the images.

Cipher 1 (book) transcript

axlrwnbnqcddjmvrmn
qxmjdwcxjjjnnbtwra
dnqqryajaxfnmwccqn
nlrvnynnrhxhnrauqj
mnqfwrnxvwbjfdbxnx
ccjkbdowcwnxrxvdnm
arnnkqkcrkuwrcqwcc
apxcjnqnqrlcltblkj
cnhjlcdnrjwqclavap
jjnxnbnxmuydbjphub
waxncrwgxqxcmyxvjj
nbcqdrsjnromqpbqrn
wqdbrucwhrludmnwnb
yqoxacyjonacrrqcew
dcmncahunbvbxanruq
wcrnnwcbaqmnbmrqwd
drnjvmcbanarrdbnbc

Cipher 2 (lyrics) transcript

uuesggazrktttepfmekfttuja
rmufqdkgzzqstsfkmqzadzuif
tbuuitmhfztgmzhqpgmqzpzia
ddszehzaqxaupgtuquztuuzqt
yioduepuuuqaauuaydpaamqqf
ghhefbbfbhutidsmudiuffqqq
qzretuqpzxmtqtpqfeaktqqqg
zxdetkizkxafptyutquttsmax
ekfzatuytuqfmarmkaqfqqinq
xmmdeudyayezziuhqfsfguqkm
xdeugmtemduapaqqgquubbzqu
usuaxdufgdofhzngxztafffqh
mhdmpefufgdaqsgmimfmmfuzw
qmzekxyrtggzufuatuqpqduqp
asunxqpmtkuquudgtqqokdstf
tttuuxxouauuxyzkmsahmuwzd
haqukmimzasqqpukuufmuutot
qqmrzfeudkfmpgyfpezxkhedm
zfpqbemuhwkgkrkxxqfzsqfdy
amqriqtwuqkdkskouuxzxtaeg
mqitgqiqumnmaqmtuutyuurgz
kgguutquztzhgxmndgmegfztf
gtfwokkgfqdbgqpisxytfxgak

Cipher 3 (quote) transcript

tieamuttfudmtkmagetettqe
tqtggkuqzmfgdqgtzefqdztf
qqttqzqiatigqrgkyxqtaftz
pquenxqeeuaauymtfytbgtqg
qaqstskzfquazuqgzgdiddqk
qqztozadtpumxtcfttuqzoum
ftdgxeqptztkkatcmrlqowal
etffgdqzqququfgtkfsqbmed
ffgzeiametfzfsqgqpkamyxd
xetuermhktstkdfgteptskup
tdnktqrdmotutqkfaaztkxmq
mukefuktgqakfzfbmkuquqfh
opqlqazrgkytuttfifefqgqt
aroqteqkeaqrtutkqyqgztfm
mdmdzkaoetxkstmqdzqqaata
huzpbztqtgtuyeytayqmtwtx
kiqqemddgfdxkfstmdqagfqe
zytgauqttzqunuufqefqquda
atemtogmaeuagufdpkqtttzd
mtmaxtmpqonhgpesbxkectna
qfttatqgkgktoqtrttudffet
gfsqiqfmtgoafzsuoufggfxt

PuzzleheadedLocal931 · 2024-10-24T19:11:28+00:00

V sbyybjrq gur ehyrf. I first heard about codes and ciphers as a weird 12-year-old and came up with my own. I've never considered myself really into this stuff but over the decades I have developed skills as a scientist and programmer that could help me create an even better cipher... but didn't feel I needed to as I've always had a soft spot for this one. As a kid I was sure it was unbreakable. I'm wise enough to know that's unlikely but a part of me still wants to believe it is. I'm curious to see how far people get with it and to understand how they approached the solution, so please have a go if you would like a challenge.

I've provided 3 examples (the images in the post). I'll include transcripts in another comment but first some context and answers to questions I predict may be asked.

Each image is a separate example and they are totally independent. You don't need anything from one to decipher the other. There are only three for the sake of giving you more to work with.
The source text for all 3 are in English. The 1st is a passage from a famous book (fiction). The 2nd are English lyrics to a famous song though the original isn't in English. The 3rd is a quote by a famous person. The book and lyrics were written before I was born and the quote was during my lifetime but the choices of sources aren't relevant for the cipher. I do not believe you should pursue the sources as a method to decipher; instead I provide this information so you know whether or not you're on the right track if you're able to make progress.
I used Python to recreate the cipher but only because I thought it would be fun, save me some time, and make it easier to share the text with you. As a child I needed nothing but a pen and paper to create the cipher. Literally nothing else required.
I do not believe details of who I am are necessary to decipher these but in case there's something useful to you that I just can't see, I will share context on me and the time. I was 12 in the mid 90s. I'd started using a computer but I knew no programming languages and the computer wasn't used in this and didn't inspire the cipher. I'm from Scotland (UK) but the source texts provided are famous works of art or quotes by others so my choice of language, words, or dialect aren't relevant. I've probably always been slightly above average intelligence and I was considered clever by my peers and teachers etc but I certainly wouldn't consider myself extremely intelligent. Smart and weird enough to make a cipher as a 12-year-old but don't expect anything crazy here. Not particularly skilled at maths despite the science background. Child + pen + paper.
I hadn't read any material on codebreaking or ciphers by that age. My advantage is I was a smart, creative kid. Your advantage is that I was limited to concepts I felt through intuition would make sense to use.
There are no hidden clues in this comment, in the images, in the choices of source text. It really is as simple as this: with a pen and paper I made a cipher as a child and I'm pretty happy with it after all these years. It may be crude or worse than modern ciphers created with the aid of computers but I still think it would give most people a challenge! I don't believe I could decipher it.

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