Crypto by POWGI ~ Trophy Guide & Roadmap

[ixii]

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• Estimated trophy difficulty: 2/10 without a guide (personal estimate) [Platinum Difficulty Rating]
  
• Offline trophies: 33 (0 , 31(S), 1(G), 1(P))
  
• Online trophies: 0
  
• Approximate amount of time to platinum: 1-2hrs without a guide, 30m with one (personal estimate) [Estimated Time to Platinum]
  
• Minimum number of playthroughs: 32 specific levels.
  
• Number of missable trophies: None.
  
• Glitched trophies: None.
  
• Does difficulty affect trophies?: No difficulty levels.
  
• Do trophies stack?: Yes, 6 – the PS4 and Vita each have separate NA, EU, and AS lists.
  
• Do cheat codes disable trophies?: No cheats.
  
• Additional peripherals required?: None.
  

 

EXTRAS: If you'd prefer a text guide instead and to see all of the solutions in one location, here is a gdoc answer sheet: LINK

 

 

 

Welcome back to yet another installment in the long-running POWGI series! Crypto by POWGI is their newest addition and is, at least in my opinion, one of the best ones so far! And as we have all come to expect from Lightwood games, they've once again brought back the fun, silly puns in the trophy names! As always, if you like puzzles, you will definitely enjoy this game. Like all the others, it is a word puzzle, but this time you'll be solving quotes hidden in cryptograms! In each level, each of the letters in the alphabet is replaced with a different one, and the cryptogram changes with every level. There are 180 levels in all, but you only need to solve 32 for the Platinum, although you may find it hard to stop there! So have fun, enjoy the game, and get solving!

 

 

 

Although it may seem challenging at first, the puzzles aren't too hard. Each level, named after a well-known public figure, contains a quote from that person and is generally about two sentences long. Each letter will be blank and will have a different letter underneath, but as it's a cryptogram, every letter in the alphabet has been switched for a different letter and it is your job to decipher it. When you input the letters, the game will cross out each letter you've already used, making it easier for you to see what remains. However, that does not necessarily mean that your answers were correct. Although there are no hints or clues in this game, you are able to check if your answers are correct by pressing and together. It won't tell you which letters are incorrect but will tell you how many of them are. You do have one other option, though – if you choose, you can press Fix which, although it won't correct them, will erase the invalid letters.

 

It is one of the more unique POWGI games as trophy lists go because it is the first one that does not contain any extra, unique trophies regarding certain words or actions. In this case, every single trophy is just for completing that level. Because of that, you are free to use as many checks and fixes as you wish. Although there are no difficulty levels, there are 12 pages with 15 levels in each, which means that it has a staggering total of 180 levels! But as mentioned above, you only need to complete 32 of them, spread out over all 12 pages.

 

TIP: Press or when in the select screen to cycle through the list of puzzles. If you decide to only do the trophy-related levels, just be aware that the game has an annoying tendency to take you back to whichever page contains the earliest blank or incomplete level every time you exit out to the menu/level select. Meaning that you will be returned to the very first page every time you finish a level, even if you were on page 12.

 

 

 

The only step there is! Simply play each of the 32 levels specified in the guide below until you've unlocked all of the trophies. If you'd rather solve the puzzles yourself instead of following this guide, look under the Platinum trophy Code Dependent for some tips to help you along the way.

 

By the end of this step, you will have earned:

 

Unforgettable

Butch

Happy Accident

Who's That Girl?

Lend Me a Tenor

I Am Root

It's Easy If You Try

So Seuss Me

The Whole Knuth and Nothing But the Knuth

Yada, Yada, Yada

A Star Is Born

The Right Impression

Current Affairs

Tragedy!

Lord of the Rings

Ooh! Aah!

Raven All Night Long

Is This Anything?

By Jeeves!

Freak Out!

What's His Angle?

Family Man

Pasteur Bedtime

The F Is To Pay Respects

We Are Amused!

Only Jung Once

Compose Yourself

Induhvidual

Genius!

Because He Tortoise

General Knowledge

You Get a Trophy! You Get a Trophy! You Get a Trophy!

Code Dependent

Edited September 27, 2020 by ixii
Update: Vita versions now available.

[ixii]

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/59f4c07b-c3ed-4457-a772-5da7daa36642.jpg Code Dependent

Collect all the trophies

 

Congrats!

 

EXTRAS: If you'd prefer a text guide instead and to see all of the solutions in one location, here is a gdoc answer sheet: LINK

 

TIPS: If you decide to solve the puzzles yourself, I have a few tips that will help:

1. First, look for the words with one letter and try A or I.
   
2. Second, look for the two letter words and try A or I for the first letter and S, T, or N for the second letter. Overall, the most common two-letter words are IS, IT, IN and AS, AT, AN. (If you still have two-letter words remaining, other possibilities are ON or NO, or IF and OF.)
   
3. Third, look for the three-letter words as most will either be AND or THE.
   
4. Fourth, look for words with an apostrophe and then a blank letter, i.e. WORD ' _. That letter will always be either T or S. Whereas words with two letters after the apostrophe are usually 'VE.
   
   1. (Outside of the Platinum-related levels, a small number '_ blanks are M or D, but these don't show up in the 32 required levels.)

[*] Fifth, look for two of the same letters next to each other, as most often it will be the letter L. (Other slightly less common letters are S and P.)

[*] Finally, after all the above, there should be a few very common words that will be easy to deduce once you've done the first five things, such as THAT and THERE, or WOULD or SHOULD, and so on.

 

To get the Platinum, complete the following 32 levels (screenshots of the answers will be under their respective trophies):

 

[spoiler=alllevels]PAGE 1

• Nat King Cole
  
• Paul Newman
  
• Bob Ross
  
• Madonna
  
• Luciano Pavarotti

 

PAGE 2

• Linus Torvalds
  
• John Lennon
  
• Dr. Seuss

 

PAGE 3

• Donald Knuth

 

PAGE 4

• Jerry Seinfeld
  
• Barbara Streisand

 

PAGE 5

• Claude Monet
  
• Nikola Tesla

 

PAGE 6

• Seneca
  
• Alexander Graham Bell

 

PAGE 7

• Eric Cantona
  
• Edgar Allan Poe

 

PAGE 8

• David Letterman
  
• P. G. Wodehouse

 

PAGE 9

• Frank Zappa
  
• Pythagoras

 

PAGE 10

• Mario Puzo
  
• Louis Pasteur
  
• John F. Kennedy
  
• Queen Victoria

 

PAGE 11

• Carl Jung
  
• Igor Stravinsky
  
• Scott Adams
  

 

PAGE 12

• Albert Einstein
  
• Lewis Carroll
  
• Sun Tzu
  
• Oprah Winfrey
  

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/aa565073-94b2-45be-a89d-5e19612de5bc.jpg Unforgettable

Reveal the quote by Nat King Cole

 

Decipher the quote in the Nat King Cole level, which is the first puzzle on the first page.

 

[spoiler=001]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/e56e97af-270a-4df1-bdf4-9b553fbc187b.jpg Butch

Reveal the quote by Paul Newman

 

Decipher the quote in the Paul Newman level, located on page 1, row 2, #1.

 

[spoiler=002]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/63a7f3ca-0990-48ed-829e-93a2e67b022c.jpg Happy Accident

Reveal the quote by Bob Ross

 

Decipher the quote in the Bob Ross level, located on page 1, row 2, #4.

 

[spoiler=003]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/617a6055-31c3-43f4-96cd-da7adda4ff93.jpg Who's That Girl?

Reveal the quote by Madonna

 

Decipher the quote in the Madonna level, located on page 1, row 3, #1.

 

[spoiler=004]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/bbb22b2b-c817-4c82-baf2-02e834af0ddc.jpg Lend Me a Tenor

Reveal the quote by Luciano Pavarotti

 

Decipher the quote in the Luciano Pavarotti level, located on page 1, row 3, #5.

 

[spoiler=005]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/8030c510-d0f3-432d-86ff-cc7debe1eedf.jpg I Am Root

Reveal the quote by Linus Torvalds

 

Decipher the quote in the Linus Torvalds level, located on page 2, row 1, #3.

 

[spoiler=006]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/579204e1-c763-446b-be05-497758f62651.jpg It's Easy If You Try

Reveal the quote by John Lennon

 

Decipher the quote in the John Lennon level, located on page 2, row 2, #1.

 

[spoiler=007]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/59f01ccd-7551-4ad9-93c8-eff450f61532.jpg So Seuss Me

Reveal the quote by Dr Seuss

 

Decipher the quote in the Dr. Seuss level, located on page 2, row 3, #3.

 

[spoiler=008]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/51d5467f-604a-406f-a3d2-4d65e632f8f9.jpg The Whole Knuth and Nothing But the Knuth

Reveal the quote by Donald Knuth

 

Decipher the quote in the Donald Knuth level, located on page 3, row 3, #1.

 

[spoiler=009]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/c7fbd30b-9429-48c3-8470-5b3f78be2d3c.jpg Yada, Yada, Yada

Reveal the quote by Jerry Seinfeld

 

Decipher the quote in the Jerry Seinfeld level, located on page 4, row 1, #5.

 

[spoiler=010]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/5a85b3e5-3934-41de-be49-881447f5a068.jpg A Star Is Born

Reveal the quote by Barbara Streisand

 

Decipher the quote in the Barbara Streisand level, located on page 4, row 2, #5.

 

[spoiler=011]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/03756570-6c25-4740-811d-83426b19908d.jpg The Right Impression

Reveal the quote by Claude Monet

 

Decipher the quote in the Claude Monet level, located on page 5, row 1, #3.

 

[spoiler=012]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/b149ebb3-99c9-4051-80fe-cc96f954ed91.jpg Current Affairs

Reveal the quote by Nikola Tesla

 

Decipher the quote in the Nikola Tesla level, located on page 5, row 2, #5.

 

[spoiler=013]

 

Edited June 9, 2020 by ixii
Editorial Sweep.

[ixii]

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/9d49bce8-8385-416e-b22e-56096c425af7.jpg Tragedy!

Reveal the quote by Seneca

 

Decipher the quote in the Seneca level, located on page 6, row 2, #1.

 

[spoiler=014]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/c065bd80-4cf9-4142-b6b4-0b6cd43bfe71.jpg Lord of the Rings

Reveal the quote by Alexander Graham Bell

 

Decipher the quote in the Alexander Graham Bell level, located on page 6, row 3, #3.

 

[spoiler=015]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/f3391238-8db9-476a-baef-7d411188cb0c.jpg Ooh! Aah!

Reveal the quote by Eric Cantona

 

Decipher the quote in the Eric Cantona level, located on page 7, row 1, #4.

 

[spoiler=016]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/b8e875cf-a20f-4d38-a1fb-84d18b61c775.jpg Raven All Night Long

Reveal the quote by Edgar Allan Poe

 

Decipher the quote in the Edgar Allan Poe level, located on page 7, row 2, #3.

 

[spoiler=017]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/1ef4417c-25b1-4dd0-a0cf-23cdc358ba0a.jpg Is This Anything?

Reveal the quote by David Letterman

 

Decipher the quote in the David Letterman level, located on page 8, row 1, #1.

 

[spoiler=018]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/9ff7c107-eaba-4d36-8c18-55ff5f5db51b.jpg By Jeeves!

Reveal the quote by P. G. Wodehouse

 

Decipher the quote in the P. G. Wodehouse level, located on page 8, row 2, #3.

 

[spoiler=019]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/cf6e786b-1fd3-4929-84fd-5063c5018384.jpg Freak Out!

Reveal the quote by Frank Zappa

 

Decipher the quote in the Frank Zappa level, located on page 9, row 2, #1.

 

[spoiler=020]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/580d3b37-af32-42ac-9f48-a75716f5c7f9.jpg What's His Angle?

Reveal the quote by Pythagoras

 

Decipher the quote in the Pythagoras level, located on page 9, row 3, #1.

 

[spoiler=021]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/10ceda43-de5c-4937-a2f2-233bb9a746a8.jpg Family Man

Reveal the quote by Mario Puzo

 

Decipher the quote in the Mario Puzo level, located on page 10, row 1, #1.

 

[spoiler=022]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/8107fc3a-041c-468a-91cc-a7f6dfad16dc.jpg Pasteur Bedtime

Reveal the quote by Louis Pasteur

 

Decipher the quote in the Louis Pasteur level, located on page 10, row 1, #3.

 

[spoiler=023]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/ff193e3c-300f-4dbc-a9ef-a2a199ce2413.jpg The F Is To Pay Respects

Reveal the quote by John F. Kennedy

 

Decipher the quote in the John F. Kennedy level, located on page 10, row 2, #3.

 

[spoiler=024]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/d8eb7033-9a19-4f47-8066-66ec5e0e0ca6.jpg We Are Amused!

Reveal the quote by Queen Victoria

 

Decipher the quote in the Queen Victoria level, located on page 10, row 3, #4.

 

[spoiler=025]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/f6bd69fe-2cc7-4c9f-85ef-af2d5d6d5ee1.jpg Only Jung Once

Reveal the quote by Carl Jung

 

Decipher the quote in the Carl Jung level, located on page 11, row 1, #4.

 

[spoiler=026]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/b48595b3-fe9d-4b90-a607-a94c798ea982.jpg Compose Yourself

Reveal the quote by Igor Stravinsky

 

Decipher the quote in the Igor Stravinsky level, located on page 11, row 2, #1.

 

[spoiler=027]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/f7bef80d-4570-47d3-875d-f2846bacfa34.jpg Induhvidual

Reveal the quote by Scott Adams

 

Decipher the quote in the Scott Adams level, located on page 11, row 3, #2.

 

[spoiler=028]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/f7765cd3-4a24-4f1c-9e98-1d0341bfacad.jpg Genius!

Reveal the quote by Albert Einstein

 

Decipher the quote in the Albert Einstein level, located on page 12, row 1, #1.

 

[spoiler=029]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/a1f3a737-80b0-47d1-878f-e8be7d069b76.jpg Because He Tortoise

Reveal the quote by Lewis Carroll

 

Decipher the quote in the Lewis Carroll level, located on page 12, row 1, #5.

 

[spoiler=030]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/56cf3e92-ce1e-4de8-8c0a-7ad008d08982.jpg General Knowledge

Reveal the quote by Sun Tzu

 

Decipher the quote in the Sun Tzu level, located on page 12, row 2, #3.

 

[spoiler=031]

 

 

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/trophies/10574/7769d061-a1d1-4df3-a311-29d78df708f1.jpg You Get a Trophy! You Get a Trophy! You Get a Trophy!

Reveal the quote by Oprah Winfrey

 

Decipher the quote in the Oprah Winfrey level, located on page 12, row 3, #5.

 

If you went in order, finishing this one should also pop the Platinum.

 

[spoiler=032]

 

Edited May 22, 2020 by stgermain
Editorial Sweep.

[ixii]

*Reserved for future use.*

[Tiberius]

Looks really easy but when does it come out? I'd heard it was yesterday but I didn't see it in the PS store

[ixii]

Looks really easy but when does it come out? I'd heard it was yesterday but I didn't see it in the PS store

 

Yup it came out yesterday. That's strange. Which region? I have it on both NA and EU regions.

[Terminator]

You can up the stack count to 6, because the Asian versions have just turned up and will be loaded within the hour . EDIT: It looks like only the PS4 versions are available at the moment and the Vita releases, almost certainly won't turn up until sometime after the Beer Bug has petered out.

Edited May 20, 2020 by Terminator
Update.

[ixii]

You can up the stack count to 6, because the Asian versions have just turned up and will be loaded within the hour . EDIT: It looks like only the PS4 versions are available at the moment and the Vita releases, almost certainly won't turn up until sometime after the Beer Bug has petered out.

 

Thanks for the info, T! Updated the stack list and added a note below regarding the Vita version.

 

* NOTE: Although a Vita version with the same 3 regions exists, it is not available at the moment and has no known release date. (Thanks to Terminator for this info.)

Edited May 20, 2020 by ixii

[Tiberius]

Yup it came out yesterday. That's strange. Which region? I have it on both NA and EU regions.

 

It simply came out several hours after I was last able to check the PS store in the NA region back on Tuesday. Guess it got released later than the usual standard Tuesday at 8am PST situation.

[ixii]

It simply came out several hours after I was last able to check the PS store in the NA region back on Tuesday. Guess it got released later than the usual standard Tuesday at 8am PST situation.

 

Ah . Well at least you have it now! Enjoy It's quite fun despite being fairly easy.

[stgermain]

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/guides/guide_stuck_platinum.gif

[ixii]

http://www.playstationtrophies.org/images/guides/guide_stuck_platinum.gif

 

Thanks! n_n

[iLion]

Thanks for the guide ixii

[ixii]

Thanks for the guide ixii

 

Thanks!

[ixii]

Updated the guide as the Vita versions are finally available to download and play, meaning Crypto now has a total of 6 possible stacks. Thanks to NiNothing for letting me know!

[TheVoorheesComplex]

Thanks for the guide.