• Estimated trophy difficulty: 2/10 without a guide (personal estimate) [Platinum Difficulty Rating]
  • Offline trophies: 33 (0 , 31, 1, 1)
  • 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

Crypto by POWGI Trophy Guide

Show completed trophies
Show secret trophies

33 trophies ( 31  )

  • 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.
    5. 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.)
    6. 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):
    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
  • 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. 
  • Reveal the quote by Paul Newman

    Decipher the quote in the Paul Newman level, located on page 1, row 2, #1.
  • Reveal the quote by Bob Ross

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

    Decipher the quote in the Madonna level, located on page 1, row 3, #1.
  • Reveal the quote by Luciano Pavarotti

    Decipher the quote in the Luciano Pavarotti level, located on page 1, row 3, #5.
  • Reveal the quote by Linus Torvalds

    Decipher the quote in the Linus Torvalds level, located on page 2, row 1, #3.
  • Reveal the quote by John Lennon

    Decipher the quote in the John Lennon level, located on page 2, row 2, #1.
  • Reveal the quote by Dr Seuss

    Decipher the quote in the Dr. Seuss level, located on page 2, row 3, #3.
  • Reveal the quote by Donald Knuth

    Decipher the quote in the Donald Knuth level, located on page 3, row 3, #1.
  • Reveal the quote by Jerry Seinfeld

    Decipher the quote in the Jerry Seinfeld level, located on page 4, row 1, #5.
  • Reveal the quote by Barbara Streisand

    Decipher the quote in the Barbara Streisand level, located on page 4, row 2, #5.
  • Reveal the quote by Claude Monet

    Decipher the quote in the Claude Monet level, located on page 5, row 1, #3.
  • Reveal the quote by Nikola Tesla

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

    Decipher the quote in the Seneca level, located on page 6, row 2, #1.
  • Reveal the quote by Alexander Graham Bell

    Decipher the quote in the Alexander Graham Bell level, located on page 6, row 3, #3.
  • Reveal the quote by Eric Cantona

    Decipher the quote in the Eric Cantona level, located on page 7, row 1, #4.
  • Reveal the quote by Edgar Allan Poe

    Decipher the quote in the Edgar Allan Poe level, located on page 7, row 2, #3.
  • Reveal the quote by David Letterman

    Decipher the quote in the David Letterman level, located on page 8, row 1, #1.
  • Reveal the quote by P. G. Wodehouse

    Decipher the quote in the P. G. Wodehouse level, located on page 8, row 2, #3.
  • Reveal the quote by Frank Zappa

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

    Decipher the quote in the Pythagoras level, located on page 9, row 3, #1.
  • Reveal the quote by Mario Puzo

    Decipher the quote in the Mario Puzo level, located on page 10, row 1, #1.
  • Reveal the quote by Louis Pasteur

    Decipher the quote in the Louis Pasteur level, located on page 10, row 1, #3.
  • Reveal the quote by John F. Kennedy

    Decipher the quote in the John F. Kennedy level, located on page 10, row 2, #3.
  • Reveal the quote by Queen Victoria

    Decipher the quote in the Queen Victoria level, located on page 10, row 3, #4.
  • Reveal the quote by Carl Jung

    Decipher the quote in the Carl Jung level, located on page 11, row 1, #4.
  • Reveal the quote by Igor Stravinsky

    Decipher the quote in the Igor Stravinsky level, located on page 11, row 2, #1.
  • Reveal the quote by Scott Adams

    Decipher the quote in the Scott Adams level, located on page 11, row 3, #2.
  • Reveal the quote by Albert Einstein

    Decipher the quote in the Albert Einstein level, located on page 12, row 1, #1.
  • Reveal the quote by Lewis Carroll

    Decipher the quote in the Lewis Carroll level, located on page 12, row 1, #5.
  • Reveal the quote by Sun Tzu

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