Codex Management...

[Chester Rico]

I don't get it. Do you just click random runes for an hour to research a book?
Are the runes supposed to mean anything?

[Sayumé]

When you select the three runes, the number that appear is the number of correct runes. You must deduct wich are the right ones. Like the Mastermind but with only three elements.

No meaning to these runes, unlike the runes you find in the tombs that allow you to unlock the codex.

[Phoenix]

First, you need to guess which 3 runes are needed for the book. That's a pretty straightforward puzzle: you choose 3 runes, it shows you how many runes among chosen chose are correct (so 0, 1 or 2 until you guess is completely right). The order you click runes doesn't matter, only runes themselves.

Once you guess 3 runes for the specific book, your scholar is supposed to decipher them. But to do that, you need to "learn" all the runes involved. You probably noticed while being in the tomb that there are some rune signs your scholar can learn (for example, solving moving stones puzzle teaches him one of the runes). But I'm not there yet, so don't know any further details about this stage.

[Chester Rico]

Oh so it's like mastermind, gotcha xD

[[Heretic]Rivga]

Has anyone gotten a reward from this? I mean it is a cool overarching puzzle.

[Cat]

There is a reward for decoding them, yes. Each book series has a purpose.

[Olleus]

It's a pretty fun minigame IMO. Makes a nice change from the mindless quick time events. It should always be possible to get it in under 10 goes I think, much less with a bit of luck. Trick is to divide it into groups of three and solve it piece-meal. Shame there's no consequence for doing it well or badly though.

[Sayumé]

Originally posted by HereticRivga:

Has anyone gotten a reward from this? I mean it is a cool overarching puzzle.

Yes 3/5 crypts with trinkets for me. Fighter explorer and merchant. Missing one codex for the artist (haven't killed the tomb boss of the new region, very hard) and one rune missing for the general codex (in the new region's tomb). The rewards are cool but not tremendous.

[tclok]

There are eight stones and select three without any hints!?! Does it need in order? It will be very very time consuming. 🥴

[tclok]

I have tried hundred time but not success. It is just try and error, not really fun. 🥴

[Nergis]

Originally posted by HereticRivga:

Has anyone gotten a reward from this? I mean it is a cool overarching puzzle.

Yeah, got all of them. They're backpack/belt accesories with (mostly) pretty nice efects.

@pageaure dont need to deal with the big creeper to get all codexes and runes. There are 3 codexes in each tomb, 2 runes in tiltren, 4 runes in ludern, 3 in each other region.

[Gregorovitch]

Originally posted by Phoenix:

First, you need to guess which 3 runes are needed for the book. That's a pretty straightforward puzzle: you choose 3 runes, it shows you how many runes among chosen chose are correct (so 0, 1 or 2 until you guess is completely right). The order you click runes doesn't matter, only runes themselves.

Once you guess 3 runes for the specific book, your scholar is supposed to decipher them. But to do that, you need to "learn" all the runes involved. You probably noticed while being in the tomb that there are some rune signs your scholar can learn (for example, solving moving stones puzzle teaches him one of the runes). But I'm not there yet, so don't know any further details about this stage.

Thanks for that, I've just finished my first tomb and was completely flummoxed by this.

Once you pick a set of runes and press the "Restoration" button the fact that this a Mastermind mini-game becomes obvious. However therein lies the rub: until you do press that button it is totally not obvious. I don't press buttons that look like something might go badly wrong if I do when I haven't got a clue what the button does. It's a case of pause the game, consult Google and the Steam forum.

Note to devs:

I think you should add something to the dialogue for this mini-game to reassure the player that sticking some runes into the slots and hitting the Restoration button is absolutely OK, nothing bad can happen, and they should try it right now. They'll only have to press the button once, twice max, to fully understand what they need to do.

[Sayumé]

@Nergis thx i've delayed because i wasn't enough strong but now it's done. All codex decrypted, just need to go to pick the rewards

[Sayumé]

Originally posted by tclok:

I have tried hundred time but not success. It is just try and error, not really fun. 🥴

Try to proceed with logic. i.e. check the three first, then the three next, then the two last and the first, etc... If you have a result with 0 it's good too because you can use them to discriminate another one.
And when you have two results with two good runes, check the others where you have only one to conclude wich are the good runes

[tclok]

Please noted that the total combinations are 8 x 7 x 6 = 336. Let's say that you have luck. You guess 100 times for the right answer. Every try is 30 seconds, it takes a hour!!! 🥴 If you have no luck, it will takes 3 hours. 😱

[Sayumé]

The goal is not to find by chance but with brain