Steganography Puzzle 8 - What Did I Miss?

[DeerTrivia]

Spoilers for that puzzle, obviously.

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So it was pretty clear that binary was involved. Didn't even need the hint for that. But I did everything I could think to do with binary to no avail. Spent 90 minutes on it, and eventually surrendered and looked up the answer. Not my proudest moment.

My question: where is the clue that would have tipped me off to what the Bacon Cipher is, and how it works? I don't see anything in Steganography room, or the first room, that has anything to do with the Bacon Cipher. The game says all the clues you need are in there, so what did I miss? Where is the clue that lets you know to use the Bacon Cipher?

[Alfred Kodani]

Thanks, just had the same issue.

I thought I was going crazy. Convert smaller font to 1 and others to 0. Type in full binary. Split numbers by space. Split numbers by 4. Split numbers by 8. Convert all splits to letters. Flip all the bits. Repeat all with flipped bits.

Probably should have tried counting the number of bits (25) might have helped figure out the split was by 5 (still, they could have at least given us this hint).

[DeerTrivia]

Got another one here, 2-6.

(Spoilers below)

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Translating the full sentence wasn't the problem. The problem was every puzzle up to that point had the full sentence as the solution. How were we supposed to know that the answer to 2-6 was just "Bristol" as opposed to "The man plan a mutiny return to Bristol"? Especially since we'd had earlier answers in this very room that were full sentences.

[Rydychyn]

It's a quote from Francis Bacon. I guess that is the hint. I'm only here because I also surrendered. Haven't looked up the answer yet but hopefully I can get it from here. Thanks.

[Sammi79]

Literally just beat it. I spent about 2 hours on this one, likewise tried everything with binary I could think of, in the end looked up the quote, found some reference material and decoded it. I find the relation to binary a little ambiguous and practically a distraction.

[River Sol]

Well, if you take the small letters they anagram to "LOWERING" which totally fits the reduced sized letter scenario. That aside, I agree this doesn't belong in the Steganography room.

[SaraGrapes]

I figured it out. Divide the 25 letters into 5 groups of 5. Let big letters be 0 and small letters be 1. You get 5 numbers: 1,0,2,14,13. Add 1 to those numbers (where are people supposed to get this step???): 2, 1, 3, 15, 14. BACON.

Had to work backwards from the solution. Not a good puzzle.

[Dolphy]

i'm only done with this first 3 rooms but this was still the hardest one for me. not impossible tho. the thing that tipped me off to adding 1 to each number (or simply considering 0 to be A, 1 B, 2 C, etc) was just the fact that 0 was there at all. it couldn't really be anything else i could think of.

[Dr. Death]

Haha, I thought the same thing about the puzzle. I needed to have someone else explaining to me detailed how you reach to "Bacon" because no matter how many hints I got it didn't make sense. Im not against there being a binary puzzle but it's a bit abstract and I had issues reading which letter was upper or lower case.