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wyfio @wyfio.bsky.social · Feb 26

There are 101 puzzles on the wyfio gameboard, including player created puzzles, and you can find the 'beginners guide' here:

wyfio.com/ramblings/

See alt text for further details on the individual puzzles shown.

Will you figure it out?

#puzzles #riddles #codes

The start of a puzzle called 6:6 from wyfio. The image shows hand drawn illustrations of various insects including butterflies, dragonflies, spiders, beetles, ants etc. When logged in, each image can be highlighted and leads to a new page... In the background, there is an image of the eye attractor, which is where this puzzle is located on the gameboard. The community solve rate is shown, they have not been updated for the purposes of this image, but a live rate is shown in game.

A puzzle called 'différance, lá cendre, ...' from wyfio. The image shows a strange attractor, perhaps resembling the mythical winged horse Pegasus. When logged in, players must interpret the information available to them to determine how to progress. The community solve rate is shown, they have not been updated for the purposes of this image, but a live rate is shown in game.

A puzzle called 'μνημονικός, 2005' from wyfio, with the subtitle 'Maybe vampires exist, might just stay up north pole?'. The image shows a word grid containing various letters. When logged in, players need to interpret the given information to figure out 9 words from the grid. In the background, there is an image of the chaos attractor, which is where this puzzle is located on the gameboard. The community solve rate is shown, they have not been updated for the purposes of this image, but a live rate is shown in game.

A puzzle called 'mystica's potion' from wyfio. The image shows an illustration of mystica, overlain with the text 'a fragment of Lazar's claim, Socrates' bane, and the creator within'. In the background, part of the periodic table of elements is shown. When logged in, players must attempt to make Mystica's potion through selecting the correct elements in accordance with the given hints. The community solve rate is shown, they have not been updated for the purposes of this image, but a live rate is shown in game.

wyfio @wyfio.bsky.social · 1d

The scale attractor includes UV themes (making use of physical media), image overlays, a scavenger hunt and multi-password puzzles.

5 of the 6 puzzles here have <2% solve rates, so if you can solve these, you can probably solve pretty much anything on the gameboard.

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wyfio @wyfio.bsky.social · 6d

3 new puzzles added today. Patch note below.

v3.4 05/10/25: [117 available solves] new spiral, fern and mycelium puzzles.

wyfio @wyfio.bsky.social · 13d

All puzzles at the plasma attractor require a URL change (visible from within the gameboard) to progress in some way. There are 8 puzzles at this attractor, but solving all of them will involve >30 steps.

wyfio @wyfio.bsky.social · 13d

At the spiral attractor, where the puzzle hints towards sorting a list in ascending order, that is ascending order from top to bottom - once you’ve figured out what values to assign to each list item that is...

wyfio @wyfio.bsky.social · 20d

The diatom attractor puzzles use image maps. Players review section specific tooltips, and then select or arrange the displayed information in the intended way to progress...

Integrates diatom art from Klaus Kemp and Johann Diedrich Möller.

wyfio @wyfio.bsky.social · 20d

Chaos attractor: to solve the puzzles here, you'll need to figure out the words or names contained within the randomised grid. As with many other wyfio puzzles, some research is likely required. But research of what exactly? That's over to you...

wyfio @wyfio.bsky.social · 21d

The beholder attractor contains stereograms that once viewed - with or without tools - will reveal something as a hint towards a required password, or next steps. This is the most well solved attractor, with even the hardest puzzle having a 10%+ solve rate.

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wyfio @wyfio.bsky.social · 24d

Tech billionaires hide away your once public content...

wyfio @wyfio.bsky.social · 26d

It's a year to the day since 'the code' was last solved. 113 other puzzles have been solved at least once.

Objectively then, it is one of the hardest puzzles on the gameboard. Do you like hard puzzles?

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wyfio @wyfio.bsky.social · Aug 31

Reminiscent of the earlier internet, a simpler time of self-discovery freer from pernicious influences, I've added a landing page counter to the wyfio homepage.

Only this one counts puzzles solved. 6,627 to date🧩

wyfio @wyfio.bsky.social · Aug 31

v3.3 31/08/25: [114 available solves]; new player puzzle.

wyfio @wyfio.bsky.social · Aug 21

v3.21 21/08/25: [113 available solves]; update to koizroi's puzzle.

wyfio @wyfio.bsky.social · Aug 3

v3.2 03/08/25: [113 available solves]; new player puzzles and new mountains puzzle.

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wyfio @wyfio.bsky.social · Jul 24

He also said, which sticks with me: '...some people can't tell whether I'm half shaman, half scientist, I think probably the answer is simply half baked' 😅

wyfio @wyfio.bsky.social · Jul 13

v3.1 13/07/25: [110 available solves] new plasma and fern puzzles. Drawing back over a line on the fern grid will now undo it. Multiple changes to attractor graphics.

wyfio @wyfio.bsky.social · Jul 11

A puzzle WIP, that I thought would be moderately difficult, got 'one-shot' by Google Gemini 2.5 Pro with a fairly bare bones prompt. Made some tweaks, and it's back in la-la land...for now 😬🧩🤖

wyfio @wyfio.bsky.social · Jul 10

Whilst working on some new puzzles, I took the opportunity to give a new look to some of the attractors. This is the new 'Chaos' attractor, now based on a classical Lorenz attractor with the layout of the puzzles nodes adding something extra 🧩🦋

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wyfio @wyfio.bsky.social · Jun 27

Power of Myth was/is incredible. RIP Bill Moyers.

wyfio @wyfio.bsky.social · Jun 24

Researching a blog post earlier and happened upon 'acid-base poker' which sounds like some yet to be invented techno themed experience.

Content creators - what are you waiting for?

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

wyfio @wyfio.bsky.social · Jun 22

I want wyfio to be a 'forever' puzzle. The gameboard has been updated over 50 times since launch, with over 100 bespoke challenges set.

It's not really about 'completion', it's more about progress, exploration and phenomenological weirdness.

wyfio @wyfio.bsky.social · Jun 22

v3.0 22/06/25: [108 available solves] new plasma and fern puzzles, improved layout of fern nodes, misc graphical changes.

wyfio @wyfio.bsky.social · Jun 13

Have no idea where to start with wyfio? Here's a short video I made to help you solve more puzzles🧩

www.youtube.com/shorts/KiBFf...

How to solve wyfio: cryptic puzzle and online riddle

YouTube video by Wyfio

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wyfio @wyfio.bsky.social · Jun 12

v2.91 - 12/06/25: [106 available solves] updated 'vita post mortem' to accommodate intended solution (in addition to an alternative method that has been discovered).

wyfio @wyfio.bsky.social · Jun 7

Every puzzle on the wyfio gameboard has been solved by somebody - but no one has solved every puzzle (yet)🙃.

The difficulty curve is steep. Insight, ingenuity and patience are you friends.

Will you figure it out?

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wyfio @wyfio.bsky.social · Jun 4

Interested in designing and publishing your own puzzles?

Of the 106 puzzles currently on the wyfio gameboard, 10 have been submitted by players.

Solve 30 puzzles anywhere on the gameboard and we can talk 🙂🧩

#puzzles #riddles #codes

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