Impossible riddle.

[ashitaria]

Just the other day, I was doing some research on the shapes of trees.

There was a particular tree that I was drawing, near the Old Man's Road, on a particularly beautiful day. As I was drawing, I began to fall asleep, but before I slept I muttered, "Oh tree... I wish I knew your name."

When I awoke, the strangest thing had occurred. My drawing was ripped into 25 pieces, and on another sheet of paper was written:

"You wish to know my name? Decode left to right, read down."

So now I am in a bit of a pickle. I have no idea what the markings mean, or how to solve this puzzle. If you can tell me the name of the tree, and how you discovered it, I will gladly award you with a Wish.

Here are the pieces of the drawing:

On the advice of asryn, I went back to the tree and told it what I thought its name was. To my surprise, on a limb it began to blossom

I reached up and picked the blossom, and unfolded it to find the following message:

Please, if you could help again? This tree is indeed a tricky one.

Anyone know how to solve this? I've tried relating it to Morse code, tried piecing the pieces together and working from there, tried adding the numbers together in a row, and ended up like this: dacbc which makes no sense at all.

I've also noticed that there are never zeros between ones, the ones are always clumped together, though I have no idea how to use this knowledge to my benefit, and that 25 pieces correlate to the twenty five letters in the alphabet. Any ideas?

Anyone wanna have a go at this?

 

[onthewindowstand]

It's too sloppy for me to spend that much time on.

 

[ashitaria]

Sigh, I'm trying to make the picture smaller.

 

[y4r5xeym5]

The name part looks like music to me. Not sure if that really helps any. Hell, might even be a fancy way of writing binary.

 

[ashitaria]

The name part looks like music to me. Not sure if that really helps any. Hell, might even be a fancy way of writing binary.

I thought of that too, but then if it was, it wouldn't be a riddle in the first place. As for music, I've been playing the piano for five years and I've never saw music written that way, except maybe the | lines symbolize one line on the score and the o symbolizes the notes....

ABCDEFG?

 

[y4r5xeym5]

Reminded me of an oboe more than anything, actually. I'm not sure why.

 

[ashitaria]

Either that, or this riddle is fucked up.

And nice to see you posting again.

 

[y4r5xeym5]

I lurk in the shadows

Or someone distracts me. You know who you are.

 

[ashitaria]

I lurk in the shadows

Or someone distracts me. You know who you are.

Alice?

 

[y4r5xeym5]

I plead the 5th.

Anyway, hmm...this riddle reminds me a lot of an ARG I played called blueful.

 

[ashitaria]

Aw. You're no help.

Anyone else wanna try?

 

[y4r5xeym5]

Aw. You're no help.

Anyone else wanna try?

Braille? Only other way I could see to do it is a brute force decryption method.

 

[ashitaria]

Braille? Only other way I could see to do it is a brute force decryption method.

Either that or we piece the symbols together like o and | becomes d and | and | becomes H/A.

Other than that, I'm stumped.

 

[y4r5xeym5]

See, I'm thinking each o represents a new letter, and that the letter is formed by the previous terms.

Just a thought.

Wait wait wait. Have you actually converted the binary string from the picture yet? That might help decode it....

 

[ashitaria]

See, I'm thinking each o represents a new letter, and that the letter is formed by the previous terms.

Just a thought.

Wait wait wait. Have you actually converted the binary string from the picture yet? That might help decode it....

Hm.. interesting, I'll try it out.

 

[y4r5xeym5]

Be sure to account for where the number is in the corner (as rotating will change the order of them), then write them down from left to right, top to bottom. I'm fairly sure that's what you need to do.

I would but I'm lazy and distracted.

 

[Tempestas]

On the advice of asryn, I went back to the tree and told it what I thought its name was. To my surprise, on a limb it began to blossom

Who is Asryn?

Also, where is this riddle from?

I put the pieces of the paper into the picture for convenience.

It produces this string of numbers:

1010001001011100110011001

And here's the picture:

Spoiler

...I wonder if there is no answer, and someone just wanted to see who'd try it.

 

[ashitaria]

Who is Asryn?

Also, where is this riddle from?

I put the pieces of the paper into the picture for convenience.

It produces this string of numbers:

1010001001011100110011001

And here's the picture:

Spoiler

...I wonder if there is no answer, and someone just wanted to see who'd try it.

Wow, what effort!

And I still haven't figured the answer out yet.

 

[Tempestas]

Wow, what effort!

And I still haven't figured the answer out yet.

Yeah.... effort that should have been used on the homework I'd been "working on." It was fun though, thanks for the challenge.

Do you know the answers to the other questions?

UPDATE: After some tweaking, I do notice these kinds of patterns to emerge: (as it is possible that the tree's name is gibberish/symbols in our language)

Tried converting to Binary. This only works if you take of the last number of the string from left to right, and down.

When converted, this appears:

¢\Ì

When typed into Google, this appears to be Unicode for:

¢\Ì

I've also tried it from top to bottom, then right:

‹ìD

And Unicode for:

‹ìD

Keep in mind that in both cases, I get rid of the last "1", if that is in fact what they are.

Make of this what you wish. Now I need to figure this out, it's like an addiction.

Where did it come from?

EDIT: ...It gets rid of the code and turns it to the Unicode symbols. Anyone know how to stop this?

 

[Alexk]

Possibly the tree's name

Spoiler

based on the numbered position of letters in the alphabet
Binary Decimal Alphabet
10100 = 20 = T
01001 = 9 = I
01110 = 14 = N
01100 = 12 = L
11001 = 25 = Y
TINLY

As for the other language, I'm assuming the letters probably have some progression of symbols from 1 to 26 and utilizing the letters you know you would determine the other letters.

Spoiler

If Tinly is the name, I'd guess the letters in the language consist of sets of three symbols. This makes sense assuming filling in of the bottom circles from left to right is a part of the progression, where 25 or Y is the only set of 3 we know to have the last circle filled, and Y being near the end of the alphabet.

 

[Crazythinker1]

On the advice of asryn, I went back to the tree and told it what I thought it's name was. To my surprise, on a limb, it began to blossom

Two questions come to mind:
1. Who is asryn
2. What bloosomed on the tree?

Any ideas?