My partner and I are playing through and are encountering the man with the bandana who quizzes you. We ended up looking up a walkthrough of the answers, but now we’re curious: could anyone elaborate on the cipher he uses? We know the answer to the riddle, we just want to know how we might go about deciphering it ourselves.
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SPOILER WARNING TO ANYONE WHO WANTS TO TRY TO SOLVE IT THEMSELVES!!!
It's Caesar Cipher, and "hide" is a hint to how far we need to shift the letters through the alphabet (h - 8th letter of the English alphabet, i - 9, d - 4, e - 5)
END OF JUST A HINT IF YOU STILL WANT TO TRY IT YOURSELF. PROCEED FOR FULL EXPLANATION
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Using any decoding tool (or being masochists and doing so ourselves) we decode the set of what looks like a random set of characters from the riddle 4 times, each time with a different shift parameter - 8, 9, 4 and 5 accordingly.
After all the fun, we receive 4 sets of characters:
WIWQ ITPE ETAS EOPE PMWK EUEK TIAP OMWO SZOQ EN
VHVP HSOD DSZR DNOD OLVJ DTDJ SHZO NLVN RYNP DM
AMAU MXTI IXEW ISTI TQAO IYIO XMET SQAS WDSU IR
ZLZT LWSH HWDV HRSH SPZN HXHN WLDS RPZR VCRT HQ
If you take all the first letters from the first row, second from second, third from third and fourth from fourth and read them up-to-down you'll get this:
WHAT IS THE SEVENTH PLANET IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Which is, indeed, Uranus :) Hope that helped!