Tyler has evolved since the witness, he is no longer blind to trees

The 'binary rule they chose' is literally the XOR operator. It's not particularly arbitrary!

12:36 I think the black and white coloured pillars gives the logic table for the nearby puzzles Going from the 4 pillars below 00 is black 10 is white 01 is white 11 is black Which are the rules for an xor gate (or xnor if you assign white 0 and black 1) A similar thing happens with the four digit pillars on the red wire puzzle, all the columns with an odd number of 1's were white hence the rule

10:41 I think this "protrusion on only one side" concept was supposed to teach you about the binary concept - "a one on only one part"

That binary puzzle section is just so genius on how it plays with your expectations. The first one is made specifically to look like subtraction which fits exactly how most people would think binary would be used, maths. So you carry on with that knowledge and it subverts it by showing your first assumption was wrong even when it fit the original puzzle perfectly. The slow merging of the numbers to show how to understand the filled square was just so nicely done. And the ever presence of the dot showing direction without you knowing until it swaps sides is just the sort of detail that makes it so good. The information is always part of every puzzle, you just don't see it until the "AH HA" moment where it clicks. In the end it is what you would expect from binary, just with one of the slightly more obscure operations you can apply with it using XOR. This is just beautiful, clean puzzle design. I'm in love with this game!

The apple orchards of taiji, thankfully Tyler noticed the pattern of trees quickly this time Aaaand he didn’t notice the big gravestones ._.

I love how the binary pillars literally tell him which combinations are correct and he still does trial and error

With the graveyard area, my brain immediately decided to try XOR as the rule, and only after getting it right noticed all the environmental clues to that. Even the triple one was easy because I know how XOR behaves on three inputs.

I started watching Ep1, stopped myself 5 minutes in, bought and completed the game including the hidden achievements in a day just so I could watch the video without spoilers. Looking forward to the series!!

Tip: the spiral stones are actually fast travels. I'll let you figure out how to activate them yourselves.

12:50 the "it's only 1 if both input are different" is called an XOR or "exclusive or" and is something very common and useful in boolean (read binary) logic There's an expansion of it to multiple inputs and that usually is defined as a position is 1 if there's an odd number of 1s in its input. Basically you just first take the xor output of two lines then the output with the next line and so on

I didn't even think about the square being a separate symbol from 1 and 0. To me it was just "oh there are two different numbers, that spot happens to be overlapping 1 and 0. So I guess one number has a 1 in that digit and the other has the 0"

I think the original binary rule is the binary operator XOR, but your explanation works as well.

Ah yes the 5AM London Time pre-programmed upload.

Can't go to sleep without my daily Aliensrock video

Those black and white pillars are telling you which combos are good and bad

The "binary rule" you're referring to is the XOR operation. It's rather useful in computer science, but I can see how it seems arbitrary if you aren't already familiar with it.

20 minutes just doesn't feel like enough with a game this joyous to watch even though I've already bought and played through most of it. Thanks for being so hyped for it the first vid sold me and I've loved how stupid the game has made me feel.

The binary gravestones do a bitwise Xor operation, where the output is eXclusive or of the two bits. If the top or the bottom are 1 but not both. The example gravestones showed the rules as a table. The first was a 0/0 which was dark, then a 0/1 which was light, then a 1/0 which was light, and lastly a 1/1 which was dark And the red-wire set of gravestoens show how sets of 3 or 4 would work, basically just which columns have an odd number of 1's

Already Love this game

Aside from the how utterly beautiful this game is, the fact that our main character literally strolled right through sub-zero temperatures in her skirt without giving a crap about it is really saying something (although perhaps she did actually not like the cold, we just couldn't see it).

Really excited to see this series continue

I found out about this game maybe two months ago, so when I saw your first video about it drop, I immediately got the game. Beat it in two days, loved every minute

The white & black binary pilars (18:02) showed exactly what is considered a good (white) and bad (black) example of the binary :D

"whys it go in that pattern" "and whats up with this white pillar black pillar combo" -aliensrock, 2022

I've never been so upset that a video has ended. I want more so bad

I need more of this one. Great series to look forward to.

Thanks for bringing Taiji to my attention. I used way too much time with this nice little game already. And I can't wait to see your reaction to some of the challenge puzzles. And especially the hidden challenge puzzles. When I saw those by accident I noped right out of there again.

Everyone's talking about the XOR but no one is talking about how the trees are literally heavy-light decomp haha

Loved the last video, hoping this one is amazing as well.

This game fits your channel very well after the witness, keep making these, I enjoy them very much

the binary is the XOR operator, typically used on two inputs but arbitrarily extensible as well - just chain XOR gates until you have the required amount of inputs

With the final puzzle, its probably easier to visualize by splitting it into two rows, where the squares being places where one row gets a 1, and the other gets a 0 (just undo how the game showed the square merge). Depending on which which row gets what, the 2nd or 6th xor, is true, leading to the two symmetrical answers.

When watching the first video I don't know about this game. When the second video came out I'm already a master of Taiji. It took me 10 hours but it's great fun. Thanks for bringing such wonder into our attention!

These 4 pillars with binary numbers actually showed which combinations are correct(they were white)

Glad I stumbled across your channel looking for a good voice playing this game, going to check out your Witness videos too because I always love to see how different people react to it.

Fastest 20 minutes of my life. Loving this series

Stares at 4 tombstones showing an xor operation: "ok so it shows how to count to three" me: "that's your takeaway!?!?" Pain.

The solid square is reading 1 and 0 from different directions but it's not magic. It can be solely deduced from the game's rule. The puzzle at the entrance of the tomb hall is the first hint: you have an overlapped dot, which means two sequence are squashed together, and the solid square means an one and an zero get squashed, so it is 1 in one sequence and 0 in the other sequence. Since we only care about how many 1's in one spot, it becomes 1 in its corresponding position. The final puzzle is a left-to-right sequence squashed with a right-to-left sequence. If we ignore solid square for now, the ltr sequence is: 0 1 0 ? 1 ? 1, and the rtl sequence is 1 ? 1 ? 0 1 0. Let x be the value of the first solid square in ltr sequence and y be the value of the second solid square in ltr. Now ltr sequence is 0 1 0 x 1 y 1, and the rtl sequence should be: 1 ~y 1 ~x 0 1 0, where ~x is the opposite of x. Now it is easy to see the answer would be 1 (1 ~y) 1 1 1 (1 y) 1, because there must be exactly one 1 within x and ~x. And the number of 1's in (1, ~y) must be different from that in (1, y), so toggle one of them is the right answer.

The rule for the binary sections is (I think): 1+0=1, 0+0=0 and 1+1=0. If all add to 1 then yes, if all add to 0 then no. That's I believe how computers add numbers (1s and 0s). Note: The even-odd analogy is a good one, it gives the same results.

those were one of the shortest 19 mins. of my life wtf love it

Thanks for the videos!

Bought this game immediately after the first video Tyler did on it, haven't regretted it one moment

Knowing about XOR actually messed me up in the game. Although it made it easier for me to solve the main puzzles, I was slow to get the interpretation that is used in the section that introduces more than 2 rows of numbers, even though it's a much simpler interpretation. I thought extensions of XOR would be more like "equals 1" (00 is no 1's, 01 is one 1, 11 is two 1's, so this is why it could be thought of as "equals one"), then got curveballed until I realized "odd" or "each 1 toggles it" are both way easier ways to think of it :p

Totally watched the whole thing already and loved every second.

Yay new video

I can’t wait for these puzzles to start destroying my brain

Just binged your Witness playlist, looking forward to this as well

I like the fact that he knew binary made it harder for him

Yay! More relaxing puzzling. Fun times.

That last binary puzzle had me stumped for a while. Given how the red line binary worked I expected 4 digits stacked rather than what we got. (2 sets of two rows xor'd, one flipped)

Holy shit I didn’t understand the final puzzle in the graveyard and just ran all 128 combinations until I got one that worked, and Tyler explained the logic for it so well. I never even considered that the squares counted as two different numbers.

Noooo solve them slower so we have longer vids!! This episode was so great, can't wait for the next!!!

Let's go more taiji, absolutely loving it

I bought this game from your last video, and have already beaten it :) Just some challenge puzzles left to do!

These videos are so good they feel shorter! Keep up the good work

Oh! Imo, to solve the binary ones, I read it like 1 = on 0 = off So 1 + 1 means you click it twice, which turns it off 1 + 1 + 1 means you click it three times, which is on!

I never have this vids shoe up at 12est, always 5 after. But I'll always camp ur page waiting for it

Very cool!

Now this really reminds me of the witness, but it also has its unique style, mechanics and personality, a great game i must say

Tyler I wonder if they could have depicted the rule as pilars displaying the different binary combinations you can have as a empty square and a filled square anywhere on the area.

I'm enjoying this series like fine chocolate. Savoring a few videos here and there to make them last

that binary addition used in game is called "nim sum" it's used to solve problems in combinatorial game theory

Beat the whole game in my first sitting, no complaints whatsoever

Love that you learned the XOR thing before I could comment :) Maybe you don't know what an XOR is, but you sure got it.

Missing the obvious truth table for the binary rule was painful. The light colored pillars mean that pair of digits means that square should be on, and the dark collored pillars mean it should be off...

I love this game so far

The "Square" thing is a 1 and a 0 overlapping each other, that's what the one were they kinda looked like Ws and As was trying to tell you. So for one dot it was a 1, while the other it was a 0, and anything that was a 1 or a 0 was just that, two 1s and 0s in the same spot.

The "has to have a 1 and a 0" is literally just an XOR (Exclusive OR) operator! It returns 1 when the two inputs are different, and 0 if they are the same.

ok if there's one series ive regretted watching instead of playing myself its this. I should have just seen the gorgeous art and said, "well, im not too much of a puzzle player but I gotta play this." But oh well.

14:39 "That's Fastinating." -Tyler, Sep 11, 2022

knowing no binary, I found this 1/0 section to be one of the easiest personally. My brain latched on quickly to “line=click” so basically switch logic. That said watching you do the dot puzzles feels like I’m way behind because you just breeze through them. Weird how different brains are wired I guess.

The last puzzle in the binary area has two lines of numbers stacked on top of each other, but each line of numbers only goes to one dot. This explains why it works the way it does. The reason it allows two solutions is because you can't know which line of numbers goes to which dot.

I think the binary rule is that you add the columns up, and if it's odd you light up the square, if it's even you don't - you're just taking the additions mod 2, nothing crazy.

Most perfect math gamer!

your old videos are already nostalgic to me

“Like this apple!” -Aliensrock, 2020

The binary operation is called an XOR (exclusive OR) and is pretty foundational in binary logic!

The binary was one of the easiest and most satisfying ones to me

At 17:00, the 0s and 1s in the middle rows weren't read by the dots. I think that means the 0s represented the original position, and the 1s represented a fully inverted position from the 0s (note that the left and right are opposites) thus the alternating 0s and 1s of the middle row of the middle grave represented alternating between the original and inverted graves to its left and right.

As someone who regularly uses binary addition and XOR stuff the binary section was painful, but I also am not good at many of the other puzzles you do so I can't judge too hard!

I’ve been waiting 2 days

I was wathing you doing the final 4 binary puzzles in a wrong way, and you still got it right. BTW the pillars with binary numbers, show you how you you read the colums from the top, while reading the numbers from the "dots" so if a column is white, the according button in the puzzle needs to be white (pressed). i don't really know how to explain it better and sorry for bad english.

The map waypoint things remind me of “I’m not a robot” capchas.

I was internally screaming at him not realizing that the binary literally represented on with a 1 and off with a 0.

18:02 the pillars portrait the right and wrong amount of ones you can have. All the white pillars have an odd number of ones.

I hope there's some cool environmental puzzles to solve in this game as well

I exist to spite the "first" people

Puzzles... On trees... That are pink? Hmmm... I might be witnessing something here...

Yahoo, more Tyler :)

Ebicness 👌

the binary rule is positive (1) output (you had the right idea of "1 = light" but for the wrong way) Also: The white pillars show valid answers

I think the tombstones with binary on them are white and black to show what does and doesn’t work, like the one with 00 on it is black, the ones with 01 and 10 are white, and the one with 11 is also black

The white pillars with binary actually show which combinations are correct

He figured it out even though the rules were on the big tombstones. Black tombstones mean unlit and White ones mean lit. Which also might mean that there will be 4 row binary, have fun.

I've been playing through the game and I only have one section left and I'm absolutely stumped, it's been really fun but the puzzles in it can be hard to decipher

These cherry blossoms make me think of menorah. At least, the early ones.

Great game! That saod. One thing I didn't like about this game, the teleport system is really not obvious. You have to go to map pillars and do the pattern of another section on it to access it.o

The word you seek is XOR.

Welcome to logic gates everyone. Happy that this game uses XORS for puzzles.