Help

This page provides some help to your journey in Combinats.

Hints on early levels

• Level 1: Just follow the instruction.
• Level 2: HTML webpages may have more information in their sources.
• Level 3: Each of the 26 letters in English alphabet corresponds to a number naturally.
• Level 4: If this guy has one less edge, it would be a hexagon.
• Level 5: Each picture may have its own property. You can take a look either in File Explorer or using online EXIF tools.
• Level 6: The codes only contain 0 and 1...and what does the title mean?
• Level 7: Now you are on your own...

Useful tools

• For pictures, in most cases you just need to check their properties, the following online EXIF tool is enough.

  • Enigmatics EXIF tool
  • 图虫EXIF查看器alpha版 (A similar tool in Simplified Chinese)

• Occasionally you may want to search pictures based on their contents. In this case Google Image is the top choice (click the camera icon to search by image).

  • Google Image

• For various cipher systems, the following tools are very useful.

  • dcode
  • rapidtables

• For anagrams and getting the words of answer, the following tools are recommended.

  • WordSmith
  • Anagram Solver
  • OneLook dictionary search

• For recognizing Unicode and other characters, the following tool is convenient.

  • shapecatcher

What will not be in Combinats

• There are no audio-related levels.
• There are no pictures with visual information not visible on surface. In other words, you don't need any image-editing tool to find hidden visual information in the pictures.
• There might be riddle-related files with other file formats. Nonetheless, they are all accessible within popular web browsers.

Last update: 05/26/2023.