Second Puzzle

In this room I've been hitting the face of the middle riddle getting from OK to Good results from chests. The experience from the coins was good too.

Can anyone else confirm the suntouched items only drop between 6a and 6p?

Can't tell if it's coincidental or fact with my sample size.

I didn't think to note the times but I'll keep this in mind when running them again.

Just got two, one at around 6:10pm and one at 3:00am ish.

I've been hitting the smile face (bottom left) today and I seem to be getting more suntouched items. I don't feel that I've tested enough to confirm whether or not it's just a coincidence though.

Originally I thought it was a cipher, with each stanza corresponding to a number, 1 through 5, and those 1 through 5 indicating a reward type, and then you hit the face corresponding to the stanza of the reward you want.

That worked well enough on Monday, when I could get Shyllien reliably by doing #3, and stones by doing #5, but then Tuesday things shifted, and I thought it may be a rotating cipher, each ordinal value moving up one place per day ( Shyllien 3 on Monday, 4 on Tuesday) then it stopped altogether and I wondered if in game time (night) was the reason, because after 6 am I started recieving Shyllien again.

I also tried experimenting with the same ordinal concept and clock minute, but didn't find any correlation there.

So many variables to test.

Im starting to think the rewards are random. I hit randomly making sure to not follow the sequence from the pillar and got more than 1 box a couple of times.

It seems like a lot of effort on Devcat's part to make an extra room that implies it's a meaningful puzzle just to randomize the rewards anyway.

Not that it's impossible, just... odd.

I haven't been able to find any patterns myself and on the JP wiki a user claims they got 3 artifact boxes even when doing it wrong...

I've yet to consistently attempt to do it wrong as of yet but I'm not making any progress in seeing how it works.

It's probably just a placebo.

I've collected a small sample of data. Oddly, I never got 3 artifacts. Also, the data circled in red would seem to show the results are random, but my lack of getting 3 artifacts would seem to point otherwise. (I defined the data columns on the image's description page.)

All my artifact data is useless. I didn't realize it dropped already stacked and I wasn't checking my inventory after picking up.

Well, at least we know something about the rates of the other three things.