AC Mirage A Gift for You Enigma Solution

A Gift for You Enigma is a puzzle you start in the Round City district of Assassin’s Creed Mirage. This is the very central part of game’s Baghdad map and you must pass security to reach it. You might opt to reach it when the main story takes you there. However, you can go there as soon as you finish the tutorial mission and enter the city proper. Just be careful with the guards. Enigma involves a little bit of fandom variety of obsession as you are tasked to find a gift left by a fan of a certain poetess. Quickness of solving the mystery and finding the “A Gift for You” Enigma location depends on how much you explored the game by that point. I hope this quick guide with AC Mirage A Gift for You Enigma solution map location will help you get there quickly.

Go to Where Men Speak the Opposite of Poetry

A Gift for You is started in the southwestern part of the Round City, in the Residential District. I visited the place early on in the game to unlock all viewpoints. Enigma is located inside a house and you’ll have to solve a little puzzle to go in. The front door is completely impossible to interact with. This changes if you reached the final act of the game and did a certain investigation. The roof also offers no access points. Backyard has another inoperable door, but above it is a barred window. This usually means that on the other side is an opening. Go to the street side of the house and then climb the balcony above the entrance. There’s a windows there you can throw a dagger through. Destroy the thing barring the backyard window and then go around to enter the house.

Read some poetry and then pickup a historical site collectible found inside. The bed in the back is where you’ll find the AC Mirage A Gift for You Enigma. It reads as follows.

Oh sweet-singing poetess! I have left you a gift, a token of my eternal gratitude, and while it is merely a trifle, I would be inconsolable if it did not find your hands! So use your prodigious creativity to solve this mystery: Go to where men speak the opposite of poetry. While your verses set people free, their sentences imprison. In the west of the square, find the fountain to find my tribute to you …

AC Mirage A Gift for You Enigma Solution Location Map

Immediate understanding was that I need to find “where men speak the opposite of poetry”. Since the rest mentions sentencing I am thinking a court is where I need to go. If you reached the final act of the game you’ll be familiar with its location. Go to the north part of the Round City and then you’ll find Mazalim Courts. The second part of the mystery mentions a fountain in the west of the square. Indeed, there are several fountains in Mazalim Courts.

I then went straight for the big fountain at the west entrance into the courts. A Gift for You Enigma was nowhere to be found. I then went to the two on the other side, hoping someone messed up the instructions in the game. No luck there either. Having the eagle in the air didn’t help. After scouring the grounds of the court I suddenly saw a fountain attached to the west wall of the court building. Inside it was the familiar shine of the enigma puzzle solution.

AC Mirage A Gift for You Enigma solution is located in a fountain attached to the west wall of the Mazalim Courts building in northern part of the Round City district.

Assassin’s Creed Mirage Arib the Poetess

The house you started the enigma in is occupied by a famous poetess in the game called Arib. You’ll probably first meet her when you do the House of Wisdom related main quest investigation. She also appears in the final act of the game. This is when the house becomes unlocked and you get to learn more about her. Al-Jahiz owns Arib’s house in the game. In history, he was a prolific prose writer and scientist that wrote some of the earliest natural selection theories. He is Arib’s patron in the game. In-game Arib is probably Arib al-Ma’muniyya, who was a famous Arab poet and singer in the Abbasid era. She lived to be 96 and survived five Caliphs. Research her biography to learn about some fascinating characters from the past.