Can you demystify puzzles?
Can you discern riddles for games?
Using basic cryptography,
Simply hidden in the open.
Can you unmask vital cypher?

The key aspect you need to focus on to solve this pizzle is the syllables of each line
here is clue split up by syllables

Can you de·mys·ti·fy puz·zles?
Can you dis·cern rid·dles for games?
Us·ing ba·sic cryp·tog·ra·phy,
Sim·ply hid·den in the o·pen.
Can you un·mask vi·tal cy·pher?

counting each syllables give you the following numbers

1,1,4,2
1,1,2,2,1,1
2,2,4
2,2,1,1,2
1,1,2,2,2

Next you need to notice that the sum of all these lines is eight. this should suggest, among other possibilities, binary, which is 8 bits
When encoding alpha numeric characters in binary the first number will always be 0 (see attached table) the numbers tell you the numbers of 1s and 0s in the binary digits.
Translating the numbers to binary we get

01000011
01001101
00110000
00110100
01001100

which then you can convert to ASCII using a table or a covert er app in the internet, the results give you

CM04L

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Sorry, how is this going? Still don't understand , can some one give some help?

1,1,4,2
1,1,2,2,1,1
2,2,4
2,2,1,1,2
1,1,2,2,2

to

01000011
01001101
00110000
00110100
01001100

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One zero, one one, four zeros, two ones...

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Oh , I never thought that , perhaps my head is too hard.
thank for this all.

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"it's very hard" clue threw me off, I thought it's linked to an ITH puzzle with 8 characters.

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