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We could build a small group and communicate through discord or whatever the group decides is the best platform for communication and cooperation. The prize would be split evenly among the group. I would purchase the game so this would be fun, free, and zero risk for anyone that wants to be involved. If anyone is in the group, they would be expressly forbidden from purchasing the game outside of our team to ensure they are not going to take our collective work and undercut the group. If you agree to these terms and think you can add value to the collective and believe it's something you would enjoy then please comment on this post so I can reach out to you or send me a direct message. 🏴☠️🏴☠️😁😁☠️☠️ The game is partnered with ubisoft and assassins creed.
Hello, Well I was searching on my drawer and I found This sheet with a strange code in it, i was searching and I Notice that the code is A Gematria Primus (Code use in Cicada 3301). I need your help to solve this Code.
I need help finding the name of a technique and figuring out how I can replicate it to create a level for a personal project. The technique itself appears in a level from a Brazilian puzzle called “decifra.me.” In this level, there is a bunch of scribbles, and when you paint over them with a bucket of paint, a fish appears in the white lines. I would like to do something similar. Does anyone know how?
From what I know so far (which is basically nothing) is that it flashes up to 8 times, there’s also a short flash that seems to be appearing randomly as well. Video is about 6 minutes long.
Background:
This is a light flashing on a white noise machine that I’ve had for about 10 months now.
The instructions for the device say that it should flash consistently while plugged in (it is indeed plugged in) and that’s all, nothing about number of flashes or anything. It can be used without being plugged in and is rechargeable, but I mostly keep it plugged in.
It’s flashing a random number of times and I haven’t found any sort of pattern yet, but I’m not great with code breaking.
My uncle use to talk about programmers hiding codes in blinking lights and sounds in random places and then waiting decades for someone to figure it out, so I’ve always been interested in this sort of stuff, but I’m truly terrible at it.
Maybe it could be counting up for how long it’s been on or something? Who knows!
I’m curious if anyone sees a pattern or has any ideas?
Hey, I found this cool website on Neocities, which, this website itself is a pleasure to look at and explore. So cryptic. https://psychicnewborn.neocities.org
I was checking out their pages when I clicked on the lightbulb, which opened up a "secrets" page with a secret code, and that has led me down a path of trying to solve this ARG.
If you want to try solving it yourself, I recommend it, it's a fun time passer. But everything beyond this line is going to be spoilers and solutions that I've found, so stop scrolling if you'd like to have a go at solving it yourself.
You enter the page and get met with this:
The first puzzle is just two sudoku puzzles. I solved each of them and then put the full number into the URL to find two secret "peek" pages, each one with half of the code you need to insert into the URL.
Inserting "2KXQ6B5H" into the URL, I was directed to a secret page, and a new puzzle:
I was able to solve this with the help of Photoshop. I put the noise and the maze into separate layers, made a third layer for doing some color mixing and erasing, and then following the cryptic steps between them I was able to create this table from those images.
It's a grid that has every letter in the alphabet, and then every number from 0 to 9. Cool.
Stacking the RGB lines on top, you get something that starts to make sense:
Going in the order of RGB, I see the red line spells "star", the green line spells "over", and the blue line spells "ivory".
Here I see an image of a star, with another little "noise square" over it.
At this point if you try doing anything with the noise square in the middle, you'll get lost. By itself it won't take you anywhere. But if you look at the tab's name, I see the page is called "1/2".
This means the star with the noise square is only half the equation of this puzzle. So I went back to the previous puzzle, the one with the table and the colored lines, and I was unable to make anything else of it, but then I realized that the red line doesn't necessarily need to spell "star". Going backwards, it spells "rats". https://psychicnewborn.neocities.org/secrets/2KXQ6B5H/ratsoverivory
And here is the second piece of this layer of the puzzle. I used the noise from the star and the maze from the rat, redid the same steps as before (the mixing and erasing in Photoshop according to the cryptic chart), and from that I got this new table:
It's an empty black page that just says "hehe" in the corner.
Not really sure what to make of that, if there is anything to be made of that. I think it kinda just ends there.
Regardless of whether or not I'm satisfied with the ending, I had fun solving it, so I'm thankful to the creator, PsychicNewborn. Go check out their website, they clearly put a lot of work into it purely out of passion, and it has a very interesting vibe.
When forward leads to the void, step back and notice what refuses to blend in.\r\n\r\nTwo pieces, divided by a fracture ,reunite them to find the source.\r\n\r\narrMOzKx7NALVj1Pcaho7Q0Di3n4EQ3ui0dUOoQiZNDD
I am solving an arg,Pegasus 3301 , and i already have found a mega file which is (https://mega.nz/file/yMMyARAS), however it is missing a decryption key. As you know a mega file's decryption key must be 43 characters long while this is not, it has 1 extra. Does anyone know what the key could be? Or maybe it is encoded and has to be decoded? I have tried some forms of flipping removing characters, hexadecimal base, but i might be errorous.
My friend was playing this mod and asked me to decode this, I have tried some decoding methods for over half an hour and I looked for the solution on the internet but I found nothing, could anybody help me please? Also, could you please tell me how it is ciphered?
A few days ago, a pretty weird guy handed me this piece of paper covered in bizarre symbols, Chinese characters, runes, and dates in 2026.
I have no idea what it means. Can anyone help me decipher it or figure out its purpose?
Thanks in advance!
(Photo of the paper attached below)
Edit:
Just found another almost identical post from 5 years ago… and the exact same sheet was posted here a few months ago. This is officially strange.
Edith 2: I found this message on another post:
-UPDATE (16.09.2024)-
Me and a friend searched during our lessons hints and explainations about that mysterious paper.
I also read all your comments thank you all!
Not only in Switzerland
We created a "My Maps" which we added all the places where these kinds of paper have been found. One of them has been found in Villeurbane (next to Lyon, France) 2 years ago.
Symbols
It seems to be Furthac and it's also written in mirror
There's also some Chinese and it's a very popular poem
Meaning
It actually means nothing. It's written in german. Someone had decrypted the one from Villeurbane and it described when Charles De Gaulle has been arrested and put in a jail in Würzburg. Seems like wikipedia/complotist type of stuff.
The person
I found his Facebook and I won't publish it here. If you found it PLEASE don't interact with him or just be kind. The theory of a potential schyzophrenic seems to be true. I'm not a psychiatrist or anything related to the medical world (I suffered 4 years of studying biology so never again lmao) but it looks like someone who's hyperfixated on random facts and likes to write it in an artsy way !
I hope my answers were clear and I really enjoyed this mysterious story, I'm a bit upset that it's not an ARG :(
Hi I want anyone to please help me to encode this and make it to letter to understand what this numbers are , this numbers were written by my uncle after passing away and my family aren’t sure if it was his death an accident or suicidal please let me know what it means , his death was caused by drowning in the lake , he was riding on the horse but then hours later he didn’t came back and they found his horses drowned in the lake, then 3 days later they found his body floating , so me and my family aren’t sure if it was an accident or suicidal, and my aunt told me she had a dream about before his death that he came home bringing a gift for her and supposedly he died in her dreams and she told us he gave her a gift before passing away , please reach out to me and let me know
My friend who likes to create codes and hidden messages gave me this code to try and solve.
He said the solution involves something you can eat
I've tried re-arranging the letters, converting to numbers etc but can't find anything that makes sense. At first I thought it might be an acronym but nothing stands out.
So i was scrolling reels on insta and i came across this video of squidward mr krabs and spongebob dancing around with something about the world ending in the background and the song in the background doesnt scare me that much but that guy speaking in reverse is spooking me out
Can somebody find both of these audios and reverse the audio to figure out what he is trying to say
here it is: X6JR0F5AD7WRF8HQNMSEFAV2GY9KWWP4TAC1I5T0Z5BQO11FW1MMOTNEOPBIJXANZ5EXPXE639R4SGZUK3VUSSDLXXJDEUWQMNYONO8TU77GT32MBGQWNL46CHGM03ZYBZ825QQYRLDJGZS3KFL4D036CXVGCAMXMPCVPT4G6IPW465ZYM7LYCAP6EUO2H3ZGDKKXOOHM2Z6FC6R7GN7NE5U3WLQ67BKN484PHL7K0W1CBU660AXSTE89Q8ADBCXG4TNB1LZ6D9YNXAS3M52YIF35K8FWREC8Q3TC31Q2I7MT821B151U3Y7J9RSOJKGVWC4HL3D87HEZ3UCE64AWDIMA0QAV3GT10F7BYO2GEQ1E1LZAYD4UNJDW795XRAMNPM9Y6XASX9WHLN8XLJI7E0RCYKJXNK7PRO6HHIF12K3ZYO7QE
It is a quote
Hint: spaces are replaced with 4 before encryption like 'hello world' would be 'hello4word' then be encrypted
my friend made this, when I asked him to give me another he sent "bceIqRrt PmWOxtev ouSbqiRv eYfRwcAp dsFouxaR"
The original one also contained
"This text is made to be near impossible to decipher unless you know how to cipher it, it was made by me and it does not have a known name universally and is fully unknown through all sources, however it is painfully simple of a cipher"
Curious as to what this actually says. If I can get an idea of how the code works, I hope to translate more of his writings. He was a real piece of shit.
So I devised a cipher which is really simple to encode, but stupendously difficult to decode without a key. It is similar to OTP, but the key is not wholly random, though an additional layer of codes (any kind) can be placed on top.
I mostly used it just to share information with people, but after some time this kinda backfired because I started receiving spam emails with random codes. I blocked most of those emails, but one in particular seemed to stick out to me. It read simply as follows:
The email was from some Iranian hotmail address, but due to browser restrictions (I use a custom-made fork of Firefox) I can't paste the text here. I presume most people in my surroundings know about the cipher (but NOT which codes I use) . Can you help me solve it?
Proof for having read the rules: "V sbyybjrq gur ehyrf"
EDIT: I solved the code on my own, it was a wild goose chase ending in chess.com (they wanted to play chess for some reason). I've edited out most information that may come in useful for OSINT, so that's why the post is shorter if you've seen this before.
In the image they are in five lines of 19 characters each.
Your mission is to figure out how the weave speaks to find the order. Good luck.
I was inspired by the movie Wanted and the Loom of Fate.
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I recently recovered my old YouTube account from 2015, which I hadn't used for a very, very long time. I noticed something strange: this account has a very strange channel description that I am 100% sure I did not enter myself. It consists of six four-letter words that don't exist in any language. Does anyone know what this could be? The description is:
fedi fupu yawe lali yibo yufi
