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- Riddler Xmas 2015 First Puzzle
- Past Puzzles
- http://pastebin.com/6UN1ayC8 - My original puzzle write up from last year.
- http://pastebin.com/sWuWJ2Ms - Puzzle 2
- http://pastebin.com/RJdLW7sQ - Puzzle 3
- http://pastebin.com/vbPk9D9W - Puzzle I did as a warm up a few weeks back
- Christmas 2015 is here and so are my puzzles. It appears one of your managed to beat me
- so I must congratulate you, but don't savor the flavor too much more will come! In the
- meantime let's do a breakdown of why I'm so much smarter than you
- Org Post
- [Find the image here http://imgur.com/EdsRHlK]
- Why hello Batboobs. I know you think this is the time to celebrate, but what for? After all you'll never be as clever as me and you'll certainly never get a present from me. This first one is going to be quite a doozy. Sometimes the simplest DIMENSIONS can be the most complex!
- Puzzle Link - https://mega.nz/#!R0AiBLAL!lSspg5QtVRpMHnWvxfgxLLO3sTh1IqumJ-2tJr5JX30
- Tools - https://d.maxfile.ro/jhijghmcsn.zip
- Org Ans
- So first thing's first you're treated to an odd shaped image and a rather direct hint to check out the
- DIMENSIONS of said image. Those dimensions are 25x214. Anons initially thought it was a multiplication
- question. Not a totally bad idea, but sadly in this case it was a simple direct one letter - one number
- substitution. So you translate 25x214 to Be Bad. My motto for Christmas!
- Box 2 Hint
- [Find image here http://imgur.com/1YJ8agR]
- Goodness, I wonder how long it took you to get here? I bet ages. I bet you thought that I couldn't get any smarter, well you're wrong. I'm always right. Always, just ask my friend Mr. Biv.
- Box 2 Ans
- So you open this box to find a lovely piece of modern art done by yours truly. Or is it? Depsite my love
- of shitty paintings this is not about art, but rather is the password. You see Mr. Biv refers to Roy G. Biv
- substitute the colors for letters and you get Go Rob. Another gem from yours truly!
- Box 3 Hint
- Well, well, well I love rubes suffering, it's music to my ears. I bet you wish you could put down the coffee and enjoy the peace of sleep. Here's a song that might help you find the answer to your problems.
- Box 3 Ans
- This time you are treated to my above hint and a pdf containing some music notes. Those unfamiliar with
- sheet music might not realize that sheet music is represented by ABCDEFG and as such can be used to
- store messages. In this case if you literally took the notes it said "a decaf cage"
- Box 4 Hint
- I do so love Christmas, but what I enjoy most is the music. Something about it just makes you feel good. I won't tell you my favorite song, but I'll tell you it's quite possibly the most popular digitally released Xmas song ever, and it's lyrics found on Google play are just capital don't you think?
- 1 50 78 42 41 60 49 40 43 43 52 43 52 47 31 74 20 24
- Box 4 Ans
- It seems that this was one of the most troubling boxes for some of you. I admit this one gave me
- particular joy and I might end up using a similar design again. This is an example of a book cipher
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_cipher. You substitute letters for references to letters and if you
- choose a big enough book you can avoid the weakness other substitution ciphers have by creating
- non repeating replacements so patterns are harder to find. In this case I hint you to the book by saying
- it's the lyrics to the most popular digitally released Xmas song ever. A quick search shows that this is
- Mariah Carry's All I Want For Christmas Is You. Now you go to the lyrics on Google Play and you'll see
- several paragraphs of lyrics. In the hint provided I state that they are just CAPITAL. If you build a word
- bank of capital letters you can then just substitute the number for the letter. Giving you
- I WANT A HIPPOPOTAMUS. Simple and easy to do if you know the key, but strong enough to resist
- the more basic brute force attacks that could have been used.
- Box 5 Hint
- Well here it is the Penultimate Door Finale, I hope you don't think it's over yet. It's time to really dig deep.
- Because the hint you're looking for isn't in this box, but you've seen it before even if you didn't know it.
- I'll say this before I go, location is everything. Good luck, Batboobs, you'll need it.
- Box 5 Ans
- One of my favorite things to do is to hide future answers in past puzzles as it makes you go back and
- reevaluate what just happened. In this case you might notice something strange about the
- capitilization in my hint "Penultimate Door Finale" doesn't need to be capitialized, but it is, take those
- letters and you get PDF. This tells you where the password lives! In the only PDF I supplied you with!
- Head back to the lyrics PDF and look at the metainfo it has. You'll see.
- Creator: Santa Claus at 90N, 0W
- Producer: GPL Ghostscript 9.15
- CreationDate: Thu Dec 24 00:08:00 2015
- ModDate: Thu Dec 24 00:08:00 2015
- Going back to the hint, I stated that location was everything and it looks as though we have some
- coordinates to look at! Plug those in and you'll find that they are the coordinates for the North Pole!
- AKA Santa's Home. Open the next box and you get
- Final Ans
- And now for my finale form.... Just kidding you did it! Hurry to the thread post your xmas list with the phrase "All I Want For Christmas Is For Eddie To Shut The Hell Up!"
- That's it! See that wasn't so hard. After all you ain't seen nothing yet... Keep an eye on the thread and congrats to our winner!
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