On July 29, 2024 at 10:47PM EST Taffy responded to BrianRipose:
Did you ever solve the third 50LV3R puzzle? If so, what are we suppose to do after?
On July 14, 2023 at 1:07PM EST BrianRipose wrote:
My notes on each puzzle (no idea how many people read these)
Magician: Don't overthink. Look for a simple method. There are several clues in previous comments that should be able to get you there if you wind up getting stuck.
Hacker: By far my favorite puzzle, and one I surprised myself by solving without reading too many hints. Be persistent, read everything, read files even if they're unnecessary (I would spend hours talking to M about his dreams and they're significance.
Navigator: Definitely spent too much time on this one and should have had it sooner. Study the symbols closely.
Musician: Struggled finding an app to help me with this, but got it eventually. Loved it that someone designed the final song to be unshazamable.
Soldier: Got this one on the first try, and no one else seems to complain about having trouble with it, so have to think that using a little bit of logic is the only solution.
Artist: The people at the library probably thought I was crazy for holding a sheet of paper up to the monitor and tracing, but that's what I did to help.
Scientist: Got this one because one or two people left useful comments behind.
Spy: Got it on the third try. You need to guess incorrectly once or twice to reverse engineer what's going on.
Solver: Got the first puzzle accidentally because something glowed. Brute forced my way through the second puzzle. Third puzzle, still working on it. Not sure if it's a giant Polybius Square, Checkerboard cipher, or something else entirely. Clicking on a question mark causes a grid to stop, but not sure what you're supposed to click on next. Will keep trying till something works.
On July 24, 2024 at 5:00PM EST Taffy wrote:
HELP!!! I am stuck on MU51C14N. I have solved for Twinkle Twinkle Little Star but no matter what I do I can't seem to get Happy Birthday or Yellow Submarine. I have even tried to follow the sheet music I looked up on Google but the available notes don't seem to correspond correctly. Do they begin in weird places? I am pretty sure that Happy Birthday starts at the second "Happy Birthday to You" instead of the beginning. Any guidance would be soooooo appreciated! I have solved all the other theorems and only have this one left!
On June 1, 2024 at 7:32PM EST Harry098 wrote:
i figured out magician. now i cant figure out the password/favorite song.
On June 1, 2024 at 11:56AM EST Harry098 wrote:
hey can anyone help me, im stuck on the third phase of magician
On May 19, 2024 at 7:56PM EST DamoclesTheSecond responded to themselves:
So I figured out 50LV3R level 2
Each gold symbol represents a regular letter. When you click on a specific gold symbol and everything freezes, you need to then click on the symbols corresponding letter. Do that for all the golden symbols. Now for the hard part, how do you find out what the symbol-letter mapping is... I have no idea. If someone finds out, let me know! You can either brute force or if you're desperate you can do what I did and sort of cheat. If you're desperate see the hint below
So you're desperate and want to cheat the system? Well it might be time to look behind the curtain. So get caffeinated, grab some Java and go spelunking
And hey M, so long and thanks for all the fish . At least until you release the ULTIMATE version
On May 19, 2024 at 12:31PM EST DamoclesTheSecond wrote:
Can I get a hint on 50LV3R level 2
This is what I got so far:
1) The glowing symbols repeat in a regular repeating pattern. Meanwhile all the regular symbols do not appear to repeat, or at least not in phase with the glowing symbols
2) The symbol seem to be a combination of greek, cyrillic, and international pronunciation. It took me a while to identify all the glowing ones. Each symbol corresponds to a sound. So I tried to "pronounce" the glowing symbol pattern but it just sounded like gibberish to me.
3) One of the glowing symbols is a "click" letter. So I thought maybe Im supposed to click that one. But that didn't work
Should I be focusing on the glowing symbols or all the ones in the background? Also I have no idea what people mean when they said they brute forced through this one. I've clicked on every symbol and also kept pausing it to see if there was something in the background symbols
On May 19, 2024 at 12:31PM EST DamoclesTheSecond wrote:
Can I get a hint on 50LV3R level 2
This is what I got so far:
1) The glowing symbols repeat in a regular repeating pattern. Meanwhile all the regular symbols do not appear to repeat, or at least not in phase with the glowing symbols
2) The symbol seem to be a combination of greek, cyrillic, and international pronunciation. It took me a while to identify all the glowing ones. Each symbol corresponds to a sound. So I tried to "pronounce" the glowing symbol pattern but it just sounded like gibberish to me.
3) One of the glowing symbols is a "click" letter. So I thought maybe Im supposed to click that one. But that didn't work
Should I be focusing on the glowing symbols or all the ones in the background? Also I have no idea what people mean when they said they brute forced through this one. I've clicked on every symbol and also kept pausing it to see if there was something in the background symbols
On March 17, 2024 at 8:53PM EST Spunky wrote:
Can someone please give an additional hint about 50LV3R level 2?
We see the 27 symbols but not sure what if anything to do with them.
On March 14, 2024 at 7:44AM EST Vyrik88 wrote:
in H4x0r, if you go into the music folder, the facade song from the Jekyll and Hyde musical is in there. I'm not sure if it's important or not but I love how it calls back to fancy suits and shined shoes from the original 'what is the master theorem'
On November 3, 2023 at 12:30AM EST Link26 wrote:
And I’m back. This is more a desperate plea then asking for hints. I was working on H4Ck3R and got through most of it, however, it just doesn’t want to work. I’ve gotten the Alias (starts with o and ends with a), made a new key, and encrypted it with sha3, then sent that. im not really sure what Im missing, unless I have to encode his Alias some other way before encrypting it. Any hints would be helpful, because I can’t see what I did wrong.
On October 31, 2023 at 12:53PM EST Link26 responded to ChrisLev:
Thanks. Gotta say tho, had to be stupidly specifically right.
On October 31, 2023 at 9:37AM EST ChrisLev responded to Link26:
You're basically there, your translation is just very slightly wrong
On October 30, 2023 at 6:43PM EST Link26 wrote:
Hey, don’t know if anyone’s on here, but me being my usual idiot self can’t seem to get to the first puzzle, I’m stuck on the answer box on the website. I translated the leetspeak to “who are you calling a noob? I’m the leetness” but nothings happening when I put it in. What stupid mistake am I making?
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On October 31, 2023 at 9:37AM EST ChrisLev responded to Link26:
You're basically there, your translation is just very slightly wrong
On October 30, 2023 at 6:43PM EST Link26 wrote:
Hey, don’t know if anyone’s on here, but me being my usual idiot self can’t seem to get to the first puzzle, I’m stuck on the answer box on the website. I translated the leetspeak to “who are you calling a noob? I’m the leetness” but nothings happening when I put it in. What stupid mistake am I making?
On October 30, 2023 at 6:43PM EST Link26 wrote:
Hey, don’t know if anyone’s on here, but me being my usual idiot self can’t seem to get to the first puzzle, I’m stuck on the answer box on the website. I translated the leetspeak to “who are you calling a noob? I’m the leetness” but nothings happening when I put it in. What stupid mistake am I making?
On July 14, 2023 at 1:07PM EST BrianRipose wrote:
My notes on each puzzle (no idea how many people read these)
Magician: Don't overthink. Look for a simple method. There are several clues in previous comments that should be able to get you there if you wind up getting stuck.
Hacker: By far my favorite puzzle, and one I surprised myself by solving without reading too many hints. Be persistent, read everything, read files even if they're unnecessary (I would spend hours talking to M about his dreams and they're significance.
Navigator: Definitely spent too much time on this one and should have had it sooner. Study the symbols closely.
Musician: Struggled finding an app to help me with this, but got it eventually. Loved it that someone designed the final song to be unshazamable.
Soldier: Got this one on the first try, and no one else seems to complain about having trouble with it, so have to think that using a little bit of logic is the only solution.
Artist: The people at the library probably thought I was crazy for holding a sheet of paper up to the monitor and tracing, but that's what I did to help.
Scientist: Got this one because one or two people left useful comments behind.
Spy: Got it on the third try. You need to guess incorrectly once or twice to reverse engineer what's going on.
Solver: Got the first puzzle accidentally because something glowed. Brute forced my way through the second puzzle. Third puzzle, still working on it. Not sure if it's a giant Polybius Square, Checkerboard cipher, or something else entirely. Clicking on a question mark causes a grid to stop, but not sure what you're supposed to click on next. Will keep trying till something works.
On June 8, 2023 at 7:35PM EST Rubik’s wrote:
Sadly, I am still hopelessly stuck on Mu51c14n. I any help would be greatly appreciated, but I think this is one where it is near impossible to do clues for. I would love to get to see the end on M’s amazing book, so sadly I feel as if my last hope is to just ask for the code to complete this puzzle. :(
On January 22, 2023 at 7:34PM EST FlipFlopd1 wrote:
Oh my god... after the first book, I was feeling pretty good about myself. Then this book existed and gave me a run for my money. This book certainly isn't for the faint of heart, and there was a scare at the end where a browser error prevented me from entering the final answer, and it took me months to solve 4C13NT15T because I was being stubborn about brute-forcing it, but I just managed to do it. GG, M. GG.
(please make a third book)
On January 20, 2023 at 8:18PM EST FlipFlopd1 wrote:
Okay, someone tell me if I'm on the right track: In the second grid in 5OLV3R, the letters form a looping message. I've deduced that some of the characters are Greek and some others are Russian, but that weird 8 thing and the backwards 3 trip me up. I can't figure out what alphabet they're from, and when I try to translate what I can, it comes out with something that sounds like it COULD be a real word if I just changed some of the letters out for others. Am I being an idiot or whatever the opposite of idiot is?
On January 14, 2023 at 4:42PM EST FlipFlopd1 responded to JPSleuth:
Here’s a hint that’s appropriate for where you’re at: If you incorrectly guess the password enough times, you can make the console send a password reset email. Unfortunately for you, it’s going to the NSA and not you.
On January 5, 2023 at 1:05PM EST JPSleuth responded to FlipFlopd1:
You need to collide the particles, see what comes out, and figure out which output lowercase particles are associated with which input uppercase ones. This takes a bit of trial and error, but I was able to figure them all out by doing every possible collision with the first particle. Each uppercase particle is associated with a group of 3-6 lowercase ones, some of which can be repeated. Then fill in each bubble on the "Calculating..." screen with the corresponding uppercase particle symbol. The symbols will look like regular letters and spell out the answer.
In return, can you give me a hint on how to start H4X0R? I'm stumped. I found the IP address for the NSA database but can't figure out how to find the password to get in.
On November 19, 2022 at 2:37PM EST FlipFlopd1 wrote:
i will take. literally any information regarding 4C13N71S7 as long as it isn't "oh look at what each atom is made of and then do predictions" or the like. i need a hint that will actually give me a decent idea of what I need to do (and won't make me guess a crazy amount until I find values that work for the number of each particle per atom.) I'm saying this because I know there's an easier way to do this than brute-forcing it and I KNOW at least ONE of you knows it.
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On January 9, 2023 at 4:28PM EST EMC2 responded to JPSleuth:
It’s actually possible to do this one in a more systematic way than trial and error. You can pick just a couple of random examples of particles colliding, then write out some simultaneous equations and solve algebraically.
On January 5, 2023 at 1:05PM EST JPSleuth responded to FlipFlopd1:
You need to collide the particles, see what comes out, and figure out which output lowercase particles are associated with which input uppercase ones. This takes a bit of trial and error, but I was able to figure them all out by doing every possible collision with the first particle. Each uppercase particle is associated with a group of 3-6 lowercase ones, some of which can be repeated. Then fill in each bubble on the "Calculating..." screen with the corresponding uppercase particle symbol. The symbols will look like regular letters and spell out the answer.
In return, can you give me a hint on how to start H4X0R? I'm stumped. I found the IP address for the NSA database but can't figure out how to find the password to get in.
On November 19, 2022 at 2:37PM EST FlipFlopd1 wrote:
i will take. literally any information regarding 4C13N71S7 as long as it isn't "oh look at what each atom is made of and then do predictions" or the like. i need a hint that will actually give me a decent idea of what I need to do (and won't make me guess a crazy amount until I find values that work for the number of each particle per atom.) I'm saying this because I know there's an easier way to do this than brute-forcing it and I KNOW at least ONE of you knows it.
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On January 5, 2023 at 1:05PM EST JPSleuth responded to FlipFlopd1:
You need to collide the particles, see what comes out, and figure out which output lowercase particles are associated with which input uppercase ones. This takes a bit of trial and error, but I was able to figure them all out by doing every possible collision with the first particle. Each uppercase particle is associated with a group of 3-6 lowercase ones, some of which can be repeated. Then fill in each bubble on the "Calculating..." screen with the corresponding uppercase particle symbol. The symbols will look like regular letters and spell out the answer.
In return, can you give me a hint on how to start H4X0R? I'm stumped. I found the IP address for the NSA database but can't figure out how to find the password to get in.
On November 19, 2022 at 2:37PM EST FlipFlopd1 wrote:
i will take. literally any information regarding 4C13N71S7 as long as it isn't "oh look at what each atom is made of and then do predictions" or the like. i need a hint that will actually give me a decent idea of what I need to do (and won't make me guess a crazy amount until I find values that work for the number of each particle per atom.) I'm saying this because I know there's an easier way to do this than brute-forcing it and I KNOW at least ONE of you knows it.
On November 19, 2022 at 2:50PM EST FlipFlopd1 responded to Rubik’s:
oh my god... just solved it and realized that I COMPLETELY FORGOT THAT THE QUERY COMMAND EXISTED. thanks for that tip, without it I probably would've been trying to use Google Maps forever...
On April 30, 2022 at 12:36PM EST Rubik’s responded to FlipFlopd1:
I think you’re overthinking it see if you can figure out which agent the original email you got is talking about.
On April 26, 2022 at 7:50PM EST FlipFlopd1 wrote:
I've said it once (I think) and I'll say it again: H4XOR. I've gotten into the NSA terminal and the coordinates from the "locate bad guys" program roughly translate to easter island, spare a couple hundred miles, but that's all I've got. Any confirmation that I'm on the right track, or am I looking in the wrong place as per usual?
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