3301

[Nuluvius]

I find the amount of focus on attempting to solve it and not on examining the wider picture mildly amusing.

[SIGSEGV]

Ok, I'm going to replace all the spaces with 1s to make them visible.

This way I can eliminate the spaces that are just gaps in between the 8s rather than confusing them with the legit stuff:

811111111111111178888811111111111111111111111111111111111111111111178811171888888818888181111111178811111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111117888188888111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111178888811111111117188881881818111111111111178188117888

Now I remove the 1s where there should be 8s

11111111111111171111111111111111111111111111111111111111111117111711111111711111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111117111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111171111111111711111111111117117

And now remove the whitespace:

11111111111111171111111111111111111111111111111111111111111117111711111111711111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111117111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111171111111111711111111111117117

I'm going to modify my code to be able to take this in

Edit: The spaces make it more like 78 wide, I don't think that's right, I'm going to try something

[Slash003]

WAIT I JUST REALISED WHERE I WENT WRONG! I NEED TO REMOVE ALL THE 1s! THEY'RE THE GAPS!

 

5K2ZZ44

Ok, at first I thought it might be a post code/zip code, something is still wrong, unless postcodes/zip codes are like this in another country

I changed the text file to this:

7224383866

What if some of the gaps were actual gaps though... I'll see what comes up with this first

 

The bottom thats a phone number in china. Top is adress or, holy maybe its a license plate number

[Guest Johnny5g]

tech me!

[Slash003]

WAIT A SECOND! I did some research its a .onion website I bet! 5K2ZZ44.onion  Let me look at this really quickly

[Guest Johnny5g]

WAIT A SECOND! I did some research its a .onion website I bet! 5K2ZZ44.onion  Let me look at this really quickly

hum..................

[Slash003]

Ah nuts unless it was originally a page used by the 3301 and taken down its a dead end

[SImoHayha]

SO MANY ONIONS

[Slash003]

SO MANY ONIONS

Now Im hungry and would like to eat some onions

[SIGSEGV]

I changed it up a bit and it might be:

43ZZ2-K5

Now we have two things to work with:

5K2ZZ44

and

43ZZ2-K5

Only one of them could be right though

Here's the input:

11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

Here's my code:

#!/usr/env python3#Distributed under the MIT licencepunched_string=['&', '-', '0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8', '9', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F', 'G', 'H', 'I', 'J', 'K', 'L', 'M', 'N', 'O', 'P', 'Q', 'R', '/', 'S', 'T', 'U', 'V', 'W', 'X', 'Y', 'Z']endstring=""tempi=0list_card=[]punched_card=open("card.txt") #The number of space between each character is on a linefor i in punched_card:	if i!="":		list_card.insert(0,len(i))for i in list_card:	print(i)	endstring+=punched_string[i]		punched_card.close()print(endstring)

[SIGSEGV]

Ah nuts unless it was originally a page used by the 3301 and taken down its a dead end

Nah it's not long enough to be an onion

[SIGSEGV]

WAIT! My code put everything backwards (the placement of the hyphen made me realise this, because it's at the end but in the text file it's at the beginning), if we reverse it both of them:

 

43ZZ2-K5

becomes

5K-2ZZ34

and

 

5K2ZZ44

becomes

 

44ZZ2K5

I think we should start googling for these numbers that we have now

So to summarise, this is what we're working with now:

5K-2ZZ34

44ZZ2K5

We need to search for what these are, they may be addresses

[bob345]

came up with this.http://web.media.mit.edu/~walter/MAS-A12/week2notes.html

[Guest]

lmao you guys are figuring this out, I don't know shit about codes and just tried a b64 decode

[Drackeo]

So whats the latest with this? Just got back to look at it

[Speedyv]

Cool stuff: http://m.fastcompany.com/3025785/meet-the-man-who-solved-the-mysterious-cicada-3301-puzzle

[Speedyv]

@Godlygamer23 was @3301 banned?

[LargeBanana]

it's crazy how i got left so far behind just because i slept for a few hours lol. you guys are making some serious progress.

[LargeBanana]

and for some reason reddit turn up to be useless. what an anti climatic thing to happen

[Swiftxd]

you're missing the Zeros in the message above. there is 15 zeros, they have replaced by letter A. 

there is two messages in the post, the message above can be decrypted using ATBASH and CAESAR. it say's:

 

"W E    0 R E    L O O K I N G    F O R    0   H I G H L Y    I N T E L L I G E N T   I N D I V I D U 0 L . T O    F I N D   T H E M ,    W E    H 0 V E    D E V I S E D    0    T E S T .    I N    T H E S E   N U M B E R S    T H E R E    0 R E    0   H I D D E N    M E S S 0 G E .    F I N D   I T ,    0 N D    I T    W I L L    L E 0 D   Y O U    O N    T H E    R O 0 D    T O   F I N D I N G    U S .    W E    L O O K   F O R W 0 R D    T O    M E E T I N G    T H E    F E W    W H O    W I L L    M 0 K E    I T   0 L L    T H E    W 0 Y    T H R O U G H .   G O O D    L U C K"

press CTRL+F and write "0", look at the text

[dxcccii]

WAIT! My code put everything backwards (the placement of the hyphen made me realise this, because it's at the end but in the text file it's at the beginning), if we reverse it both of them:

 

43ZZ2-K5

becomes

5K-2ZZ34

and

 

5K2ZZ44

becomes

 

44ZZ2K5

I think we should start googling for these numbers that we have now

So to summarise, this is what we're working with now:

5K-2ZZ34

44ZZ2K5

We need to search for what these are, they may be addresses

 

i played around with the numbers, i'm not gonna lie, it was trial and error.

i got something:

if you take the letters out and substitute the dash for a dot you get a latitude: 5235

 

so i found out someone on the cicada wikia tracked the IP address and somehow got the longitude and latitude.

the latitude was the same, but the longitude was different: 4.9165 

 

 

this is the place i got: Korte Ouderkerkerdijk 29-45, 1096 AC Amsterdam, Netherlands

Latitude: 52.34 | Longitude: 4.9165

 

 

 

 

 

[Yummychickenblue]

So what's going on in here?

[SIGSEGV]

i played around with the numbers, i'm not gonna lie, it was trial and error.

i got something:

if you take the letters out and substitute the dash for a dot you get a latitude: 5235

 

so i found out someone on the cicada wikia tracked the IP address and somehow got the longitude and latitude.

the latitude was the same, but the longitude was different: 4.9165 

 

 

this is the place i got: Korte Ouderkerkerdijk 29-45, 1096 AC Amsterdam, Netherlands

Latitude: 52.34 | Longitude: 4.9165

That means we need a German now... Someone has to actually go there to see what's there, this might be a dead end, but it might also the real deal, last time this happened I heard there was a QR code or something so we need to look for something like that.

[Castroide]

Guys, have you seen this?

 

http://cicada3301.org/liber/

[Slash003]

That means we need a German now... Someone has to actually go there to see what's there, this might be a dead end, but it might also the real deal, last time this happened I heard there was a QR code or something so we need to look for something like that.

Call you german friends