[Issue 60] [Results] What's the Password SCRAMBLED

[Shedinja 1,488]

 

I notice a handful of you remain unfazed regardless of what challenges impede your path. Not only did these cadets manage to unravel such a difficult puzzle, but they managed to do so in a respectable time frame.

 

 

 

Congratulations are in order for the following tankers.

 

 

 

1st (49,000): @Anonono

2nd (36,000): @Freezanator

3rd (25,000): Monstermagus

 

 

 

Surely this group of tankers is a fair representative of the brightest of the community. Their rewards will be delivered respectively on Monday, January 9th of 2017.

 

 

 

v v v Answer below v v v

What's the Password SCRAMBLED

  

Between the lines (reference to last WtP): 01011001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100100 01101001 01100100 01101110 00100111 01110100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01101110 01101011 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100111 01100100 00100000 01100010 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01100101 01100001 01110011 01111001 00101100 00100000 01100100 01101001 01100100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00111111 (Translated: You didn't think it'd be that easy, did you?)

 

DECRYPTED LINK ALPHA - The first link will take you to an image stating, "ALL THAT IS SEEN SHOULD NOT BE BELIEVED". Looking closely at the photo, it says to "check hub post mlxix", or 1069, referencing a post Shedinja made in response to Tani_S' question. Clicking on the hyperlink of Tani_S' name won't lead you to the profile, but to another link that leads to an image of an excerpt from the Eragon series. A red caption reads "#3 = 102." This corresponds to the number of the third character in the passage. 'n' appears exactly 102 times.

 

DECRYPTED LINK BETA - Heeding the advice of the phrase, "Sometimes quitting pointless endeavors and turning back to where you came from can open up new paths," as coded on the image under the link, hit one of the two "Back to Main Topic buttons", which will lead to an entirely new page that looks exactly like the first "What's the Password SCRAMBLED" page. On this page, upon clicking on BETA once again, it leads not to the same image again, but a page with the equation (amnp+2mp)/anp = ((#1)+2m)/am. Solving this will reveal that character one = 'm'.

 

DECRYPTED LINK GAMMA - This link is a massive collection of Moar Krabs, with a description on one of them. Beware of the two red herrings (crabs), as their purpose is to lead players astray with a confusing post that leads to nowhere useful. Following the proper link leads to a post on page 140 of Count Backwards, where it displays #4 as the last letter of the font Anonono always uses (Ludica Sans Unicode), making #4 'e'.

 

DECRYPTED LINK DELTA - This link will take you to a page filled with morse code and a Tanki Wiki Symbol, that when translated reads "NEETFIF YB DETCARTBUS NEHT DNA DERDNUH OWT YB DEDIVID SEULAV EZIRP LLA FO MUS EHT SA REBMUN EMAS EHT CITSITATS NOPAEW A DNIF TSUM UOY". Reversed, this spells "YOU MUST FIND A WEAPON STATISTIC THE SAME NUMBER AS THE SUM OF ALL PRIZE VALUES DIVIDED BY TWO HUNDRED AND THEN SUBTRACTED BY FIFTEEN." This will direct you to Railgun M2's Impact Force statistic in the Wikipedia, which will be hyperlinked with "https://s22.postimg.org/yeqe7je75/Character2.png".This last hyperlink will give you the following equation: #2 = sqrt(-1). Put into proper form, this would be 'i', your second character.

 

DECRYPTED LINK EPSILON - This link lead to a basic image with the WeeklyCompetition1 site highlighted and labeled, "He wouldn't lie to you." After following the minor puzzles and decoding the URL, you're taken to a page with a text passage stating the final character is on this page. While seemingly empty, if you copy the image and paste it onto a Paint document and use the fill option, more text appears, revealing the final character to be 's'.

 

Combined, the collected characters should result in the word "mines". This is the password.

 

 

 

Until next time, cadets. Tread carefully.

 

 

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Edited January 6, 2017 by Shedinja

[Anonono 1,233]

Wow... I definitely wasn't expecting this!!!

 

Congrats to the other winners, this certainly was a difficult challenge!

Edited January 7, 2017 by Anonono

[TTK_229 1,080]

This one was tough. I got to the Eragon one, but I was too lazy to count them. :P

[shurlygoel 27]

Congratulations guys!!

[Freezanator 26]

I can't believe I finally won a prize after so many "What's the Password?" contests! I'm shedding tears of joy now OMG!

Edited January 15, 2017 by Freezanator

[ZivOfficial 290]

Congrats! I didn't hear about this Contest ^^