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2012 Puzzle Timeline
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title The 2012 Puzzle
section January 4, 2012
Image : Image stating they are looking for highly intelligent people. : Caesar Cipher from image trailer data : Outguess used to get correct message. : Directed to Reddit
section Subreddit
The Subreddit Code : Welcome and Problems images : Images outguessed to cryptographic signatures : Holy grail message in problems image : Mayan numerals at the top of the page :  Vigenère cipher : Phone number
section Phone Number
Very good, you have done well : Prime numbers associated with the original image : Directed to countdown website.
section The Website
Countdown to Monday, 9 January 2012 UTC : GPS Coordinates to QR Codes : QR Codes revealed url to cicada images. : 29 Volumes message : Agrippa book code : Create email address
section The RSA Emails
RSA encrypted message : Factor for the pq values
section The MIDI puzzle
Note corresponded to letters : Create email address
section The Invitation
No one really knows what happened to those invited
section Final Message
Thank you for the dedication : Better luck next time.
2012 The Second Chance
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title 2012 The Second Chance
section January 12th
845145127 whitespace change : Numbers correspond to the QR JPEGs
section Numbers dot TK
1853143003544.tk in a chat room on n0v4. No evidence this website was created by 3301 : The Lady of Shallott image : Outguessed led to a code that was an onion address
section The Onion
See the 2012 RSA emails forward for what happened next.
2013 Puzzle – Part 1
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title 2013 Puzzle - Part 1
section 5th of January 2013
The search begins again : Outguess the image again : Riddle with book code : Crowley's The Book of Law : Dropbox address pointing to ISO file
section The System
130 MB Linux ISO Image : The key is all around you : Interrupt script
section The Music
761.mp3 file : ID3 Tag is "The Instar Emergence" : Song is in D-flat minor : custom guitar tuning of flats D, A, D, G, A, D. : Hum 15.4-16.1kHz : Hex dump Parable 1,595,277,641 : Song is 167 seconds, which is prime : Reversal of the name of the file 761.mp3, and 761 is also prime
section The Twitter Account
Each tweet consisted of an offset, and 65 bytes of hex code : Tweets at 5 minute intervals (up until 0000 GMT Jan 7) : Four minute intervals until 1900 GMT Jan 7 : Random up until 2204 GMT Jan 7 : Tweets stopped on 0452 GMT on Jan 8 : Xored mp3 file with twitter instructions : Gematria Primus found
section The Onion, part 1 of 2
GP image outguessed text was tabs and spaces : emiwp4muu2ktwknf.onion : telnet needed : xsxnaksict6egxkq.onion : A new message was found by telnetting "hint" or "clue". And XORing result with _560.00 file from the DATA folder on 3301.iso CD image : wisdom and folly files in /tmp
section The Onion, Part 2 of 2
Patience is a virtue. : Ping laced with data: pklmx2eeh6fjt7zf.onion
section The Third Onion
Directed to posters with a phone number on them. : Data xored to gbyh7znm6c7ezsmr.onion : The fifth onion p7amjopgric7dfdi.onion
2013 Puzzle – Part 2
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title 2013 Puzzle Part 2
section The Website
19 questions : 2 cookies saved : Questions are personality questions
section The Servers
Build a TCP server in the language of your choice : You had to put it on TOR by 3 Feb, 2013 : Servers received messages 2 weeks later : Silent until 2014
2014 Puzzle
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title 2014 Puzzle
section Image Released
Outguess as usual : The work of a private man message
section The Book Cipher
Self-Reliance and Other Essays , by Ralph Waldo Emerson : auqgnxjtvdbll3pv.onion
section The First Onion
William Blake Collage : Outguess shows RSA text : Brute force the private key : cu343l33nqaekrnw.onion
section The Second Onion
The growing string : Patient is a virtue gp sum 761 : String bit flipped : Contained first 3 images of the LP1 : Outguess  BELIEVE NOTHING FROM THIS BOOK EXCEPT WHAT YOU KNOW TO BE TRUE : The 5 Gram Message : JOIN US AT FV7LYUCMEOZZD5J4ONIO : fv7lyucmeozzd5j4.onion
section The Third Onion
87de5b7fa2 : String growing again : Next LP1 page revealed : Magic Square : Primes are sacred message
section January 11
Next two LP1 images revealed : Divinity Vigenere cipher : Second image : Great journey : avowyfgl5lkzfj3n.onion
section The Fourth Onion
G-zip string : Next 4 images presented : The koans
section The Fifth Onion
Interconnectedness : Jan 31 Portrait : Hex blocks : ut3qtzbrvs7dtvzp.onion
section The Sixth Onion
Hex on site was 4 images with women and rune text : outguessed Create a TOR CGI server : OpenPuff on mp3 file : Next set of images with body at bottom : Koan Question all things : Dump of LP2
Post 2014
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title Post 2014
section 02/May/2014
CGI upload pings : y2khlqdf7qdznac.onion
section July/2015
Pastebin message : Onion 7 - ky2khlqdf7qdznac.onion
section Onion 7 - ky2khlqdf7qdznac.onion
LP2 dump from server : 57 solved : 56 solved

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