Hello everyone.

I've finished a rather difficult university semester a week ago and since I'm studying Computer Science, I've thought it would be fun to make a small puzzle related to programming. It would also be a way to give some games back to this community. Solving the puzzle will lead to a small train.

The games are:

Jagged Alliance 2 - Wildfire
NAIRI: Tower of Shirin
60 Parsecs!
Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus

The train will end on 21/07/2019 at noon.

To get the link, you have to solve this picture:
Please leave a bump if you've solved it :).

View attached image.
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Train has ended!
You can find the solution here.

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GG Thanks!

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bump for solved.

4 years ago
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Thanks'n'Bumps

4 years ago
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Solved, thanks ^_^
Bump!

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bump

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bump!

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Thanks!

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Thanks for the puzzle!

At first I thought it was impossible for me, but then I got it and it was like, "Woah, what? That actually worked?" It was a great moment that made me feel way smarter than I actually am. :)

4 years ago
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Don't put yourself down like that, man! Everyone can figure most of anything out given enough time and persistance.

4 years ago
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Thanks, but I feel like I particularly struggle with puzzles. I feel like everyone else is looking one way and finding the answer, while I'm looking the exact other direction and thinking, "I don't see anything!"

I'm sure you're right about it given enough time and persistence. Being rather short on free time, I'm kind of limited in how much I can devote to a puzzle before feeling like I'm just wasting my time and moving on. But I was able to solve yours just as I was getting ready to give up, so one could say that your puzzle was exactly the right difficulty. :)

4 years ago
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That's understandable about not having that much free time for stuff like this.
Thank you for the compliment :)

4 years ago
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I'm glad you guys liked it ^-^

4 years ago
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Bump! Didn't learn this before, but more puzzles with programming concepts involved sound awesome.

4 years ago
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Nice one thank you. :)

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Bump'd for Thanks

4 years ago
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Solved! Cool puzzle, I also studied about Steganography in Network Security course/class this semester. I guess our computer science faculties have similar programs :)

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I didn't actually learn this in one of my classes :D. I just happened to see it somewhere at some point and I thought it would make a neat puzzle.

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Bump for solved, thanks :)

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Bump for solved! :D

4 years ago
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My PC almost died after 135,000 calculations. Couldn't solve it, or at least not completely. Maybe I lack the program for it. Sad bump.

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This should only require a programming language that let's you do stuff with images :). (Or you could just treat the picture as a binary file, but that seems needlessly complicated).
I haven't looked into it, but I imagine there's also graphical tools that could be used to do this particular task.

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I started my programming classes one weak ago, I choosed to have javascript classes in the summer. My head is full of codes, please tell me that this will stop.

public class HelpMe{
 public static void main (String[]args){
  System.out.println("Help tommorrow I already have a test ;(");
 }
}

Still I couldn't figure out how to decrypt. Tomorrow I will try again.

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It's normal to have your thoughts filled with something if that's all you've been doing lately, especially if it's new to you. It happens to me too sometimes with coding, studying, games. :).

Good luck on your classes and your test! :D

4 years ago
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Looks more like Java than JS

4 years ago
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This is java. Pretty sure they start teaching java and then they will teach me javascript.

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I guess they could, but there's no proper reason to do so. Particularly nowadays where standalone JS can do tons of things with Node (and Java is not quite fashionable anymore...) and can be well organized with TypeScript. If I signed up for a JS course and they started with lessons on Java, I'd be like "wtf is this?" :D

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I solved it. So there is a bump.

View attached image.
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Bump

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Bump! Thanks for the train.

I've yet to have a software engineering job (outside of founding a startup) that was as intense as the most demanding semester I had in college (Advanced Calc, Modern Algebra, Theory of Algorithms, and a few other random classes). So it probably gets easier for you moving forward :).

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Thank you for you words :).

I've been working at my first job for a few months now and from what I can tell so far, it does seem significantly less stressfull than some university semesters. There is some relief in knowning things will probably be less stressful in the future :).

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Hmm, looks interesting.

I once wrote a LSB-steganography python script. Might give it a try tomorrow. Although I'm not a programmer, nor have I studied CS.

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Nice train. Bump!

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