Man, I just woke up and this is what im greeted with on the bottom of the page.
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I have never solved an image puzzle before, but the cipher and the tips within made it possible - my mind is blown apart. Thank you AndyFrost for the GA and for the challenge (that while difficult, was very doable)
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The code is hidden in the attached picture. The giveaway is for The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition game. There is only one code hidden in this post, but in the description to Monkey Island you will find links to two more giveaways: Don't Disturb and Antihero. All giveaways are lvl3+ and will last until ~ July 27th.
If you are struggling to see the code - cipher below have straight instructions how to see it.
If it is hard for you, you can try to skip the first two steps - but there are zero chances to bypass it.
Ytoyu--tsoh-omuulldt-ibteacsokm.e--Paewoaprlee--tshaayts--Chaee-seavre-nw-acso-ufladm-oduisc-taamtoen-gT woetnhteyrT htrheien-glse-tftoerr sh-iast--aobniclei
Dqg lq rqh vxfk ohwwhu wkhuh zdv zulwwhq: Orrn iru wkh Iruhqvlfdoob rq jrrjoh. Xsordg dwwdfkhg lpdjh lqwr lw. Fkrrvh frpsrqhqw dqdobvlv, vhwwlqj vkrxog eh vhw wr lqsxw:froru, prgh:surmhfwlrq; frpsrqhqw:2.
SOLUTION
The code was indeed hidden in the sky. There are different ways to see it, but what I had in mind was: invert colors and just play with brightness and contrast to see it. But since I myself sometimes straggling to see codes hidden in pictures I also decided to give a hint in form of cipher on how to see it.
There are 4 words in bold. Skip, two, zero, bypass. It should lead you to a "Skip cipher". To solve the cipher you needed to decode the text starting from second character without using any bypasses (some tools offers to set bypass option, some doesn't). Skip rumkin, Skip Cipher dcode
Using this tip second part will transfer from
into
I had to replace most of spaces with "-" to avoid code corruption during copy-pasting. In the text you got there is something about Caesar and strange 23 letters. That should lead you to Caesarian Shift cipher and hint you that N is equal 23. Caesarian Shift rumkin, Caesar Cipher dcode.
Knowing this you could decode
into
That is a straight instruction on how to use web tool Forensically to see the code in image. I choose Forensically as it can be used online and accessible to anyone.
There are more interesting/useful comments from the participants who solved the puzzle that might be useful. So make sure to check them as well :)
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