This time no special skils, patience or knowledge required :) For all that crying that bruteforcing is either too pr0 or too much time waster ;) There's just one simple question this time :)

MzAuMDEgQ29udHJpYi4=

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UPDATE: A little puzzle troll sneaked in and broke lines 15-17 or 16-18 depends if you're counting from 0 or from 1 - updated version is on - sorry for misconvinience :>

GL!

Only hint you actually need to solve this one:

UPDATE: As you simply don't get it - this hint helps you solve whole damn puzzle, not just one of stages! ;p

00110000 00001101 00001010 00110001 00001101 00001010 00110001 00001101 00001010 00110010 00001101 00001010 00110011 00001101 00001010 00110101 00001101 00001010 00111000 00001101 00001010 00110001 00110011 00001101 00001010 00110010 00110001 00001101 00001010 00110011 00110100 00001101 00001010 00110101 00110101 00001101 00001010 01011011 00101110 00101110 00101110 01011101

Hint: for the QR stage as many ppl cry that they cannot read, or their soft giving them false results: Here it works - tested

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Solution:

OK, so now time for the solution ^^ Noone managed to solve this - I'm very dissapointed young puzzle padawans xD

  • Hint: 00110000 00001101 00001010 00110001 00001101 00001010 00110001 00001101 00001010 00110010 00001101 00001010 00110011 00001101 00001010 00110101 00001101 00001010 00111000 00001101 00001010 00110001 00110011 00001101 00001010 00110010 00110001 00001101 00001010 00110011 00110100 00001101 00001010 00110101 00110101 00001101 00001010 01011011 00101110 00101110 00101110 01011101 was binary encoded, while decoded (you could use XLATE for example), it would translate into this:
    0
    1
    1
    2
    3
    5
    8
    13
    21
    34
    55
    [...]
    It's a mathematical sequence called Fibonacci Sequence - you could google it by putting those numbers into search engine.

  • The Starting image was an altered QR code. Altered how? This QR code was 25x25 squares. Each line has been moved to the right by corresponding number of Fibonacci Sequence look here. So 1st line was not moved, 2nd line was moved by 1 square, 3rd by 1 square, 4th by 2, 5th by 3, 6th by 5 and so on and on. In order to geat a proper QR code you were supposed to move each line to the left - this part quite a few ppl managed to do :> The un-altered QR codo looked like this.

  • You should then decode QR code - no need for Smartphone, I even gave you link to the site that would decode it for you :) When decoded it gave you this string: TyAt0QgL.

  • It was a code for puzzle on itstoohard: http://www.itstoohard.com/puzzle/TyAt0QgL.

  • In puzzle you had just one question with added image :>
    Question: 01100100000011001001101110101001001111010011111 Image:here. If you waited 6 hours without solving it a hint would appear saying "Something is missing maybe? :> Just guess what :>".

  • Well - just as hint said - something was missing :> Remember like I told you that the hint in the topic was the ONLY hint you needed? The 9 characters have been cut from binary code in question :> 1st,2nd,3rd,5th,8th,13th,21st,34th and 55th :> So all Numbers from Fibonacci Sequence. If added to question it would look like this(numbers in [ ] are the missing characters): [1][2][3]0[5]11[8]0010[13]0000011[21]001001101110[34]10100100111101001111[55]1 .

  • The Image represented binary numbers. White square meant 0 while black square meant 1. So the missing characters were 010001001. 0 was 1st, 1 was 2nd, 0 3rd, 0 5th and so on and on. While added to a question, the full question would look like this: 01000110001010000011000100110111001010010011110100111111

  • The decoded question was: F(17)=? So it was asking you for the 17th number of Fibonacci Sequence. The answer was 1597. (Puzzle accepted both binary encoded answers and simple decimal number).

  • After solving the puzzle you would get this image. Again White = 0, Black = 1. Yet it was not so easy to encode :) You couldn't just move left to right, up to down. One last time you needed Fibonacci Sequence :)

  • From Wikipedia (or anywhere else) you could find a picture. It's fairly common presentation of Fibonacci Sequence where each square side has a length of next fibonacci number. So you were supposed to get corresponding characters first from both sqares 1, then from square 2, then from square 3, then square 5 and finally square 8. If done correctly it would give you this: 00111110001111100011111000100000010101000101010101100100010001010101011000100000001111000011110000111100.

  • After decoding this simple binary code you would finally get final solution, which was >>> TUdEV <<< and it was code for the giveaway.

Thanks all who gave my puzzle a shot! And Good Luck on Next Ones - you're gonna need it xD

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looks like Fibonacci sequence;

maybe progress it, find more numbers?

the last chars (...) suggest to continue the sequence

12 years ago
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Delete this post please, you can get blacklisted this way. Read the rules.

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DELETE. YOUR. POST.

Spoiling hints is agianst rules.

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ok - welcome to Blacklist.

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Solution forthcoming?

12 years ago
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I second that, if the puzzle creator would be willing to share.

12 years ago
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Talked with him, he'll post the solution soon.

12 years ago
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Looks like nobody solved this.

12 years ago
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Looking forward to the solution.

12 years ago
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Solution is being written right now ;P patience young padawans xD

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OK, so now time for the solution ^^ Noone managed to solve this - I'm very dissapointed young puzzle padawans xD

  • Hint: 00110000 00001101 00001010 00110001 00001101 00001010 00110001 00001101 00001010 00110010 00001101 00001010 00110011 00001101 00001010 00110101 00001101 00001010 00111000 00001101 00001010 00110001 00110011 00001101 00001010 00110010 00110001 00001101 00001010 00110011 00110100 00001101 00001010 00110101 00110101 00001101 00001010 01011011 00101110 00101110 00101110 01011101 was binary encoded, while decoded (you could use XLATE for example), it would translate into this:
    0
    1
    1
    2
    3
    5
    8
    13
    21
    34
    55
    [...]
    It's a mathematical sequence called Fibonacci Sequence - you could google it by putting those numbers into search engine.

  • The Starting image was an altered QR code. Altered how? This QR code was 25x25 squares. Each line has been moved to the right by corresponding number of Fibonacci Sequence look here. So 1st line was not moved, 2nd line was moved by 1 square, 3rd by 1 square, 4th by 2, 5th by 3, 6th by 5 and so on and on. In order to geat a proper QR code you were supposed to move each line to the left - this part quite a few ppl managed to do :> The un-altered QR codo looked like this.

  • You should then decode QR code - no need for Smartphone, I even gave you link to the site that would decode it for you :) When decoded it gave you this string: TyAt0QgL.

  • It was a code for puzzle on itstoohard: http://www.itstoohard.com/puzzle/TyAt0QgL.

  • In puzzle you had just one question with added image :>
    Question: 01100100000011001001101110101001001111010011111 Image:here. If you waited 6 hours without solving it a hint would appear saying "Something is missing maybe? :> Just guess what :>".

  • Well - just as hint said - something was missing :> Remember like I told you that the hint in the topic was the ONLY hint you needed? The 9 characters have been cut from binary code in question :> 1st,2nd,3rd,5th,8th,13th,21st,34th and 55th :> So all Numbers from Fibonacci Sequence. If added to question it would look like this(numbers in [ ] are the missing characters): [1][2][3]0[5]11[8]0010[13]0000011[21]001001101110[34]10100100111101001111[55]1 .

  • The Image represented binary numbers. White square meant 0 while black square meant 1. So the missing characters were 010001001. 0 was 1st, 1 was 2nd, 0 3rd, 0 5th and so on and on. While added to a question, the full question would look like this: 01000110001010000011000100110111001010010011110100111111

  • The decoded question was: F(17)=? So it was asking you for the 17th number of Fibonacci Sequence. The answer was 1597. (Puzzle accepted both binary encoded answers and simple decimal number).

  • After solving the puzzle you would get this image. Again White = 0, Black = 1. Yet it was not so easy to encode :) You couldn't just move left to right, up to down. One last time you needed Fibonacci Sequence :)

  • From Wikipedia (or anywhere else) you could find a picture. It's fairly common presentation of Fibonacci Sequence where each square side has a length of next fibonacci number. So you were supposed to get corresponding characters first from both sqares 1, then from square 2, then from square 3, then square 5 and finally square 8. If done correctly it would give you this: 00111110001111100011111000100000010101000101010101100100010001010101011000100000001111000011110000111100.

  • After decoding this simple binary code you would finally get final solution, which was >>> TUdEV <<< and it was code for the giveaway.

Thanks all who gave my puzzle a shot! And Good Luck on Next Ones - you're gonna need it xD

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Wow, that was hard. especially the last fibonacci one. I'm glad I didn't spend that much time solving it :)

12 years ago
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I had the right idea with the first ITH, but I föcked up with the insertion points. I spent all my time trying to insert the bits into positions of the string as it was given. Never occurred to me the insertion points had to be within the final string. Also zero.

All in all, very nice puzzle, and I'm not the least bit miffed for being stumped by it -- it was perfectly fair and consistent. Thanks.

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And that's the spirit I like - no crying, no "stupid puzzle, because i couldn't solve it", no "you've wasted my time" and other bulshit :>

hope to see you in my next puzzles :>

12 years ago
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Good thing I found the puzzle when it was already over. -_-

12 years ago
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Why? If you'd solve this you'd have 100% chance to win xD

12 years ago
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You missed the disappointment in my voice er... text. haha

12 years ago
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u see? u should visit forums more often xD noone managed to solve this :P

12 years ago
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I do visit often. Which makes me wonder how I missed it. haha

12 years ago
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i suggest that the next one uses blood sacrifice and alien DNA so that it is easier than the one you made

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I vote for the alien dna puzzle :), definitely seems a lot easier

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and why exactly was it so horrendously hard? because you couldn't google-search images or quotes like in most of the other puzzles? ;P

12 years ago
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it wasn't as hard as it was tedious. I'm not saying hand everything on a platter but if you expect at least 1 person to solve it . . . show a little compassion for the simple minded.

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sorry but what you expected me to do? ppl got blocked at binary stage - what kind of hint was i supposed to gove? If I'd gave away any it would either give you nothoing or solve the damn thing for you ;p

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Some vague hint about how we had to edit the QR code would have been nice.

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the QR stage was actually done by the quite a number of people ;P yet some struggled with decoding QR.

Anyways - this stage was done by 20+ ppl - so it's the last one that would deserve any hints

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plus I already did a puzzle with genetic encoding in the past - so naah - don't like using the same trick too many times xD

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P.S. it would have been fun if it was a Bad Rats Giveaway with 5000 contribution though :))

12 years ago
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Sweet mother of jesus...

12 years ago
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could i do this..yes, do i want to ...hell no lol

12 years ago
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well - considering your near-to-none previous puzzle experience - i don't believe you could do this ;p

12 years ago
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you stalk me my whole life? im shocked

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well - of course I do!

12 years ago
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A very challenging puzzle. Way out of my league ^_^ I'm glad I managed to get past the QR code :)

12 years ago
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glad u enjoyed it :>

12 years ago
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:O Damn! This was mind numbing.

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a little :> but you may have had some good brain excercise :)

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Normally I'm all over puzzles, even if I already have the game.

Good thing I didn't even try this time :D

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Closed 12 years ago by zelghadis.