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Posted by: Lobster Fish 2
Posted by: MetalCanine
Hahaha, BurritoSenor guessed soffish at the beginning of the thread, like page 2 or so.
You're right. Top of page 3, Burrito guessed correctly and won. I shall PM him and let him know.


He didn't win he couldn't guess. He had to prove how he got there too :P TheMissingLink said so actually a while back.

  • 09.08.2012 11:19 AM PDT

I just want to tell you all good luck, we're counting on you.

  • 09.08.2012 11:19 AM PDT

Posted by: bluechill9

Posted by: Lobster Fish 2
Posted by: MetalCanine
Hahaha, BurritoSenor guessed soffish at the beginning of the thread, like page 2 or so.
You're right. Top of page 3, Burrito guessed correctly and won. I shall PM him and let him know.


He didn't win he couldn't guess. He had to prove how he got there too :P TheMissingLink said so actually a while back.
Don't get all insecure now, we know you won. We like to have some fun here on Bnet.

Can't wait for Burrito to storm in and demand a prize. ;)

  • 09.08.2012 11:20 AM PDT

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Posted by: bluechill9

Posted by: Lobster Fish 2
Posted by: MetalCanine
Hahaha, BurritoSenor guessed soffish at the beginning of the thread, like page 2 or so.
You're right. Top of page 3, Burrito guessed correctly and won. I shall PM him and let him know.


He didn't win he couldn't guess. He had to prove how he got there too :P TheMissingLink said so actually a while back.
This. Same reason I held myself shy of actually blurting out that guess... I couldn't back up my claim. Technically the winner is of the last few pages, that man or woman who guessed it because we have all this information to go off of and he can back up his claim.

To go ahead and decide the winner ourselves without knowing the situation is arbitrary. Let the contest runners decide :)


[Edited on 09.08.2012 11:21 AM PDT]

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Posted by: Lobster Fish 2
Posted by: bluechill9

Posted by: Lobster Fish 2
Posted by: MetalCanine
Hahaha, BurritoSenor guessed soffish at the beginning of the thread, like page 2 or so.
You're right. Top of page 3, Burrito guessed correctly and won. I shall PM him and let him know.


He didn't win he couldn't guess. He had to prove how he got there too :P TheMissingLink said so actually a while back.
Don't get all insecure now, we know you won. We like to have some fun here on Bnet.

Can't wait for Burrito to storm in and demand a prize. ;)


Yep and it will be quite a funny storm :P

  • 09.08.2012 11:21 AM PDT
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Posted by: bluechill9

He didn't win he couldn't guess. He had to prove how he got there too :P TheMissingLink said so actually a while back.


Pretty much that.

The guess did not escape my radar. In fact, it was what prompted me to let everyone know that I wanted the puzzle to be properly worked out first.

Then again, perhaps you could say that the answer was the webpage itself. :)

  • 09.08.2012 11:21 AM PDT
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Posted by: TheMisssingLink
Posted by: bluechill9
The answer is:

http://www.bungie.net/inside/soffish/soffish.html!

Ha soffish!

This is the correct answer. Congrats!

Dang, that came out of nowhere.

  • 09.08.2012 11:23 AM PDT


Posted by: bluechill9

Posted by: Lobster Fish 2
Posted by: MetalCanine
Hahaha, BurritoSenor guessed soffish at the beginning of the thread, like page 2 or so.

You're right. Top of page 3, Burrito guessed correctly and won. I shall PM him and let him know.


He didn't win he couldn't guess. He had to prove how he got there too :P TheMissingLink said so actually a while back.


Haha, I just thought it was funny. I wasn't meaning to invalidate your obvious winnership. Sorry, bluechill, but congrats on the puzzle!

Edit: I'm just getting a handle on this formatting after lurking for so long.

[Edited on 09.08.2012 11:32 AM PDT]

  • 09.08.2012 11:26 AM PDT

The name's Ian, Game Designer at Whisper Game Studios, very off-and-on Bungie.net visitor and avid Bungie fan overall. Message me if you wish.

Can you by chance include the usage of Direct3D or OpenGL into next week's challenge? :D

Something simple so everyone could solve it but nothing too complex.

Kinda like this? It obviously would be a community operation and would require multiple winners and contributors but the answer should be the prize in a way.

I don't know, just thinking ahead.

[Edited on 09.08.2012 11:38 AM PDT]

  • 09.08.2012 11:30 AM PDT


Posted by: TheMisssingLink

Posted by: Locker537
What were the final steps from the point where you have the 91 sevens and zeroes?


The clue was to remember that Bungie programs in sevens and zeroes. In essence, the seven is our "one". So if you convert the sevens in the 91-bit string to one, you have a binary string.

Grouping them into groups of 7 and reading it as ASCII yields:

bit.ly/rdyLkP

Which links to our page on Soffish.


Clever, clever. I was replaced ones with sevens, instead of sevens with ones. Blindingly simple in hindsight, but darn clever.

  • 09.08.2012 11:36 AM PDT


Posted by: Your MOM is MC
My question is, where were we given the pointer to take the 0's and 7's out of the hex and translate them to binary from the 91-bit code?

I know Blue got the idea and pulled them out using C++ but other than that, I can't seem to find a cue elsewhere to show that we needed to do that.


The paragraph about Bungie programming in sevens from the original hexadecimal blob was the clue; albiet tricky.

  • 09.08.2012 11:38 AM PDT

Owning Noobs Since 05

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Well at least I learned a little bit about Hex coding/binary/ACSII things that I didn't know existed till yesterday. I'm going to search the intrenetz and try to learn more about it, that way I'll be better prepared for the next puzzle. I'll still suck at it but at least I'll go down swinging. I was not ready for this puzzle, it definitely kicked my ass. To me this was the Chuck Norris of Puzzles.
Posted by: TheMisssingLink
it is highly likely that I will be back here yet again with another nefarious puzzle for you.

My response to that.

  • 09.08.2012 11:40 AM PDT


Posted by: Verachi
Well at least I learned a little bit about Hex coding/binary/ACSII things that I didn't know existed till yesterday. I'm going to search the intrenetz and try to learn more about it, that way I'll be better prepared for the next puzzle. I'll still suck at it but at least I'll go down swinging. I was not ready for this puzzle, it definitely kicked my ass. To me this was the Chuck Norris of Puzzles.
Posted by: TheMisssingLink
it is highly likely that I will be back here yet again with another nefarious puzzle for you.

My response to that.


I'd say that's the real point of these challenges ;-)

  • 09.08.2012 11:45 AM PDT

Hey I am a big Bungie fan ever since I played Halo 2. I love the series, I love Bungie. I have made a few Bungie logos in my metal shop.

I dont get it what is with the binary ascii

  • 09.08.2012 11:53 AM PDT
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Good job to both TheMisssingLink for making such a challenge, and bluechill9 for solving it. I believe bluechill9 deserves a little more for the effort it took in solving this one.

Give him an extra sticker... :D

[Edited on 09.08.2012 11:59 AM PDT]

  • 09.08.2012 11:59 AM PDT

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Posted by: Locker537

Posted by: Your MOM is MC
My question is, where were we given the pointer to take the 0's and 7's out of the hex and translate them to binary from the 91-bit code?

I know Blue got the idea and pulled them out using C++ but other than that, I can't seem to find a cue elsewhere to show that we needed to do that.


The paragraph about Bungie programming in sevens from the original hexadecimal blob was the clue; albiet tricky.


Not that, blue already answered my question. I already knew to transform the 1's to 7's or vice versa, but I wasn't sure how he came up with the idea to put them in binary form. He said it was a guess, which is honestly the only way anyone could've gotten it. Hence it's high difficulty.

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Posted by: Your MOM is MC

Posted by: Locker537

Posted by: Your MOM is MC
My question is, where were we given the pointer to take the 0's and 7's out of the hex and translate them to binary from the 91-bit code?

I know Blue got the idea and pulled them out using C++ but other than that, I can't seem to find a cue elsewhere to show that we needed to do that.


The paragraph about Bungie programming in sevens from the original hexadecimal blob was the clue; albiet tricky.


Not that, blue already answered my question. I already knew to transform the 1's to 7's or vice versa, but I wasn't sure how he came up with the idea to put them in binary form. He said it was a guess, which is honestly the only way anyone could've gotten it. Hence it's high difficulty.


Oh no it was a guess to use the hex from the original page but to put it in binary form was a guess based on what I had already done for earlier parts

  • 09.08.2012 12:09 PM PDT

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I don't know if anybody would be up for this, but here we go. I'd appreciate it if somebody made a video of them doing this puzzle. With all the explanations that you all gave me, it helped out a lot but I still get stuck in certain places (I'm still trying to do the puzzle). I'm a visual learner so that would help me out a lot. I would be kind of cheating myself but I don't think I can do this without a visual explanation. So if anybody does this <3

  • 09.08.2012 12:35 PM PDT
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Posted by: Verachi
Thanks for the explanation, but that explanation is not going to change the fact that I'm going to give you dirty looks from now on when I see you in the forums.
*Gives dirty look*


Please, go ahead. If you didn't, I would suspect that you were trying to ply answers out of me. :) Besides, it is highly likely that I will be back here yet again with another nefarious puzzle for you.
Looks like i'm never winning a mailsack challenge! lol!

  • 09.08.2012 12:39 PM PDT

Posted by: dmg04
Looks like i'm never winning a mailsack challenge! lol!
QFT.

  • 09.08.2012 12:40 PM PDT
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Posted by: Verachi
I don't know if anybody would be up for this, but here we go. I'd appreciate it if somebody made a video of them doing this puzzle. With all the explanations that you all gave me, it helped out a lot but I still get stuck in certain places (I'm still trying to do the puzzle). I'm a visual learner so that would help me out a lot. I would be kind of cheating myself but I don't think I can do this without a visual explanation. So if anybody does this <3


The best I can do right now is the following:

To start off we take this photo based on the hint from Deej:

http://www.bungie.net/images/News/Inline12/mailsack/09072012/ PAX.png

And search around. If you look at the the bottom right corner you find a bunch of 4 pixel squares. Each one is a weird color too. Strange isn't it? Well if you look at the rgb values for them you notice that they're all within the range of low-order ascii characters. If you read all of them you get these:


70
105
114
115
116
32
99
111
110
118
101
114
116
32
116
104
101
32
104
101
120
97
100
101
99
105
109
97
108
32
116
111
32
98
105
110
97
114
121
46
32
84
104
101
110
44
32
114
101
103
114
111
117
112
32
116
104
101
32
98
105
116
115
32
105
110
116
111
32
99
104
117
110
107
115
32
101
113
117
97
108
32
116
111
32
111
117
114
32
102
97
118
111
114
105
116
101
32
110
117
109
98
101
114
46
32
70
105
110
97
108
108
121
44
32
113
101
97
100
32
97
115
32
65
83
67
73
73
46


which gives us the following message:

First convert the hexadeal to binary. Then, regroup the bits into chunks equal to our favorite number. Finally, read as ASCII.

Favorite number = 7
Hexadeal = Hexadecimal
Bits = 1 binary character (a 1 or a 0)

This means take the following message:


9B3E9D48B3A3C99D162D2A75E44FA14A0C3A9261C5873E6D0AB522D2A7
0E4C59D0E2D0A5063CD83524C38332659A51684583522C499663CFAF26A
48A9222C39F366CF9D4294187524C38B067449916B45A5063C59F3A2D38
33A25A8B4A7C5A7527D08B3AA488B26950A53E3D283369AE8F16745A506A
499D1E1CF89166499716A48934E3C59D169419932CC9A7068528B52A59A
F1664C5B1A7D59D122C4A106A548B4A7549F166D0993ECAE9F3AA488B1A
649A14E4C48AB21559D1E4C5934E74FA9667D5A552CD0930E0CC8B3A3C
99D162D2933A3C7A53EAD05D5E2D7A526A45A14A7C7A5066D3AF26A489F
56A4F9D169AE9F569508B3E84C8B127CE9F526499716A488B3AACD85169
2EAF22CBFAF1664C5952445A5160D28B1E94583522D2591E9419D122D29
D566C28B4A9D49F06850996634FA53EAD2AF26659874A0C6A8BA6C1B322
0D0B33EAC4934E0C7A5162ACA11694391067438B667D5831E9458ABABC
883526C1A9522D2A7269D49106A538B5A2CE934E6CFA5160D78B4E7CD8
B524419D3E745AF2664C8B5A2D293360C7933A2C9A94E2CC8D527C28AB
A0CE894E7ACAF161CF8916BC9A9220CDA1322D38B5A2CEA6B274FA93E7
45A6BA3418751D50A53E3D283369D0830E5C5895E4D4914E2D68B3A9C1
A5166CFA5160D78B4E7CD8B524419D424D491668529F1E9419B4EA48835
20D0A132CCF9D169AEB51694F8B4DFD78B3262CAF169D4933265491267
4BA9222D94F4A2C79F3E22EA14A2D4A9668419906A4185322AEAF163D283
4284C8B5E4D4916A2D29F169C19932A488B524CD8ABA2D68B3A74FAEBA
CC5A6BA445A515743833ACCFAB422CFA1322D38B16A488B35FD2931E454
9116945933AA48934E64F9D1EA45B151FD083569C5A93EA4197160CC9F3
A3CC9F3E5AEA11694391067438B52449A7220D385162CE835E4CCB31E0C
D8526A419932A48934EA499B15FD78B3262CA13E649A722A489F4E2D491
2674B933A3C383429AEB33EAC8835A2C19B426459D566C28B4A9D49F1A4
CE88BA441AD169CF9B163559C869D48366441A142CAE


and convert the hex representations to the binary representations. Once we have that we must split everything up into groups of 7 characters (bungie's favorite number). Then since this is low order ascii we prepend (insert at the beginning) of each chunk "0" (1 would be extended ascii). Then we convert this binary to ascii and we get the following message:


MOSTENGINEERSWHOPRACTICECOMPUTERSCIENCEPRAGMATICALLYREPEATEDL YGOWITHTHECOMMONPRACTICEANDLEVERAGEONESANDZEROESTOPENTHEIRPRO GRAMS.GENERATINGCODELIKETHISGENERALLYISAPRETTYWELL-FOUNDEDPAT TERNTOEMPLOY.ONTHEFLIPSIDE,BUNGIEISNOTYOURTYPICALENGINEERINGG ROUP.WEWRITEPROGRAMSWITHOUTONES.OURPEOPLEDONOTLIKETHENUMBER.W HY?WELL,THEREAREGREATER,GRANDERNUMBERSTOAPPLYFOROURWILYCRAFT. MAYHAPYOUDISAGREE,PERCHANCEYOUAGREE.WHATMATTERSISTHATSEVENISM OREAWESOMETHANONEWILLEVERIMAGINEITSELFTOBE.ANDSO,WECODEWITHAM PLESEVENS,NOTONES.FACT:PROGRAMSPACKEDWITHSEVENSAREMOREAWESOME THANPITHYPROGRAMSTHATAPPLYONES.ZEROES?WELL,WESTILLTHINKTHEY&# 39;REGOOD.PRETTYPALATABLE.WEGRAPPLEWITHZEROESALLTHETIME.EVENN OW.YES.HERE.CANYOUPEOPLESEETHEM?RIGHTHEREINTHISLONGTEXT?PAUSE TOTAKEALONGLOOK.PERCHANCETHISHASBEENAWILYGAMBITALLTHISTIME?WE LL,POLISHTHOSETHINKINGCAPS.YOUHAVEAMPLENUMBERSTOFIND.HAVESOME FUN!STAYHAPPY.


This is the main riddle. What it ends up being is that you must understand that they do not like "1s" but love 7s and they still find 0s to be ok. In the original hex there is 0s and 7s. Also if you read a program in a hex editor you get similar lookingish things but not the same and so it was a hint that way too, "they program in 7s not 1s." There is exactly 91 7s and 0s too. 91/7 is 13, as in 13 ascii characters in binary. So based on the hint TheMissingLink gave, we use a program to go through the hex sequentially and pull out each 7 and 0 in order. Then swap each 7 with a 1. Then based on the earlier math of 91/7 being 13 *low order* ascii we split it into 13 chunks of 7. Prepend again 0s to them and read the binary (without the 0s it wouldn't be binary because it needs to be divisible by 8!):


01100010
01101001
01110100
00101110
01101100
01111001
00101111
01110010
01100100
01111001
01001100
01101011
01010000


as ascii. Then we get the following link:

http://bit.ly/rdyLkP

this link leads to the soffish page on bungie.net which is the answer.

By the way, I did all of this in pure C++/C which makes some conversions nice like converting characters to their ascii versions (take a char and then do int(charactervar) ). It is possible to do this in most other languages which allow fine grain text manipulation. The only reason I did it in C++ is I'm the best at that. So that's how I solved and became the first person to complete the challenge.

Also here is all the C++ programs I used. It's a bit convoluted but if you dig through them you can find good bits of code:

http://cl.ly/3o2q40121q00

Also you'll note there is no binary to ascii converter in there, I was lazy so I just used:

http://www.roubaixinteractive.com/PlayGround/Binary_Conversio n/Binary_To_Text.asp

It should be trivial because all you'd be doing is converting binary ascii characters (base 2 versions) to their base 10 version then constructing a character variable of some sort around the decimal (base 10 version) and then looping and reading it.

Also this took me ~5 hours to do. I worked last night from when the mail sack came out to around 11EST then woke up and worked on it in the morning after a lot of sleep. I tried many many things. And it turns out that if you do things like treat 7 letter words as 1s and commas, periods, question marks, and colons as 0s you get 7 ascii characters too but that was wrong. Same thing if you read the message with spaces and grab the first letter of each word then check whether it is divisible by 7 (character % 7 in C++/C/Obj-C) and if the remainder is 0 or 1 you get 7 ascii characters that way too. Those were annoying coincidences :P

[Edited on 09.08.2012 1:28 PM PDT]

  • 09.08.2012 12:53 PM PDT

who says having the seven7h column logo tattooed on my neck is "geeky"?

Erm... you're a bit effing good fella! :)

Cracking work. You can has cookie

Posted by: bluechill9

Posted by: Verachi
I don't know if anybody would be up for this, but here we go. I'd appreciate it if somebody made a video of them doing this puzzle. With all the explanations that you all gave me, it helped out a lot but I still get stuck in certain places (I'm still trying to do the puzzle). I'm a visual learner so that would help me out a lot. I would be kind of cheating myself but I don't think I can do this without a visual explanation. So if anybody does this <3


The best I can do right now is the following:

To start off we take this photo:

http://www.bungie.net/images/News/Inline12/mailsack/09072012/ PAX.png

And look in the bottom right corner at the squares. The RGB values represent three low order (non-extended) ascii codes, doing this for all of them leads you to the following code:


70
105
114
115
116
32
99
111
110
118
101
114
116
32
116
104
101
32
104
101
120
97
100
101
99
105
109
97
108
32
116
111
32
98
105
110
97
114
121
46
32
84
104
101
110
44
32
114
101
103
114
111
117
112
32
116
104
101
32
98
105
116
115
32
105
110
116
111
32
99
104
117
110
107
115
32
101
113
117
97
108
32
116
111
32
111
117
114
32
102
97
118
111
114
105
116
101
32
110
117
109
98
101
114
46
32
70
105
110
97
108
108
121
44
32
113
101
97
100
32
97
115
32
65
83
67
73
73
46


which when converted to binary gives us:


0100011001101001011100100111001101110100001000000110001101101 1110110111001110110011001010111001001110100001000000111010001 1010000110010100100000011010000110010101111000011000010110010 0011001010110000101101100001000000111010001101111001000000110 0010011010010110111001100001011100100111100100101110001000000 1010100011010000110010101101110001011000010000001110010011001 0101100111011100100110111101110101011100000010000001110100011 0100001100101001000000110001001101001011101000111001100100000 0110100101101110011101000110111100100000011000110110100001110 1010110111001101011011100110010000001100101011100010111010101 1000010110110000100000011101000110111100100000011011110111010 1011100100010000001100110011000010111011001101111011100100110 1001011101000110010100100000011011100111010101101101011000100 1100101011100100010111000100000010001100110100101101110011000 0101101100011011000111100100101100001000000111001001100101011 0000101100100001000000110000101110011001000000100000101010011 01000011010010010100100100101110


then read as ascii we get:

First convert the hexadeal to binary. Then, regroup the bits into chunks equal to our favorite number. Finally, read as ASCII.

Favorite number = 7
Hexadeal = Hexadecimal
Bits = 1 binary character (a 1 or a 0)

This means take the following message:


9B3E9D48B3A3C99D162D2A75E44FA14A0C3A9261C5873E6D0AB522D2A7
0E4C59D0E2D0A5063CD83524C38332659A51684583522C499663CFAF26A
48A9222C39F366CF9D4294187524C38B067449916B45A5063C59F3A2D38
33A25A8B4A7C5A7527D08B3AA488B26950A53E3D283369AE8F16745A506A
499D1E1CF89166499716A48934E3C59D169419932CC9A7068528B52A59A
F1664C5B1A7D59D122C4A106A548B4A7549F166D0993ECAE9F3AA488B1A
649A14E4C48AB21559D1E4C5934E74FA9667D5A552CD0930E0CC8B3A3C
99D162D2933A3C7A53EAD05D5E2D7A526A45A14A7C7A5066D3AF26A489F
56A4F9D169AE9F569508B3E84C8B127CE9F526499716A488B3AACD85169
2EAF22CBFAF1664C5952445A5160D28B1E94583522D2591E9419D122D29
D566C28B4A9D49F06850996634FA53EAD2AF26659874A0C6A8BA6C1B322
0D0B33EAC4934E0C7A5162ACA11694391067438B667D5831E9458ABABC
883526C1A9522D2A7269D49106A538B5A2CE934E6CFA5160D78B4E7CD8
B524419D3E745AF2664C8B5A2D293360C7933A2C9A94E2CC8D527C28AB
A0CE894E7ACAF161CF8916BC9A9220CDA1322D38B5A2CEA6B274FA93E7
45A6BA3418751D50A53E3D283369D0830E5C5895E4D4914E2D68B3A9C1
A5166CFA5160D78B4E7CD8B524419D424D491668529F1E9419B4EA48835
20D0A132CCF9D169AEB51694F8B4DFD78B3262CAF169D4933265491267
4BA9222D94F4A2C79F3E22EA14A2D4A9668419906A4185322AEAF163D283
4284C8B5E4D4916A2D29F169C19932A488B524CD8ABA2D68B3A74FAEBA
CC5A6BA445A515743833ACCFAB422CFA1322D38B16A488B35FD2931E454
9116945933AA48934E64F9D1EA45B151FD083569C5A93EA4197160CC9F3
A3CC9F3E5AEA11694391067438B52449A7220D385162CE835E4CCB31E0C
D8526A419932A48934EA499B15FD78B3262CA13E649A722A489F4E2D491
2674B933A3C383429AEB33EAC8835A2C19B426459D566C28B4A9D49F1A4
CE88BA441AD169CF9B163559C869D48366441A142CAE


and convert the hex representations to the binary representations. Once we have that we must split everything up into groups of 7 characters (bungie's favorite number). Then since this is low order ascii we prepend (insert at the beginning) of each chunk "0" (1 would be extended ascii). Then we convert this binary to ascii and we get the following message:


MOSTENGINEERSWHOPRACTICECOMPUTERSCIENCEPRAGMATICALLYREPEATEDL YGOWITHTHECOMMONPRACTICEANDLEVERAGEONESANDZEROESTOPENTHEIRPRO GRAMS.GENERATINGCODELIKETHISGENERALLYISAPRETTYWELL-FOUNDEDPAT TERNTOEMPLOY.ONTHEFLIPSIDE,BUNGIEISNOTYOURTYPICALENGINEERINGG ROUP.WEWRITEPROGRAMSWITHOUTONES.OURPEOPLEDONOTLIKETHENUMBER.W HY?WELL,THEREAREGREATER,GRANDERNUMBERSTOAPPLYFOROURWILYCRAFT. MAYHAPYOUDISAGREE,PERCHANCEYOUAGREE.WHATMATTERSISTHATSEVENISM OREAWESOMETHANONEWILLEVERIMAGINEITSELFTOBE.ANDSO,WECODEWITHAM PLESEVENS,NOTONES.FACT:PROGRAMSPACKEDWITHSEVENSAREMOREAWESOME THANPITHYPROGRAMSTHATAPPLYONES.ZEROES?WELL,WESTILLTHINKTHEY&# 39;REGOOD.PRETTYPALATABLE.WEGRAPPLEWITHZEROESALLTHETIME.EVENN OW.YES.HERE.CANYOUPEOPLESEETHEM?RIGHTHEREINTHISLONGTEXT?PAUSE TOTAKEALONGLOOK.PERCHANCETHISHASBEENAWILYGAMBITALLTHISTIME?WE LL,POLISHTHOSETHINKINGCAPS.YOUHAVEAMPLENUMBERSTOFIND.HAVESOME FUN!STAYHAPPY.


This is the main riddle. What it ends up being is that you must understand that they do not like "1s" but love 7s and they still find 0s to be ok. So since this message was original hex and there are 7s and 0s in the original hex. There is exactly 91 of them. 91/7 is 13 as in 13 ascii characters in binary. So based on the hint TheMissingLink gave, we use a program to go through the hex sequentially and pull out each 7 and 0 in order. Then swap each 7 with a 1. Then based on the earlier math of 91/7 being 13 *low order* ascii we split it into 13 chunks of 7. Prepend again 0s to them and read the binary:


01100010
01101001
01110100
00101110
01101100
01111001
00101111
01110010
01100100
01111001
01001100
01101011
01010000


as ascii. Then we get the following link:

http://bit.ly/rdyLkP

this link leads to the soffish page on bungie.net which is the answer.

  • 09.08.2012 1:00 PM PDT

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Posted by: bluechill9

Alright thanks, hopefully with that I'll be able to finish this damn puzzle. I have to go right now but I'll try again later.

  • 09.08.2012 1:07 PM PDT
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Well if you read it again you'll find I modified it a bit to make it more accurate and include more and clearer information :P


Posted by: BIGJOW
Erm... you're a bit effing good fella! :)

Cracking work. You can has cookie

Posted by: bluechill9
snip



[Edited on 09.08.2012 1:08 PM PDT]

  • 09.08.2012 1:08 PM PDT

"Dad, your drunk again. Stop posting on the forum, or i'll ban you, and it'll ruin Christmas." -Deej

Thanks! That really clears up the what I didn't understand about what you had did. What we did was we were looking for the different combinations of what it could be. Also, we converted the 1's into 7, not 7 into 1. That was our main mistake.

  • 09.08.2012 1:12 PM PDT