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  • 09.15.2012 8:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: ecartman1214

Posted by: bluechill9

Posted by: FMike
Step 1: Bungie
Step 2: Apple
Step 3: Halo
Step 4: Chinese food (General Sol's chicken?)
Step 5: Ling Ling (ring ring?)
Step 6: Coup (1st syllable of cuckoo)
Step 7: Red sun?


This may be the right order but is this the right answer?

1: Bungie
2: Apple
3: Halo
4: Chinese food
5: Ling Ling
6: Coup
7: 7th column

I'm not sure about 5 or 6 but I am about 1,2,3,4 and 7


Those are all 7 steps of Bungies plan for world domination. I haven't read through everything so far. I'm kinda just jumping in and checking progress. But here is a link in case you missed out. http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/7_Steps_to_World_Domination


Well yeah so in that case I have finally stated the complete way of getting to "Per audacia ad astra" and the complete order along with logic. qed I win again kind of however last week I got to it faster :P I was presumably the first person to put that all together? qed I win? idk... :P

I should at least get bonus points for using qed in a sentence as TheMissingLink is a math major and qed is from math proofs :D lol kind of

TheMissingLink did say that I was right about the 4 being the 7th Column in a PM so idk even though it does say that the sun on there.

[Edited on 09.15.2012 9:07 PM PDT]

  • 09.15.2012 9:02 PM PDT

Games I like:,
Half-Minute Hero
MBU
Portal
Halo 3 is the best Halo ever
Maps I like: Turf, Avalanche, Pylon, Sandbox, Breakpoint and many more.

Hmmm.... I don't know.

  • 09.15.2012 9:06 PM PDT

Completely out of ideas for the night....

  • 09.15.2012 9:46 PM PDT

And to think link thought this one was easier.

  • 09.15.2012 11:41 PM PDT

“Oh, it’s a little bit of everything, it’s the mountains, it’s the fog, it’s the news at six o’clock, it’s the death of my first dog, it’s the angels up above me, it’s the song that they don’t sing, It’s a little bit of everything.”
- Dawes, A little bit of everything

I am impressed.

  • 09.15.2012 11:47 PM PDT
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Posted by: DeeJ
And to think link thought this one was easier.


So did I. Little did I know. I need beta testers. DeeJ, get on that for me, will you? :)

S'okay, so let me add a hint into this.

Step 1 is assigning numbers to all the pictures. Presuming you've done that...

Step 2 is all about traversing the maze. You should know that you're on the right track because you will get two messages back to back. The first letter of the first message is M; the last letter of the second message is V.

Step 3... I'm getting ahead of myself, but Step 2 tells you what you need to do here. This will give you an instruction for Step 4.

As for Step 4, well, solving that will give you the answer, which you already know.

---

EDIT: Also, for all yous who want to see how this puzzle actually gets solved, I will be posting pictures detailing the solution once we're done. Since so many people actually like to see how it was actually done.

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EDIT 2: Sorry for being MIA most of the day. The weekends are sometimes hit and miss for me being here. (I've been checking in off and on, but I haven't been on the computer all the day.) Today hasn't been the most fantastic day for me, so hopefully you're not too upset if I haven't gotten to your PMs in the past few hours.

As far as I know, no one's fully described the solution yet, though I do think one person is pretty close. If you think I'm wrong in that, please let me know.

[Edited on 09.16.2012 12:14 AM PDT]

  • 09.16.2012 12:11 AM PDT
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Posted by: TheMisssingLink
I need beta testers.
I volunteer myself. :D

  • 09.16.2012 12:15 AM PDT

Posted by: Enormous Corgi
Posted by: Unanimate Objec
There's no way Nate Hawbaker's favorite hero is Alan Stuart


ALAN IS A BEAUTIFUL MAN!


Posted by: TheMisssingLink

Posted by: DeeJ
And to think link thought this one was easier.


So did I. Little did I know. I need beta testers. DeeJ, get on that for me, will you? :)

S'okay, so let me add a hint into this.

Step 1 is assigning numbers to all the pictures. Presuming you've done that...

Step 2 is all about traversing the maze. You should know that you're on the right track because you will get two messages back to back. The first letter of the first message is M; the last letter of the second message is V.

Step 3... I'm getting ahead of myself, but Step 2 tells you what you need to do here. This will give you an instruction for Step 4.

As for Step 4, well, solving that will give you the answer, which you already know.

---

EDIT: Also, for all yous who want to see how this puzzle actually gets solved, I will be posting pictures detailing the solution once we're done. Since so many people actually like to see how it was actually done.

---

EDIT 2: Sorry for being MIA most of the day. The weekends are sometimes hit and miss for me being here. (I've been checking in off and on, but I haven't been on the computer all the day.) Today hasn't been the most fantastic day for me, so hopefully you're not too upset if I haven't gotten to your PMs in the past few hours.

As far as I know, no one's fully described the solution yet, though I do think one person is pretty close. If you think I'm wrong in that, please let me know.



I am currently working with one of the members you are thinking of. We are so, so close we can almost touch it.

  • 09.16.2012 1:31 AM PDT

I believe I have found our missing steps (or link, as it were). I am going to post the entire process here, with steps 2-6 being what I believe are the new unposted goodness.

The visual work I did I put into this solution image. References to this image are in {curly braces}.

1) Map the images to numbers {numbers}. The images are perverted representations of Bungie's seven steps to world domination.
1: Start independent gaming software company. - Bungee jumper = Bungie
2: Dominate Mac platform: Launch assault on Windows platform. - Apple = Macintosh
3: Announce killer gaming title. - Angel = Halo
4: Acquire strangely addictive Chinese food company. - General + So = General Tso's chicken
5: Recover Ling Ling's head. - Banana Phone = Ling ling ling ling ling ling ling...
6: Stage bloody coup of new parent company. = Half cuckoo clock = coup (d'etat)
7: Take over world, shoot enemies into the sun with giant slingshot. - sun (that happens to have a heptagon and a four in it)


2) Walk the maze {red line}. The file name of the puzzle image is itallbeginswithyou.jpg. The background of the puzzle is the Seventh Column symbol, and we, as fans, are the seventh (unique) column in that symbol, so we use it as a starting point. As it is the number 4, we draw a line to the point we marked as 4, but we stop as soon as we cross another number. We hit 3, so we draw toward 3 until we hit 1, and so on. Continue this drawing until we finally draw a line the doesn't intercept any more numbers.

3) Write out all the letters we crossed in this process. We end up with the string "MIRROR ME DQDJUDPOHIWRYHUOHWWHUV".

4) With this "mirror me" clue, we take the path we drew in step 2, and flip it horizontally (which happens to be the line of symmetry for the seventh column symbol) {black line}.

5) Write out the letters crossed by this line. We get "DECRYPT WITH SALAD DRESSING" (though I would argue that it looks like "SFALAD"). The only salad dressing I personally use to pass secret messages is Caesar salad.

6) We plug our weird-looking DQDJUDPOHIWRYHUOHWWHUV into a caesar-cipher-decrypter and get "ANAGRAM LEFT OVER LETTERS".

7) We take what is left over {blue boxes}, reassemble the letters, and finally we can see "PER AUDACIA AD ASTRA", the little motto Bungie has been teasing us with for a while :-).

I do believe the inclusion of the "F" in the puzzle was a mistake though, as none of the messages include it, and it was the one "iffy" line-letter interaction.

( I apologize for all the edits, I learned from my mistake last week of trying to explain my work before posting the solution ;-) )

[Edited on 09.16.2012 2:41 AM PDT]

  • 09.16.2012 1:38 AM PDT

UGH, mad at myself for not seeing the second message, my line was touching a few more letters.....

Is there confirmation that this is indeed correct? (looks correct by me)

Sorry out of frustration I did forget to congratulate you, good job krish.

[Edited on 09.16.2012 2:19 AM PDT]

  • 09.16.2012 2:14 AM PDT

Welcome to the town of "Diligence." I'm Mayor Due.

Crazy! Nice work!

Posted by: kirish

  • 09.16.2012 2:17 AM PDT

Кланяються мені!


Posted by: kirish

( I apologize for all the edits, I learned from my mistake last week of trying to explain my work before posting the solution ;-) )


Nice! Congratulations bro. Perhaps you should edit in "Going boldly into the stars" into your answer, you know just in case they wanted the translated version ;)

Next week I say lets go on a scavenger hunt around Bnet! Hide-and-go-seek BNET addition if you will. Kind of how they hid those download codes for the Mythic Maps for Halo 3 a couple years back.

  • 09.16.2012 2:20 AM PDT
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Posted by: kirish
I believe I have found our missing steps (or link, as it were). I am going to post the entire process here, with steps 2-6 being what I believe are the new unposted goodness.

The visual work I did I put into this solution image. References to this image are in {curly braces}.

1) Map the images to numbers {numbers}. The images are perverted representations of Bungie's seven steps to world domination.
1) Start independent gaming software company. - Bungee jumper = Bungie
2) Dominate Mac platform: Launch assault on Windows platform. - Apple = Macintosh
3) Announce killer gaming title. - Angel = Halo
4) Acquire strangely addictive Chinese food company. - General + So = General Tso's chicken
5) Recover Ling Ling's head. - Banana Phone = Ling ling ling ling ling ling ling...
6) Stage bloody coup of new parent company. = Half cuckoo clock = coup (d'etat)
7) Take over world, shoot enemies into the sun with giant slingshot. - sun (that happens to have a heptagon and a four in it)

2) Walk the maze {red line}. The file name of the puzzle image is itallbeginswithyou.jpg. The background of the puzzle is the Seventh Column symbol, and we, as fans, are the seventh (unique) column in that symbol, so we use it as a starting point. As it is the number 4, we draw a line to the point we marked as 4, but we stop as soon as we cross another number. We hit 3, so we draw toward 3 until we hit 1, and so on. Continue this drawing until we finally draw a line the doesn't intercept any more numbers.

3) Write out all the letters we crossed in this process. We end up with the string "MIRROR ME DQDJUDPOHIWRYHUOHWWHUV".

4) Take the path we drew in step 2, and flip in horizontally (which happens to be the line of symmetry for the seventh column symbol) {black line}.

5) Write out the letters crossed by this line. We get "DECRYPT WITH SALAD DRESSING" (though I would argue that it looks like "SFALAD"). The only salad dressing I personally use to pass secret messages is Caesar salad.

6) We plug our weird-looking DQDJUDPOHIWRYHUOHWWHUV into a caesar-cipher-decrypter and get "ANAGRAM LEFT OVER LETTERS".

7) We take what is left over {blue boxes}, reassemble the letters, and finally we can see "PER AUDACIA AD ASTRA"

I do believe the inclusion of the "F" was a mistake though, as none of the messages include it, and it was the one "iffy" line-letter interaction.

( I apologize for all the edits, I learned from my mistake last week of trying to explain my work before posting the solution ;-) )
Haha, I just finished working it through that way, but got stuck at the salad.
That works perfectly.

  • 09.16.2012 2:27 AM PDT

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I can lick my elbow.
Am I the only one that tried this upon reading it? My wife won't stop laughing at me for doing so....

  • 09.16.2012 2:27 AM PDT

Posted by: Enormous Corgi
Posted by: Unanimate Objec
There's no way Nate Hawbaker's favorite hero is Alan Stuart


ALAN IS A BEAUTIFUL MAN!

Finally! After one hard,long day it's done! Took me forever to get to the maze part, especially after trying to connect the dots the wrong way.

Congratz Kirish. Came out of nowhere on that one.

Is this another solo winner, or are there some rooms for honorable mentions? :P

[Edited on 09.16.2012 3:25 AM PDT]

  • 09.16.2012 2:42 AM PDT
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I'm totally honourable.

  • 09.16.2012 2:56 AM PDT


Posted by: Kalriq
I'm totally honourable.
If there are honorable mentions, I'm not sure if I should be one.

I was the first to point out the image file name, even though someone would have figured that out shortly after I did. I also pointed everyone in the right direction with the Banana phone. That's got to be worth something right? Maybe a simple "contributor" mention.

Anyway, it's 3 AM and I really need some sleep. Good night Bnet.

  • 09.16.2012 3:01 AM PDT

Holy hell I was way off.. nice one chaps.

  • 09.16.2012 4:44 AM PDT
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Whoo.

Posted by: Izak609
Posted by: TheMisssingLink
I need beta testers.
I volunteer myself. :D
I could also join in and rage disproportionate amounts.

  • 09.16.2012 5:16 AM PDT

Posted by: Enormous Corgi
Posted by: Unanimate Objec
There's no way Nate Hawbaker's favorite hero is Alan Stuart


ALAN IS A BEAUTIFUL MAN!


Posted by: MURDUR 587
Posted by: Izak609
Posted by: TheMisssingLink
I need beta testers.
I volunteer myself. :D
I could also join in and rage disproportionate amounts.



Seems legit. Count me in.


Also, any idea as to whether Bungie Employees try these puzzles out as well?

  • 09.16.2012 6:10 AM PDT
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Posted by: Unanimate Objec
Posted by: MURDUR 587
Posted by: Izak609
Posted by: TheMisssingLink
I need beta testers.
I volunteer myself. :D
I could also join in and rage disproportionate amounts.



Seems legit. Count me in.


Also, any idea as to whether Bungie Employees try these puzzles out as well?
They're clearly the fabled interview process.

  • 09.16.2012 6:10 AM PDT

The HELL you are! These are precious gifts to me and they are non-transferable! How dare you regift my challenge prize. You might as well hock a wedding ring for beer money. -DeeJ

Who won?

  • 09.16.2012 7:25 AM PDT
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Posted by: kirish
I believe I have found our missing steps (or link, as it were). I am going to post the entire process here, with steps 2-6 being what I believe are the new unposted goodness.

The visual work I did I put into this solution image. References to this image are in {curly braces}.

1) Map the images to numbers {numbers}. The images are perverted representations of Bungie's seven steps to world domination.
1: Start independent gaming software company. - Bungee jumper = Bungie
2: Dominate Mac platform: Launch assault on Windows platform. - Apple = Macintosh
3: Announce killer gaming title. - Angel = Halo
4: Acquire strangely addictive Chinese food company. - General + So = General Tso's chicken
5: Recover Ling Ling's head. - Banana Phone = Ling ling ling ling ling ling ling...
6: Stage bloody coup of new parent company. = Half cuckoo clock = coup (d'etat)
7: Take over world, shoot enemies into the sun with giant slingshot. - sun (that happens to have a heptagon and a four in it)


2) Walk the maze {red line}. The file name of the puzzle image is itallbeginswithyou.jpg. The background of the puzzle is the Seventh Column symbol, and we, as fans, are the seventh (unique) column in that symbol, so we use it as a starting point. As it is the number 4, we draw a line to the point we marked as 4, but we stop as soon as we cross another number. We hit 3, so we draw toward 3 until we hit 1, and so on. Continue this drawing until we finally draw a line the doesn't intercept any more numbers.

3) Write out all the letters we crossed in this process. We end up with the string "MIRROR ME DQDJUDPOHIWRYHUOHWWHUV".

4) With this "mirror me" clue, we take the path we drew in step 2, and flip it horizontally (which happens to be the line of symmetry for the seventh column symbol) {black line}.

5) Write out the letters crossed by this line. We get "DECRYPT WITH SALAD DRESSING" (though I would argue that it looks like "SFALAD"). The only salad dressing I personally use to pass secret messages is Caesar salad.

6) We plug our weird-looking DQDJUDPOHIWRYHUOHWWHUV into a caesar-cipher-decrypter and get "ANAGRAM LEFT OVER LETTERS".

7) We take what is left over {blue boxes}, reassemble the letters, and finally we can see "PER AUDACIA AD ASTRA", the little motto Bungie has been teasing us with for a while :-).

I do believe the inclusion of the "F" in the puzzle was a mistake though, as none of the messages include it, and it was the one "iffy" line-letter interaction.

( I apologize for all the edits, I learned from my mistake last week of trying to explain my work before posting the solution ;-) )


This is our winner. :)

  • 09.16.2012 7:35 AM PDT


Posted by: TheMisssingLink


Where do you get the ideas for these challenges?

  • 09.16.2012 7:41 AM PDT