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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: Matt3o on Wed, 15 May 2013, 07:22:42

Title: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
Post by: Matt3o on Wed, 15 May 2013, 07:22:42: The first super-secret Matt3o's Riddle for Geekhack has been solved by jdcarpe.

What's the MRFGH?

For no particular reason and without the official support of Geekhack, I've added a secret message inside my signature. Decoding the message you get an URL where you are presented with a riddle to solve. If you answer correctly you get a prize. The harder the riddle the bigger the prize.

The first riddle was: aHR0cDovL2N1YmlxLm9yZy9naC1yaWRkbGUuaHRtbAo= that is base64 for http:// cubiq.org/gh-riddle.html
Question was: Blue : Green = Black : ?, answer Dark Grey
The prize was: Rainbow caps (http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=43552.msg908654#msg908654)

Congratulations to jdcarpe and stay tuned for the next riddle (that will be harder of course).
Title: Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
Post by: fohat.digs on Wed, 15 May 2013, 07:30:35: must read f(*) geek hack
Title: Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
Post by: esoomenona on Wed, 15 May 2013, 07:44:54: Crap! Stupid sleep... Congrats, jd! And this is an awesome thing, Matt3o. Thanks for making things fun.
Title: Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
Post by: jdcarpe on Wed, 15 May 2013, 09:32:43: The biggest part of the riddle was discovering that there was a riddle!

And it didn't happen while you slept, moose. I solved it yesterday. :)
Title: Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
Post by: esoomenona on Wed, 15 May 2013, 09:34:13: Where was the riddle!? I've been looking for traces of it...
Title: Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
Post by: Matt3o on Wed, 15 May 2013, 09:37:07: Quote from: esoomenona on Wed, 15 May 2013, 09:34:13
Where was the riddle!? I've been looking for traces of it...

It was in my signature, now removed.
Title: Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
Post by: boost on Wed, 15 May 2013, 09:37:49: Quote from: Matt3o on Wed, 15 May 2013, 09:37:07
Quote from: esoomenona on Wed, 15 May 2013, 09:34:13
Where was the riddle!? I've been looking for traces of it...

was that the postnet barcode you had?
It was in my signature, now removed.
Title: Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
Post by: jdcarpe on Wed, 15 May 2013, 09:38:47: That was a quote from WALL-E. This was new. ;)
Title: Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
Post by: esoomenona on Wed, 15 May 2013, 09:39:26: Quote from: Matt3o on Wed, 15 May 2013, 09:37:07
It was in my signature, now removed.

That's what I was thinking. Ah well. Maybe if signatures were bigger, I could have seen it. ;)
Title: Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
Post by: Matt3o on Wed, 15 May 2013, 09:40:36: The barcode was a quote from the Matrix (not wall-e).

FYI: the first riddle took 1 week to be solved.
Title: Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
Post by: jdcarpe on Wed, 15 May 2013, 09:42:04: Quote from: Matt3o on Wed, 15 May 2013, 09:40:36
The barcode was a quote from the Matrix (not wall-e).

FYI: the first riddle took 1 week to be solved.

Oh yeah, I forgot. I solved that one so long ago. :))
Title: Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
Post by: esoomenona on Wed, 15 May 2013, 10:01:12: There was more than one riddle!?
Title: Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
Post by: Matt3o on Wed, 15 May 2013, 10:04:43: Quote from: esoomenona on Wed, 15 May 2013, 10:01:12
There was more than one riddle!?

first one was to just training (consider that v0.1)
Title: Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
Post by: mashby on Wed, 15 May 2013, 10:41:17: Looking forward to the next one. ;D
Title: Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
Post by: Matt3o on Wed, 15 May 2013, 11:27:14: Quote from: mashby on Wed, 15 May 2013, 10:41:17
Looking forward to the next one. ;D

it won't be announced of course... it will just happen :)
Title: Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
Post by: jdcarpe on Tue, 28 May 2013, 16:53:16: Received my prize in the mail today! :D

(http://i.imgur.com/00hlize.png)

Rainbow caps! These will look great on my white Keycool 87. :)

Thanks so much, Matt3o! Can't wait to solve the next riddle...
Title: Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
Post by: esoomenona on Tue, 28 May 2013, 16:58:31: Congrats, jd! And again, really cool, Matt3o. I've since been trying to eyeball everyone's signature now... :/
Title: Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
Post by: Krogenar on Tue, 28 May 2013, 19:23:33: (blinks slowly, and scans the thread)
o_0
Title: Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
Post by: Matt3o on Wed, 29 May 2013, 02:45:22: congrats JD and enjoy your caps :)

Next riddle soon to come... and it won't be easy!

Cheers :)