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Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
« 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

Congratulations to jdcarpe and stay tuned for the next riddle (that will be harder of course).
« Last Edit: Wed, 29 May 2013, 02:43:51 by Matt3o »
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Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 15 May 2013, 07:30:35 »
must read f(*) geek hack
« Last Edit: Wed, 15 May 2013, 11:37:05 by fohat.digs »
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Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
« Reply #3 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. :)
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Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
« Reply #4 on: Wed, 15 May 2013, 09:34:13 »
Where was the riddle!? I've been looking for traces of it...
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Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
« Reply #5 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.
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Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
« Reply #6 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.

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Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
« Reply #7 on: Wed, 15 May 2013, 09:38:47 »
That was a quote from WALL-E. This was new. ;)
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Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
« Reply #8 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. ;)
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Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
« Reply #9 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.
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Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
« Reply #10 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. :))
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Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
« Reply #11 on: Wed, 15 May 2013, 10:01:12 »
There was more than one riddle!?
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Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
« Reply #12 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)
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Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
« Reply #13 on: Wed, 15 May 2013, 10:41:17 »
Looking forward to the next one.  ;D
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Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
« Reply #14 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 :)
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Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
« Reply #15 on: Tue, 28 May 2013, 16:53:16 »
Received my prize in the mail today! :D



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

Thanks so much, Matt3o! Can't wait to solve the next riddle...
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Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
« Reply #16 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... :/
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Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
« Reply #17 on: Tue, 28 May 2013, 19:23:33 »
(blinks slowly, and scans the thread)
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Re: Matt3o's riddle for Geekhack
« Reply #18 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 :)
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