MetaCortechs: Puzzles-New

Binary Code in MetaCortex wallpaper

perfocto1@yahoo.com@forums.unfiction.com — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:37:45 +0000

This was posted on the Official Matrix Website Forum...

johnboy3434@forums.unfiction.com — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:25:53 +0000

[PUZZLE] Undiscovered Dina pages

Giskard@forums.unfiction.com — Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:00:06 +0000

As the chat and FAQ with the PMs told us there were still puzzles to be solved and pages to be found, I thought we should have a new thread to look for the missing Dina pages. He is a quote from Medemia from the [META] Loose ends... thread to start us off:

Ok, places where they may be:

*"Thick" as pea soup (as stated above)
*Bisy
*The music on the Jesse Sketch. That was never really delved into
*The butterfly on 11/15

*This quote from 10/30

I had the strangest thing happen to me this morning. I woke up after a soothing nap, and decided that I was going to open up that can of split pea soup and have it with some rye toast heels still left over from the other night.

*When taken with the "...as pea soup" post, are they interconnected somehow?

*Quote from 10/24

Since then, it's been easier doing free verse, or internal rhyme, and not sticking to formulaic orange/door hinge type stuff.

A quick list. Just looking for ideas.

Missing hacker

Giskard@forums.unfiction.com — Sun, 04 Apr 2004 12:25:02 +0000

I just read the following in the Project MU FAQ:

Just because I liked them all so much, here's the complete list: Caesar/Jesse (JPG), Bounce (LHP), Breakpoint (DOC), Buzzkill (QM2), Case (ZIP), Double (M_U), Leak (BH), Malloc (WSG), Mello [aka Mellocino] (KBP), Omni [aka Omnie] (GRAFFLE), Plastik (GIF), Random (YPT), Spawn (GOO), Statik [aka Statik] (MP3), Texel/Ms. Kinross (TXT), Scratch (MIC).

Now I can't find any reference of a "ZIP" hacker in any of the archives. I looked around some of the sites and couldn't find one there either.

Anyone want to help me out and just point to the file I'm overlooking so I can go to sleep peacefully?

The ARG restarts ! What are the apropriate commands ?

Myssfitz@forums.unfiction.com — Sun, 15 Feb 2004 00:39:49 +0000

Well, there we are again ! :)

http://www.z10n0101.com/zion.html

Well, we have a unix system, with few commands. It seems we HAVE to hack the system, although there is a possible hint in a mispelling, when you type help:

"Lucky for you, I fell nice today.
Available commands: help, uptime, pwd, echo (text), ls (-a -la), cat (file)"

it shoud be feel ...

and uptime

"$ uptime
19:59 up 99y364d, 1 user, load average 0.00, 0.00, 0.00"

It never leaves 99y364d...

So, here is a new puzzle. :)

[TRIVIA] Cryptic Language Hint (nullam est)

jchillerup@forums.unfiction.com — Sun, 28 Dec 2003 16:09:00 +0000

For Document #28, the cryptic text ( http://www.little-boxes.net/archives/KnowledgeBase/script_print_document.php?data_id=28 ):

Nullam est. Etiam nulla purus, volutpat sit amet, lacinia sed, consequat vel, neque. Fusce at orci. Donec eros purus, interdum sit amet, scelerisque lacinia, ornare ut, enim. Etiam non mauris. Morbi molestie nisl eget pede. Donec dictum purus quis diam. Mauris rutrum, mi ut hendrerit laoreet, nulla urna interdum erat, nec laoreet nibh sapien nec mauris. Suspendisse interdum, nulla sed imperdiet sagittis, enim turpis sagittis ante, a vestibulum turpis quam non purus. Etiam odio. Etiam sagittis feugiat velit. Sed ut turpis.

It is created by the user "deleted." The other post created by "deleted" is document #45, "Locusts." ( http://www.little-boxes.net/archives/KnowledgeBase/script_print_document.php?data_id=45 ) The only thing unordinary about the Locusts post is after looking at the HTML, you can find some unusual CSS tags. I'm assuming the style sheet in question is located at http://www.little-boxes.net/archives/stylesa.css .

First:

This tag is seemingly unnecessary because there is no class called Anomalysubmitted in stylea.css. Obviously a clue.

Second:

This is far more interesting. I don't know much about CSS and languages, but I'm thinking this could help decode the weird text in doc #28.

Sorry if this has been posted already!

[PUZZLE] Wongmo Songs Easter Egg

joebrent@forums.unfiction.com — Tue, 16 Dec 2003 01:52:14 +0000

Pulled this over from the Gen section.

Oh, BTW. I just realized it was never mentioned anywhere. There is a small egg in a couple wongmo songs that nobody ever picked up on.

:wink:

I wonder if it is in the Music itself, the names or the time of each track. or some kind of combination.

What cool replayability this ARG has.

PRJ Credits

joebrent@forums.unfiction.com — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 22:05:58 +0000

OK, here's the names I attributed to my PRJ pieces and who they really are, if anyone:

The Minotaur in Fact and Fiction
J. Terrence Pendt, Julia Harper
He's a friend, she's a lawyer

The Secret (Weapons) of the Pharoahs
Johann Behforouz, Akbar al Esmallah
no idea other than Behforouz is J Terrence's eye doctor's last name and he's Egyptian

A new look at Stonehenge
Phillip Gairden, Jonathon Ashmore, Stephanie Shultz
First is self-explanatory, others I have no idea.

Creating the Undead: The Real Zombies
Afos L. Iled, Linwatan Koubombon Siwo
These are the names that mean roughly "I hate children" and "What an ugly baby you have."

Psychic Surgery
Kristen Mosley, MD, Adrienne Cain, MD
My nieces.

The Kraken: Fact, Fiction or Both?
Alan White, Elizabeth Hendricks
Variants on my brother's name and my mother's maiden name.

Mermaids, manatees and misshapen humans
Donald Franklin
My dad's first and middle names

Ghosts On Film: Capturing the Spirit
Lawrence Craig, David M. Hofer
No idea where I got these.

Remote Viewing: A Study
Randall James, Kiri Keller
Look again. James Randi and Uri Geller. There's a joke in there someplace.

Vortices and Power Spots, US
Akira Ebisawa, Fukusaburu Fukuyama
Dunno, but I was tickled mightily pronouncing Fukusaburu Fukuyama.

[Puzzle] Ethan's Deleted posts (loose ends)

krystyn@forums.unfiction.com — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 20:23:00 +0000

There are still a couple missing Ethan posts, also. I'll post the solution in a couple days if nobody finds them.

October 1 pic - enough is enough?

xnbomb@forums.unfiction.com — Sun, 30 Nov 2003 22:47:43 +0000

We've been going around in circles for over a month now. New posts keep pushing the thread up everyday but all we have so far is pure spec. Should we forget about this thing until the PM's give us an obvious hint or until the game is over?

[PUZZLE] October 1 pic at paintover [CONTINUED]

Ehsan@forums.unfiction.com — Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:47:50 +0000

Did a search and came up with the following link http://www.twin-music.com/lyrics_file/alice/special/skeleton.html .

Any Connection?

*edit*

Sorry for posting this in a new topic, however, I thought that the other thread was getting a bit crowded. Mods, feel free to move this if you wish.

[UPDATE] The ROMAN files [Nov 25]

Wix@forums.unfiction.com — Tue, 25 Nov 2003 21:48:33 +0000

http://www.underscorehosting.com/noble/

Checkout:

http://www.underscorehosting.com/noble/roman.txt
http://www.underscorehosting.com/noble/roman2.jpg
http://www.underscorehosting.com/noble/roman2.txt
http://www.underscorehosting.com/noble/roman3.jpg
http://www.underscorehosting.com/noble/roman3.txt

[SOLVED - CONFIRMED] Paintover Binary Filenames

Marl64@forums.unfiction.com — Tue, 25 Nov 2003 21:32:20 +0000

Fresh thread, fresh ideas?

(Continued from http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2645&start=219 )

The new binary filename for the stairs pic is 15. So we have 1 4 9 25 15...

1*1
2*2
3*3
5*5
5*3

If 25 weren't there, I'd put money on the next one being 22...ah well. It looks like they're playing with prime multiplication...maybe 2*3=6 as a next one? Doesn't exist yet, anyway...we're missing something here...

... and elsewhere ...

There are numerous maths sequences that "almost-fit" with the series of numbers we have so far. I wondered if the probem is that we're looking for patterns in the decimal versions of the binary numbers, rather than the binary originals.

Anyway, Here's a summary so far (Including Decimal and Hexadecimal equivalents).

Date Filename DEC HEX Title

Oct 01 00000001.jpg 1 01 eye see
Oct 05 00000100.jpg 4 04 et tu?
Oct 09 00001001.jpg 9 09 Grabbing Internet Files, a primer
Oct 11 00001111.jpg 15 0F sasquatch
Oct 16 00000011.jpg 3 03 whomp

Oct 25 00011010.jpg 26 1A OH LOOK A MYSTERIOUS IMAGE
Nov 06 00001000.jpg 8 08 agenda

Oct 09 00011001.jpg 25 19 Oh, and BTW...

Oct 09 00001001.gif 9 09 (none, Hidden File)

-={ thumbnails link to originals on paintover.net }=-
- -
-={ thumbnails link to originals on paintover.net }=-

28 October - Possible Solution? as started HERE
DATE DEC +64 ASCII ROT5
Oct 01 1 65 A F
Oct 05 4 68 D I
Oct 09 9 73 I N
Oct 09 25 89 Y D
Oct 11 15 79 O T
Oct 16 3 67 C H
Oct 25 26 90 Z E
Nov 06 8 72 H M
based on this theory, the answer so far is: F I N D T H E M

Nybble Theory
If the 25 is throwing out the sequence, see what you can do without it.

The two pictures which appeared on the 9th have identical binary except for one bit (000 1 1001).

If we only consider the right hand 4 bits, what in computer terms is the "least significant nybble" (I kid you not, half a byte is a nybble) the 25 is not required for the sequence.

Look at it another way, in the hex column, we only deal with the right hand digit. Now Omnies theory could possibly fit.

Edit: Typo, thanks Yanka
Edit: Added October 16 Picture (and smug look regarding Nybbles :D )
Edit: Added Thumbnailed Links to Originals
Edit: Added Oct 25 - Scratch Post in different location, so can this be excluded from the "caesar" sequence?
Edit: Added Oct 29 - Possible Solution Table.
Edit: Added Nov 06 Picture (thumbnail to follow)
Edit: The PM's have confirmed this as correctly solved

[SOLVED]Pheonix ("Business Card") Beth's metadex

jackhermercury@forums.unfiction.com — Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:53:51 +0000

[SOLVED] phone number found hidden on the bird picture: 702-407-0925

An ingame phone number for a Dr. Schuffhausen.

New website: Dr. Schuffhausen

Thanks to bakntime for finding the hidden numbers and to trip for making the phonecall and sapagoo for finding the website. And to everyone who contributing to the investigation.

[EDIT2: Ok, he's in game. My bad! --AnthraX101]

[PUZZLE] The SILVIA Files

bakntime@forums.unfiction.com — Mon, 24 Nov 2003 04:11:42 +0000

From the October 11 at paintover, we found http://www.little-boxes.net/stairs/stairs/stairs/

Username: proteus
password: door

There are also files starting with Silvia.* where the same carelessly extensions seem to work. Please discuss in this thread..

All files can be found here:
http://netninja.com/scrapbook/Metacortex/silvia/