Complicated puzzles full of red herrings, medieval European literature references, music... this sounds like the work of 1057.
For those confused, he means 1o57 - he created the DEFCON mystery challenge and usually is involved in the badge contest.
The Internet mystery that has the world baffled
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#12Whenever this comes up, I'm reminded of this series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codename_Icarus http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301116/ Very popular with the teens in my family with fantasies of being whisked away 'cause they're just so damn smart.
For the darker side of that fantasy, see: Firefly
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#13Alright. Game on.
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#14I've visited HN every day for years. How the hell is this the 1st time I've ever heard of this?
I only just stumbled upon a different article [1] recently, but I'm not surprised why it's not a well-known phenomenon. This puzzle seems to be deliberately exclusive, and most people don't have the time to 'play' whatever game is going on. There hasn't been any kind of fulfilling conclusion that would make for a compelling story.
1: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/10468112/The-...
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#15Parts of this sound like Valve's crazy Potato Fools Day. http://valvearg.com/wiki/Valve_PotatoFoolsDay_ARG_Wiki?title... It involved slow-scan TV images encoded in sound files, and Mayan calendar decoding etc.
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#16I remember back, maybe ten or 12 years ago, there was another difficult online game/puzzle called, if memory serves, notpr0n.com. It was pretty difficult, requiring lateral thinking, some amount of technical skill, and some strange trivia knowledge. I feel like this is just another version of that: hard internet puzzle. I'm also not discounting that this is some sort of ARG for something or another.
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#17By multiplying them together, the solvers found a new prime...
Huh?
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#18The hilarious part is that all of these "geniuses" are being tricked into spending tons of time on a puzzle that has no solution or end.
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#19By multiplying them together, the solvers found a new prime... Huh?
It's like a complex Sudoku puzzle, you probably wouldn't understand...
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#20I remember back, maybe ten or 12 years ago, there was another difficult online game/puzzle called, if memory serves, notpr0n.com. It was pretty difficult, requiring lateral thinking, some amount of technical skill, and some strange trivia knowledge. I feel like this is just another version of that: hard internet puzzle. I'm also not discounting that this is some sort of ARG for something or another.
Yes!
I think I made is to minus 15 with a friend. I might start again...