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    Do you have a fun way of writing something or showing something that makes people pause and question what exactly just happened?

    One that I did earlier in IRC and had a few people get involved... solve what this says:
    [​IMG]

    Hint 1:
    that text is chaotic

    Hint 2:
    it says afraid in the middle

    Hint 3:
    read one direction at a time

    Answer:
    don't be afraid of chaos (once forward, once backward and upside down)


    If you enjoyed this then post here and add yours with spoilers so people know if they figured it out! Please don't post answers without using the spoiler tags! (use [ ] with spoiler and /spoiler around the text you want to hide)
     
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    I don't know if this falls into this category but my favorite palindrome is : A man, a plan, a canal, panama.
     
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    Okay... here's another one!

    There are two lunar rifts... one leads to the jewels and treasures chamber of Lord British and has a life of freedom... the other leads to the dungeons of the Guardian and strikes you with all poisons that are known to kill even Lord British then captivates you in solitude until you perish. There are two Lunar Rift Guards... one who always lies and one who always tells the truth... as they are strangers of this land we know not which is which. You have one question you may ask to decide which rift to ride... what is your question?

    Hint 1:
    the correct question will always be answered with the wrong door

    Hint 2:
    I wonder what the other guy would say?

    Answer:
    If I were to ask the other guard which Lunar Rift leads to freedom, what would he say?
     
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    8,16,262144,1048576,2,512,16384 1048576,256,512,16384,128,524288 1024,2097152,8192,65536,32,16 32768,2097152,1048576 2,1048576 8192,32 512,8192,8192,32,16,512,2,1048576,32,4096,33554432,, 4,2097152,1048576 1048576,256,32,16384 2,128,2,512,16384,, 512 1048576,2,2097152,128,256,1048576 8192,33554432 2048,512,16,524288 1048576,32768 8,32768,2097152,16384,1048576 32768,16384 1048576,256,32,512,262144 64,512,16384,128,32,262144,524288 2097152,524288,512,16384,128 256,512,16384,1048576,, 512 8192,32,2,16384 4,2,524288,32,, 1048576,8388608,32768......

    Just to hear the verbal assault when the teachers called home after they reached four. :D
     
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    Baron Violation...
    Bnl hkaxboj yhxc egzs'w tqiz ofud cw lplxrn waa... :)

    Hint 1:
    Caesar

    Hint 2:
    Jenny

    Hint 3:
    Tommy Tutone

    Answer:
    The chaotic text wasn't that hard to figure out... ;)
     
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    I'll have to say that I had to cheat to read that... beyond me!

    I wonder how many hidden messages will be in Shroud of the Avatar. Thanks for the brain game! :)

    [​IMG]

    Hint 1
    there is more here than meets the eye... more hints tomorrow

    Hint 2
    the "more hints tomorrow" was the hint 2... essentially the date 20140317 was important

    Hint 3
    steganography

    Hint 4
    Image code to embed the message in:
    bü½‡ù`,#;aIï=.Où`Ë1Uh÷ä·°ÃrTmF ½ÔÇp¢Ù)ÙàÚ¡ïà‡¨ü2†by[œ,zßs2º¨$ߨÿ é„_sŒp,n/ôp‰I;Õ‹:sÔ/aõÆ$ÜW|q…$Aþx\’orïnŒ-l –T` –$ql-‘ºt‘Igõ“b¦¶D*z1瞃ºµÕT©èOŒ6fâ.ŠOQ‡%<,¾Ä„
    {GÓ ]¥¾äIqÇ64Ž¡Š(Ü?uo×õÃf˜†eü¶±8IŒ¢]…ž5Òäñ€

    Hint 5
    It's the end of the image and in plain text... it also has a cipher and starts and ends with [].
    so: rip text, remove odd #'d letters from image code above, ciphered as a shift.

    p.s. I used this method to pass notes in programming classes back in the 90s.. our shift was the date of the class period it was sent. Cheers :)
     
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    Yer killin' me, smalls!
     
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    well... when you get it you'll possibly be sad... but there's a third hint ;)

    edit: looks like my overnights have thrown me off a day... I'll throw a 4th hint up here within the next hour or two...
     
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    ok... not sure what happened... I kept refreshing my screen when I got home, and never saw another hint, hence my last post *laughs*
     
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    Looks at Hint 3... OMG! I was dead on the money from the word go!!!! *grrrrrrr* The problem... knowing about it is not knowing how to do it lol
     
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    Did you get it after Hint 4?
     
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    Everything I can find to use is malware :p
     
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    do it how I do it... with old school skills... :p I didn't use a program but it can be reverse engineered by a program as I kept a discernible pattern and utilized a few basic steps to find/remove what I did post knowledge...

    Last hint... I'll append it... as hint 5...

    It's the end of the image and in plain text... it also has a cipher and starts and ends with [].
     
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    Hehehe... too bad I wasn't up to it on this one. I can't believe I didn't think to go that old school to do this lol.
     
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