Maelstrom

tog · Post by **tog** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 11:10 pm

I just extracted the ASCII-string and opened the png (looking forward to find the password). I was a bit disappointed to see that greenish thing with white speckles. Is there any hint if this is another stage of encoding, or is this an error?

Post by **adum** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 11:49 pm

no error!

therethinker · Post by **therethinker** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 12:48 am

Holy crap this thing sounds mean.

I was really hoping we wouldn't actually have to extract the string from the pic. Oh well

tog · Post by **tog** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 7:53 am

Then either I made some mistake or this is some strange encoding... I got some plaintext at the start and then a pile of mess.

>edit: Doh, I got it. Sometimes the most obvious is the last thing that comes to mind.

MerickOWA · Post by **MerickOWA** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:18 pm

I think adum is getting sadistic in these challenges

Post by **adum** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 5:17 pm

hey! i didn't make this one =)

tog · Post by **tog** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 7:21 pm

MerickOWA wrote:I think adum is getting sadistic in these challenges

That's how I like it

MagneticMonopole · Post by **MagneticMonopole** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:48 am

Have got the greenish speckles and from there the plain text, did as the last sentence told me (twice!!), but my answers still got rejected... I can feel tog's pain!
Anything special to do with the answer before submitting?

tog · Post by **tog** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 11:29 am

MagneticMonopole wrote:Anything special to do with the answer before submitting?

Not really. Once you have the plain text, it should be straight forward.

MagneticMonopole · Post by **MagneticMonopole** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 12:17 pm

Thanks! Finally got it. Obviously, the last part was the most difficult

Broker · Post by **Broker** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 7:47 am

That was a challenge how i like it, perfect!

Straight forward with Ups & Downs.

arthur · Post by **arthur** » Wed Sep 01, 2010 5:09 pm

i don't know why my answer is rejected, can someone help to check my answer?
**edit** finally got it

fridolin · Post by **fridolin** » Mon Dec 24, 2012 1:08 am

I got the text from the second image but there isn't anything appearing to be the answer. Any hints?

michuber · Post by **michuber** » Mon Dec 24, 2012 7:52 am

Did you decode/read the entire text?

fridolin · Post by **fridolin** » Mon Dec 24, 2012 1:19 pm

The last sentence was missing - now i got it