Post by crunchyfrog555 on Aug 18, 2019 21:10:53 GMT
By all means, if anyone is still active here, ridicule me all you wish. Im oin my fifties, and while i had heard of cicada 3301, i never bothered getting into it until ths weekend. I am not even approching anything that could be considered tech savvy - while i used to work in computer operatuons in the 80s, my interest has lapsed.
What i do have is that i have been involved in a few args, so some experience, and i am good at logic and psychology. This means i can often "cheat" or at least shortcut some way behind some args by working out WHO did it, or what their goals are. Little breadcumbs that give me a picture of their mindset.
That said, the reason i got involved this weekend is because of a 4 part documentary about it i just watched on youtube. There were certain things that i thought of, which were later already thought of in the videos, so yeah, it involved me.
One thing that cropped out for me was that the current big roadblock it now stands at - the liber primus. So far, all steps in the puzzle have been employing a mix of niche, yet well regarded literature and computer tech. As certain memebers in that video allude to - what if they have changed tack? I mean, this long a roadblock may certainly allude to it.
I cant offer much, but immediately thought the starting point for the liber primus is that the clue to it is a word puzzle. On one hand it says the book is a road, and another, the way. Way and road are synonymous, obviously. So is this also literal in some way?
The runes are laid out like a road on apage maybe, with large margins, where it also says something like the images are signs, which are at the side of "the road". Could they be overlaid or arranged?
What aldo sprang to mind was that some of the methods in the puzzles thus far reminded of Carl Sagans book "contact". So maybe if the creator(s) are emulating the bit where the puzzles are literally arranged as pages in 3d space? In this case, are the pages arranged in some way, like a road, with those signs maybe overliad or something?
As i said, it aint much, but as a tech based assault is not yielding anything, have they tried alternatives like this?
What i do have is that i have been involved in a few args, so some experience, and i am good at logic and psychology. This means i can often "cheat" or at least shortcut some way behind some args by working out WHO did it, or what their goals are. Little breadcumbs that give me a picture of their mindset.
That said, the reason i got involved this weekend is because of a 4 part documentary about it i just watched on youtube. There were certain things that i thought of, which were later already thought of in the videos, so yeah, it involved me.
One thing that cropped out for me was that the current big roadblock it now stands at - the liber primus. So far, all steps in the puzzle have been employing a mix of niche, yet well regarded literature and computer tech. As certain memebers in that video allude to - what if they have changed tack? I mean, this long a roadblock may certainly allude to it.
I cant offer much, but immediately thought the starting point for the liber primus is that the clue to it is a word puzzle. On one hand it says the book is a road, and another, the way. Way and road are synonymous, obviously. So is this also literal in some way?
The runes are laid out like a road on apage maybe, with large margins, where it also says something like the images are signs, which are at the side of "the road". Could they be overlaid or arranged?
What aldo sprang to mind was that some of the methods in the puzzles thus far reminded of Carl Sagans book "contact". So maybe if the creator(s) are emulating the bit where the puzzles are literally arranged as pages in 3d space? In this case, are the pages arranged in some way, like a road, with those signs maybe overliad or something?
As i said, it aint much, but as a tech based assault is not yielding anything, have they tried alternatives like this?
