Glad we got the hints where we were stuck at! I am among those disappointed by the lack of any really new info, though. Really could have fit the whole road ahead into this one. Blasted leakers, ruining it for everyone!
The purple devil was a clear indication that CG_EVS_469 was JOKING.
It's a sarcasm tag disguised as an emoji. Get it?
sigsig was guessing something that others had guessed on page 1. sigsig wasn't bothering to even read the thread. Of course CG_EVS_469 was going to take sigsig down a peg.
Uhhh...sig sig, along with many others spent all day working on the thing. Don't comment on things you don't know about.
"Recursive word search" was the initial concept I wanted to build, hearkening back to a very similar puzzle from one of the early Microsoft Puzzlehunts I played in. (That one had you finding animals in a grid, the smaller grid was composed entirely of apes/monkeys, and the final answer was MIKE NESMITH, one of the Monkees.)
- EVS-469
Retrospective - This was definitely harder than the last couple. I'd say the one for Dark Bastila was about a 1/5, Revan should have been about a 2/5, but the formatting made it more challenging. C3PO was about a 3/5, though it would have been a 5 if there wasn't a text log of the notes, and I still think I may have gotten insanely lucky in finding a way to quickly decode the solfa cipher. This one ratcheted it up to about a 5.5/5 though. There were a couple of really nice lateral steps in there, especially using the Light/Dark/Cantina characters to index into. If there was a weakness, I'm not sure the Bacon's cipher was clued enough - without the hint, I'm not sure how long that would have taken to arrive at, since I was definitely stuck.
(for perspective, I'm more familiar with the Australian puzzle hunts than the MIT/Microsoft ones, mostly because they were more of the online variety, so I know a fair bit of what to expect from them)
Appreciate this. I was personally shooting for roughly a 3 or 4; my guess for the community's solve time was about six hours. I think there were a few things that knocked this up from there. First, as you noted, the lack of Bacon cluing really delayed you guys. A large part of that I think can be chalked up to the fact that a properly-encrypted Bacon cipher *doesn't look encrypted at all*, so y'all ratholed on it for quite a while.
Second, the sheer *weirdness* of Star Wars character names makes 'em harder to find in a grid without a list to work from - and made it easier to inadvertently include short ones I didn't recognize. (For the record, all the names I used were either used in-game or came from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Wars_characters - all current canon.)
Third, the fact that it was encrypted as an interim step led to errors in the initial grid, which wreaked all sorts of havoc as you guys continued to solve, particularly without the availability of mid-solve checkpoints. (And I think one or two of the nodes might've changed between when I wrote the puzzle and today, too, which didn't help any!)
All that said - again, you guys did a great job persevering through all the above, and I had a blast watching and rooting y'all on from the sidelines.
- EVS-469
The real cipher is you need all scoundrels ships at 7*
The real cipher is you need all scoundrels ships at 7*
Yes that is the real question now, the requirement, comparing to the revan farm unlocking at 5stars with 3 bh ships would probably be way to mild requirement not inducing panic farm, most likely 7star unlock with all 5 scoundrel ships. at least that is my guess.
But crumb said that is was stuff that wasn’t on the leak....the Falcon clearly was. Great puzzle and great community interaction, but disappointing result.
Maybe we're getting all the ships listed in the second grid.
Some maybe marquees.
Congratulations - y'all got it! Hope you guys had fun with this one - I've already got some Ideas for next time.
- EVS-469
Lol, and I thought you've encrypted some event video with release date =D
I think @CG_SBCrumb spoiled it with "Get it Ace" - which refers to the best pilot.
Well done, guys! I've just woken up, reread the thread and followed your steps. But I have 2 questions:
1. Was the poem solved in Discord and was it Bacon cipher or acro...stics? What was the key ?
2. I logged into the account but where did you find 102chars.txt? I can't see any bug reports...
To all those disappointed by the result of the "treasure hunt":
Translation:
"If you are now wondering where the big treasure is, then look deep into yourself, and you will find that it consists of the friendships and experiences that you made during the long search."
- "Wow."
- "Very beautiful."
- "Better than gold."
Well done, guys! I've just woken up, reread the thread and followed your steps. But I have 2 questions:
1. Was the poem solved in Discord and was it Bacon cipher or acro...stics? What was the key ?
2. I logged into the account but where did you find 102chars.txt? I can't see any bug reports...
For 1: put all the letters of the 5 lines in the original sentence together. Turn every letter from A to M into an A. Every letter from N to Z into a B. And then use Bacon cipher to decode. That way you get an email address. With that address and the password scoundrels4life it was possible to login to EA to an account named HanAndChewie.
I was just shaking my head in disappointment when boba fetter and others were dissing the whole thing, assuming it was only about the falcon. But in the end, the joke company just made themselves the butt of all jokes again. :V
You guys never fail to disappoint. Never change CG. ;D
I was just shaking my head in disappointment when boba fetter and others were dissing the whole thing, assuming it was only about the falcon. But in the end, the joke company just made themselves the butt of all jokes again. :V
You guys never fail to disappoint. Never change CG. ;D
Except it brought a large part of the community together and they enjoyed it instead of making unwarranted negative comments, but go ahead and keep disparaging them for letting folks have some fun because I'm sure that will spur them to want to communicate with us more.
I’ve personally turned a corner with the developers. I was initially very hyper critical of their approach, decisions, etc., but I truly feel like they have made the effort to adapt, keep this game interesting and fun (all while making the game profitable).
I also LOVE puzzles, and before they started with these riddles, I felt like I was pretty good at them. I’m learning quite a bit about the different ciphers that I never knew before.
I was just shaking my head in disappointment when boba fetter and others were dissing the whole thing, assuming it was only about the falcon. But in the end, the joke company just made themselves the butt of all jokes again. :V
You guys never fail to disappoint. Never change CG. ;D
Yes like most of these the answer had been guessed long before solved. Or data mine had it out first.
But either way I love these( this one in particular because with word search it brought a whole new level of community involvement) but otherwise just watching the journey and people banding together to solve it. It's fun and really they could be boring and yesterday afternoon post say falcon coming in a week. Yawn
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Sooo....they shouldn’t release anything that’s been leaked? We’re in trouble if that day comes.
Life before death.
Strength before weakness.
- EVS-469
Uhhh...sig sig, along with many others spent all day working on the thing. Don't comment on things you don't know about.
The real cipher is you need all scoundrels ships at 7*
Yes that is the real question now, the requirement, comparing to the revan farm unlocking at 5stars with 3 bh ships would probably be way to mild requirement not inducing panic farm, most likely 7star unlock with all 5 scoundrel ships. at least that is my guess.
Lil' Ani as the pilot too.
Lol, and I thought you've encrypted some event video with release date =D
I think @CG_SBCrumb spoiled it with "Get it Ace" - which refers to the best pilot.
1. Was the poem solved in Discord and was it Bacon cipher or acro...stics? What was the key ?
2. I logged into the account but where did you find 102chars.txt? I can't see any bug reports...
Thank you!
Translation:
"If you are now wondering where the big treasure is, then look deep into yourself, and you will find that it consists of the friendships and experiences that you made during the long search."
- "Wow."
- "Very beautiful."
- "Better than gold."
For 1: put all the letters of the 5 lines in the original sentence together. Turn every letter from A to M into an A. Every letter from N to Z into a B. And then use Bacon cipher to decode. That way you get an email address. With that address and the password scoundrels4life it was possible to login to EA to an account named HanAndChewie.
2. I also couldn't find the I haz bugs piece.
My Radiant fellas
It was under bug reports https://imgur.com/UBVAqW0
I was just shaking my head in disappointment when boba fetter and others were dissing the whole thing, assuming it was only about the falcon. But in the end, the joke company just made themselves the butt of all jokes again. :V
You guys never fail to disappoint. Never change CG. ;D
Except it brought a large part of the community together and they enjoyed it instead of making unwarranted negative comments, but go ahead and keep disparaging them for letting folks have some fun because I'm sure that will spur them to want to communicate with us more.
I also LOVE puzzles, and before they started with these riddles, I felt like I was pretty good at them. I’m learning quite a bit about the different ciphers that I never knew before.
This is why we cant have nice things.
A recap is being worked on.
But either way I love these( this one in particular because with word search it brought a whole new level of community involvement) but otherwise just watching the journey and people banding together to solve it. It's fun and really they could be boring and yesterday afternoon post say falcon coming in a week. Yawn
Hey, just finished typing up how the day (and night) went down. https://www.reddit.com/r/SWGalaxyOfHeroes/comments/ad6mir/the_millennium_falcon_puzzle_saga/