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cracking the code of the itanimulli riddle

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cracking the riddle by itanimulli which can be found at https://hackaday.io/conspiracy

AFAIK the riddle is still unsolved. The original project https://hackaday.io/project/7432 seems to be more progressed than this but operates in hidden spaces.

Progress Summary (Items posted by itanimulli prefixed by POST):

  • POST: Project Tags (BIELEFELD, ILLUMINATI, BERENSTAIN BEARS)
    • All generally accepted as conspiracy theories
  • POST: Vigenère comments
    • Comment 1: Vigenère Key == FEZ, "well done, stay tuned"
    • Comment 2: (unsolved)
  • POST: Noise File, XOR clue
    • Created FEZ Tile Map by XORing tile into noise file.
    • Background of image (inverted tiles) are the same XOR tile posted
  • FEZ Tile Map
    • Glyphs are FEZ Symbols
    • The borders/inverse of the symbols are arranged in the same pattern as the "pixels" of the XOR clue
    • FEZ Decodes to a message. "TO" is misspelled "TAO"
  • POST: Waterfall
    • Extract LSB, new FEZ Color Map
  • FEZ Color Map
    • Extract RGB color maps -> Decode FEZ
    • No message in blue channel, lots of extra data
    • Messages are Tao-like, read top-down, right-to-left
  • POST: Empty text file '0dfz7.txt'
    • File is empty (0 bytes in file)
  • POST: "the exhumation has been reversed"

application/zip - 2.60 MB - 12/29/2015 at 13:16

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Waterfall_Orig.zip

RGB lettermaps from the first waterfall images posted in CSV format

application/zip - 3.25 kB - 12/26/2015 at 16:14

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blue_decode.txt

CSV file of the letters from the blue channel of the waterfall.

text/plain - 2.31 kB - 12/20/2015 at 04:15

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green_decode.txt

CSV file of the letters from the green channel of the waterfall

text/plain - 2.29 kB - 12/20/2015 at 04:14

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red_decode.txt

CSV file of the letters from the red channel of the waterfall

text/plain - 2.30 kB - 12/20/2015 at 04:14

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  • out of the blue

    Moritz Walter01/05/2016 at 23:30 8 comments

    Ok, so..

    @Kenji Larsen had offered help, providing the missing text from the empty text file "0dfz7.txt", which, intentionally or unintentionally, got lost and wasn't retrievable. The text content of the file was:

    pnlhcfpslerhzrgwpvyrvcspsxozrjwbeooakazviggsezhwihiheqgmtmlezwx
    which was found to be a Vigenère Autokey chiffre text with the key
    hint
    and decodes to
    ifyouarereadingthisyouaredoingitrightstoponeplustwoplusxisthree
    "If you are reading this, you are doing it right."

    "one plus two plus x is three"

    So the chiffre contains a little helper text and the hint:

    1 + 2 + x = 3

    Your education system failed by definition if you don't feel the urge to.... gnnn arrr.. must..solve...

    x = 3 - 2 - 1

    This could be the missing hint to decrypting the FEZ code field from the waterfall image stego.

    Reminder: There were some texts and haikus in the red and green channel, but not the blue one. Also, the channels were marked with numbers in the left upper corner, R=1, G=2, B=3

    Together with the hint from the above chiffre, we can assume, that a hidden message (x) is revealed by subtracting channel 2 (G) and 1 (R) from channel 3 (B).

    I had tried before to add and subtract various combinations of the channels by shifting the letters like in a Vigenère code, but without result. @Stuart Longland encouraged me to try it again, so here's the method:

    1. translate the FEZ symbol fields of all three channels to three letter fields, whereas the ambivalent KQ simply translates to K and the UV to V.
    2. map the letter fields to a number fields in the typical Vigenère style with A=0, B=1, ..., Z=25
    3. generate a fourth number field by the rule (3*26 + blue - green - red)mod26 (whereas 26 is the alphabet length)
    4. translate the fourth number field back into letters

    I got this:

    H, M, Y, L, K, F, Y, T, G, I, T, P, A, C, J, P, B, I, P, X, D, X, D, W, S, T, H, 
    N, R, S, W, U, Y, K, U, O, M, G, P, N, G, T, P, U, H, S, Z, O, A, O, I, O, H, E, 
    P, S, J, K, C, N, R, R, O, S, K, P, E, N, S, S, T, N, Y, K, T, N, T, Z, U, E, K, 
    B, C, W, X, F, B, P, X, D, U, L, S, R, A, F, A, L, Q, W, K, A, E, Z, B, T, T, L, 
    U, G, Q, O, M, H, K, W, L, R, G, Z, A, S, U, M, E, E, D, M, Q, A, H, M, H, E, O, 
    Y, V, J, K, L, W, H, Q, U, E, S, W, M, S, N, H, E, Y, Y, G, E, L, O, Y, A, C, Z, 
    Q, D, X, V, G, O, P, P, C, Y, Z, D, P, V, N, X, P, O, B, M, Q, H, U, U, L, O, M, 
    M, X, S, N, W, U, Y, Y, K, O, R, A, L, M, Z, V, I, U, E, A, L, Q, Y, S, K, N, A, 
    T, K, K, W, Z, D, O, V, Z, V, I, D, E, E, H, G, H, E, C, J, P, U, H, E, F, D, C, 
    V, E, H, R, V, Y, W, M, V, A, D, R, A, W, O, Y, M, N, K, K, W, I, K, R, I, P, N, 
    S, H, V, O, X, S, I, Z, P, G, D, U, L, H, D, B, I, J, S, A, R, D, Y, N, N, A, Z, 
    X, N, H, Y, Y, A, B, W, C, L, L, G, L, E, M, N, N, O, D, Z, R, F, H, U, D, R, Q, 
    F, U, S, X, Z, E, J, C, F, E, E, Y, T, R, U, X, D, Y, P, N, Q, R, N, M, A, T, F, 
    N, R, X, P, S, L, V, G, Y, E, W, B, H, D, C, X, T, E, I, O, D, O, Y, E, W, U, T, 
    B, F, X, C, K, J, V, C, Q, Z, A, K, E, T, H, M, H, D, V, V, S, M, D, Z, E, F, F, 
    O, K, H, M, R, L, J, P, N, E, S, C, S, H, I, S, E, S, O, Y, L, A, N, M, C, Y, V, 
    J, A, W, J, Z, W, E, S, Y, S, N, X, E, E, N, N, A, O, X, X, Q, F, R, M, S, O, J, 
    G, R, F, P, L, X, B, H, T, R, U, F, P, R, F, G, L, R, Z, I, V, L, L, Y, H, U, W, 
    P, Q, J, Q, M, Q, S, F, R, G, P, C, O, F, O, K, E, V, E, G, S, U, E, N, T, R, C, 
    X, I, T, O, R, N, H, U, C, Y, E, R, S, I, R, Z, A, I, N, A, N, O, G, A, E, M, Q, 
    M, P, U, W, Q, G, Z, S, G, P, A, K, T, S, M, Q, T, N, Y, F, O, T, B, M, Z, I, A, 
    Q, E, I, Z, H, U, J, G, E, N, T, D, S, N, A, O, E, G, G, N, A, Z, L, E, M, S, Q, 
    U, I, U, D, B, N, B, E, Z, D, X, G, C, O, T, Q, R, M, H, V, Q, J, P, I, X, S, M, 
    G, Y, X, Q, P, I, Y, I, K, C, Z, Y, R, N, I, B, P, Z, M, G, K, W, C, S, T, I, N, 
    Y, W, H, D, Q, Z, N, A, S, B, O, O, I, E, O, T, V, R, A, P, Y, X, R, Z, J, N, C, 
    Q, F, L, D, K, Q, U, J, L, X, G, L, P, Z, N, Z, R, I, J, F, P, B, D, W, G, N, P, 
    S, E, M, L, D, A, D, V, Q, N, O, X, T, W, H, M, P, D, U, N, J, N, X, H, S, I, D, 
    J, Q, K, B, S, P, Y, B, M,...
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  • waterfall from the past

    Moritz Walter12/29/2015 at 13:23 7 comments

    As blinkinaday noted, there is a second, different waterfall image from the wayback machine, that can be accessed here:

    https://web.archive.org/web/20150911223837/https://infotomb.com/uy6vy.png

    This project log is about deciphering the stego and FEZ code of this image (boring). You can skip it entirely and just download the results if you wish:

    https://cdn.hackaday.io/files/8762374873408/Waterfall_Wayback.zip

    Ok, here we go, this is the image. It looks like the image on the itanimulli page, but, if you look closely (very closely..), there are yet some differences:

    I will now quickly deconstruct this without getting into too much details:

    LSB stego

    RGB

    Red

    Green

    Blue

    This is also the point where I realize that this project needs a GitHub repository :) I'll make one asap.

    Ok, next step is deciphering that stuff.

    FEZ code

    Red

    G ,S ,O ,S ,R ,KQ,P ,B ,G ,F ,KQ,KQ,Y ,F ,T ,A ,A ,A ,A ,A ,A ,A ,A ,A ,A ,A ,A ,
    L ,D ,UV,P ,UV,A ,G ,J ,P ,E ,X ,N ,R ,E ,KQ,N ,N ,N ,N ,N ,N ,N ,R ,S ,N ,N ,KQ,
    C ,S ,M ,KQ,W ,KQ,I ,I ,M ,I ,UV,J ,T ,W ,T ,O ,O ,O ,O ,O ,O ,O ,E ,O ,O ,O ,O ,
    KQ,KQ,J ,T ,H ,L ,L ,UV,KQ,S ,P ,P ,S ,T ,T ,UV,UV,UV,UV,UV,UV,UV,P ,L ,UV,UV,A ,
    C ,J ,L ,B ,E ,UV,R ,UV,Y ,J ,I ,B ,N ,A ,F ,I ,I ,I ,I ,I ,I ,I ,L ,UV,I ,I ,N ,
    R ,A ,UV,I ,H ,R ,Y ,KQ,UV,G ,UV,P ,KQ,KQ,M ,C ,C ,C ,C ,C ,C ,C ,Y ,T ,C ,C ,Z ,
    UV,X ,C ,L ,E ,J ,R ,UV,J ,UV,F ,M ,KQ,S ,H ,E ,E ,E ,E ,E ,E ,E ,F ,I ,E ,E ,C ,
    P ,N ,R ,Z ,T ,C ,Y ,Y ,R ,G ,M ,F ,KQ,Y ,F ,W ,S ,S ,S ,S ,S ,S ,R ,O ,A ,C ,S ,
    Z ,P ,O ,Y ,UV,W ,I ,D ,H ,T ,I ,G ,I ,I ,P ,A ,H ,H ,H ,H ,H ,H ,O ,N ,S ,A ,X ,
    F ,T ,N ,KQ,I ,C ,W ,G ,D ,UV,G ,A ,UV,C ,Y ,S ,O ,O ,O ,O ,O ,O ,M ,T ,KQ,M ,A ,
    KQ,D ,E ,L ,I ,L ,Y ,O ,D ,X ,G ,H ,F ,KQ,N ,E ,UV,UV,UV,UV,UV,UV,A ,O ,E ,E ,F ,
    UV,L ,R ,B ,B ,L ,O ,UV,G ,M ,UV,G ,P ,G ,R ,N ,L ,L ,L ,L ,L ,L ,M ,R ,D ,T ,KQ,
    S ,T ,O ,O ,I ,A ,F ,UV,B ,A ,F ,UV,J ,P ,KQ,L ,D ,D ,D ,D ,D ,D ,A ,I ,H ,O ,P ,
    W ,M ,L ,J ,KQ,F ,UV,R ,A ,P ,S ,W ,KQ,Y ,L ,I ,S ,S ,S ,S ,S ,S ,S ,D ,O ,A ,R ,
    G ,O ,UV,M ,D ,G ,N ,M ,H ,D ,A ,UV,F ,Y ,UV,G ,O ,E ,O ,E ,O ,E ,T ,D ,W ,M ,D ,
    E ,B ,L ,O ,UV,E ,I ,A ,UV,C ,M ,H ,G ,B ,G ,H ,F ,A ,F ,A ,F ,A ,E ,L ,T ,A ,A ,
    KQ,UV,O ,A ,A ,D ,C ,Z ,H ,X ,B ,P ,H ,E ,W ,T ,I ,R ,I ,R ,I ,R ,R ,E ,O ,S ,H ,
    UV,Z ,H ,A ,J ,F ,E ,UV,Z ,L ,F ,UV,W ,T ,E ,E ,N ,C ,N ,C ,N ,C ,W ,S ,F ,T ,Y ,
    C ,M ,E ,C ,L ,A ,M ,UV,C ,R ,W ,P ,D ,Z ,E ,N ,D ,H ,D ,H ,D ,H ,A ,H ,I ,E ,D ,
    UV,H ,M ,M ,UV,J ,X ,B ,I ,KQ,D ,O ,T ,A ,N ,E ,T ,T ,T ,T ,A ,T ,S ,A ,N ,R ,UV,
    H ,H ,L ,UV,T ,Z ,I ,J ,R ,E ,KQ,A ,J ,F ,E ,D ,H ,H ,H ,H ,B ,H ,Z ,R ,D ,Z ,F ,
    X ,S ,S ,N ,N ,N ,F ,G ,M ,Y ,C ,D ,UV,I ,B ,Z ,E ,R ,E ,R ,O ,R ,G ,D ,Z ,UV,C ,
    D ,W ,KQ,S ,E ,E ,H ,UV,J ,Z ,F ,UV,UV,UV,L ,H ,R ,O ,S ,O ,UV,O ,T ,Z ,Z ,T ,I ,
    A ,B ,E ,F ,N ,Y ,Z ,X ,G ,W ,C ,E ,I ,P ,N ,C ,I ,UV,KQ,UV,L ,UV,R ,J ,M ,J ,UV,
    C ,P ,X ,J ,R ,A ,R ,X ,KQ,X ,J ,Z ,UV,B ,UV,N ,UV,G ,Y ,G ,D ,G ,H ,A ,I ,O ,G ,
    UV,M ,Z ,J ,E ,Y ,W ,D ,B ,H ,H ,O ,S ,B ,C ,Y ,E ,H ,Z ,H ,E ,H ,Z ,E ,O ,N ,B ,
    B ,KQ,W ,X ,D ,I ,L ,L ,UV,H ,I ,B ,Z ,T ,UV,A ,R ,W ,I ,A ,R ,S ,W ,UV,G ,KQ,G ,
    C ,M ,M ,S ,T ,I ,G ,KQ,I ,Z ,I ,M ,UV,J ,KQ,L ,Z ,A ,I ,I ,Z ,A ,A ,B ,D ,J ,B ,
    O ,X ,W ,F ,A ,UV,P ,T ,KQ,KQ,A ,I ,G ,C ,Z ,L ,F ,T ,UV,R ,M ,N ,I ,D ,T ,M ,R ,
    T ,H ,KQ,G ,Z ,O ,P ,N ,M ,P ,KQ,P ,UV,T ,Z ,B ,R ,E ,KQ,Z ,A ,D ,E ,T ,UV,M ,N ,
    Z ,S ,C ,D ,KQ,A ,D ,H ,Z ,H ,A ,F ,L ,B ,B ,UV,Y ,R ,C ,E ,H ,Z ,E ,Y ,S ,R ,O ,
    E ,E ,D ,UV,KQ,X ,W ,C ,X ,L ,M ,A ,F ,F ,KQ,R ,KQ,Z ,E ,S ,Y ,N ,W ,P ,KQ,W ,N ,
    E ,I ,I ,B ,O ,M ,O ,Y ,UV,B ,B ,Y ,R ,E ,O ,B ,G ,S ,Z ,O ,F ,S ,KQ,KQ,T ,N ,KQ,
    W ,KQ,H ,L ,X ,F ,G ,M ,KQ,M ,UV,UV,J ,N ,Y ,G ,C ,F ,B ,J ,UV,Y ,E ,UV,KQ,UV,C ,
    N ,R ,D ,KQ,S ,I ,C ,L ,G ,O ,F ,O ,I ,C ,UV,P ,UV,Y ,T ,R ,L ,F ,J ,KQ,B ,X ,W ,
    C ,Y ,C ,L ,A ,D ,C ,M ,UV,UV,R ,UV,KQ,P ,J ,KQ,UV,H ,T ,R ,H ,B ,A ,O ,T ,J ,S ,
    KQ,KQ,H ,UV,I ,I ,X ,D ,KQ,S ,R ,E ,J ,S ,B ,I ,X ,W ,X ,T ,F ,UV,F ,L ,J ,W ,KQ,
    I ,W ,R ,F ,T ,N ,R ,T ,L ,C ,D ,R ,B ,J ,UV,Z ,UV,W ,D ,W ,KQ,L ,S ,L ,H ,I ,B ,
    T ,W ,P ,M ,O ,I ,M ,X ,D ,W ,F ,Y ,Y ,L ,G ,T ,D ,C ,L ,S ,O ,B...
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  • Vigenère In the Comments!

    stephen12/22/2015 at 17:40 0 comments

    With some fantastic technical AND language insights, @blinkinaday has cracked the key to the first comment. Here's what they did in their own words:

    Just decoded it. Since it was a reply comment to a user that managed to discover the fez alphabet, I assumed it was along the way of: "congratulations". so I tried to decode it from known plaintexts like "very well", "very good", or "well done" (I assumed the space patterns matched the plaintext).

    Assuming "well done" were the first two words, and shifting the supposed key-text by the cipher text, @blinkinaday discovered the key, and the full message.

    Supposed Solution:

    well done ..................

    Original Text:

    bikq hnsi ryex yymjh

    Result

    fezf ezfe ...

    Therefore the key to try must be "FEZ". If we try that key against the full message:

    "bikq hnsi ryex yymjh"

    "well done stay tuned"

    Nice work @blinkinaday!

    Sadly the key doesn't seem to work on the second comment, so let's keep trying!

    Update 2: Sorry everyone I originally posted the wrong key (off by one error!). Thanks again to @blinkinaday for the update. You can try the decoding using this website (instead of what I previously posted):

    http://www.mygeocachingprofile.com/codebreaker.vigenerecipher.aspx

  • Border Graphical Analysis

    stephen12/20/2015 at 03:06 12 comments

    So far we have put a lot of work into decoding the border of the original FEZ images numerically - there was clearly a cyclic pattern in the data but it wasn't completely obvious what it was. Instead of filtering out the border as black/white and assigning them values, why not filter out the letters graphically and see where that goes? I started with @Moritz Walter's original images and removed the FEZ shapes from the border. The center image shows the letter-shapes that had white borders removed. The right image shows all letter-shapes removed.

    The border definitely has a repeating pattern in it. In fact, we're already familiar with this pattern:

    If we scale the tiny XOR mask image up it looks like this:

    That looks like the repeating border pattern in the original FEZ graphic!? Could this be an artifact of the original XORing of the image or something intentional?

    You'll also notice the repeating pattern is only 8 squares in width whereas the tiny XOR image is 12. There isn't a perfect overlap and 4 columns are unused.

    I did check graphically and the pattern in the "tall" image above does overlap exactly with the tiny XOR image...unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any new data in the image since we already have any data contained in this pattern from the mask image...

    Any ideas?

  • Original Fez Code Right-To-Left

    stephen12/18/2015 at 22:23 3 comments

    Given our recent findings with the waterfall, could it be that the original FEZ image should be read top-down right-to-left as well? It seems to make a clearer message.

    IS IT NOT CLEAR YET THAT I AM EVERYWHERE
    DONT EVEN TRY TO FIND ME
    IT IS POINTLESS TO EVEN ATTEMPT TAO STOP ME
    YOU THINK YOU ARE CLOSE YET YOU ARE SO FAR
    BUT I WILL NOT STOP YOU FOR WHY WOULD I
    THIS IS A SEARCH YOU CANNOT COMPLETE
    A FIGHT YOU CANNOT WIN
    NEVERTHELESS I WISH YOU GOOD LUCK

    The relevance of the rotation and inversion of the border of each symbols is still unknown

  • Red Message Additions

    stephen12/18/2015 at 20:47 0 comments

    Using the Z string terminator trick we've given meaning to the rightmost column in the red channel as well. The rightmost line says "A Koan" which is a zen riddle or puzzle.

    Red Message:

    A koan
    A novice came to a master
    A novice asked how to find
    A solution to riddles hard
    A reply from a master was
    A novice should search through sand
    A novice should so find a boulder
    A novice should search through air
    A novice should so find the sky
    A novice should search through water
    A novice should so find the river
    A novice was enlightened

    Given the red message starts all the way at the right and the green message starts all the way at the left it suggests we've completed the red and blue messages (of this format anyway). The blue map is (at this point) still unsolved.

    Since we now know this was a riddle, what @Jacob Waite suggested might be helpful in solving it. He pointed out that earth, air, and water are all mentioned, but fire is not...

  • Green Message Additions

    stephen12/18/2015 at 20:34 0 comments

    @StndCpp (and his Wife) have rightly pointed out two key insights:

    1) Each of the messages in the red and green channels end in the letter 'z'. This is very likely a string terminator character.

    2) There are 2 extra columns of text in the green channel I missed:

    So there is a full message in the green channel after all:

    Green Message:

    a haiku
    a person amazed
    reading this text just right now
    this is the wrong place

    It looks like the text ends there since the 5th column ends in "AMYCB" which doesn't have any apparent meaning.

    Update: I accidentally pasted the haiku lines out of order in the original post. Should be correct now. Thanks @Jacob Waite!

  • Corner Markers

    stephen12/18/2015 at 06:52 0 comments

    Although relatively simple, it wasn't mentioned in previous posts that the corner "orientation" markers also decode to different values in each of the RGB color channels:

  • Right-to-Left

    stephen12/18/2015 at 05:56 0 comments

    @andyhull suggested interpreting the messages top-down reading from right-to-left instead of my left-to-right instinct. That would make the decoded messages:

    Red Message:

    A novice came to a master
    A novice asked how to find
    A solution to riddles hard
    A reply from a master was
    A novice should search through sand
    A novice should so find a boulder
    A novice should search through Air
    A novice should find the sky
    A novice should search through water
    A novice should so find the river
    A novice Was enlightened

    Green Message:

    Reading this text just right now

    this is the wrong place

    Blue Message:

    (empty?)

  • RGB Color Channel Decoding

    stephen12/18/2015 at 05:46 0 comments

    Using the color channel FEZ images @Moritz Walter extracted from the waterfall PNG I decoded the code for each channel based on the FEZ alphabet. I assumed the orientation marker in each image to be in the upper-left and worked in a coordinate system with an origin in the top-left moving down-right.

    The color channel PNGs were converted to BMP format. Fortunately the PNG was a 1000 x 1500 px image which proved extremely convenient for calculations.

    Because of the sheer number of characters and the likelihood of transcription errors, a script was used to decode each channel map. The procedure starts with a color channel BMP and converts it to binary pixel data (1 for black, 0 for white). The data is arranged into a matrix and reduced using the dimensions of each FEZ glyph. Fortunately the glyphs are all the same size and evenly spaced!

    Once reduced, each glyph is compared against the FEZ alphabet and converted to a letter. The end result is a letter matrix representing the original FEZ-encoded color-channel PNG.

    Most of the output doesn't make sense, but there are some hidden messages in the output. An interesting note about the Red image is that the structure of the letters that spell out the message actually looks like a waterfall! Also interesting is the lack of information in the green and blue channels (perhaps I missed something?).
    Red Channel:

    a novice was enlightened

    a novice should so find the river

    a novice should search through water

    a novice should so find the sky

    a novice should search through air

    a novice should so find a boulder

    a reply from a master was

    a solution to riddles hard

    a novice asked how to find

    a novice came to a master

    Green Channel:

    this is the wrong place

    reading this text just right now

    Blue Channel:

    (empty?)

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stephen wrote 12/18/2015 at 20:37 point

I missed the first line of the red channel as well! The first line is "a koan" which is a riddle or puzzle!

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stephen wrote 12/18/2015 at 20:27 point

You are quite right! What's more there is information I missed in the 4th column as well! I think it actually says:

A haiku

A person amazed

reading this text just right now

this is the wrong place

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StndCpp wrote 12/18/2015 at 20:01 point

Me and my wife noticed there is a third text in the green channel image posted here: 

 "A PERSON AMAZED"

It can be found in the end of the third vertical line.

Also, we noticed that in the red channel  all the discovered texts end with a Z, and in the green channel all the discovered texts start with a Z...

This might mean that the Z is supposed to be some kind of start-terminator marker for texts yet to be discovered or decrypted in the 3 channel images. 

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stephen wrote 12/18/2015 at 19:58 point

If we can find a suitable key, we might be able to make sense of the green/blue channel data by treating the letter map as encrypted text

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stephen wrote 12/18/2015 at 19:57 point

@andyhull I think you might be on to something here. I forgot to add that image to our clue bank up top - great idea to find it in the web archives.

Given the photo is Vigenère that might be a clue as to how to decrypt the messages. The symbol might be a clue to find the key - it looks like that's a FEZ character ("L") with a border

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greenaum wrote 12/18/2015 at 13:43 point

Hang on a minute! "Itanimulli", that sounds like an anagram! Hope this helps. 

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andyhull wrote 12/18/2015 at 16:49 point

... Hmmm... or it could be illuminati backwards of course... however... here goes... anagrams of  illuminati (or itanimulli). http://anagramscramble.com/anagrams-of/illuminati

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andyhull wrote 12/18/2015 at 12:04 point

The "empty" hint image... Look for it in the past...  

[ http: //web.archive.org/web/20150801000000* /https ://infotomb.com/k5ovc.png

Remove the spaces and square brackets from the waybackmachine link... cocat it to one link and you will see what I'm referring to.

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andyhull wrote 12/18/2015 at 12:08 point

Anybody know who the dude in the picture is? Perhaps I need put on my tinfoil hat and start to read up on masonic symbols.

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andyhull wrote 12/18/2015 at 13:12 point

ooops. remove the http:// at the start of that link too.
 

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Jacob Waite wrote 12/17/2015 at 19:32 point

Based off of Stephen's decoding of the Red, my friend noted that decoded text and its relation to water sound like the writings of the Tao Te Ching (the writings of Taoism). Remember the mispelled "to" in the last text as "tao"? The text seems to be written in that style. Here is an excerpt from the writings of Taoism, 

"The highest good is like water.



Water gives life to the ten thousand things and does not strive.



It flows in places men reject and so is like the Tao.



In dwelling, be close to the land.



In meditation, go deep in the heart.



In dealing with others, be gentle and kind.



In speech, be true.



In ruling, be just.



In business, be competent.



In action, watch the timing.



No fight: No blame".

Not sure if all of the above was related to the first couple sentences about water, we haven't read this stuff since 9th grade (which was 2 years ago for us who are now Juniors). Either way, interesting. I will take this to my English and History departments and see what they have to come up with. Try to get the rest of these decoded!

Update 1: Another friend of mine pointed out that earth, air, and water seemed to be referenced in the decoded text of Red. Isn't fire supposed to be one?

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andyhull wrote 12/17/2015 at 10:54 point

Try this little tool too. http://evilwallpaper.co.uk/fez/

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andyhull wrote 12/17/2015 at 10:27 point

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andyhull wrote 12/17/2015 at 10:10 point

Perhaps, yes... 

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stephen wrote 12/17/2015 at 06:59 point

First pass at decoding the red FEZ code Moritz Walter posted above: 

my decode program likely still has bugs but there seems to be a message in the top right cascading down in a waterfall.

"A Novice Was Enlighted"

"A Novice Should So Find The River"

"A Novice Should Search Through Water"

"A Novice Should Find The Sky"

A Novice Should Search Through Air"

"A Novice Should So Find A Boulder"

"A novice Should Search Through Sand

" A Reply From A Master Was ...

...A Solution To Riddles [Hard]...

...A Novice Asked How To Find."

"A Novice Came To A Maser"

I'll re-check the program and try it against the blue and green images next

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Moritz Walter wrote 12/17/2015 at 09:22 point

Hey Stephen! That's an amazing piece of work! Would you be interested to join the project and share this as a project log?

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andyhull wrote 12/17/2015 at 13:36 point

I suspect the correct order is... 

1 "A Novice Came To A Maser"
2 ...A Novice Asked How To Find."
3 ...A Solution To Riddles [Hard]...
4 " A Reply From A Master Was ...
5 "A novice Should Search Through Sand
6 "A Novice Should So Find A Boulder"
7 A Novice Should Search Through Air"
8 "A Novice Should Find The Sky"
9 "A Novice Should Search Through Water"
10 "A Novice Should So Find The River"
11 A Novice Was Enlighted"

Interestingly  we are only getting meaningful text in the first half of that waterfall, this suggests there may be more buried in the other half... maybe.... perhaps... :¬)

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andyhull wrote 12/17/2015 at 02:11 point

Try http://www.eeemo.net/ for size, You should be able to reverse the process relatively easily. 

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Moritz Walter wrote 12/17/2015 at 09:34 point

Ok, will send everything I post through that one from now ^^

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andyhull wrote 12/17/2015 at 02:08 point

Hey Zalgo how are you doing?  W͕̲̝e̵̪̺ ͉͚̖̰̮̳͈͜a̞͙̩̠͖̟͟r̹̲̙͇͇̖̝ȩ̟̭ ̤͇̥̦̫̩̙c̖͓̰̣͡ͅomi͎̳̙͇̮̪n҉̦̟̪g̰̣͈͖͎͙͎͜ ̝̠͙̼̹͔to̭̹̹̖͓ f̖̹͎i̦͇͚n̤͍͍̰͖ͅd̨̥ ̛̮̼̬̤yo̺u

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andyhull wrote 12/17/2015 at 13:42 point

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andyhull wrote 12/17/2015 at 02:03 point

"the exhumation has been reversed" Burial? Re-burial?

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Moritz Walter wrote 12/17/2015 at 09:33 point

like, encrypted, decrypted and re-encrypted?

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andyhull wrote 12/17/2015 at 01:41 point

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld_Conspiracy Unless of course it doesn't exist. =p 

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davedarko wrote 12/13/2015 at 02:03 point

Tȯ invoķe thë ḫivḙmind

rĕpreśenţing chaos
invoking the feeling of chaos
Without order

The Nezpęrdịąń

hi͞vȇ ͅmiǹd of chaos
zalgo
He who waits behind The wall


I AM EVERYWHERE
I AM EVERYTHING

I AM YOUR GOVERNMENT

proudly based in bielefeld

since 100 BCE

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Moritz Walter wrote 12/13/2015 at 10:03 point

oh, how did you get that?

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davedarko wrote 12/13/2015 at 10:17 point

Copied the who am I part and killed all non character looking characters

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Moritz Walter wrote 12/13/2015 at 10:51 point

non-characters, killed they must be

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davedarko wrote 12/12/2015 at 18:59 point

have you counted the different characters?

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Moritz Walter wrote 12/12/2015 at 19:14 point

yes, its 7 unique symbols in 40 different varations of symbol, rotation and sign

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