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nakli
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« on: Jan 11th, 2011, 4:48pm » |
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Hack Club, the hands-on hacker fest from the minds behind Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian's "uncorporation" Breadpig, is happening in New York on Friday.
The time is 9 p.m. and the location is Manhattan, but the exact address won't be published: Hack Club is restricting entry to those who can solve this word puzzle(at the bottom), derived from sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, to decipher the address of the location:
To prevent just anyone from showing up and to boost the mystique of Hack Club, each Hack Club will be at a different, secret location! Only those 1337 enough to solve a (geeky, of course) puzzle will be granted the whereabouts.
Is it in a blanket fort?
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[HackClubPuzzle] can be downloaded from http://breadpig.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/HackClubPuzzle.doc
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Re: HackClubPuzzle
« Reply #1 on: Jan 13th, 2011, 5:28am » |
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I, for one, wouldn't post a solution until after Friday, just to ensure no one is using our pleasant little forum to boost their hacker cred without actually solving the puzzle! 
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« Reply #2 on: Jan 13th, 2011, 9:22am » |
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I don't think that I know for sure I will not make it to New York on Friday. That's why I haven't tried much to solve the problem.
This being said, the document reproduces exactly Asimov's rules of robotics as they can be seen on Wikipedia. So don't loose your time decrypting that.
I would look for:
- some form of steganography
- some obscure property in the document
- the http headers
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Re: HackClubPuzzle
« Reply #3 on: Jan 13th, 2011, 12:19pm » |
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on Jan 13th, 2011, 9:22am, Grimbal wrote:| This being said, the document reproduces exactly Asimov's rules of robotics as they can be seen on Wikipedia. |
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Wikipedia is good but has nothing about Asimov's rules for LEGO robots. 
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Re: HackClubPuzzle
« Reply #4 on: Jan 14th, 2011, 12:22am » |
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That can be fixed .
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Re: HackClubPuzzle
« Reply #5 on: Jan 15th, 2011, 1:15pm » |
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Some obvious observations:
(But none of them helping me so far)
1. linebreaks
2. All the spaces are in Ariel
3. The letters alternate between Courier New points 10 and 11
I have been digging around with a hex editor but couldn't find any useful patterns. 
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Re: HackClubPuzzle
« Reply #6 on: Jan 15th, 2011, 1:37pm » |
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I also noticed the 2 sizes, but couldn't decode the pattern.
For the line breaks, it seems the text has been cut into roughly equal lengths.
Removing spaces makes nice 48-character blocs
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Re: HackClubPuzzle
« Reply #7 on: Jan 15th, 2011, 2:24pm » |
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Remove the spaces and all full lines are 48 character, and the last 24.
I suspect it's 45 characters in 8-bit ascii code, but I can't really be bothered to turn the thing into ones and zeroes by hand.
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Ok, fine, maybe I can.
210 elizabeth st 4th floor New York, NY 10012
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Re: HackClubPuzzle
« Reply #8 on: Jan 15th, 2011, 3:41pm » |
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That's exactly what I was about to post... 
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Re: HackClubPuzzle
« Reply #9 on: Jan 15th, 2011, 5:48pm » |
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Sorry for the verbosity, but is this moving to 'easy'
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