New Crypto Puzzle Hits the Internet...New Cicada 3301?

'Recruit'

Are they offering a full ride to Cicada University to those who solve the pazzle?

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look at the wiki article and the # of cities where you had to locate clues

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So in order to fully solve the puzzle you would have gone to each of those cities across the globe finding clues? Who the frick has the time or money to do that, with no guarantee of any reward at the end?

The puzzles aren't that hard, I solved them all pretty quickly. They actually said I was the smartest person they ever recruited and asked me to be the leader of their group. Things started getting shaky when I started making new rules and enforcing old ones that most people had forgotten about. All in all, my reign lasted roughly eighteen months before a few of those sheep dipshits finally organized a coup. Honestly I was glad to leave, the whole thing had gotten way too political for my liking.

bullshite, we all know you got overthrown for hooking up with Reginald's sister. No reason to embellish.

I don't want to attempt at solving it because I don't want to fail and find out I'm not actually highly intelligent.

well these "contests" aren't about raw intelligence

to solve these puzzles you need to be educated in all sorts of algorithms and coding/code breaking, with some specific cultural knowledge

Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never met, never had no problem with, get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Oh, send in the Marines to secure the area" cause they don't give a shite. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number got called, cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie takin' shrapnel in the arse.

And he comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his arse got his old job, cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile, he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And, of course, the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon.

And they're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, of course, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and frickin' play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's got to walk to the frickin' job interviews, which sucks cause the shrapnel in his arse is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin', cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat, the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State.

So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure frick it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.

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look down a few posts

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This thread is better

How pissed would they be if you solved all the puzzles, got invited, pronounced the group name incorrectly, then just argued they were imbeciles for using the hard 'a'