The Man Who Solved the Mysterious Cicada 3301 Puzzle

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3025785/meet-the-man-who-solved-the-mysterious-cicada-3301-puzzle

by wallflower • 12 years ago

124 33 12 years ago

The technical details of the puzzle described in the article strike me as trivial.

ameister14• 12 years ago

Well, the last section wasn't. After you got a message on the e-mail account you made using TOR, you were asked a more complex mathematical question, and told not to tell anyone what it was, as they were tired of ircs and skype groups solving everything. I didn't realize I was one of the people selected to move on until a week later, though, and was too late to move forward.

vex• 12 years ago

So what was the math problem?

wbhart3• 12 years ago

You could at least entertain us with a real mathematical problem, even if not the one you were given, e.g. in how many ways can 54673350319220399841294938973353 be expressed as three times a square plus twice a (generalised) octagonal number. Bonus points for finding one set of explicit values.

na85• 12 years ago

Wow, aren't you smart.

swiftydev• 12 years ago

If you think they are trivial why don't you solve them http://uncovering-cicada.wikia.com/wiki/CICADA_3301_2014_PUZ...

standalone3• 12 years ago

Are you saying that only based on the technical details presented in a non-technical article?

You might be interested to actually check out the actual problems, some of which have remained unsolved (at least by the general public) for years now.

http://uncovering-cicada.wikia.com/wiki/Uncovering_Cicada_Wi...

treve• 12 years ago

All the links on that website link to the same page :S

anon4• 12 years ago

I wish someone would finally report those fuckers to the FBI. Or straight-up murder them.

Secret societies like that make my skin crawl.

Cthulhu_• 12 years ago

Seriously?

cLeEOGPw• 12 years ago

That's right, they are probably planning on taking all over the world now.

spindritf• 12 years ago

It is most likely an underground organization, not related to any government or intelligence agency

Or a few bored guys on an IRC channel. A few websites, couple of phone numbers, and some posters: once you have members in the targeted cities, the budget for an operation like this is in tens of dollars.

The Man Who Solved the Mysterious Cicada 3301 Puzzle

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