Chrono.gg ARG
| Chrono.gg | |
|---|---|
| The Chrono.gg ARG involved a bunch of coin-related puzzles spread across various sites. | |
| Type | [[List_of_Investigations#Unofficial|Unofficial]] |
| Creator | Chrono.gg |
| Discovered | 2017-03-05 |
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The following is chronological documentation of puzzles and events that occured during Chrono.gg ARG, an ARG that took place on popular game deal site Chrono.gg.
Contents
[hide]Missing Coins
Subscribers to Chrono.gg's daily newsletter recieved an unexpected message on March 5, 2017:
Users quickly arrived at the first clue on Chrono.gg's homepage. A URL could be seen on the page's main image, promoting the game OmniBus: http://www.thisisnotaclue.com/
Following that URL leads to a site containing some text and an image with different color columns.
by converting the hex values of all the assembled color swathes the following message was obtained CRITICAL WARNING: COINS ARE UNEXPECTEDLY MISSING. SUSPECT IDENTIFIED. SUSPECT ID: GRENDEL23. REQUESTING INVESTIGATIVE ASSISTANCE. END TRANSMISSION.
A matching username was subsequently found in the chrono.gg forum user: https://community.chrono.gg/users/Grendel23/activity
The user's avatar caught the attention of the solvers.
This was identified as a tangram with the following solution:
Additionally, a single post was found under the same username. By putting together the first letters of every sentence in the post, an Imgur link can be extracted, leading to this image:
By overlaying the previously solved tangram in line with the letter grid, solvers came to the conclusion that the phrase being spelled out was GO TO / CONSPIRACY
This lead solvers to http://www.thisisnotaclue.com/conspiracy Immediately redirecting to http://thecoinconspiracy.com/
Arriving to this page, solvers are met with a riddle resembling the Tower of Hanoi puzzle, asking to input a minimum number of moves.
The correct answer was obtained using the exponential nature of the puzzle. The solution being 16384
Inputting the answer redirects to the following image:
Putting the above image through a bmp converter removes the alpha channel, allowing us to see the blocked portion of the image
The font is Wingdings, reading: /corr
This page will be updated as the ARG progresses.
