Chrono.gg ARG

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Chrono.gg
Active since 2017-03-05
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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 Chrono.gg ARG was an ARG that took place on popular game deal site Chrono.gg.

thisisnotaclue

On March 5, the front page of Chrono.gg was updated with a message hidden inside the promo art for Omnibus: thisisnotaclue.com. Visiting that site shows...


Progress so far: First clue. From email sent out to newsletter subscribers: unknown.png

Hidden URL on Omnibus at http://www.chrono.gg unknown.png

Leads to http://www.thisisnotaclue.com/ We compiled all the sequences at https://1drv.ms/x/s!An0WCjkAtK3KgYkRZsDl2nyHUBNKdQ

Then we converted the hex values of all the assembled color swathes and obtained the cryptic message " CRITICAL WARNING: COINS ARE UNEXPECTEDLY MISSING. SUSPECT IDENTIFIED. SUSPECT ID: GRENDEL23. REQUESTING INVESTIGATIVE ASSISTANCE. END TRANSMISSION. "

This leads us to this chrono.gg forum user ( https://community.chrono.gg/users/Grendel23/activity ) We looked at Grendel23's only post for clues, as well as analyzed the avatar image ( source image: 496c5384efd98fb704f44f5606f5af2e0387103e.png )

As far as the avatar being a tangram, @ManicVolcanic#7413 solved it. Here is the solution: unknown.png

@ManicVolcanic#7413 noticed that the first letters of all the sentences spelled out an imgur link ( LgmNn9E.jpg ) so now we are given the next clue!

By putting the previously solved tangram in line with the letter grid, we are given unknown.png

This leads us to http://www.thisisnotaclue.com/conspiracy (GO TO / CONSPIRACY from the tangram lines) which redirects to http://thecoinconspiracy.com/

The riddle is a Tower of Hanoi type puzzle, and it asks us to input a minimum number of moves. @Randomiser#0769 did 2^14 to get the answer: 16384

The site then gives us this image 0688a1c2699ab939ef26ad2355176e64.png

Putting the above image through a bmp converter removes the alpha channel, allowing us to see the blocked portion of the image f0W6L7m.png

The font is wingdings, and it says " /corr " We believe the cut off letter to be a U, which is a diagonal square in wingdings How to help: Figure out what to do with the image!