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 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

Missing Coins

Subscribers to Chrono.gg's daily newsletter recieved an unexpected message on March 5, 2017:

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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/

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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.

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This was identified as a tangram with the following solution:

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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:

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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

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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:

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

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The font is Wingdings, reading: /corr


This page will be updated as the ARG progresses.