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| − | | Kickstarter | + | | Frog Fractions 2 Kickstarter |
| | | 2014-03-11 | | | 2014-03-11 |
| | | Solved | | | Solved |
| | | Kickstarter Launch. Contains announcement video, leading to twinbread.com. Recipe on Twinbread.com is entered in Frog Fractions. Leads to Obama Shaving Simulator. Obama shaving simulator leads to fake tweet, advising of UC Berekley Meet. | | | Kickstarter Launch. Contains announcement video, leading to twinbread.com. Recipe on Twinbread.com is entered in Frog Fractions. Leads to Obama Shaving Simulator. Obama shaving simulator leads to fake tweet, advising of UC Berekley Meet. |
| | |At the UC Berkeley Meet we Aquire Floppy Disks containing Bug Porn and stinky.arj. stinky.arj is eventuall cracked, unlocking Live Action Frog Fractions | | |At the UC Berkeley Meet we Aquire Floppy Disks containing Bug Porn and stinky.arj. stinky.arj is eventuall cracked, unlocking Live Action Frog Fractions |
| − | | [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/475057068/frog-fractions-2 Frog Fractions 2 Kickstarter]
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| − | [http://www.twinbread.com Twinbread.com]
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| − | [http://abeardforevervoyaging.com/leadership.html Obama shaving Simulator]
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| − | | [[Sombra_ARG#Directions_.26_Letters|Compass Directions]] | + | | Train Hot Dog |
| − | | 2016-08-02 | + | | 2015-05-28 |
| − | | Solved | + | | Ongoing |
| − | | Visible in the background of the Summer Games Video. Many attempts were made to apply these directions to other clues. determined that the directions corresponded with specific heroes positioned in the 9x9 grid from the same video (NW = top left, for instance). | + | | Jim Crawford's weekly podcast, Train Hot Dog, in which he (usually) talks to himself on a train. Several major developments (and a large number of red herrings) have come from this podcast. THD 14 - Contains a Ridermail from Tunisia discussing time travel. |
| − | | Used to create a passphrase to decode the Acheivements Code Vigenére cipher. The passphrase was the names of each of the heroes, in the order the directions appeared in the video.
| + | | An encoded Message in THD 12 leads to time-travel.club. The spectrogram in THD 13 contains gadsby/password123. |
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| − | | Skycode / Skymap
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| − | | 2016-08-03
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| − | | Cold
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| − | | On the developer livestream that happened on August 3rd, Jeff Kaplan and other members of the dev team were asked about the compass ([https://www.twitch.tv/fairlight_excalibur/v/81627432?t=00h23m46s video]) ([https://youtu.be/itkhuDOeE6Q?t=21m15s mirror]):
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| − | "I'm being told to ask you guys about the compass. Are you allowed to make any comments on that?"
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| − | "The compass." "The compass?" "The compass? That sounds like deep CIA level stuff. Way above our heads."
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| − | The phrase "above our heads" led solvers to look towards the sky. They found that on the Dorado map, looking directly up at the sky would reveal this [http://imgur.com/8ZWMjIX image] after some editing. Even more visible images are [http://imgur.com/a/LQ8PK available here], the bottom two pictures have been "unwrapped" to be a square. This pattern was not visible in previous updates.
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| − | | It is confirmed that the code in the sky is not a regular ShotCode, since a regular ShotCode can only contain 40 bits of data, and the code we are seeing in the sky is atleast 128 bytes big. It is also not an Annular Barcode since those need to have a [http://www.fhnw.ch/technik/imvs/publikationen/artikel-2015/fokusreport-stamm startpoint], which ours does not. | |
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| − | Ongoing investigative focus on this may have triggered Blizzard's creation of the Dorado Datamosh, to put people back on track.
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| − | | Flight Times Board | + | | The Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio |
| − | | 2016-08-03 | + | | 2015-09-24 |
| | | Cold | | | Cold |
| − | | Players also took use of the developer quote of "Way above our heads." as possible hint to the [http://imgur.com/QodZGda flight board in Numbani.] | + | | The Ashby Brewery and Indie Game Studio Fall 2015 Quarterly Brewsletter posted on Kickstarter. Leads to decaytruth.info. Admin page found. |
| − | Many attempts to correlate it to usable data have been proven inconclusive.
| + | | IP Hashes in decaytruth.info decoded, giving the characters 12bzayx. No use for these characters has been found, and theadmin page has yet to be accessed. |
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| − | One of the attempts was to try an ADFGVX cipher on the flight number prefixes, to try to see if any pertinent data was available. Nothing has been recovered from the cipher.
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| − | Another attempt was to map out [http://i.imgur.com/hB3oI9D.jpg all of the locations] listed on the flight board, but nothing has come out of that yet.
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| − | | [[Sombra_ARG#Dorado_Photo|Dorado Datamosh]]
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| − | | 2016-08-08
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| − | | Solved
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| − | | A datamoshed photo was found on the playoverwatch.com media page. Based on the difference between the original photo and datamoshed version, the following text was found (English translation):
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| − | "Why are you looking at the sky? The answer isn't over your heads, it's behind you. Sometimes, you need to analyze your previous achievements."
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| − | Led to the discovery of the achievements code.
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| − | | [[Sombra_ARG#Source_Code_of_Achievements_on_Play_Overwatch|Achievements Code]]
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| − | | 2016-08-11
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| − | | Solved
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| − | | Based on the hint yielded from the Dorado Datamosh, the playoverwatch.com achievement pages were investigated. Viewing the source of these pages revealed a commented section of text, including a new cipher.
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| − | | Led to the following message (English translation):
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| − | Damn, not bad. However, I'm getting bored. Let's try something new in the same direction. uczihriwgsxorxwunaarawryqhbrsfmeqrjjmu 5552E494
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| − | 78T3 4VM9 OPL6
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| − | IS8208O913KRlrx
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| − | Decrypting the string of characters as a Vigenére cipher, using the passphrase from the compass directions clue, ultimately resulted in the discovery of the URL of the Volskaya Datamosh image.
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| − | Passphrase:
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| − | '''tracertorbjornwinstonsymmetradvamercybastiongenjimccree'''
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| − | | [[Sombra_ARG#Volskaya_Datamosh_.2F_ASCII_Skull|Volskaya Datamosh]]
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| − | | 2016-08-11
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| − | | Solved
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| − | | It was found based on the up-side down "?" achievement found on players profile. Running through the supplied cipher text in the sourcecode which the compass and character names as the key (tracertorbjornwinstonsymmetradvamercybastiongenjimccree) yielded the [https://blzgdapipro-a.akamaihd.net/media/screenshot/5552E494-78B3-4CE9-ACF6-EF8208F913CF.jpg image]
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| − | | By taking the difference between the original and the datamoshed image, we got the [http://pastebin.com/S6N8Z2aE ASCII Skull] with some text:
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| − | Parece que te gustan estos jueguitos... por que no jugamos uno de verdad?
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| − | Translation:
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| − | "It seems you like these little games... Why don't we play a real one?"
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| − | | [[Sombra_ARG#Volskaya_Datamosh_.2F_ASCII_Skull|ASCII Skull as code/cipher]]
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| − | | 2016-08-11
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| − | | Live
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| − | | Various attempts have been made to find a useful strings of characters that may lead to a tracer trail passphrase/message or similar, including:
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| − | * Stripping out the characters from the string 'SOMBR@'
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| − | * Removing all punctuation
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| − | * Focusing on numbers, such as the seven instances of the '7' character
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| − | * Considering patterns of characters as potential binary
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| − | * Considering patterns of characters as potential morse code
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| − | | [[Sombra_ARG#Volskaya_Datamosh_.2F_ASCII_Skull|ASCII Skull visual layout]]
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| − | | 2016-08-11
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| − | | Live
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| − | | [[Sombra_ARG#Volskaya_Datamosh_.2F_ASCII_Skull|ASCII Skull as sugar skull]]
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| − | | 2016-08-11
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| − | | Live
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| − | | The 'gaps' around the eyes of the skull are commonly thought to represent the design on a sugar skull (or 'calavera'). This further continues the American Spanish/Mexican theme, which is a key aspect of the Sombra character (supported be other Spanish clues and elements of the Dorado map).
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| − | Sugar skulls are primarily associated with the Mexican 'Dia de Los Muertos' or 'Day of the Dead', which may point to a relation to the Los Muertos gang from the Overwatch universe.
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| − | | [[Sombra_ARG#Volskaya_Datamosh_.2F_ASCII_Skull|'Real Games']]
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| − | | 2016-08-11
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| − | | Live
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| − | | The message that came with the ASCII Skull considered as a clue.
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| − | "It seems you like these little games... Why don't we play a real one?"
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| − | It has been speculated this referred to
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| − | * a [http://gamescom-cologne.com Gamescom] reveal/clue
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| − | * a traditional mexican game (sugar skull imagery)
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| − | * Overwatch itself as a 'real game'
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| − | * other 'real games' as passphrases/keys (possibly for tracer trail)
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| − | | 'Over our heads'
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