Notes and special thanks
SOLUTION
The weekly starts off by redirecting you to a user in enigmatics instead of a new website, which looks like this:
The list of completed puzzles are actually the clues you need to figure out in order to get the answers you need to solve this weekly.
And all of the puzzles somehow implement the enigmatics website, in one way or another
CLUE 1:
Which is obviously connected with this grid
These colors would usually be considered random, however profiles in enigmatics can contain a certain LIST of colors like this
This grid only contains 2 whites in total so starting from the left most white color you have to check every row and column till you spot the next color in the list and draw the path out like this:
Trace the path in the correct order and you get the word OPEN
CLUE 2:
This clue hints at the weekly name requiring some form of decoding.
The weekly name is some sort of gibberish string, with the first letter being capitalized. Rings a bell?
The bolded "Enigmatricks"that's in the profile's banner also has the first letter capitalized + contains the same amount of characters. Which means that the weekly name given is a ciphertext that comes from "Enigmatricks"!
A well known cipher that contains a key is Vigenere, so you have to find the key, knowing the plaintext and ciphertext.
The key you get is "OOITTEEEETTE" so now you have to apply the webpuzzle's name as a clue.
Encoding the key you got from the last part into morse gives you "------..--....--." which is the same length as the username "sup3rsisonth1nice".
Extracting all the dashes gives you the answer "sup3rsonic"
CLUE 3:
Very quick google search shows you that "Sherlock Holmes" can be connected to the cipher called "Dancing Men"
The words "my minimalist masterpiece" hints towards the avatar of the account that looks like this:
These are the least amount of pixels required to visualize the dancing men without any ambiguity.
Identifying the dancing men correctly gives the answer "dancewithsilence"
CLUE 4:
Alright, things get a little complicated here. Forever chained hints at the uuid of this profile because it appears by interracting with the chain on the profile (Also, forever chained is a synonym to permanent link).
Split the hex string into bytes, as hinted by the puzzle title since its "byte-sized"
Convert the strings from base 16 to base 6
Add up every digit of each individual base 6, as hinted by "sums up".
This is in decimal though so to go "full circle" you need to convert this back to hex.
Which gives the answer, "symm3try"
CLUE 5:
Visualization hints at the 2nd image inside the banner that hasn't been used.
The "list" mentioned is the 9 active puzzles in the profile
A1Z26 with the level progress and you will get "infection" after anagramming, hinted by "the other reordering"
Seems like the green pixel is the start of the infection. Apply the shape at the bottom to see which pixels also get infected from other pixels
These 6 are the only cells that haven't been infected. If you are observant you will notice that each row of dots lines up correctly with the amount of letters each incomplete webpuzzle has.
Extract the letters top to bottom and you will get "en3rgy".
CLUE 6:
This is referencing the account that created the webpuzzle "NotOriginal".
The profile only contains a gibberish "String" in their about me.
Since this is the String "HARMONY", we are looking for the letters that can be used to make one.
Remove all the letters that aren't from A-G and you will be left with the letters "DAbfGDGA"
With a little research we can find out that this is the chord progression of Pachelbel's Canon
The (9) at the end confirms that the answer is 9 letters which means the answer is "pachelbel"
CLUE 7:
What could graffiti and 2 adjacent number keys on the keyboard have in common?
Well, out of all the numbers on the keyboard this is referring to the numbers 2 and 3, regarding the symbols connected to them, aka "@" and "#"
"@" is a way you can "Tag" people on the internet, # is a hash"Tag" and a "Tag" while doing graffiti is your own personal signature.
Which means that we need to find something special about a tag that another one of the puzzles here contains
Sure enough, the tag for "NotOriginal" contains some hidden text when you hover over it.
If you extract every 9th letter of the tag's description you will get the answer "ninecircles"
NotOriginal
What if you copied, word for word, bar for bar what everyone else does, but with a twist? This is what this mini webpuzzle is.
NOTE: FROM NOW ON, THE LEVELS WILL BE SHOWN IN A SHUFFLED ORDER, THIS WILL BE EXPLAINED LATER
LEVEL 1:
Click the door! Classic first level for a webpuzzle...
...Or not. The egg page says that "maybe we should let them know that youre going inside"... So what if we just, knock on the door?
This page has multiple answers, those being "knockknock", "knock" and "knockonthedoor".
LEVEL 4:
This is obviously a1z26... But the numbers are too big. If you mod 26 all the numbers (aka a=27 b=28 etc.) you will get "nicetrybutno". If you subtract the remainder aka the mod 26 results, you will be left with numbers that are all have 26 as a factor which hints to dividing all the numbers by 26!
This would give the answer "tricksgalore"
LEVEL 6:
As hinted by the name of the array, this is ascii... But most numbers are either way too small or way too big!
Looking more closely you will notice that most the numbers contain a 1, a very big sign that something is decoded in decimal.
This means that the numbers you are given are all ascii decimal numbers, but all the digits are shuffled, in more ways than one which means you have to deduce what number each one is supposed to be (numbers like 1 are 001 in reality).
3 of the shuffled bytes can be 2 different characters while the rest can only be 1 unique character so you have 115 104 117 [fx] [fx] 108 [en] 100 98 [py] 116 [en] 115
Which decodes to shu[fx][fx]l[en]db[py]t[en]s and with very minimal bruteforce you can figure out that the answer is shuffledbytes.
LEVEL 2:
Wow! Finally a break level we just have to change the page URL from level2 to level3.
Wow. Just wow.
So if "3" is an input that isnt acceptable, but 2 somehow is that must mean that numbers higher than 2 are unacceptable
Since the numbers 0,1,2 are the only ones that are acceptable, that must mean we have to convert the number 3 from base 10 to base 3!
Inputting "level10" in the page (10 = 3 in said base) leads you to the next level.
LEVEL 3
MORSE CODE!! Everyone's favorite cipher... Decoding it gives "rush3d" which is the final answer to...
Nothing apparently.
Okay, lets look closer.
It seems like the evil bastard that made this puzzle swapped some things in this image youre given, in comparison to actual morse code.
More importantly, p and r, o and u, i and s, n and h, y and d were swapped from the letters and all the numbers from 1-4 swapped with the numbers from 9-6
This makes the ciphertext we're given actually decode to "poin7y"
LEVEL 5
Some words are bolded saying "source code"
Inside the source code theres a comment saying "impressed.html"
Inputting it leads you to the final level...
... Or not because this redirects you back to level 5 again.
However, checking the initial page that redirects you to that level you can see that a comment has been hidden in the source...
Giving you the answer... backtothefuture
AFTER SOLVING LEVEL 6 YOU GET SENT TO THE
"FINAL LEVEL":
This page will come into play later, however for now its useless.
UNSOLVABLE:
The 2nd half of this clue hints at the solution document of the weekly containing something peculiar, something which should be impossible, however if you were to change your time ahead by an entire week it would make a fake solution document appear in the weekly page which redirects you here
Entering all the answers lets you click a button to be redirected to...
The solution document...?
This solution document is very long and very similar to this one so I will only explain the puzzle steps that are contained within this fake solution document to not drag this on for too long
This entire solution doc is filled with intentional errors within every single puzzle in this weekly
The most important one is right at the bottom of the solution document which says this
This must be the solution to the "temp end" level! Inputting this sends you to this page:
1111111111221 is the amount of characters you will get from every single puzzle, while tr1cksar1se is something you concatenate the rest with in the end for the final answer
POLYCHROMASIA:
One of the original pixels used to create the path that draws open is gone and replaced with a white pixel. Drawing the path again gives you the letter U
NOTHING BUT MORSE:
The morse youre supposed to be given from the vigenere is replaced with a fake and shorter morse. Extracting letters using sup3rson1c instead of sup3rsisonth1nice gives you the letter n
THE SHERLOCK HOLMES RIDDLES | VOLUME 1:
There are a few new pixels added inside the dancing men. You will be creating a new dancing man by using the positions of the new pixels. This will decode to the letter d
Middle pixel is always filled in so it doesnt matter that its missing
SIX: A BYTE-SIZED RIDDLE:
This puzzle is a little funny, because the hex of the real puzzle got completely replaced with a hex that is just the md5 hash for the letter e
SYNCHRONICITY:
The diamond shape used for infecting pixels got replaced with one thats 5 pixels wide and long instead of 4. The letter r is the only letter from trijomor is the only letter not infected after this change
THE STRING HARMONY:
The text explaining this puzzle in the solution document is just completely different
The letters you extract by following the instructions youre given are "PQRSUVWX" and the only letter missing from this sequence is T
NINTH RIDDLE:
Very sneaky error, it says "tags name" instead of tags description which means you have to extract the 9 letter from labyrinthine which is h
NOTORIGINAL
LEVEL 1:
Folder shown in one of the screenshots is wrong
If you go to that page a letter e is capitalized
LEVEL 4:
Old image:
New solution document image:
1st digit is different, div 26 of this number gives v
LEVEL 6:
One of the characters that is supposed to be 50/50 is written down as if its not. That character is e
While you could argue that it could also be n, there is also no word that contains "vn" inside it
LEVEL 2:
Text mentions base 2 instead of base 3. Convert 3 to base 2 instead of 3 to get 11 (2 digits hinted at enumeration above)
LEVEL 3:
T and E are also swapped in the the image
LEVEL 5:
Screenshot shows the wrong redirect, more specifically the one that leads to level 5 instead of 2
Theres a capital letter, that being h
Concatenate every answer and you have "undertheve11tehtr1cksar1se" as your final answer!
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