BLACK BOX MAFIA THREAD

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Anomalous Amalgam: Feb 13, 2015; by Nyc_Tattoo; Doctor Rope

Toalpaz posted:

I sit on the pinnacle. The peak as it were. I sit among Kings and Gods. You should vote me for king, I will right the wrongs in this land using the power of the Black Box.

Says every dictator ever. We all know what happens when you get your grubby paws on the box...

Chaos unending.
Agony.
The subatomic disassembly of our matter.
Agony.

:colbert:

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Toalpaz: Mar 20, 2012; Peace through overwhelming determination

Mark my words, I will vibrate with it.

# ? Jul 9, 2018 19:34

merk: May 20, 2003; ##interact

Hi, can you please tell us exactly what you did with the computer image so we don't look for the same thing?

# ? Jul 9, 2018 19:36

merk: May 20, 2003; ##interact

05 12 3
07 28 1
08 23 3
08 25 3
09 25 3
10 14 2
10 20 3

# ? Jul 9, 2018 19:41

merk: May 20, 2003; ##interact

That's from MMM's profile. There is one more image off thread to find. Probably found using that as some sort of code.

# ? Jul 9, 2018 19:41

Jump King: Aug 10, 2011

ignore the profile thing, sorry

# ? Jul 9, 2018 19:42

Toalpaz: Mar 20, 2012; Peace through overwhelming determination

merk posted:

Hi, can you please tell us exactly what you did with the computer image so we don't look for the same thing?

I'm sure you were doing the same thing as me. I'm also sure B- was muddying the water with their stupid binary image thing, because they don't like other people to solve them first.

I think you were on the right track, meaning the image is solved for you. I don't want to say how it was done because it was time consuming and fun to find a system to do reasonably quickly and you should do it yourself if you want to. I think the Cube image is fully solved.

# ? Jul 9, 2018 19:43

Toalpaz: Mar 20, 2012; Peace through overwhelming determination

merk posted:

That's from MMM's profile. There is one more image off thread to find. Probably found using that as some sort of code.

Its from an old puzzle and a red herring now.

# ? Jul 9, 2018 19:43

merk: May 20, 2003; ##interact

The first post says that the computer image is not fully solved.

# ? Jul 9, 2018 19:44

Toalpaz: Mar 20, 2012; Peace through overwhelming determination

merk posted:

The first post says that the computer image is not fully solved.

I don't know what the image in thread, found but not solved is.

# ? Jul 9, 2018 19:46

merk: May 20, 2003; ##interact

Ok, I will ask you again: What exactly did you do to find that image?

Why is this so hard? At least fake town and be helpful.

# ? Jul 9, 2018 19:47

Toalpaz: Mar 20, 2012; Peace through overwhelming determination

merk posted:

Ok, I will ask you again: What exactly did you do to find that image?

Why is this so hard? At least fake town and be helpful.

If you read OP you could infer. Fine whatever. By the way this doesn't even confirm town or not so don't act like you're basing your opinion on this.

Cube image solves for QR code. Code links to discord invite. Discord puzzle is the server, the image is the king-maker card.

# ? Jul 9, 2018 19:54

merk: May 20, 2003; ##interact

Ok, so if that's the cube image, that means the computer image is not yet solved: https://imgur.com/IgwkaGU

The only thing I've found is that the text on the image has an orange layer creeping off the left and a blue layer creeping off the right.

# ? Jul 9, 2018 19:58

b-minus1: Jul 24, 2008; She's a maniac, maniac
on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before

Toalpaz posted:

I'm also sure B- was muddying the water with their stupid binary image thing, because they don't like other people to solve them first.

# ? Jul 9, 2018 20:00

Anomalous Amalgam: Feb 13, 2015; by Nyc_Tattoo; Doctor Rope

b-minus1 posted:

You jerk

# ? Jul 9, 2018 20:03

b-minus1: Jul 24, 2008; She's a maniac, maniac
on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before

Anomalous Amalgam posted:

You jerk

I was rofling at his pathetic attempt to paint me as scum. i literally posted the snipped image so other people could start working on it.

# ? Jul 9, 2018 20:08

curiousCat: Sep 23, 2012; Does this look like the face of mercy, kupo?

##unvote

##vote toal

# ? Jul 9, 2018 20:10

Toalpaz: Mar 20, 2012; Peace through overwhelming determination

Listen folks, doing puzzles doesn't confirm or deny being scum.

They aren't mutually exclusive. So me saying that I think B- provided a contextless image to confuse puzzlers doesn't mean I think that B- is scum, okay?

# ? Jul 9, 2018 20:10

Bifauxnen: Aug 12, 2010; Curses! Foiled again!

I just woke up from the most hilarious dream

I dreamt that a scum had sent me a PM all "huh, what the hell are you doing? Me and the other scumbros X, Y and Z are super confused"

I was tempted to report their out of thread communication to get them modkilled, but that wouldn't be very sporting. And then I woke up and had no such PM in real life.

.. but wait, why would that get them modkilled? isn't out of thread communication fine for scums?

whoops, townslip

# ? Jul 9, 2018 20:11

b-minus1: Jul 24, 2008; She's a maniac, maniac
on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before

curiousCat posted:

##unvote

##vote toal

# ? Jul 9, 2018 20:12

b-minus1: Jul 24, 2008; She's a maniac, maniac
on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before

Toalpaz posted:

Listen folks, doing puzzles doesn't confirm or deny being scum.

They aren't mutually exclusive. So me saying that I think B- provided a contextless image to confuse puzzlers doesn't mean I think that B- is scum, okay?

lol ok dude.

# ? Jul 9, 2018 20:14

Anomalous Amalgam: Feb 13, 2015; by Nyc_Tattoo; Doctor Rope

Toalpaz posted:

Listen folks, doing puzzles doesn't confirm or deny being scum.

They aren't mutually exclusive. So me saying that I think B- provided a contextless image to confuse puzzlers doesn't mean I think that B- is scum, okay?

But B- died town, you think Bif came back town, and B- came back scum???

Anyhow, this puzzle business is excatly why I should be your king

I'm impartial to it, and too stupid to sort it out, you need a King like me, familiarly dumb, but I'll heed my council.

# ? Jul 9, 2018 20:20

Toalpaz: Mar 20, 2012; Peace through overwhelming determination

I think I may be busy most of tonight and forget to come back here. Might as well try and be king, I'll lead you well. Feel free to leave suggestions in thread.

##vote Toalpaz

# ? Jul 9, 2018 20:28

curiousCat: Sep 23, 2012; Does this look like the face of mercy, kupo?

b-minus1 posted:

Having someone be king is the surest way to get a glimpse into their thoughts.

# ? Jul 9, 2018 20:32

b-minus1: Jul 24, 2008; She's a maniac, maniac
on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before

curiousCat posted:

Having someone be king is the surest way to get a glimpse into their thoughts.

# ? Jul 9, 2018 20:37

merk: May 20, 2003; ##interact

I feel like the computer image is a riddle.

# ? Jul 9, 2018 20:56

merk: May 20, 2003; ##interact

Your punchcards are guns
Your wires are crossed
You have zero ones
Your bases are lost

# ? Jul 9, 2018 21:01

merk: May 20, 2003; ##interact

MMM Whatchya Say posted:

Start from the top
Feel all the bits
Add it all up
With fingers and sticks

# ? Jul 9, 2018 21:04

merk: May 20, 2003; ##interact

I got nothing.

# ? Jul 9, 2018 21:07

b-minus1: Jul 24, 2008; She's a maniac, maniac
on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before

zero ones - binary?

# ? Jul 9, 2018 21:10

b-minus1: Jul 24, 2008; She's a maniac, maniac
on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before

all of the rows except one have 2 or 3 black boxes

# ? Jul 9, 2018 21:14

merk: May 20, 2003; ##interact

MMM Whatchya Say posted:

use an image editor
Three colours are present
~
symbol in computer image
is just binary numbers

Yeah, the answer is binary in the computer image.

# ? Jul 9, 2018 21:14

b-minus1: Jul 24, 2008; She's a maniac, maniac
on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before

wires are switched? maybe black squares are actually 0 and white squares are 1?

# ? Jul 9, 2018 21:15

merk: May 20, 2003; ##interact

I found the original image on a reverse image search and compared it with the image presented to us. Besides the hieroglyphics and the text, nothing new is added.

# ? Jul 9, 2018 21:16

b-minus1: Jul 24, 2008; She's a maniac, maniac
on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before

this is what I got: ]�e6eS4Uݺ

so maybe we are getting close and I messed something up?

# ? Jul 9, 2018 21:18

merk: May 20, 2003; ##interact

What converter did you use for that?

# ? Jul 9, 2018 21:19

b-minus1: Jul 24, 2008; She's a maniac, maniac
on the floor
And she's dancing like she's never danced before

http://www.binarytranslator.com/

# ? Jul 9, 2018 21:19

merk: May 20, 2003; ##interact

I tried from top to bottom and got a link to iron-rose.com that was blocked at work.

# ? Jul 9, 2018 21:20

Anomalous Amalgam: Feb 13, 2015; by Nyc_Tattoo; Doctor Rope

b-minus1 posted:

this is what I got: ]�e6eS4Uݺ

so maybe we are getting close and I messed something up?

I got that too.

# ? Jul 9, 2018 21:21

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# ? Apr 27, 2024 22:51

merk: May 20, 2003; ##interact

"add it all up"?

Maybe try decimal instead of binary or try adding each line together?

# ? Jul 9, 2018 21:24

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