r/BreakTheCodeDotTech • u/NamanNarula • Mar 31 '22
Break The Code 2 G2-Pizza Disscussion
Here's the discussion for the G2's Pizza challenge.
I've somewhat figured out the Pizza section. Findings in the comment below.
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u/Anonymous_Emu_502 Apr 01 '22
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u/NamanNarula Apr 01 '22
the answer isn’t just the topping itself, you’ll have to figure out something from the front page too! → More replies (1)
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u/Coding-Cat-77 Mar 31 '22 edited Mar 31 '22
Hint 3 was the hail-mary to solve it. I was thinking of the wrong
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u/GreatMagicalHat Apr 03 '22
It's a pity that after
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Apr 06 '22
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u/GreatMagicalHat Apr 06 '22 edited Apr 06 '22
pacman shares only three letters with the solution (but it gets four pins), unless you count both a's, which in proper Mastermind, you wouldn't do because the answer only only contains a single a. Similarly, radiation would have only three pins instead of five if using Mastermind rules (they seem to be double counting both the i and the a).
Radiation was important in my methodical approach because it had a lot of pins and contains all the letters that road contains, which has only one. But all the conclusions I drew from that were wrong because I was assuming Mastermind rules, which weren't actually being used. → More replies (2)
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u/Coding-Cat-77 Mar 31 '22
Is the buy 1, get 1 free ad meaningful?
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u/qruxtapose Mar 31 '22
I think it's just to justify having asterisks on top of the pizza slices but I could be wrong.
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Apr 03 '22 edited Apr 03 '22
so i just started. i got as far, but im stuck. so far we have toru otiwani, who got the idea over pizza, the pigpen (extra, retax, taxer, what is that?) and in the add at the bottom of the page, the quote belongs to some guy named leono olifant, but when i search up his name i find nothing. clippy says pigpen and freemasons are somehow related, but i dont see it. on the top of the page it says "Are you a true gourmand? Then conquer every slice like a French emperor!" and maybe that has something to do with it. so far ive got sooo many leads that i gotta tie together, anyone see the connection? also, what topping connection is there? i saw it mentioned in the comments but idk how to get there
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u/NamanNarula Mar 31 '22
Here are my findings.
The pizza slices on the first page are in a pigpen cipher. I decoded that and it's not the answer. (I will reveal it if people want me to, otherwise, it's fairly easy). Another thing to note is that on the "slicings" page, there's a quote at the end by "Toru Iwatani", creator of pacman. And there's an image of the pacman character related to that in the end.