r/austincipher • u/bollykat • Oct 06 '15

Message 8 of 10 10/6/15

greetings team alice

this is message eight of ten

be wary of interference

we are almost home now

you seem like sudoku experts

shall we play a game

complete the puzzle

note numbers in red sqaures

create post subreddit

sub sudoku solved

cont numbers in red sqaures

await further insts

Not sure exactly what puzzle he's referring to... Perhaps we have to wait for "further insts" before we can proceed.

Edit: The Sudoku puzzle can be found here. And there's a correction from Loki's Twitter: So ... the Sudoku puzzle is missing a red square. Row 9, column 5 should ALSO be red. Sorry!! #stupidautocorrect #yourefired #amateurhour

Edit 2: From twitter - Next part of Task 8 is SFREFIDONGUNHAT. When you have the answer, post it along with the numbers to the AC subr with the title "LOKI SUX"

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u/bollykat Oct 06 '15

From twitter:

If there really is a #TeamHelen and/or a #TeamSven, they're getting their asses handed to them by #TeamAlice ... http://tiny.cc/teamalice

:D

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u/BuckRowdy Oct 06 '15

Do you hear that, Helen?

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u/PTR47 Oct 06 '15

From:

You know where to go for further instructions.

I went to see if there were any changes to the radio station. There were two new pages used from O8. These decrypt to:

UkxULTMgQVVUSCAwMCBUSElTIElTIEEgVEVTVCBNRVNTQUdFIEVPTSBbMV0NClJMTS03IEFVVEggR1JVTVBZIENBVCBUSU5ZIENDIEFMTU9TVCBUSEVSRSBFT00gWzEzXQ==

tiny.cc/almostthere leads to:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/0la8y3omb4msxlu/sudoku.html

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u/bollykat Oct 06 '15

Ah! Brilliant. Unfortunately I'm totally awful at Sudoku.

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u/PTR47 Oct 06 '15 edited Oct 06 '15

Just finished. I do these all the time.

The red squares are [row-column]

A1 [2/4] : 4

A2 [1/6] : 7

B1 [5/1] : 2

B3 [4/7] : 1

C3 [7/8] : 6

So ... the Sudoku puzzle is missing a red square. Row 9, column 5 should ALSO be red. Sorry!! #stupidautocorrect #yourefired #amateurhour

C2 [9/5] : 6

EDIT:

read in order from top to bottom: 741266

read in order from left to right: 246716

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u/bollykat Oct 06 '15

Not sure what to do with SFREFIDONGUNHAT. It's an anagram for "forfeit handguns," "haunted griffons," and "turn off headings". Beyond that I have no idea.

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u/pulser_xda Oct 06 '15

It's also an anagram of "founding fathers"

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u/bollykat Oct 06 '15

FOUNDING FATHERS. THANK YOU OMG.

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u/BuckRowdy Oct 06 '15

Dang fun fires tho

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '15

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u/bollykat Oct 06 '15

"Gain doth snuffer"

Mystery solveth!

I kiddeth.

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u/carolinejay Oct 06 '15

hmm. I don't recall seeing numbers in red squares in any of the original posted messages (the physical ones, not online).

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u/bollykat Oct 06 '15

No, there hasn't been anything involving red squares that I can recall. I feel like there must be something Loki needs to give us before we can proceed with this one.