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A new Puzzle Hunt – the solution will be published on Dec 28th at around 11.30. Have fun, Harry
So here it is, the culmination of the many (well, four) puzzles that I have posted over the last couple of months. Good luck!
Puzzle Hunt, META (3,6,6)
MD5: 8872480580666b5d75b3c352c6e1c7af
[N.B. Please use the answer to Puzzle 4.5, not Puzzle 4!]
[INTRODUCTION]
Here is a rough guide to the difficulty of this Meta, given the number of feeder answers you have obtained:
- 4 feeders: Should be trivial.
- 3 feeders: Should still be easy, but you will have to figure out a bit of the final message by yourself.
- 2 feeders: Hard, but very much doable (especially since this is being posted on a cryptography forum!).
- 1 feeder: Really difficult, but potentially doable. Good luck.
- 0 feeders: What are you doing here??
[And besides, you should already have two answers anyway! See another post in this forum.]
This introduction is not a puzzle.
[PUZZLE]
Instructions:
- ERNQ GURFR VAFGEHPGVBAF PNERSHYYL!
- RNPU BS GUR SBHE SRRQRE NAFJREF FUBHYQ UNIR RKNPGYL 16 PUNENPGREF (HFVAT YNGVA YRGGREF BAYL).
- QREVIR N 64-YRGGRE XRLFGERNZ, X, SEBZ GURFR NAFJREF NF SBYYBJF.
- UNIR LBH TBG NAFJRE N? VS FB, GUR 16 YRGGREF SEBZ GUVF NAFJRE FUBHYQ ZNXR HC GUR 1FG,5GU,…,61FG YRGGREF BS X (VA GUNG BEQRE!).
- RNFL. ABJ HFR NAFJRE O GB PERNGR GUR 2AQ,6GU,…,62AQ YRGGREF BS X.
- ERCRNG SBE NAFJRE P (3EQ,…,63EQ YRGGREF BS X).
- ERCRNG SBE NAFJRE Q (4GU,…,64GU YRGGREF BS X).
- VS LBH NER PBASHFRQ JVGU JUVPU NAFJRE VF JUVPU, N YBBX NG GUR GVGYRF ZNL URYC!
- ABJ QRPELCG GUR SBYYBJVAT ZRFFNTR, HFVAT X NF N BAR-GVZR CNQ.
- TBBQ YHPX!
Message:
YNEUYCJXCQEMESPEKDGGHBSHOVFYFPLNEROAXJYPSGDJFVVBDYEKMBNPGUMWQIMJ