Welcome welcome welcome. You are all familiar with the hacker contest, yes? And some of you enjoyed them, no? This is essentially the same thing, maybe? Yes, it is.

In our last episode I had 2 challenges. They were not easy until you realize the solution. I’m aware of the difficulty. Under advisement I have decided to start off easy and work my way up to more complex puzzles. Cipher, codes and a perhaps a little Googling will serve you well. There are 5 challenges in all.

The rules are simple. When you figure the answer out tubmail me with the answer and I will send you the next challenge. The first person to get all 5 correct wins 4 BP.

Do not post any answers in this thread. But I do encourage you to post in this thread.

I will offer clues as I see fit.

The answers will not be gibberish. Some people seem to miss that part, so I’ve made it stand out I hope.

Finally, I will edit this post to list the winners

CHALLENGE 1 (1.1): quangntenemy, CreepPipe, GrahamWellington, The Wandering Hypocrite, Eebit, zagerblag, Robok, dobnits, Demonlord666000, C_Wenhoo, Johnny Mac, crashhelper,altLokiA2C5A, Meshamu, The Biscuit Kid, Nekomouse, Melankay, BlazingPelt, Randomman289, CyborgSix. sid_turtle, SplodeyDope, Syndrome, g0m, wyattwilky, Lhooq, Michael Jackson, DarkHaunter, Lemammary glandsnow, LRFLEW, Shinobu, TehJustin, Lemonsz, Duncan74, AntB, NitemarePK, KingLeroy, Jubbles, SuperJad, Largehardoncollider, Akaleth

CHALLENGE 2(-2): GrahamWellington, CreepPipe, quangntenemy, zagerblag, Demonlord666000, Eebit, C_Wenhoo, dobnits, crashhelper, altLokiA2C5A, Lhooq, Randomman289, Melankay, Meshamu, DarkHaunter. TehJustin, g0m, Duncan74, Cyborg6

CHALLENGE 3(22/7): quangntenemy, zagerblag, Eebit, C_Wenhoo. Demonlord666000, dobnits, crashhelper, altLokiA2C5A, Lhooq, DarkHaunter, Meshamu, Duncan74

CHALLENGE 4(x²-y>0): quangntenemy, zagerblag, C_Wenhoo, Lhooq, DarkHaunter, crashhelper, Meshamu, Demonlord000666

CHALLENGE 5(Q):C_Wenhoo Our mystery winner was DarkHaunter

UPDATE: DarkHaunter declined the prize so C_Wenhoo, our second person to answer #5 has been awarded the 4BP prize. This is on another page but I’ll say it here too. Friend me whenever you get a chance.

So without further ado….CHALLENGE 1.1:

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