Day two - - After Christmas

Matticus · January 5, 2019, 8:13pm

Are you bruteforcing it or something?

big_ass · January 5, 2019, 8:13pm

Yeah

big_ass · January 5, 2019, 8:14pm

I had a nice solver for this but I cant find it

Matticus · January 5, 2019, 8:14pm

That’s cheating

big_ass · January 5, 2019, 8:14pm

How’s it cheating?

Matticus · January 5, 2019, 8:14pm

Because if it requires bruteforcing then it’s not fun to solve

big_ass · January 5, 2019, 8:15pm

It doesn’t “require” bruteforcing

We are just “too stupid” to solve it without bruteforcing

big_ass · January 5, 2019, 8:15pm

Found it:

simplesub.py

big_ass · January 5, 2019, 8:17pm

Remember when Klaze posted the substitution cypher and I got all excited because I thought I had solved it but actually I had forgotten to replace the text in the program I stole so in fact I had decoded the default text (some nabokov quote)

Matticus · January 5, 2019, 8:17pm

Okay well give me the answer then… (not a fun treasure hunt)

big_ass · January 5, 2019, 8:17pm

I won’t give you the answer - I believe you are smart enough to solve it

Matticus · January 5, 2019, 8:19pm

I believe I might be smart enough to download a script and press a button

big_ass · January 5, 2019, 8:20pm

Do it then

Matticus · January 5, 2019, 8:20pm

I think I heard a kobold scurrying about. Did you?

anon_yang · January 5, 2019, 8:21pm

The Kobold Shrieks at Matticus

big_ass · January 5, 2019, 8:25pm

See you in 2 hours losers

SOPHIE · January 5, 2019, 11:35pm

@big_ass helo?

big_ass · January 6, 2019, 12:55am

I had to shut it down because I had to go do stuff

big_ass · January 6, 2019, 12:56am

It ran both forward and backwards for at least 1 h 30 (forward) and 30 (backward) without any worthwhile results

big_ass · January 6, 2019, 12:57am

Why am I doing all the work here you guys definitely have computers and way more free time than me