easter-eggs

[coarse dagger]

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+FE56

Little questionmark

[timid solstice]

Unicode Character “🥚” (U+1F95A)
Egg
https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1F95A

[pure loom]

From Medieval Latin: pūnctus interrogātīvus = question mark

U+2047 ⁇ DOUBLE QUESTION MARK

[turbid tinsel]

does anyone have an image of both questionmarks overlayed on each other?

[pure loom]

Yeah, I can provide those - looking at them now - nothing really coming of it though

[timid solstice]

using what blend mode?

it all looks meh

[hard current]

I tried this but didn't see anything

[faint rivet]

Probably one of those “who came first, the chicken or the egg?” Kind of question

[pure loom]

here they are just with the front one at partial opacity so you can see the placement

they don't match

[sharp flame]

Yeah they're not even lined up exactly

[pure loom]

The egg. Maybe that is a path...

[sharp flame]

I just wanted to try overlaying them in hopes that the background gradients would cancel out and we would have a clear version of the Grid Cipher in the white image

[pure loom]

Why did the question mark cross the road!

[timid solstice]

do you think the gold and white relate to a question

what gold
what white

[sharp flame]

Question + Gold + Egg

hmm

[hard current]

well the first tier(s) were all about gold, the next was about egg right?

so the gold question mark relates to the gold, and the white one relates to egg

[pure loom]

Which came first, gold or egg? Gold did

[hard current]

I think it's a combination of those two tiers potentially, because the two jpgs are split between ques and tion

[sharp flame]

Is it now looking at golden eggs?

[hard current]

so it combines to make one question about a golden egg

but no idea how it relates to the date and time like rob was hinting at

[sharp flame]

Rob brang up Years twice now

[hard current]

and I thought I saw something about hours further down the line, could’ve been an old hint tho

[timid solstice]

@jade citrus #📂┇the-finals-wiki message
was it really 61 days?

[pure loom]

"From around 783, in Godescalc Evangelistary, a mark described as "a lightning flash, striking from right to left" is attested.[4][5] This mark is later called a punctus interrogativus." - a year for an early version of the question mark

[hard current]

could it matter that he said “years” and not “year”

[sharp flame]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_mark_(disambiguation)

Ceres here, a very very interesting return

The question mark shape is largely the symbol of Ceres (1)

Which came up before

[pure loom]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%3F%3F

[sharp flame]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_4_Seven

hehe

[timid solstice]

247 365

[faint rivet]

When did Rob said “a walk in the park”? Was that meant for the T2DEF but was solved too quickly.

[timid solstice]

long ago

[pure loom]

Rob's full comments that might relate to Tier 3, so far:
"FINALLY WE CAN GET READY FOR THE NEXT STEP..!"
"Only ONE little tier left, then the real hunt begins and we are ready to wrap this first little EE-hunt… Thank you for being part of this little adventure.!"
"pssst... here we go.!"
"Months ahead of you, months... scratch that... years."

here @faint rivet

[timid solstice]

does the park have a name?

maybe its latin

[faint rivet]

Ohh. Thank you. Dang that was loooong ago. lol

[hard current]

for the time thing, could it be that for 50 year anniversary, gold is a common item?

but why 50 years then...

"THE_FINALS_Screenshot_015_3840x2160_F" had a scrambled message hidden within the footer, which was never solved.

we still have this too, think it might be part of it?

[pure loom]

Bergen, in Norway, has this sculpture at their airport. Good way to confuse people lol

[timid solstice]

did rob eye this because the model is C64 G

https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1136

[pure loom]

Or maybe because there is a G on the 6 key?

"As for the question mark — it is unclear why the particular symbol ? is used. Some suggest it’s an ancient Egyptian symbol that emulates the formation of a cat’s tail when it’s inquisitive. "

"Others suggest the mark emanates from the Latin word quaestio which means question. Over the centuries the word may have gotten shortened to a Q like symbol."

[faint rivet]

He probably eyed it cuz you mentioned that it can be “gold”. I don’t think it was about the pic

[faint rivet]

But The white(?) fit perfectly in the center of the gold(?), right?

[pure loom]

No, they don't align perfectly

[jade citrus]

61 days since we solved t1f, 56 days since we started T2ABC (i forgot we had a break)

[pure loom]

thanks for this info

[jade citrus]

just updated the wiki to 56 days since that's how long we actually worked on it

T1E: 96
T1F: 76
T2ABC: 56

down by 20 days each time

[coarse dagger]

#easter-eggs message

[faint rivet]

Really?? Damn. The space in the middle of the gold(?) looks like the white(?) would fill in the spot. Hmm

[jade citrus]

by the way, is the video for T1F still being worked on?

[timid solstice]

that still went fast!
but I've been distracted by my newborn

[jade citrus]

what???? congrats!!

[pure loom]

yes

the whole 1f-1 made it tricky

I wasn't sure where we were

@timid solstice congrats!

[pure loom]

This shows the misalignment pretty well

[timid solstice]

thanks! shes already 6 weeks - time goes too fast

I wonder if there are more clues coming

or rob will confirm we have all we need...

[hard current]

could signify gold around the egg i.e. golden egg but that feels like a leap

... if G = 6 would it be a jump to say all the other letters are also assigned a number?

problem is if we do it that way, A would be 0

and there's no roman numerals for that

[pure loom]

yeah, I feel like the "ques" "tion" thing is probably stronger - maybe saying that "gold" is the first part and "egg" is the second part - but then we just kinda had that for the last answer...

[faint rivet]

yea I can see it now. It was just a thought when I saw the gold center looked like the white would fit perfectly.

[hard current]

yeah, I already tried combining the two into the password and nothing

and included L in various spots (50 for 50 year anniversary gift being gold)

I don't get it

the other two tiers lead to viold and evivi

viold evivi = gold egg

and the two question images clearly signify a combining of the two (ques and tion)

but how the heck does time factor into that

[pure loom]

clocks often have roman numerals

that's why I wondered about vivivi

[hard current]

true...

666 yeah I looked into that as well since we go from vi to vivi it would be logical to think vivivi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goose_that_Laid_the_Golden_Eggs

would tie into the sort of hyper capitalism notes the game hits on maybe

my girlfriend walked into my office and saw this on my screen and thinks I'm shizophrenic

viold vi = 6 see: gold
evivi vi vi = 66 see: egg

viold evivi?
violdevivi
violdevivi?

violdeviviL?
viold evivi L?
5 8 13 0 11 18
V VII XII 0 XVIII
VVIIXII0XVIII
A 0
B 1
C 2
D 3
E 4
F 5
G 6 (previous)
H 7
I 8
J 9

[unborn pilot]

Random, but Goose in Latin is Anser which sort of sounds like "question? answer"

[pliant owl]

According to the internet, a "Golden egg" is "something that is a very good source of money or business". Maybe the last tier has something to do with the release of the game? We don't know when that's planned exactly yet so we get question marks instead. The last stage would also tie into "the promise" of releasing the game in 2023.

[balmy fog]

Where did you get J=9?

[hard current]

based off g = 6 from the previous tiers

I just assigned numbers in the same fashion, I don't think it'll lead anywhere

[pliant owl]

Quite a stretch but I need someone to tell me I'm delusional before I can think of something else 😂

[balmy fog]

Yeah but, how do you get J=9

[hard current]

I just took the notion G = 6 and assigned numbers to letters up and down from G

so H =7 and so on

[balmy fog]

ohhhh

Im dumb

[hard current]

it's just a rabbit hole

[balmy fog]

Sorry

[hard current]

no worries

[balmy fog]

did we look into the 3F?

we have lots of things leading to 3F

or FFF

[hard current]

part of me wonders if this tier is time locked until release

[hard current]

oo where's this from?

[pure loom]

Personally, I don't think they'd risk tying these easter eggs to a release date announcement - there's just too much at stake to do that. I could be wrong, but that's my gut feel

[hard current]

the only thing I can see for time with years is that gold is a 50 year anniversary gift (L in roman numerals) but I don't think there's anyway for me to make that work, cause why 50?

[pliant owl]

You mean that there would've been the possibility that all stages would be solved way before a potential release?

[pure loom]

No, while there is that or it not being solved fast enough, the launch of a game is critical to the entire company and requires their entire marketing team to tie everything into it - I just don't think they'd choose an avenue that's so risky - too many things can go wrong with it. Maybe a beta date one day, or a new trailer for a season or something like that

[balmy fog]

? is $3F in C64 Screen Codes
? is ASCII Code 63 (0x3F hexadecimal)
? is Unicode code-point U+003F
� is U+FFFD
T3-F
? is PETSCII 63

That's a lot of 3F connections but again, might be random

[hard current]

it's hard to know what rabbit hole to jump into

and it doesn't sound like anyones found any secret site or anything else clue wise

maybe this one is just straight up figure out the password

[turbid tinsel]

So technically we knew abc and def were gold and egg in terms of the password before we actually solved it. does that mean we the next part we are actually looking for is a gold egg?

[hard current]

you might be onto something

I've been reading robs old messages and he hints that there are a lot of other secrets still out there

not sure if they're related to this though

[balmy fog]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Hen_(Fabergé_egg)

This was an interesting rabbit hole

Its a fabergé egg, with a white shell and gold inside

But I didn't conclude anything positive out of it

[hard current]

did anyone ever find a gold egg in the beta...

I doubt it or we wouldve heard about it

https://www.reachthefinals.com/ospuze

this logo on the site is labeled egg1.png

[pliant owl]

I don't know, but I don't have any experience with running a game development studio so I can't properly judge that 😂
I just have a gut feeling that the last stage ties into the "The Promise" in some way or another

Did they promise anything I don't know about? 😂

[hard current]

this is labeleg egg2.png on the site...

[balmy fog]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Promise

[pure loom]

I could certainly be wrong, but I also think the EE, so far, isn't a big enough marketing avenue to tie into the release. Maybe down the track something in the game could lead to something like that.

[hard current]

wait wait

was there a gold egg reward at the end of the second beta

[balmy fog]

Nah I don't think so

[turbid tinsel]

I feel like im starting to see some sort of pattern or outline form at the very top

[hard current]

hol up

type gold egg in the search bar on the discord and scroll back to the end

there are mentions of people saying a gold egg reward during the second beta

#⚡┇the-finals-chat message

#⚡┇the-finals-chat message

#⚡┇the-finals-chat message

probably unrelated tbh but

[hard current]

yes this

[balmy fog]

why is it saturn

[hard current]

that smug ass is winking at me

it knows something

[balmy fog]

I got hyped for a second

I tried stars

since it kinda rhymes with ''Can you reach The Finals'' ''Can you reach the stars''

[hard current]

so why would gold, and an egg, have anything to do with time (years)

gold is timeless, an egg is not

[balmy fog]

Oh maybe a phone number actually

Can you reach The Finals

meaning of Reach

just throwing shit out there tbh

[pliant owl]

You're probably right. I do think it would be cool if they would let a dedicated few from the community reveal the release date. I heard somewhere they did mention they were still on track for a 2023 release so they might as well be dropping hints for it in the EE hunt now

Rob has been hinting at "little" and "time" lately

[hard current]

hmmmm

[pliant owl]

Could also explain his comment about "months/years ahead of you"

[hard current]

I've read up on messages over the past couple weeks

man there were some DEEP holes yall went down lmao

I feel like we're going to overcomplicate this one as well

[balmy fog]

If we want to keep it short

It's ?

and lots of 3F clues → not confirmed

probably all we need

[pliant owl]

Which could also be interpreted as "there are months/years (of playing the game) ahead of you" if I'm going full conspiracy theorist mode

[hard current]

it's clearly rob talking about the passage of time and how he watches himself grow older year after year, and is terrified to leave this mortal plane

[river flame]

split in 2

[hard current]

I found a golden egg

the only one I could see in any of the official art

[unborn pilot]

Nice find.

[jagged ore]

that is the reward one from CB2 #easter-eggs message

[hard current]

july 12, 2023 when it was posted

but it doesn't explain robs "months.. scratch that years"

[unborn pilot]

one of the first things rob said after the solution was directly referring to that drawing on the white board

[hard current]

what did he say?

[unborn pilot]

Yes it is me, with my bad posture, my laptop, cap, energy drink and wristband..!

Which funny enough looks like a question mark also the way it’s shaped

[unborn pilot]

Yeah that guy on the right of the first one. With the cap, slouched

Slouched like a question mark with two dots though

[balmy fog]

aLSO

Like @timid solstice mentionned

It's always

[hard current]

was that a hint you think or him just goofing with us?

[balmy fog]

Reach The Finals | 00:00:00

[hard current]

I see that and the color bar on the side on every single official art

[balmy fog]

perhaps the code is XX:XX:XX

[hard current]

can confirm I have tried it and it is not

[balmy fog]

plz

[unborn pilot]

I thought it was way too descriptive to be a joke.

[balmy fog]

put password attemps in this https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1175206999802249307

[hard current]

I went back through Robs old messages in the discord, only date back to 2022 so I don't think that'd be relevant for the "years ahead of you" part

isn't there an ospuze wristband in the beta?

[unborn pilot]

Like he’s telling us to look on some cap, some wristband, etc. And maybe that’s what connects this last part to “make sense”

Also I feel like that white board may be tied by color and tier

3 colors, 3 tiers, filled with hints

[hard current]

there was only one portion that was relevant to the last tier right, the guitar chord on the right?

[balmy fog]

C64 wasn't used at all

for

viold evivi

[unborn pilot]

Yeah and I saw the red squares which felt like it was pointing to this connection you guys found for gold being abc and egg being def

Blue would be tier 1, red tier 2, black then tier 3. Though I could be looking for connections where they don’t exist.

[balmy fog]

I'll do a whiteboard threads so it doesn't get in the official ? clues

Since whiteboard is not fully confirmed

[unborn pilot]

Good call. What do you mean by fully confirmed?

[balmy fog]

Well

I dont want us to go in rabbit holes in here

Because we'll go in rabbit holes

[unborn pilot]

So many rabbit holes indeed. I agree. I think the g6 chord on it gave it a lot of credibility and the ascii numbers that convert to G and 6. That could be where it stops but idk.

[balmy fog]

I personally don't see the ? link

other than Rob actually looking like a ? character

[hard current]

G6 I feel was definitely relevant to the previous tiers with converting G to vi

[unborn pilot]

Yeah nothing directly. Just rob described that drawing almost exactly and I remembered that’s where I saw it

[balmy fog]

I'll talk about it in https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1175257406838677514

but

I have this

[hard current]

I'm driving myself insane

i went back through all of embarks sites and socials to look for something… years ago

that maybe rob references

I found nothing

[balmy fog]

Come here, you might like it @hard current

https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1175257406838677514

[worn stone]

this is my shit, used to do assassins' creed easter eggs to find game release and future implications

feel behind on this game tho

[unborn pilot]

Random question. There’s an older photo of them in the office with the periodic table. At the top it has P -> C, T -> N, E -> S and then “remember” circled almost as if to remember for the end or something. Was changing those letters ever used for anything particularly?

[hard current]

it’s good but I’ll be honest I think you’re in so deep;)

I’m taking a break for now

brain fried

[faint rivet]

Remember to take breaks, everyone. Sometimes your brain needs to cool down for a bit

[river flame]

are we growing?

maybe we were an egg

[fallen jasper]

👁‍🗨

[undone socket]

OMG WHEN DID WE GET IT??

[river flame]

last night

it should've been way earlier though

lol

[undone socket]

I HAD JOKINGLY SAID 6old AND ALL WE NEEDED WAS ROMAN NUMERALS

ima cry

cleverly simple

and here i was lookin at star charts lol

[quaint wing]

We all said similar things, lmao. We didn't get eyes when someone said G=VI, got it.

so we ignored it as a whole

[undone socket]

was there anything that pointed to roman numerals?

[quaint wing]

ABC

It's a combination of those three. All leading to gold, B had roman numerals.

That's my best guess anyway.

[undone socket]

OHHHHH

[quaint wing]

and the first 2 letters of F...VI

[undone socket]

man... rob is clever ill give him that lol

i feel dum

[quaint wing]

We all do, but we know a ton about space now!

[undone socket]

true loll

[quaint wing]

Now everyone's working on figuring out T3, which is supposed to be a walk in the park.

[undone socket]

i remember one night trying to line up those star charts and the connect the dots thing lol

couldnt find anything of substance

[quaint wing]

Check the threads along the top there to see what people are coming up with.

[undone socket]

mhm

[hard current]

we hopeless on this one rn

[undone socket]

screw it, ivive dloiv

[hard current]

this is the way

[undone socket]

this is the way

[faint rivet]

this is the way

Seem like we were solving this backwards, as it was intended. T3 can be the origin of it all. Soo I’m guessing we gotta think the ONE thing that can break into a gold egg. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[hard current]

good find and writing it out

[balmy fog]

mhm

Gold came from outer space

[hard current]

so where egg

[balmy fog]

and the egg as we know, comes from plants, wich, technically speaking made after the big-bang

[hard current]

holdup we gettin too deep king

[balmy fog]

Nah we not

Gold came from asteroids

[undone socket]

explains the space stuffs

[faint rivet]

looking down the hole that looks pretty deep

lol

[undone socket]

not deep enough

[balmy fog]

gold was made from a star exploding, the rest of the star would turn into asteroid and crashed into earth

[coarse dagger]

Could we be looking at the wrong date?
Is it 2015:11:05 21:xx:xx.... After subtracting the 5 hour difference in timezone?

[balmy fog]

there wouldn't be no life as we know without the big bang, the big bang was an asteroid, big ass asteroid

[hard current]

hm that’s interesting I didn’t think of that, but we still don’t know the relevance of that date

[balmy fog]

so, what both link gold and egg, from the furthest distance possible is Space

is Asteroid or any term in that genre

[undone socket]

any notable egg shaped astroids?

or orbital cycles?

[balmy fog]

There probably is an asteroid

rotating around earth

Mercury but i dont think thats the link

[undone socket]

what about in one of the mentioned systems

unless those just led to gold

[balmy fog]

T1ABC only has 2 rectangles... not 3

[faint rivet]

Yea saw that. I was thinking it was just place like that to show it’s a basic diagram. I used the opportunity to show how the Easter Egg was, maybe, created. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[turbid tinsel]

How I feel except searching the wiki for gold clues

[hard current]

my brain is fried

I need a clue

rob... oh dear rob

[balmy fog]

Prob looking too deep for no reasons

Trust

[hard current]

yeah that's my thought too

[balmy fog]

We probably already have the answer, just a matter of how to write it

[hard current]

feel like we missing a large piece

[balmy fog]

not really imo

We have lots of indications towards the 3F

I don't see nobody really working on that

We working on time and stuff

or trying to find the link between gold and egg

? is $3F in C64 Screen Codes
? is ASCII Code 63 (0x3F hexadecimal)
? is Unicode code-point U+003F
� is U+FFFD
T3-F

while we have these evidences that are extremely weird

[hard current]

brain no work

[south wyvern]

https://tenor.com/view/friends-joey-tribbiani-screaming-scared-ahhhhhhhh-gif-19558955

[undone socket]

https://tenor.com/view/minecraft-gif-13080305837746709657

[hard current]

😭

[hard current]

is anyone else awake

am I the only one left alive

[quaint wing]

Finished a 12 hour shift, brain is too mushy to do shit. Lol. Tomorrow's gonna be the same

[hard current]

happy you made it out alive, I'll carry the boats for now (my brain is empty now)

[quaint wing]

I'm trying to keep up with everyone's shenanigans right now, reading up here and there while I work, but I'm at a loss right now with where everything is. A lot of what's been found looks super promising, just need to put it all together!

[hard current]

two question marks
one gold theme
one egg theme

metadata for both are labeled as 11/6/2015 2:25am

rob dropped hints about the word little and ONE

some are diving into the whiteboards from previously

some are thinking the crossword for that date above

some are thinking 3F due to coincidences in interpretations of "?" in different tech languages

[quaint wing]

Yup. I was working on random passwords from all that earlier and just seeing if something stuck to the wall. Nothing worked 😦 lol

[hard current]

https://tenor.com/view/i-am-losing-my-grip-on-reality-i-have-gone-clinically-insane-my-descent-to-madness-is-complete-ive-gone-completely-mental-i-am-beyond-the-point-of-no-return-gif-23191724

it's joever dawg

I've officially gone insane

it's 3am

[daring bluff]

if this was really created in 2015 then this is WAY bigger than we think

#easter-eggs message

i'm so hyped

[timid solstice]

The name of the c64 ready gif was in Latin

[strange solstice]

Anything new to report?

[proud minnow]

Just checked… it doesn’t seem that way, I only see pictures of matchstick men, unfortunately…

[sharp flame]

We have threads now.. more fun for you to scroll through 🤣🤣🤣

[sharp flame]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_of_Matchstick_Men

and for everyone else: ^

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._S._Lowry also a possible reference to L. S. Lowry

Maybe we need to look at 7N.17449

Or "The Status Quo"?

[unborn pilot]

status quo is a Latin phrase also

[sharp flame]

Hmm it could be a pointer at Latin again

I think it has to be something about this specific song as well

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peenemünde

17449 postal code

[turbid tinsel]

Lowry's work is held in many public and private collections. The largest collection is held by Salford City Council and displayed at The Lowry. Its collection has about 400 works. X-ray analyses have revealed hidden figures under his drawings – the "Ann" figures. Going to the Match is owned by the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) and is displayed at The Lowry along with a preparatory pencil sketch.

[jagged ore]

Damn so I guess we can close the crossword puzzle thread🥲

[turbid tinsel]

So people going to work or people going to the "match"?

[jagged ore]

Also would we have to find a clue connected to the meta data date for example or would us finding the date and noticing that that's weird already get eyes?

[turbid tinsel]

Hard to say honestly. At what point do you tell yourself you've given to many hints for a tier when everything has already been laid out.

[sharp flame]

Can you fake a metadata date?

[jagged ore]

I guess you could just change the date on your computer and create it

[timid solstice]

quo = where

would this be classed as a matchstick man?

[timid solstice]

the
"question"
could be
"where gold egg"

[turbid tinsel]

gold egg when

[quaint wing]

I had a dream where Rob said it was hex. It may not be real, but that's what I came up with

[quaint wing]

This looks like a question mark, but also kinda like a musical note with the feet

I'm not fully alive and will pass out again, but is there any questions in the ost?

[balmy fog]

Good morning hunters

[balmy fog]

Indeed or when

Did anybody ever find out where this was before I start making complex theory in my head?

There is a ? sign on it, perhaps linking to the ?

[quaint wing]

Someone was going off about that

[balmy fog]

I didi in https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1175257406838677514

But just making sure

[quaint wing]

Nevermind. Lol

[fallen jasper]

🗿🗿🗿

[steel palm]

out of the loop rn
is there any hints on what the outcome will be if we solve this?

does this mean tier3 is the last password we need to solve?

what was level 1

[quaint wing]

#egg-hunt-onboarding and check the pins of this channel. It'll give some insight into what's been going on and where we currently are.

[steel palm]

thx

[quaint wing]

You can check the threads to see what rabbit holes people are currently jumping down to figure out where we are with this password.

[steel palm]

yes already on it but it's hard to find the beginning and the end

[quaint wing]

Beginning of this password was like two days ago at 3am EST.

[balmy fog]

We don't know the rewards, if that's the question

Doubt there will be any tbh

[hard current]

well it seems it’s time to restart from square one baby 😎

connection is here is pictures of matchstick men was inspired by L.S Lowry paintings

I scrolled through an entire list and display of his paintings, only one that I saw anything maybe close was this, no date is listed for the painting though….

upon further analysis I lied MANY of the figures he paints have this drooping, arched neck look, with bubbly feet exactly like the white board drawing

Lowry’s distinctive figures have come down to criticism with the name of “matchstick men”. This is due to their very stylised, unrealistic, and slim figure, which seems to produce little to no shadows on the surrounding environment. While his earlier works are populated by these monotonous crowds of look-alike men and women, the 1930s marked an important shift in the artist’s production, and led Lowry to produce a series of haunting portraits.

so it’s a criticism?

[neon stream]

He said this a while ago

[hard current]

Matchstick Men

[balmy fog]

Authenticated signature and a PDF saying congratulations from Rob

[pliant owl]

Has anybody mentioned that this also looks like a question mark when it's upside down?

[balmy fog]

upside down?

It looks like a ? from the native image

[balmy fog]

I went thru it in https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1175257406838677514

[pliant owl]

Oh I can't see the threads..

[jade citrus]

yeah you gotta level up

[hard current]

once you reach rising star you can!

[pliant owl]

That explains it 🙂

[balmy fog]

Oh crap, yeah basically went thru it with the Bolshevik Island theory → Bolshevik stole Nicholas II gold worth around 11,000,000,000$ and the Fabergé Eggs → Gold Eggs

[hard current]

yee but Rob didn’t eye a thing from yesterday so… I think we’re all on the wrong track :/

[balmy fog]

Yep

[pliant owl]

So somebody already tried flipping the entire whiteboard and looking if that holds any clues? 🤔

[balmy fog]

Once again, probably super easy

We're just looking too deep

[hard current]

but why the matchstick men

yesterday that would’ve felt too deep

but that was the only hint he gave today

[balmy fog]

He said I only see pictures of Matchstick men, wich means there could also be something else

[quaint wing]

I think he was commenting that it's all we had

[neon stream]

I think the Matchstick man is not part of the hunt tbh, I think it's just one of the artists referencing Rob, and that's it

[hard current]

I can agree with that

[neon stream]

It's like the Byggare Rob poster that Emma thinks I forgot about, and hasn't shared it yet...😂

😛

[jagged ore]

Man and I really thought once we get to this tier we are gonna see some eyes again. But we still have 0 clues and almost nothing to go off of

[neon stream]

I think we're not getting eyes because the solutions to the previous Tiers and this one are quite easy, so it would make them TOO easy

I think we should just focus on Gold and Egg and that's it 🤷🏻‍♂️

And ofc...the ? clue 😂

[balmy fog]

Goldegg? is probably the dumb question

tbh

[neon stream]

"Ques tion", I think they are separate because we have to combine the answers from the previous tiers to get this one

[balmy fog]

That's why I tought Faberge was a good answer

but rip

[neon stream]

Tbh, I wouldn't discard that idea yet

That's pretty much the best we have so far 😂

Did we find a reason behind the weird nomenclature of the urls of the last two tiers? Maybe that was a clue for this Tier

[hard current]

I thought of that too but I’ve tried a lot of different combinations and nothing:(

maybe we have it already and we’re just not writing it correctly…

[neon stream]

Did we ever get clues for the Perry Index or 87? 😂

[neon stream]

https://tenor.com/view/talking-heads-once-in-a-lifetime-david-byrne-same-as-it-ever-was-new-wave-gif-17711755

[jagged ore]

I just tried to do
hex: 20 15 11 06 02 42
to ascii but it's not real characters

[neon stream]

Oh boy...

[jagged ore]

So dead end

[neon stream]

Could that be a clue? Or a coincidence? I know what Rob would say...😅

😂

[sharp flame]

Gah but "Pictures of matchstick men" is an actual name 😭😭😭

[neon stream]

I said "I think...", I could be completely wrong 😂

But still, even with that, I don't think it's part of the hunt 🤷🏻‍♂️

[hard current]

Idk tbh it’s tough… it’s either a clue or just an older pop culture reference lmao

and we can’t tell the difference rn

[sharp flame]

Hahaha would be quite the specific reference

just wondering cause it was on the EE whiteboard hehe

[neon stream]

He even said it's him, so I guess it even makes more sense to just be a reference not tied to the hunt

But again, I could be completely wrong, and it's good we have different opinions about it, because if we all thought the same, we would never solve these puzzles 😂

[sharp flame]

Hahaha yeah it's definitely him, but just wondering if he drew himself like that as a clue towards Lowry in the first place

Every time I see that drawing I laugh 😂

[jade citrus]

good connection, i didn't notice that earlier

[jade citrus]

I SEE MYSELF

https://tenor.com/view/thats-it-yes-thats-it-that-right-there-omg-that-thats-what-i-mean-gif-17579879

[hard current]

anyone have any theories of their own? do y’all think this one is straight up just a password or are we missing clues/steps that will lead us to the password?

[balmy fog]

We've explored a bunch of avenues like the matchstick men, the actual crosswords, the definitions of ? and all of his synonyms and yet, no eyes, wich either tells me, we have everything we need, or we're not looking for the right thing

[jade citrus]

oh wait flex mentioned it

[hard current]

question: since I’m still not well versed in the tiers before tier 2, did ANY of those have anything to do with gold or egg? or I saw roman numerals but not sure about the other answers

[coarse dagger]

Look at pinned messages

[timid solstice]

I think the status quo path fits
Quo in Latin is where

It’s a question

[unborn pilot]

Yeah. I was looking at that too.

[quaint wing]

Oh my god. I think I cracked it.....Where are you?...I'm so sorry.

[patent hinge]

hEY

Hey*

[neon stream]

The first 3 related to gold, the second 3 related to egg

[patent hinge]

How we can see all the advancement ?

[quaint wing]

https://padlet.com/Kyne/the-promise-t3-dyra282bx402xxzy

[patent hinge]

Thx

[quaint wing]

Not a whole lot going on right now. You can read through this chat to see some of the other goodies we've been working with. You can also check the pins of this channel

[coarse dagger]

1+9+8+2 by the Status Quo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%2B9%2B8%2B2

#easter-eggs message
ZX Spectrum release year

#easter-eggs message
Democritus on Greek coin mint years

#easter-eggs message
4197 Morpheus designation 1982 TA

#easter-eggs message
"Adventure A" potential reference to:
#easter-eggs message
Adventure A: Planet of Death, ZX Spectrum release year 1982

#easter-eggs message
Rob points out 1982 release date of ZX Spectrum

#easter-eggs message
@pure loom points out Smash TV was described as an influence to Embark for THE FINALS. "It is a dual-stick shooter (one for moving and the other for firing) in the same vein as 1982's Robotron: 2084"

#easter-eggs message
The ACTUAL IRL "INVITATION" plaque attributes the ACTUAL IRL sculpture to year 1982

#🥚┇off-topic message
@weary coyote points out his first game was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_Challenge, released 1982 for C64

[quaint wing]

THAT WAS MY BAD. WRONG REACT

[unborn pilot]

I loved Aztec Challenge when I was a kid lol

I’m wondering if the c64 stuff is for the diamond clue or not. We haven’t really used that Ready gif at all

[patent hinge]

I think the password, was in 2 step, and 8 letters longer

4 + 4

ques + tion basicly

[coarse dagger]

Yeah, it's possible. The only other diamond clue we've found we got to via discord messages from Rob and/or Dusty.
Maybe Rob's Matchstick Men comment was pointing us toward another diamond clue

[quaint wing]

Do you mean it's two words put together to make an 8 letter word? or just an 8 letter word that can be split into different clues?

[patent hinge]

Yeah the first one

[sharp flame]

C64 being a diamond clue is a pretty strong possibility actually

[hard current]

what exactly are the diamond clues? saw this but didn’t understand what it’s for

[sharp flame]

Apparently they lead into the final level . . .

Right now we only have 1 diamond clue

It's a gif

[quaint wing]

The hard shit. I feel like we have a better shot at figuring those out with the way we jump down rabbit holes and have been learning all sorts of new skills.

[coarse dagger]

There were other 1982 mentions I found via discord search, but I highlighted the ones which seemed to have clearer connections to the hunt (as I understand it)

[quaint wing]

We struggle with easy, but we'll figure out how to code in a C64 terminal window.

[river flame]

goggled

vioviviled

doesn't work

lol

that was already tried

[coarse dagger]

#1175206999802249307

[hard current]

#1175206999802249307

[coarse dagger]

Or vice versa. 1064 another reference to C64

[neon stream]

Final level, not tier

[sharp flame]

correcting

[neon stream]

(I clarify in case others think it leads to this tier)

[coarse dagger]

@pliant owl I just logged in on an alternate account to test this. You can indeed see threads regardless of your server level. Click the hashtag with a message bubble in the upper left.

[hard current]

… so we’re gonna have to comb through all of these tiers to help us with the final level arent we

[sharp flame]

Yea I see now🤣🤣

[sharp flame]

Yep iirc 🙏🙏

[hard current]

might wanna start a “potential diamond clues” thread at some point

[timid pebble]

Can we get a thread with ONLY screenshots of what Rob eyed?

Those are the hardest to recall since we can't search by reaction 😢

[hard current]

for diamond clues or this?

[timid pebble]

Anything I guess.

[hard current]

he hasn’t eyed anything for this tier:/

but that would be helpful when it comes time to the diamond clues

[timid pebble]

But I guess we have the padlet for that ''

[coarse dagger]

#1175209969113641110

[timid pebble]

For some reason I cannot answer in the threads 😮
But yea I agree it would be really rough to moderate! I just wish I could search for stuff that has been eyed more easily.

It could be a great idea that people that are sending stuff which are getting validated by Rob edit their post with a little catchphrase that we can easily search up with the search options. like -eyedbyrob or something like that.

[quaint wing]

You can check the padlet for ABC in the pin.

[hard current]

@timid pebble you have to be rising star to respond in threats

[quaint wing]

The bottom of that was everything that had been eyed.

[timid pebble]

I mean, the Namatama Golden Charm has to be somewhat related no?

It's quite litteraly a Golden Egg lmao and in the game ....

[neon stream]

I think we found the connections to both, you can check the Padlet for that tier

Yeah

Not necessarily, we only find like 50% of the clues that are hidden, the rest remain there to be found

[jade citrus]

that's a dandelion seed, its part of the T1F Padlet

you can see all of the Padlets of you go to Kyne's Padlet profile

[hard current]

damnit I'm gonna stop looking at old pics

thank you:)

[hard current]

... what about

tiny question marks

﹖

?

doesn't show tiny here but it does everywhere else

rob said little 3 times hinting at... something little right

[timid pebble]

The golden goose story teaches us that greed can lead to great loss. If the farmer and his wife were not greedy and had not killed the goose, they would have received several golden eggs and could have lived happily.

Maybe the question is should we kill the goose or grab the eggs.

And the answer is only a variant of Eggs

[hard current]

I pursued this yesterday, no eyes from rob but doesn't mean it's not valid in some way

[quaint wing]

Not every answer will get eyes

There's also a ton of messages to go through, so there's a chance Rob misses something to eye.

Take your theories, run with them, try some passwords, and if something works, BOOM! Make sure to throw your passwords in #1175206999802249307 just to make sure we have a running tab of random things we've tried.

[hard current]

am I going insane or does this look like... a hashtag maybe?

it's on the bottom of the ques (gold) image, the dot of the question mark

[remote nebula]

somehow im seeing loss in that image but that is definitely not it lmfao

[hard current]

no it's 100% loss

[remote nebula]

✨

[jade citrus]

i see it

[hard current]

the second line below it looks weak though

it made me think of the old japanese arches

[remote nebula]

aw hell i cant post images

anyways the levels are weirdly seperated

[lusty gazelle]

it looks like someone staring at the camera with their mouth open

[remote nebula]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/580265163211669514/1175570352764633208/image.png?ex=656bb635&is=65594135&hm=a6df3556994e9a2dc5eff401197d3a39fb2b1c665e4fe632053812ec7b2ea028&=

[hard current]

oo hmm that's interesting

what zonee sent

my pattern recognizing brain (thank you evolution) wants me to find words in this mess

[pure loom]

Looking at this background grid on the "tion"/egg ? image - do you reckon the little squares are just noise or symbols? There's quite a few repeated, including some crosses

[remote nebula]

it looks like one of those slidey puzzles

[pure loom]

yeah, that's what I thought

problem is, on the right near the actual "?" they just kinda fade out

hmmm... I wonder if these are just some jpg artifacts

[hard current]

in case anyone wants to look side by side

[pure loom]

@fallen jasper can we pin these please?

[fallen jasper]

Which onesb

[hard current]

use for combined analysis

[pure loom]

In leet a ? can represent an H or a P

PH - for the answer we have to guess Rob's phone number and call him

[remote nebula]

it strikes me as weird that the background for the black one is pure #060606 and the white one varies

i really dont think its compression on the white background

[timid pebble]

omg
Ive kept digging on the crossword thread and i've come across this fable which also has a lot of connection. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_and_the_Beanstalk
''Outwitting the giant, Jack is able to retrieve many goods once stolen from his family, including a bag of gold, an enchanted goose that lays golden eggs and a magic golden harp that plays and sings by itself.''

It's fitting the Question #2: Symbol on an irish euro coin: Harp as well as Golden Eggs.

• Someone quoted this exact same fable a few months back for wtv reason 🤔
  #easter-eggs message

[coarse dagger]

I've never seen any noise or artifacts that form a perfect grid like this

[hard current]

should put this in #1175202375070384208

[timid pebble]

No access 😢

[hard current]

level up you'll get there 😉

I'll copy and paste for you for now

[timid pebble]

It would also seem like he killed someone with a Pick-Axe

[unborn pilot]

I thought I heard clues weren't gonna be in metadata which makes that date very odd.

[hard current]

yeah I saw that after watching the video

[balmy fog]

https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1175578362501152929 → This is what I was talking about for newcomers that wants to join the hunt, just have them watch little videos like this! 😄 I could potentially make them all

[unborn pilot]

I also noticed in the metadata that there's two programs used as well. Photoshop 2015 was used for the ones in 2015, and the new Cloud version for 2023.

so it may just be an old image they pulled from a backlog and edited

[timid solstice]

The gold that looks embossed
could it mean "wrapped"

[unborn pilot]

the crossword thing is funny though if that's a concidence then

[hard current]

I was thinking if you overlay it on the white one, it technically "wraps" the egg

gold wrapped egg

[unborn pilot]

random thought. at first i thought the black & white image was a "depth map". so i was messing with it and the image in Blender.

but i think it's actually more of a shadow on the ?

[hard current]

yeah like there's a light coming from the top right

[unborn pilot]

right

makes me think of the sun, casting a shadow, maybe related to time.

[hard current]

I thought so too but then we have to answer east vs west in this image

I think it'd be intuitive to assume right = east so the sun is rising

[timid pebble]

sunnysideup

[unborn pilot]

now you're making me think of the white board again.

there's a lot of arrows on it pointing to turning something around.

[quaint wing]

I've tried a bunch of random things I can think of related to questions, but nothing's really panned out yet.

What if that's a camera of some sort?

[pure loom]

"?" and "/" are on the same key - this whole puzzle started with a "/" in binary

https://www.reachthefinals.com// brings up this 404 page, it's not the usual 404 with the broken NamaTama, but I presume it's still normal?

yeah, that's kinda why I went back to the URL thing

[quaint wing]

Nope, every 404 page with random URL's bring me to a normal 404.

[hard current]

every time I've tried it shows the broken nama

[quaint wing]

Yup. Except for that one. That one shows SEC-135 on the bottom.

[hard current]

are we sure this isn't from a previous one tier? I wasn't here for them I just know there was a 404 in the past

[pure loom]

maybe the double // forces a basic 404 page?

[hard current]

it doesn't, at least not on other sites

[pure loom]

ok, curious

[quaint wing]

Anything with "." or "/" throws the basic 404, any combination of those goes to regular home screen

[pure loom]

yeah //goldegg goes to that basic white one

[hard current]

ah ok might be a dead end then

[timid pebble]

Also!! To keep going on the Jack the GiantKiller Path : An arcade video game, Jack the Giantkiller, was released by Cinematronics in 1982 and is based on the story. Players control Jack, and must retrieve a series of treasures – a harp, a sack of gold coins, a golden goose and a princess – and eventually defeat the giant by chopping down the beanstalk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Giantkiller

[pure loom]

The ?? could still be pointing us to a URL though

that's how we used to put passwords in

what sort of help center is this?!?!

[balmy fog]

Wait

[pure loom]

Remember how Rob said "Only ONE little tier left, then the real hunt begins and we are ready to wrap this first little EE-hunt… Thank you for being part of this little adventure.!"? Well, the earliest version of The Three Little Pigs "takes place in Dartmoor with three pixies and a fox before its best known version appears in English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs in 1890, with Jacobs crediting James Halliwell-Phillipps as the source." - Dartmoor is precisely where the answer to the very first Tier was - the "devon crossing" clue

[balmy fog]

Do I see pixels image?

[hard current]

where

[hard current]

oh shit I remember seeing this in the video

[balmy fog]

You sent this

[hard current]

oh someone else without pic perms was looking at that

[pure loom]

Rob also said "Tier 3 is a walk in the park" - Dartmoor National Park...

[hard current]

wanna start a thread

[timid solstice]

"ready to wrap"
like gold foil ?

[timid pebble]

But other than little, how can we link that story to gold and eggs? I don't see the link between this fable and where we are at atm :/ Unless im missing informations

[pure loom]

maybe

it's an odd expression, for sure

"wrap up" would have made more sense

[pure loom]

maybe, I'd like to find another connection yet

but it's time for lunch

[quaint wing]

Wrap. Like to wrap up a shoot.

To finish.

[south wyvern]

The only small connection (or not) I have is Alcuin of York, not sure if you saw him too.

back to photoshop

[timid pebble]

omg @south wyvern ! Funny ur here, I just referenced that msg: #easter-eggs message
I was wondering how did you manage to find that relation back then?

The Fee Fi Fo Fum

[south wyvern]

I think during that time I was looking for connection with Esbjorn's hands hoovering over the keyboard: #easter-eggs message

let's not go there

[timid pebble]

ahah it's still amazing that you pulled out a story about a guy that steals golden eggs 😆

[turbid tinsel]

Seems to look like a pattern in the top left when doing select by color in gimp software, heres both regular and inverted. This was just on color section, really not sure how the selector works honestly.

[balmy fog]

Does anyone have the native image plz

Pixel Master will give it a look

[river flame]

did we solve the ❤️44444❤️

[jade citrus]

not yet

[river flame]

looks similar

[pure loom]

https://www.reachthefinals.com/1064lxxix5f137s20vif0rmcacoiiivit3llusvioldevivi is not the answer

[jade citrus]

actually true, it's the same length too

[balmy fog]

bois

These are definitely not random

[pure loom]

how did you get that to appear?

good find by the way!

[balmy fog]

Hold up i'll send my psd

[hard current]

what did you use to make this? might be a dumb question my bad

[pure loom]

this one looks like Frank haha

[balmy fog]

They are repetitive too

[pure loom]

thanks! Can you remember how you produced it?

[balmy fog]

Yep

[south wyvern]

I posted two of them last night... terrified. However, I managed it into full black and white, let me split them into four sections

[balmy fog]

@pure loom

Hold on

[pure loom]

the top of the screen is cut off! I can't see what menu item it was

[hard current]

how repetitive? I’m looking for common black shapes (nothing present) but not seeing any on an x/y axis

[balmy fog]

Galerie de filtres

Filter

Its in french :/

[pure loom]

ok, and which filter?

[balmy fog]

Here's one with extreme light

Didn't alter anything

[surreal sinew]

Damn what is that

[pure loom]

hmmm... but isn't this just PS adding this to the image?

[balmy fog]

Nah

Dont do the filter

without the filter you can see

@sharp flame mentionned it a couple days ago

5x 5 or S in one small parts

[south wyvern]

'glowing edges', right?

[pure loom]

then that is definitely gonna be PS adding to the image

[balmy fog]

Nah

[pure loom]

unless Rob has some negative version of the filter and the filter reveals it

[balmy fog]

this is native image

you can still see shapes

The filter I applied just sharpens them

[south wyvern]

I tried work around without the effect and the center is pretty tough to get clear resolution (sharpen, etc)

[surreal sinew]

What is that even

[pliant owl]

Omg thanks

[balmy fog]

Me and Fish talked about this a couple days ago

Friday

[jade citrus]

here's my best attempt so far...

[coarse dagger]

Just thresholding brings out the grid. So far I think thresholding gives the clearest image with no artifacts.

[pure loom]

And this is on the white ?, correct?

[balmy fog]

Yea

[coarse dagger]

Yes. When we first got the images I posted some analysis in this chat.

[balmy fog]

Tresholding is a ''brute force way'' to pixelize pixels

as the filter is more of a precise way

you see more clearly on the Treshold

Put you see more shapes with the filter

Its the same as the other pixel image me and lulz were working

lulz used the treshold and I used the filter, combined them both and I could see better

[pure loom]

Here's what I got using browse bit planes with Stegonline. Do they match?

[pliant owl]

It almost looks like something that could get clearer with a layer shifted copy or something?

[balmy fog]

Yep kinda

Mines is clearer tho

there is 5 everywhere on the damn picture

[balmy fog]

This is the way bois

Yeeeeeeeeeeehawwwwww

[jade citrus]

definitely some non-random symbols in there, at least I think so

reminds me of Dwarf Fortress

[balmy fog]

this isn't random

%

[pure loom]

yeah, I agree, this doesn't look normal

[jade citrus]

(Dwarf Fortress)

[balmy fog]

5's everywhere

these are also everywhere

[pliant owl]

Could it have to do something with an old 8-bit game or software or something?

C64 perhaps?

[pure loom]

makes me wonder if it's one of those magic pictures where if you stare at it long enough a picture of the Eiffel tower appears or whatever

[turbid tinsel]

if i try to fill certain section with white, the inside glow turns pink for somereason

[jade citrus]

this symbol repeats too

[pliant owl]

If I look at it long enough it feels like a fever dream to me

[pure loom]

story of this channel haha

[turbid tinsel]

thats what happened when filling with white

[quaint wing]

https://tenor.com/view/blank-stare-zoned-out-staring-looking-stare-gif-16886596

[pliant owl]

😂

[jade citrus]

maybe we should make a list of each unique symbol, and then we can put it together like a puzzle

[balmy fog]

its def weird

[balmy fog]

There's a lots

[coarse dagger]

PETSCII was our initial thought. Symbols used to draw images on screen for the C64

[quaint wing]

Kinda looks like a weird, mashed up QR code.

[balmy fog]

Im doing the symbol 5 rn

[jade citrus]

i mean just one of each, since they repeat

[balmy fog]

I think there's about 30-40

[pure loom]

it looks to me like each strip overlaps slightly

[south wyvern]

been thinking about that

[balmy fog]

im doing vertical lines per vertical lines

[pliant owl]

Okay yeah that does look similar

[coarse dagger]

And PETSCII symbols are 8x8 which the grid appears to be

[pure loom]

I gotta say this does look like a positive path given that we had this as a diamond clue

[pliant owl]

I was thinking it looked like overlaid maps or something

[coarse dagger]

1149/8 = about 144
635/8 = about 80

[pure loom]

yeah, there's bits that look like contour lines

[pliant owl]

like two combined maps at 50% opacity or something

[quaint wing]

Can you overlay both of them, run them both through that filter, and see if shit lines up?

[pure loom]

It's hard to know where to start, but I might mark all the symbols that look like this - kinda like a screw head

[quaint wing]

I don't have photoshop, but what if they're supposed to connect some how.

[balmy fog]

Tried

[unborn pilot]

there's that thing on the white board with NQ, 10, 100. it looks like one of the with an X marking where to start and then the grid

[balmy fog]

Black background has nothing

[quaint wing]

Damn. Worth a shot.

[unborn pilot]

i've been eyeing that as a potential clue where it starts.

[balmy fog]

https://www.twitch.tv/b0kb

If yall wanna see

[unborn pilot]

there's definitely a lot of repeating symbols.

[coarse dagger]

Sorry, I'm unclear what I'm looking at here. Is this just different outputs from "browse bitplanes" overlayed with different opacity?

[balmy fog]

Nah its just the ? white background

Look stream I'll show you

Tell me when your in there

[jade citrus]

seems like each of the symbols fits inside of a 9x9px grid

here's a few of them i drew out by hand

[coarse dagger]

I'm in

[spring tusk]

you can disable the grid lines for when you're zooming too much

[balmy fog]

lmao

no way this is random

AH

A
H

[quaint wing]

[balmy fog]

A
H
7

Actually

9

2

Imma stop

but I think this proves this is not random or artifacts

[pliant owl]

Definitely not

[balmy fog]

one more for the show

S

[pliant owl]

But I still think it's two images on top of each other

[pure loom]

or even 3

[balmy fog]

Yeah maybe 3

[pure loom]

it's just so chaotic

[pliant owl]

Hence the whiter parts, wouldn't that be just like that when two 50% opacity layers were placed on top of each other

[balmy fog]

DE

[pliant owl]

Or 33% opacity 😂

The other image doesn't happen to hold a similar "negative" does it?

[jade citrus]

#easter-eggs message

[pliant owl]

I've lost track of which image is which

[jade citrus]

could be another space invaders incident

[pure loom]

looks at the levels for it

only a few

[coarse dagger]

Yeah, I was noticing that too...

[river flame]

I think we have to find a similarity between all of them

[balmy fog]

bro so many 5's or 2's

[river flame]

Even if we found all the legible symbols, it would be hard to assemble

[balmy fog]

YOU

YOU 95 062

?

[coarse dagger]

I'm feeling a bit cautious about this method because it looks completely different to just using a threshold approach, and I don't understand why that would be.

[pure loom]

I think this is just the triple intersections

tried to narrow down the levels

[balmy fog]

Its the same

Treshold just more brute

[river flame]

flip that image 90 to the left and there is a T

[balmy fog]

this is native image

you can tell its YOU

[balmy fog]

Yours is brute force

Treshold is only black and white

removes everything else

Filters are more delicate

then apply contrast/curves to make it sharper

I ain't bragging about this but I did study in graphic design

[pure loom]

narrowing it down to a couple of tones these diagonal lines stand out - again making me wonder about the link between ? and /

[balmy fog]

Yep just like mine symbols wise

[coarse dagger]

That's just remnants of the gradient I think

[balmy fog]

Jesus Christ bois

[hard current]

//?//

[balmy fog]

Have you tried turning the photo 90 degree angle

[hard current]

do share;)

[pure loom]

also, along those lines - the original clue image was called "slash" and now we have "ques" "tion"

[balmy fog]

its full of 5's or 2's

both are the same

[balmy fog]

https://www.twitch.tv/b0kb

nice one @proud minnow

wait

[pure loom]

possibly - but that could be why it was used

[balmy fog]

G9

69

[spring tusk]

♋

[hard current]

looks like 62 to me

if you go by the darker gray

[coarse dagger]

Threshold 236 only. You can see Os and Us.
I cant seem to see those in the glowing edges filter...
I don't think either approach will give us the full story

[hard current]

Let me know if you can identify some sort of pattern… my only concert rn is that if there’s no pattern, I’m not sure Rob would expect us to parse through ALL of these squares and make something of it

[unborn pilot]

So if we have 2 question marks. Where ever have we seen exactly 2 question marks?

[balmy fog]

you mean this?

[hard current]

if we can find a pattern then that would be crazy

[coarse dagger]

I don't think I could identify that as a "U" without the threshold image first though

[balmy fog]

I dont think its a pattern

These are all the 5

or 2

can be read on both side

and this is not me turning the image 90 degree

turning 90 just adds more

[coarse dagger]

And the one you posted:

[coarse dagger]

My adjusment levels are obviously slightly different in my "glowing edges" version where I'm replicating yours, but it's pretty close

[balmy fog]

these are all the 5's or 2's in the first like 8 rows

there's no patterns

but a bunch of hidden messages

like

YOU 55 062

in ASCII thats YOU 7>

[coarse dagger]

Looks like some H's too.
Wondering if...
CAN YOU REACH THE FINALS
is hidden, and so far we've seen the letters Y, O, U, H, and S?

[balmy fog]

oh

[quaint wing]

I did try some of those as the password

[coarse dagger]

Looks like some Ls too

[balmy fog]

The whole alphabets is there

CT

u

[timid pebble]

Leaving this here, but meant for crossword thread. https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/videogames/show/5075 & https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/993191637/cinematronics-jack-the-giant-killer
Could fit ''Time Ahead'' #easter-eggs message & #easter-eggs message
Adventure/Little, etc

[balmy fog]

Y again

D

L

There's also negative space letters

[coarse dagger]

So far D is the only letter you've pointed out that doesn't fit "CAN YOU REACH THE FINALS"

[balmy fog]

i62?

[hard current]

this looks similar to what I found in the ques image

[balmy fog]

40p?

I could go on and on I wont do that but

Just to say

The image is full, full of letters, numbers

basically

[balmy fog]

every pattern is close to being a letter/number

Do we have an idea what YOU 7>

could mean

[hard current]

have you tried doing this with another image with a large white background? it may help us set the standard for what’s normal vs not

[pure loom]

I don't think we have one from the EEs

closest we have I think

[balmy fog]

e in ASCII

00101

[unborn pilot]

So I’m trying to find connections with the ?s. There’s 2 on the images. But there’s also exactly 2 on 1 whiteboard (not both). 1 ? looks like a matchstick man. The other a Land or country

[balmy fog]

e in ASCII

102

It's jsut

just*

full of shit

There's so many things to look at

and I just realized you can really look 9x9pixels

some letters are bigger in negative space

I can tell letters were behind

this is a H

but it's been cut by the meaningless symbols

an F

also 29 everywhere

or 62

depending angle you check

oh bois

I think i got it

I mean

@coarse dagger got it

says can

let me draw

[hard current]

hmmmm

I would expect the next word to be you or something that would continue on to be a question, cool find 😉

[hard current]

lowkey amogus

I’m gonna take an edible and blow this thing wide open watch

[pure loom]

the whole letters thing seems a bit subjective to me. I feel like this is more likely to be a complex code of some sort

[balmy fog]

i dont think

[hard current]

yeah only problem with doing it this way is that it’s very subjective based on who’s looking and we’re hard wired to find patterns or things that look familiar… it is a cool way to go about it tho I hope it works

[balmy fog]

this is an A

this is an H and a T

E

N

A

C or O

an other big ass H

F

T

A

[hard current]

make a thread so we don’t clog this chat

[balmy fog]

Pretty sure what we're looking for is in negative space

letters also sometimes overlap eachothers

yeap

pretty sure its 2 images overlayed over each others

this says YOU

so what we need to look for its the negative space

Here's my psd with what I've found so far, y'all can check

turning the image 90/180 degrees help

[pure loom]

hey all, I've just noticed that there is the faint outline of a grid running through the image. I've roughly marked it up in this image, but look at the plain one and you'll see it

[hidden nacelle]

kinda looks like 4 lines 🤔

[pure loom]

yeah, they are the slashes I was referring to earlier #easter-eggs message