Descent of the Durtle into eGoooott - NOW AT B8!

Yeah, B1, not sure how you managed to get to that from the hint.

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I never got it either

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Wasnā€™t there a post recently about ancient crabigator lore?

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The hint is scrambled using shift cipher

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Are you familiar with the ROT13 concept? Try rotating the alphabet by different offsets.

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I know it, actually. I didnā€™t think the hint was that complex though and assumed an A=1

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I thought it might be for people who put WK on vacation mode over Christmas! I mean, I canā€™t be the only one who did thatā€¦
ā€¦ can I?

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Given the text of the badge, itā€™s more likely to be for people who didnā€™t than did. I didnā€™t, in any case.

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Dunno :woman_shrugging:
I didnā€™t put it on vacation mode, and I donā€™t have oneā€¦

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Another theory bites the dust!

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Weeeeelllā€¦ :eyes: did like 150 reviews as they unlocked during family visit

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Well Iā€™m bored already. Iā€™m gonna go do lessons and learn all the Japanese while you guys get annoyed at the troll puzzle from Koichi.

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I looked at the conten iverhaul thread again. Thought, maybe the hint with the 91 problems might be a specific post in the thread.

Dont seem that way, though

Additional food for thought:
91 problems, and youā€™re another one: 91 + 1 = 92
Nine (9) pairs (2)

I put 92 cipher into search and found this:

Havenā€™t had much luck from here. Other possible ideas:

  • Chess?
  • Battleship?
  • Coordinates?
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I assumed everyone who posted on Christmas day (Portland time? Their own local time?) got the crabsmas durtle. And anyone caught talking about the mystery problem got the warning durtle.

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If the puzzle has anything to do with Dante, it will have 9 levels since Heaven would be Paradiso (9 spheres) not Inferno. The number 9 does seem to pop out a fair bit actuallyā€¦

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Good ideas, but at least in chess and battleship you wont find an ac

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morse code conversion: no pattern I can see.

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In UTF-8 encoding, these hex numbers are all ā€œcontinuation bytesā€.

Iā€¦ donā€™t actually know what that meansā€¦

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2CA749A2-D22D-4DA0-B0BB-6A0E68E6AE95

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