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A topic by gamergeorge created 7 days ago Views: 83 Replies: 3

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gamergeorge7 days ago (2 edits) (+1)

(Edited by data-flux to hide a few spoilers)

The game is very interesting and innovative and i would like to complete it but im currently stuck on level 9 atomic. I think im supposed to use their atomic number but cant see how.

I have tried:

replacing the names with their chemical symbols to form words/sentences
same thing but using their atomic number for the order of symbols
brute force each chunk (start-size pair) and check if its a valid gpg-encrypted msg which kinda worked only for "selenium" but doesnt work with it as the passphrase.

Any tips?

Also while im at it i would like to give some feedback about previous levels:

on the [SPOILER] level, even using a monospace font, the [SPOILER] text is hard to read : theres a "68" which looks like it could be any of 68 66 86 88
on the [SPOILER] the pattern is disambiguous: i tried too much with the wrong pattern "##*i when it was in fact [SPOILER]. maybe having only o[5] = [SPOILER] would avoid this
on the mkv video level i had trouble extracting the [SPOILER]... but i guess i could slow it down with a better player
and most importantly is the steep difficulty on the intro which i bet makes many quit: it wasnt obvious we had to investigate the game through its contents, and when i downloaded the game i tried to run it as an executable .exe (lol)

data-fluxDeveloper7 days ago(+1)

Thank you for playing and for the feedback!

I was definitely expecting that puzzle to be a bit of a challenge, because it requires a bit of a different mind set than the rest.

The brute force approach should have worked for another line, but here are some hints:

hint

The numbers are not atomic numbers in *that* sense.

hint

Think about what the word "atomic" means, its Greek root "atomos" especially.

hint

It means "indivisible", what could that mean in this context?

solution

are you sure?

are you really really sure?

There are exactly two prime numbers, *indivisible* if you will, the element after it is the passphrase.

Re: your (very useful!) feedback,

I’ll look into that, I didn’t notice it looking ambiguous.
I was considering adding the 2 “ ## “ , but worried that would make it too easy, I’ll consider it.
There are ways to find it without inspecting every single frame,

for example

diffing all the frames at once in gimp, the text appeared quite clearly.

4. I'll probably update the "install instructions" to note that it is not an executable file with the next update, thanks. I also thought about making it executable by embedding a binary at the start, but that would only work for one platform.

Thanks again, very useful feedback! :)

gamergeorge7 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

just got it! thanks for the quick reply. And considering im greek myself it was pretty embarrassing not thinking about it 😅
And my brute-force thing was working, it was just me mixing up 0-based index vs 1-based index in my code... on to the next level 👍

(edit: just finished the game it was fun thanks)

data-fluxDeveloper6 days ago(+1)

Glad to hear you managed to complete it, thanks so much for giving it a go!

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