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Solving The Game?

A topic by amndka created Apr 16, 2017 Views: 73,128 Replies: 338
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So I don't know about everyone else but I have been losing my mind trying to figure out Don't Play This Game. I figured that a bunch of heads were better than one so I made a new thread that can be dedicated to solving the game(s?) where we can focus on sharing things we've found and hopefully organize it a bit more. I'm more than willing to make summary posts will all the information to make it easier on all of us and I hope we can make some real progress! Cracking whatever this is will be incredibly satisfying, I can feel it.

Below I have gone through the Read. This. First. Thread and picked out all of the relevant information that has been shared.


  • Yama Maya pointed out that the speaker in Don't Play This Game likely has receptive aphasia
  • Deszip first noted that when you open solution.png and flip it upside down, the words that are being spoken are printed faintly on the image
  • Half Punch Man "looked inside" the picture file to find text and the number sequence 467767
  • This led to the discovery that all his games are connected
  • Deszip also gave us the things they've discovered in the other games
    • MO 9+
    • HN 467767
    • DPTG Look inside. 467767
    • 6B LHFDMY, HDYLFM
    • two are unaccounted for
  • KupaRizu gave us their testing results
    • "Okay, so I think I'm getting close to something here, thanks to Deszip and a little playing around myself.I think that the six books cypher (LHFDMY/HDYLFM) combines with the HYPNO/DPTG clue: 467767 and LOOKINSIDE within The Painful Box somehow.I've attemped both L4,H6,F7,D7,M6,Y7 and H4,D6,Y7,L7,F6,M7 but neither seemed to have done anything.The only other thing I can think is that T&Bs reverse instruction refers to either the Cypher or the Numbers (As reversing the AV only gets "Lick my Ass" and "F*ck me in the pussy", which I don't think is a hint) but that's a lot of variables to test."
  • As well as Punderstatement's theory
    • "Hey I Found something and sense you also seem to be trying this and made some progress I wanted to share something I found. In this game the number/780 is made after 30 letters are said. The last 780 is 30*26 because of 30 letters with 26 in the alphabet. The first number is weird you have to assign a number value. A=1 B=2 etc but dont include repeats and that equals the first number. Hopefully this helps you make progress if you find anything it would be awesome if you could share"
  • Xavierou noted that opening the solution.png in notepad will bring up a block of symbols with some hidden Italian. Any elaboration would be great
  • TEAMRAGEXD pointed out that the series of games might not be over yet and we might be missing one to get the full picture

I myself am still noodling around in the files and haven't found anything extra quite yet, although I can't seen to find any hidden Italian when opening the solution.png as a notepad file. Good luck to all of you as you try to piece this all together and I look forwards to reading the developments that come forwards!

See , I think like the guy is warning us! We shouldnt be playing the game!.... Its Creepy like Welcome To The Game (WTTG) AND ....may also come true!

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I think he is talking about the characters when viewed as text, but it isnt text, the "Italian". This is normal when you try to view a non-text file, it shwows you the hex instead.


Try a hex viewer on solution.png, like HxD, at the end, "Do you understand me? Nobody does. The truth is deeper inside. - 467767 - Listen again. - 467767 - Listen again. - 467767 - Listen again. - 467767 - Listen again. - 467767 - Listen again. - 467767 - Listen again."


Also, new game, unforgettable. I found this in unforgettable, "http://imgur.com/a/v4W75".

Someone else, Pix Player said, "Morse code for "unforgettable" photo : theanswerlayshere.

He also mentioned the morse code in solution.png which others have found

green letters also spell out "eye can see you" ?

That's Unforgettable by Nat King Cole. It was released in like 1951 but the real question is how does the dev take it and how does it fit in

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I have just loaded the game file and 'Listened' twice and if you actually listen carefully then you can head a second audio faintly in the background. Even when the main overlaying audio has pauses in between phrases the background audio is playing. Maybe if someone can separate the two audios you may find extra clues.

does the 467767 refer to somethibng?

The game Hypno 467767 by the same guy.

I've tried typing it in games but nothing.

I looked in hex for it, but nup

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Ok, I think you and I are on to something. If you number the alphabet so A equals 0 and Z equals 25, then there are 9 letters which correspond to a prime number: C, D, F, H, L, N, R, T, and X. If you translate each of these to numbers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 respectively) and have a 0 before A, then you have a ten-number alphabet, perfect for making base 10 numbers. So, if you take 467767 and run it through the decoding mechanism, then it translates directly to HNRRNR. So if you make it so that when a letter is encoded it corresponds to the single-digit number assigned to the prime-numbered letter that came before it (or 0), then HNRRNR can translate to HORROR.

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We need someone who is good at photoshop to remove his profile picture, he overlayed ontop of it, from solution.png. Get rid of it so only the text behind it is left. Then we have an accurate version of the text without his profile picture blocking it out, so we can read it properly

I've tried but its hard to match up the images by opacity etc,and I cant find a high quality version of the profile pic

I AM GOOD IN PHOTOSHOP

TOO GUD

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I did some image processing to clean up solution. Its not perfect and it cuts a bit out, but its a bit clearer.

No Filters:


Filtered to be clearer:


Raw photoshop file for anybody that can filter more

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8twejxa519flctr/Cleaned%20Up.psd?dl=0

(Right click, open image in new tab to zoom in)

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I attempted reading the photoshopped text, and found that the words I could make out matched the script of the person speaking in the game. From there, you can suspect that it is sadly just the script of the character, but I hope this helps.

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I used the auto-level feature in paint.net.

http://imgur.com/gallery/Iob34

EDIT: dunno if you guys noticed but what the person in the game says is the same as in these pictures

I think the text on the picture is what the guy says on the game Don't play this game. The voice says "can you imagine the fact that..." and the text starts the same way.

Also, this is what I could read from the picture:

"Can you imagine the fact I don't know which frases _______ missing.

Why don't you ________?

Same _____ as ever.

Over the _______ot_ punt.

Do you understand me?

nobody does.

Listen, there's a bo___ns at the door.

Should I garest him?

Find me a _rom friel."

decrypting it (467767) shows 'DFGGFG'

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DFGGFG seems like a color code. What if someone tried to overlay this color (with some transparency, of course) over the picture. It may reveal something.

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What if the code isn't on Hexadecimal, but on another numeric system? Question is: what numeric system will it be on? Base 17

i did, but it does nothing, or maybe i just don't understand yet

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4 6 7 7 6 7

g m p p m p

h n q q n q

i o r r o r

See the hidden word? Horror. That what 46776 means. 46776 is referring to the numbers in a phone. A phone with buttons. (like a Nokia)

But I dont think taking his profile picture is gonna help

I meant taking it out of the solution.png. He put his profile picture ontop of the text showing what is being said. If you can take his profile picture out of it, then there is just the text we can read.

thers nothing i tried! not clear image!

You would have to match the transparency first, then minus the colours.

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I believe it says "find me a groom fuel."

Maybe it's a name and he's talking about a specific person

It says Find me a grom friel.

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If it is the one about the rifle, maybe the message is from someone suffering from depression, and wants the gun to kill him/herself. Just a thought, probably wrong.

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i believe it says, "find me a g-rom file!"

More likely, it says "Find me a cron file." Which refers to a file set to run at a specific time of day. Do with that what you will.

Well, in DPTG once you get to the screen that has all the letters and asks you to listen again or quit, it also shows the time in military form.

Also I just realised that in the version I have on my computer of DPTG, there's a clock that displays the time it is in 24 hr format but some lets players (like Markiplier) don't have that clock on their screens? Is it just me?

I as well have the clock, it's appears to be linked up to my computer's clock and was displaying what time it is where i live

even i have it!

same here

Could the clock be controlling what letters appear in the sequence? As in, if at 17:00 today a certain sequence shows up, will the same sequence show up at 17:00 tomorrow?

You know that could be something. i will have to test that. at 23:00 is one i will check one tomorrow

okay i did the math. it always shows 30 letters, 26 letters in the alphabet. so that means that is 30 different choices if they were fixed letters. but since not it is 26 choices in one space. when you do the math you come out to 20,280 different choices

markiplier dosen't leave clocks in his videos. don't really know why...

It's probably distracting so he removed it, which could be similar with other youtubers that you've seen play i

somebody said something about the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." right?

because on urban dictionary it says "A popular sentence that uses all the letters in the english alphabet, a phrase called a panagram. Due to its shortness and coherence, it has become widely known and is often used in visual arts."

those people are most likely opening the font file and seeing that phrase from there as thats the sentence used when installing fonts and such

Thats the default text inside a windows font file. They use it to give an example of every letter in the alphabet. Its in every .ttf file

ah I see should have tried it out myself first :/

Ello folk. I got into this mystery from Mark's video (great video, love that guy), and am just commenting here to keep up with y'alls posts. hope things get figured out soon

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I think we shouldnt be playing this! cuz after some accident , he can say that he 'warned' us!

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i feel like the /780 is something more. If you guys (and girls) see the same text wall for the the same number (say you get 356/780 twice and you get the same text twice) then if you put the text in order (from 1/780 to 780/780) we could get a HUGE text wall that might mean something in the future

Maybe the /780 is some kind of score?? Like the game takes into account how you respond to it and you need to reach a specific number that might be 356 or close to it

how would it record things like what you say? And if it did how's it a score? Like I said if we get the same text (the text that slowly appears) for the same number. then putting the text together will give us something to solve.

The number 39 added with all positive whole numbers that come before it equal 780.

where did 39 come from?

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780 is 30 (the number of letters in the string) multiplied by 26 (number of letters in the alphabet). I theorise that in the situation that there would be entirely "Z"s it would be 780/780
*edited to add: Alternately all "Z"s might be 0/780

*New edit: I've checked, it doesn't work I tested with the last string of numbers. Alternately it's possible that there's an alternate method of numeral assignment, but I've hit the end of my normal limit with this

the /780 refers to the Alphabet in alphanumeric... IE. 780= z * 30 were z=26 in the alphabet so it is 26*30=780... if you took a calculator and added all the 30 letters at the top of the screen for there numerical value it would be X/780 were X=the letters combined numerical value.

anybody tried to look if this means something? https://puu.sh/vmgJG/b8eed9048b.png

googled it, looks like tags for PGP or some form of encryption, not 100%

To me the first two lines look like someone went on a phone, changed the keyboard from text to symbols, then typed normally as if it were still set to text. I did that all the time a while ago. The third line though I could only assume is morse code.

~random useless guesses by someone that doesn't know what they're talking about~

It's symmetrical - it's unlikely to be an encrypted word

if it is itd be one of those words that are the same word forwards and backwards like racecar

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third line can't really be morse code since it's _-_-_-_-_-_-_-

Did the phone thing.

First line: Lsijjtjjisl

Second line: Zsodyuydosz

Done on iPhone

if you do it on a pc its "/87_3_78\"

.\+|565|+/.

underscores are in place of a symbol that isn't on my pc

I don't know it this helps or if it's just gibber

This is doing my head in :'D

I did a similar thing to you but I got this:

2?874~478|2

>|=\565\=?>

-_-_-_-_-_-_- (7 dashes, 6 underscores)

I flipped it all round to the opposite symbol on each key of the keyboard. I have a feeling there is something in this to reveal a code but I have no idea how to work it out :'D maybe all the numbers/symbols correspond to letters? Not all one word, but a phrase? Complete shot in the dark really.

the underscore there called section symbols it looks like 2 s's ontop of eachother


They're perfectly symmetrical, it might just be a red herring which would be genius because it seems like it's so obviously a clue

on the solve picture theres green dots of morse code, it spels out 'LOOK IN SIDE'---

Can't be something like a palindrome (exp. RaceCar > raCecaR) since there are only 3 palindromes in english and none of them would make sense (kinnikinnik detartrated aibohphobia From WikiPedia)

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there are actually more than 3 palindromes in english the issue would be finding a palindrome that fits the amount of characters and has 1 letter in the middle that isnt repeated

tacocat

If you cross your eyes it looks like a skull and cross bones.

I have some theories too. Maybe let's try to look in to the source code of the games webpage? Developers hide stuff usually in weird places.

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Anyone know how to extract that audio file? Recording it wouldn't be clear enough. I could look into the actual waveforms and see if we get anywhere!

I recorded it through my stereo mix, would that really not be clear enough?

You can go into the files and copy and isolate the audio file (copy and paste in a separate folder)

That should work. If it doesn't, I can try and do so tomorrow

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I clicked through the painful box a little, seems like no matter which you chose it just gives one of a number of set messages.. all these games seem to be focused on self-hatred, the inevitability of death, the pointlessness of existence.. and maybe the games reflect their message. We are hunting desperately for answers when maybe there aren't any, maybe its all just a pointless journey with nothing at the end, just like life.

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tbh I thought about something like that too because I saw a movie recently xD

Maybe if someone creates a googledoc or something, we can all input the 30 letters to see if that theory holds true?
I started doing that, but it takes a minute

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Problem with enigma is we need a base message, where we know what it is saying, to look for matches. In WW2 they used the weather reports

I think it is based on system time, the codes, and how many times it is ran.


EDIT: Unless he gave us the switchboard and rotor codes! The numbers and letters people have seen might be right, and it would make sense if it is based on time and the counter of how many times you ran it!

We need to try getting the switchboard, rotor, reflector, and inital positions of the rotors

http://www.dcode.fr/enigma-machine-cipher


But the long number doesnt help. Or Most of this so far. Maybe not enigma

At first I thought it was just a simple replacement cipher, and that the letters at the top added up to the number reported after the cipher. Unfortunately it looks like that number is just adding everything up with (a-1, b-2, etc) after removing duplicates :(

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