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Thursday Night Teaser
Three questions just to lure you into a false sense of security
Question 1) My first is in "Pea" but not in "Canoe". What am I?
Answer - This was a simple "Google it" question, to get you used to using search engines to
find the answers. If you had searched for the exact phrase you would see that it was a line
from Frankie Boyle in Mock the Week. Either of those would have been accepted as the
answer.
Question 2) My first has a mouth but cannot eat. What moves but has no legs and what has a
bank but cannot put money in it?
Answer - Simple riddle, it was a river.
Question 3) Clue was "Where am I?"
Answer - Complete the next letter at the bottom of each tower in alphabetical order and it
would spell out the word Chicago
Question 1 - The epic journey
I woke with a start and looked towards the pale glow ≈ being watched over by the two
guardians dressed in black. I emerged and decided to head to the sound of trickling waters ≈
to freshen up before continuing on my quest.
Before commencing the next stage in my epic journey I stopped by the old tavern for supplies
≈ and set off southbound. During the voyage I heard a strange sound and quickly hid behind
a nearby tree. Quietly peering around from the hiding place ≈ I saw some sort of giant feline
beast. I waited for it to pass before continuing east.
Eventually I came upon a welcoming place ≈ where I could rest my weary legs before
completing my journey…
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Answer - This was to get you out of your seats and going around the venue, though you
actually didn't have to walk far. Each of the ≈ symbols related to where you would find a
clue.
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On the lighting rig (lighting = pale glow, 2 guardians = Winbar & Murray-Mint)
On the door frame to the gents toilets
The bar
On a tree looking towards a big window sticker of a Cat (Brandies Bar logo)
At the main building reception
If you put the 5 clues together you got a saying - Useless laws weaken necessary laws.
Question 2 - We are the Borg
Answer - The clue here was in the round title to suggest that the actual resistance of the
above chain is futile, so all you had to do was convert the colours to the standard resistor
colour values which gave a number sequence of 271828182845904. The number sequence
was the first 20 digits of the e expression. e was the answer.
Question 3 - Don't Get Board
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13 = R
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Answer - The idea here was for you to play Monopoly (standard UK board) and we started
off the game for you. The first two numbers were the dice throws, the third number was the
number of the letter of the square you landed on. Complete the list and you have Kineticparty
Question 4 - Veelednem
x = (138.91 + 14.007) 183.84 + 39.948 + 32.065
Answer - Ok so this one was probably a bit too easy, unless you tried to solve the sum!
Numbers were atomic masses, so if you checked the periodic table, you should have been
able to spell out the word Lanwars using the element symbols.
Question 5 - Pens Down
There was also a hidden link on the page to direct you to a file called visualidentity.txt. The
file said:
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Answer - A visual identity is also known as a logo, and many of you will remember LOGO
programming from school, maybe even using the turtle device. Many Win32 LOGO programs
available online, so once you find one add the commands and it would spell out the word
Llama.
Question 6 - Et Tu Brute
So here's where we turned mean!
Answer - Image is of Julius Caesar and there is a number 11 within the image and the EXIF
data. This should have lead you to a Caesar cipher with a shift of 11. The ciphertext was
sneakily buried as a .rar file within the image. Run the shift of 11 and the answer was
discombobulate.
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Question 7 - .---- -....
Did you like this one? Didn't think so!
Answer - The clue is Morse Code for 16, so you needed to start
thinking in Hexadecimal. The image hex values only contained
the values FF, 00 and CC which should have looked a little
unusual. Then go back to the original title of Morse Code as a
clue and convert the hex values to Morse. So FF = -, 00 = . and
CC = boundary.
This would have given you a Morse sequence of:
- .... . .- -. ... .-- . .-. -.-- --- ..- ... . . -.- .. ... -. . .- .-. - .... . -.. --- .-. . .-.-.Which translated to THEANSWERYOUSEEKISNEARTHECORE,
referring to the core network. If you'd taken a wander over to
the server area, you would see a console screen which had the
answer sartorial.
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Question 8 - The Final Journey
Time to go walkies again. This one involved multiple paths and general knowledge!
Who were the first to circle the moon?
A. Frank Boreman, Bill Anders and Jim Lovell (10 - Go to BBQ)
B. Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin (192 - Go to Performance Studios)
C. Charles Conrad and Alan Bean (169 - Go to Maynard)
Correct answer is A - go to the permanent BBQ structure in the camping area where
you found:
Who discovered Uranus?
A. Herschel (10 - Go to Melrose)
B. Ganleo (9 - Go to Sports Hall)
C. Copernicus (8 - Go to Swimming Pool)
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Correct Answer was Herschel so go to the building labelled as Melrose on campus.
Robert Koch worked on:
A. Tuberculosis (0 - Go to Wesley Centre)
B. Cholera (1 - Go to Pavilion)
C. Maleria (2 - Go to Students Union)
Correct answer was Tuberculosis so go to the Wesley Centre (where you had
breakfast)
Bangladesh was created in
A. 1970 (113 - Go to Brandies)
B. 1971 (200 - Go to Brandies)
C. 1972 (1 - Go to Brandies)
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As you were travelling you should have been noting the extra information on the clues which
gave an IP address of 10.10.0.200. This was a machine on the LAN which was running a
password protected FTP. The two random strings were the username and password.
When on the FTP you were given 2 files. One was what appeared to be a PNG file, and the
other was an MP3. The MP3 was just a red herring (it was the Gummi Bear song, because I
know you love it) and the PNG wasn't really. It was a text file which said:
2, 2
2, 5
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3, 2
3, 5
5, 3
5, 4
5, 5
7, 5
9, 5
9, 4
11, 5
11, 4
11, 3
12, 4
14, 5
14, 3
15, 4
17, 3
17, 5
18, 3
20, 3
20, 4
21, 5
These were mathematical coordinates (along the corridor, up the stairs). Plot each of the
values and you were presented with a Braille string which spelled out glabrous as the answer.
Congratulations to everyone who took part and especially those who got to the end and
completed the hunt! Well done!
Once again we really enjoyed putting it together and can't wait for more of the same at
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