JoJo Stratton released 7 codes in the WoTD posts spanning from March 29 to April 4, 2016. These posts has a common theme, they used the Build with Chrome interface.
Looking at the first and last tiles we can see 3 different colours.
This is screaming for a cipher using 2 distinct bits and the 3rd one as a spacer.
But looking at the other tiles a fourth colour is added.
[hint]Maybe the tiles need to be rearranged in a way the yellow blocks become invisible![/hint]
A rectangle of 34×3. We know of a cipher that uses a height of 3.
[hint]Look at the distribution of the red and blue tiles[/hint]
This image has way to many colours just to throw you off.
A height of 3 and the fact the the width of 34 can be divided by two hints to braille.
Now we need to figure out which colours are dots and spacers.
Let’s split everything up in pairs
We know that numbers in braille only use the middle and bottom rows.
Looking at tiles 1, 5, 14 & 16 we can presume that only the red and blue tiles will represent dots.
Remove all other colours
Convert braille to text 3eud9advanceo9m8y
Code #4
Observations
[4] up-and-down.jpg
Colours looks like an obvious split. Some are going up some down !
[hint]Counting the dots on the first 2 tiles gives 6 and 9 which gives FI which is a good start for FIVE. Now why some are going down ?[/hint]
For all brick going up count the dots for colours.
Bricks going down are a bit tricky.
Dots above the black line represent 10 & 20 and from the line down what you need to add.
You should get the following: 6 9 22 5 20 17 6 14 9 14 5 15 18 4 5 18 5 4 16 6 15 21 18 18 19 5 22 5 14 10
Convert numbers to alphabet (1=a) FIVETQFNINEORDEREDPFOURRSEVENJ
5tqf9orderedp4r7j
Code #5
Observations
[5] hot-and-cold.jpg
Well everyone knows that game. The width seems also nice.
[hint]Width is 8 long which indicates the encode. The hint you need to replace the colours is in the filename.[/hint]
First step, place all the tiles to make a perfect 8×18 rectangle.
Note: Some colours are not the same but do respect wether colour is “hot” or “cold”
With a width of 8 there is a good chance that the code uses binary. Just too many colours since binary is 0 & 1.
The filename is hot-and-cold.jpg, cold colours (blues, greens & purples/greys) are 0, hot colours (reds, oranges & yellows) are 1.
Start from the top and work you way down: 01100111 01100100 01111000 01101101 01110101 01110011 01100101 01100111 00110100 01110001 01110101 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 00111001
Convert binary to ascii gdxmuseg4question9
This code format is used for anomalies. It was the first code for the Obsidian anomaly of April 1 – 2, 2016
Code #6
Observations
[6] blocks.jpg
26 pieces at the top of the image
The index is the 26 pieces at the top of the image and represents the alphabet. Read left to right from the top to get A to Z.
From the bottom line just match the pieces to the index:
twofznninevictorseightvfourw
2FZN9VICTORS8V4W
Code # 7
Observations
[7] blocks2.jpg
Seems like the same index as code #6 but with a different twist
[hint]Some are high, some are low and some are flat but the last blue piece looks like a sign and give it away[/hint]
The index is the 26 pieces at the top of the image and represents the alphabet. Read left to right from the top to get A to Z.
Pieces that have a height of 3 are uppercase letters, height of 1 lowercase and the flat pieces are numbers. No dots is 0 and that last blue piece is what it is, an equal sign.
From the bottom line just match the pieces to the index:
