Earlier in the week P.A. Chapeau posted clues about an upcoming event in Japan now known as SIXTEEN TWELVE TEN. More details arose about THE CHALLENGES AHEAD as the week progressed. This was another set of Mission challenges. Each leading further along to THE FINISH LINE.
Again Ground teams were assembled. Decoders and portal hunters were standing at the ready.
The first mission opened at noon Local Japan Time. First portal gave a media link to our initial puzzle. It was a weights and balance problem.
With some masterful logic a solution could be found to the weights. It was apparent that more was needed to gain the password. Hacking other portals in the mission revealed more media links – this time leading to a large portal hunt.
Agents were required to identify the portals and hack either location for Intel media. A total of 7 mission waypoints gave clues to 40 portals hacking 20 unique clues. A lot of coordination for the ground and portal teams. Here’s a sample of the intel clues retrieved.
The intel media gave the password letters. The path through the weights solution gave the order.
17=I, 15=G, 8=R, 13=O, 19=W, 1=I, 4=N, 3=M, 6=I, 20=N, 2=D, 5=S, 16=A, 7=S, 9=A, 11=N, 10=I, 12=D, 18=E, 14=A,
IGROWINMINDSASANIDEA
I grow in minds as an idea
Mission two opened an hour later. A large maze was revealed. Again a portal hunt lead to intel media. Media showed letters in the maze.
Tracing the maze solution through the letters gave our solution.
DIMENSIONALNEXUS
Dimensional nexus
Third mission gave us a hex sudoku (16×16). Intel media gave additional clues towards a unique solution.
Once all intel was assembled, the sudoku could be solved to a unique solution. Reading the KEY line gives: B3DA46718C95E02F
Noting the OTP key is mostly numbers we can try a Gronsfeld but as we need only numbers drop the 10’s digit from the hex to decimal values.
Mission four presented us with word search. Many ingress words could be seen. Intel provided us with some fun looking Battleship style hints.
The Battleship! hits highlighted certain words. Using the order given we sunk our battleship with:
IAMTHETRUEFUTUREWAY
I am the true future way
Mission four reward code: 0v
Mission five shows a global map and glyph calibration grid filled with letters. Intel appears to track key personnel around the globe.
Tracking each person on the map, we see they were travelling in gylph like patterns. Using the glyph calibration we match their path to the grid letters
As an added bonus this mission password was also a redeemable passcode. Well deserved.
Last we had the denouement. The Final Challenge required the password solution from all previous challenges as well as the Reward Code from all completed Missions.
Solution Summary
Mission
Reward
Password
1
11
iGrowinmindSasanidea
2
8c
diMensionalneXus
3
39
ideasHapeDinmind
4
0v
iamThetruefutureWay
5
93
ihavebeendRawnuponrocKycavewalls
Assembling the pieces we get the final redeemable code:
11GS8CMX39HD0vTW93RK
This reward lead to important media including the overall victory string allowing the Resistance to cross the finish line
Z2Jsl###2016.12.10 — Resistance Win###]:RY(e7aG.L:.
Another incredible mission series that combined efforts of ground crew, portal hunters and decoders alike.
