WOTD keywords are now searchable
https://regex.ingress.codes/wotd
New keywords are added daily.
Today we’re launching a new tool to help find keywords in passcodes.
It works the same way like the other one on the Internet but it’s actually updated!
Sometimes you just want to know what keywords are possible to help spot a pattern in a code. For example:
te68o5erezim2tk8uf
The regular expression to find a possible keyword would be:
^[te68o5erezim2tk8uf]{8}$
The ^
and $
denote the beginning and end of a string, essentially a whole word.
The [te68o5erezim2tk8uf]
denotes to look for a character within the []
.
The {8}
tells it to look for 8 of those characters, since the prefix/suffix are 5 characters each, there are 8 remaining for the keyword.
Trying this example out reveals the keyword to be timezero
, and we can now look for the full passcode:
te 68 o5 er ez im 2t k8 uf
timezero
can be seen highlighted and we see a pattern for the passcode: ufk82timezero568te
.
If a code presents itself with a clean distribution and a correlation between letters/numbers, you can sometimes use the tool to find a keyword.
a8bdacc6ccbbbaabbabcabb6b0b1ccccccaab0
would be split into pairs:
a8 bd ac c6 cc bb ba ab ba bc ab b6 b0 b1 cc cc cc aa b0
The pairs starting with c
are in the same position as where numbers go, and you can now safely assume everything in the middle is a keyword.
bb ba ab ba bc ab b6 b0 b1
Looking for repeated sets, we see that ba
and ab
are repeated in the keyword. Creating a regular expression for it:
^.(.)(.)\1.\2...$
The .
not enclosed in ()
denote any character we don’t generally care about.
The (.)
are captured to be reused in another part of the expression with \1
, \2
, etc., in the order in which they were captured.
With our example, we see the only result being detection
. If we compare the (uppercase) hexadecimal values of detection
to the code:
bb ba ab ba bc ab b6 b0 b1
44 45 54 45 43 54 49 4f 4e
We can now deduce the code was ciphered with a hexadecimal-atbash.
57 42 53 39 33 44 45 54 45 43 54 49 4f 4e 33 33 33 55 4f
WBS93DETECTION333UO
We have detected a new passcode format for the WotD puzzles posted daily by JoJo Stratton.
This new format appeared on the 1000th WotD puzzle posted since taking over from PAC and his Investigation Board
The new passcode format is:
x#x#keywordx#xx
x
being any letter from a-z
#
being any number between 0-9
keyword
being any previously used WotD
or part thereof. So far only those that JoJo herself has posted.
As you might notice, the numbers are no longer limited to just 2-9
and the possibilities of keywords has been greatly increased, from roughly 460 to over 1000 and increasing daily.
You can find a full list of all the WotD’s posted by JoJo since she took over from PAC, here: JoJo WotD List
We are waiting for the current theme to come to an end to see if the keywords remain linked to WotD or revert back to the previously known Keyword list.
It is now confirmed that the WotD keyword does come from either previously used WotD or from the context of the WotD, so the list above will be immensely important for future solves.
We have observed a new passcode format in the Body in Brooklyn. A Cover-Up? post on June 16 2016.
The new passcode format is:
xxx##keyword###xx
x
are any letter from a-z
#
are numbers 2-9
keyword
is a word related to Ingress (our compiled list of keywords)
At this time, we are not sure if this code will be used exclusively for daily codes from the Investigation Blog or will it be expanded to include Word of the Day and Ingress Report codes.
Continuing with our tutorial series, let us take a look at some tools of the trade.
If you are jumping in midway, take a look at the previous tutorials below.
As each decoder works through the vastness of different types of codes that we come across, he or she tends to use some links very frequently and some only for special cases.
Many times we get the questions of “What tool did you use for that?” or “How did you see how to follow those steps?”
In this post we hope to accumulate the big variety of online and offline resources that we use.
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Welcome to the world of Ingress passcode solving. By checking out this tutorial, you’ve taken the first step to ascend beyond the ranks of a field agent.
In this tutorial series, we’ll be going through a few basic topics, we’ll be adding more topics as they are written.
This post will discuss where to look for codes.