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If you want to play the game and find the hidden messages in my drawings, just follow the ideas below and you will probably more easily find the answers to my enigmas.
Here is an affirmation: You have to find an hidden sentence!
Here is another affirmation: A sentence is always composed of characters (a.) in a specific order (b.).
(a.) A sentence is always written with usual ASCII characters (eg: A, B, C, ...Z, a, b, c, ...z, 0, 1, ?, ;, !, ...).
Sometimes you will see this characters directly in the drawings. It is the case in the first sample below.
Sometimes the characters are coded (eg: 00001=A, 00010=C, 00011=C, ...). In that case, you will first have to understand which character is represented by what and of course I will give you clues to help you in your investigation.
(b.) A sentence is always written with characters in a specific order.
When you have found what characters are represented by, you just need to know how to order them.
Here again, I will give you clues either within the drawings or on this website.
If I was not clear, the following two examples will definitely help you to understand what I mean.
Sample 1 - "Foi" - Difficulty: 2/5
So here is the first drawing I will solve with you. I did put in red what you first needed to look after: the sentence characters.
If you want to see this drawing in a bigger resolution please click here.
Let's make a zoom in the left bottom of the cross so we can now easily see what is written there:
What do I see ?
1. In the zoomed part, I see the letters v, b, i, u and s. this is a good start.
All over the drawing, I also see the letters s (again), y, b, u, o, a, n, c, t, m, v, b, i.
2. In the zoomed part, I also see that letters are grouped. Humm...
All over the drawing, I also see that letters are grouped and some of them, as the letter "s", are grouped more that once.
3. I also see that a group of letters contains always identical letters (eg: just V's, just B's, ...). That's probably another hint.
All over the drawing, I see that each group of letter never contain the same number of letters. Let's enumerate these groups from the top to the bottom:
- 1x3y (one group of 3 "y"), 1x12s (one group of 12 "s"), 1x10b (one group of 10 "b"), 1x14u, 1x20o, 1x22a, 1x21c, 1x13s, 1x9a, 1x11y, 1x7s, 1x18n, 1x1a, 1x15m, 1x5s, 1x4s, 1x6u, 1x2b, 1x19v and 1x17i.
4. There is possibility that the number of time a letter is repeated in a group give an information about its position in the final sentence.
Let's reorder these group and see what it gives:
- 1x1a, 1x2b, 1x3y, 1x4s, 1x5s, 1x6u, 1x7s, 1x9a, 1x10b, 1x11y, 1x12,s, 1x13s, 1x14u, 1x15m, 1x17i, 1x18n, 1x19v, 1x20o, 1x21c, 1x22a and 1x23t.
- There is no group of 8 letters and no group of 16 letters.
5. It seems that we have found the hidden sentence of the drawing "Foi". If I keep the letters order from above and if I suppress the "1x.." in front of each letter, it seems that we have found the hidden sentence of the drawing "Foi":
ABYSSUS...
A quick google search will give the meaning of this sentence. The reinterpretation of my drawing after getting this info is completely yours.
Sample 2 - "Terre" - Difficulty: 3/5
The green parts represent the "graduations".
The red parts represent the hidden data.
The solution of this second sample is on wikipedia. Someone did it for me so here is the link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
ps: because the images were converted from analogic to numeric, the quality is not as good as the analogic to analogic copies.
