# Decryption Contest 2021

**URL:** <https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/decryption-contest-2021/27683>\
**Category:** Archmage\
**Tags:** contest\
**Created:** [March 1, 2021, 10:47am UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/decryption-contest-2021/27683 "2021-03-01T10:47:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 10\
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**Author:** ![Chaboi\_3000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.codecombat.com/chaboi_3000/32/48486_2.png) [@Chaboi\_3000](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/Chaboi_3000)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2021, 10:47am UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/decryption-contest-2021/27683/1 "2021-03-01T10:47:40Z")

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# Decryption Contest 2021

## What is it?

You’ll have a week to solve a daily puzzle crafted by one of the most wise wizards, Omarn Brewstone. Each puzzle solved will give you one point. At the end of the week, the person with the highest points will be chosen as the winner. If a tie were to happen, then one winner will be drawn from the list.

## How do you participate?

Once you feel that you have gotten the answer, you will message me using the private messaging feature. You will have 2 tries for a single puzzle before you are no longer able to guess again for that certain puzzle. Please also make sure to add a well-written description of how you obtained the answer. (Including tools used, if any)

## Points

+1 point for a puzzle **solved**.  
+1 point for a puzzle solved without mistakes. (In addition to the +1 point from puzzle solve)  
+7 points for solving **all 7 days**.

## Prizes

Winner: Will receive the Hackerman title.  
Runner Ups(People who tied to the winner, but did not win): Will receive the Cyber Navigator  
Contestants(People who didn’t tie with the winner): Will receive the Decryption Challenge Contestant

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**Author:** ![Chaboi\_3000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.codecombat.com/chaboi_3000/32/48486_2.png) [@Chaboi\_3000](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/Chaboi_3000)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2021, 10:48am UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/decryption-contest-2021/27683/3 "2021-03-01T10:48:11Z")

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### Day 1

Puzzle: Max zhhw he’ vbiaxk. Tglpxk: Hzkxl tgw Unkel  
Hint: Well, you’ve seen this somewhere in here. Can you find it?  
DM me with your answers + explanation!

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**Author:** ![Chaboi\_3000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.codecombat.com/chaboi_3000/32/48486_2.png) [@Chaboi\_3000](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/Chaboi_3000)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2021, 4:37am UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/decryption-contest-2021/27683/5 "2021-03-02T04:37:36Z")

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### Day 2

Puzzle: 01010100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101111 01101111 00100000 01100101 01100001 01110011 01111001 00101100 00100000 01101001 01110011 01101110 00100111 01110100 00100000 01101001 01110100 00111111 00100000 01000001 01101110 01110011 01110111 01100101 01110010 00111010 00100000 01010011 01101001 01110010 00100000 01010100 01101000 01100001 01110010 01101001 01101110 00100000 01010100 01101000 01110101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01100110 01101001 01110011 01110100  
Hint: Another classic one. Certainly you know what it is?  
DM me with your answers + explanation!

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**Author:** ![Chaboi\_3000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.codecombat.com/chaboi_3000/32/48486_2.png) [@Chaboi\_3000](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/Chaboi_3000)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2021, 12:06am UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/decryption-contest-2021/27683/6 "2021-03-03T00:06:20Z")

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### Day 3:

Puzzle: VGhpcyBpcyBzb21ldGhpbmcgbmV3LCBlaD8gQW5zd2VyOiBTd29yZCBvZiB0aGUgVGVtcGxlIEd1YXJk  
Hint: 6.4\*decimal?  
DM me with your answers + explanation!

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**Author:** ![Chaboi\_3000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.codecombat.com/chaboi_3000/32/48486_2.png) [@Chaboi\_3000](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/Chaboi_3000)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2021, 4:44am UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/decryption-contest-2021/27683/7 "2021-03-04T04:44:18Z")

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### Day 4:

Puzzle: [Dropbox - puzzle.jpg - Simplify your life](https://www.dropbox.com/s/mx7ciuc6rmtc5fm/puzzle.jpg?dl=0)  
Hint: How do you “fix” the file?  
DM me with your answers + explanation!

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**Author:** ![Chaboi\_3000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.codecombat.com/chaboi_3000/32/48486_2.png) [@Chaboi\_3000](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/Chaboi_3000)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2021, 10:13pm UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/decryption-contest-2021/27683/8 "2021-03-04T22:13:12Z")

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### Day 5:

Puzzle: [https://myweb.chaboi45.repl.co/](https://myweb.chaboi45.repl.co/)  
Hint: Just a completely normal simple website…🤔  
DM me with your answers + explanation! (The real answer will have the word “Answer:” in it!)

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**Author:** ![Chaboi\_3000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.codecombat.com/chaboi_3000/32/48486_2.png) [@Chaboi\_3000](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/Chaboi_3000)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 11:24pm UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/decryption-contest-2021/27683/9 "2021-03-06T23:24:11Z")

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### Day 6:

Puzzle: 01001 11000 10000 11011 11100 11111 00100 01001 11000 10000 11011 11100 11111 00100 01001 11000 10000 11011 11001 11111 00100 00011 01100 00101 10011 00001 01010 11011 01110 11111 00100 01100 00011 10010 01101 00011 01010 00100 01110 01010 10101 10110 10000 11000 01010 00100 10010 11000 11110 00001 00101 00100 00101 01111 00001 10010 00001 10000 11000 01100 00101 11011 01101  
Hint: It’s easy enough 🙂  
DM me with your answers + explanation!

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**Author:** ![Chaboi\_3000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.codecombat.com/chaboi_3000/32/48486_2.png) [@Chaboi\_3000](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/Chaboi_3000)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 12:41am UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/decryption-contest-2021/27683/10 "2021-03-07T00:41:48Z")

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### Day 7:

Puzzle: 71, 111, 111, 100, 32, 106, 111, 98, 33, 32, 65, 110, 115, 119, 101, 114, 58, 67, 111, 100, 101, 67, 111, 109, 98, 97, 116, 32, 70, 84, 87, 33  
Hint: Go search for hints on google 🙂  
DM me with your answers + explanation!

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**Author:** ![Chaboi\_3000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.codecombat.com/chaboi_3000/32/48486_2.png) [@Chaboi\_3000](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/Chaboi_3000)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 9:19pm UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/decryption-contest-2021/27683/11 "2021-03-07T21:19:38Z")

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### Results:

🏆 Winners: @Hydrobolic – 7/7 solved  
Runner Ups: @Alexbrand + @Anton_Vinogradov – 6/7 days solved  
Contestants:  
@jka2706, @lukas31, @Ashmit_Singh, @JoPro_8000, @Deadpool198, @CocoCharlie, @abc, @milton.jinich, @Eric_Tang, @cheddarcheese

Hydrobolic did a fantastic job in explaining his code process, and I am happy to announce that he is the winner of this contest! Submissions are now closed :)
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Rewards will be given soon! 👀

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**Author:** ![Chaboi\_3000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.codecombat.com/chaboi_3000/32/48486_2.png) [@Chaboi\_3000](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/Chaboi_3000)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2021, 3:41am UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/decryption-contest-2021/27683/12 "2021-03-08T03:41:07Z")

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Rewards are given! Enjoy! 🎉