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Attention Funnyjunk. Each year in January, the Cicada 3301 begins. Years ago on 4chan, a mysteriou contest began with an image saying "they" are looki

Each year in January, the Cicada 3301 begins. Years ago on 4chan, a mysteriou contest began with an image saying "they" are looking for the smartest people on the internet, and saying that there was a hidden message in that image. People started decoding it, going through more and more weird puzzles that eventually even stretched out to outside the internet and into the real world, all over the world like Japan, France and the USA.

It starts tomorrow, and we can all work as a team (god knows there will be so many people working in groups). Funnyjunkers are all around the world, in places like Russia, USA, France, Middle East, Korea and so much more. We can all work together to fix these codes, maybe for fun maybe because we want to prove something. Maybe we'll give up from the very first puzzle, but who can deny that it would be interesting for thousands of people solving one of the internet's biggest mysteries together?

Helle. We ere (cooking for highly intelligent
individuals. Te find them, we have devised
a test.
There is e message hidden in this image.
Find if, and it will lead yel. I en The reed Te
finding US., We leek Derward Te meeting the
few that will make it all the .
Seed leek.
3301
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Submitted: 01/04/2016
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User avatar #11 - rui [OP](01/04/2016) [+] (88 replies)
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To the people who tried decoding the image above, guys this was the first one not the 2016 one. Also the trick is that while all pixels are black, some are a slightly different shade, and even then you gotta know what each shade + location means. I
ll post the newest Cicada 3301 as soon as it's out.
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User avatar #87 - silentwarrior (01/05/2016) [+] (1 reply)
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Just to clarify about this. First of all, it's all legit, not some 4chan hoax. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301

Second, although several people has said they have "won", none have been confirmed by the organization. The people making the claims have also not been very forthcoming after they apparently solved all the puzzles.

Third, and I think this is most important for all. Although the message says they are looking for highly intelligent people that's not really what they want. The test is basically filled with different cryptograhpy puzzles, and that is what they want. I suspect that they are only looking for higly intelligent Cryptograhist, since the tests are all based on that. Whatever this organization have in store for those that win, I'm pretty sure it has to do data security and the like.
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User avatar #178 - rui [OP](01/05/2016) [-]
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It looks like Cicada 3301 was so complex to the point where the Navy started using in a project called Project Architeuthis to train their own ************ . Also Cicada is on the government's good side, being able to escape multiple claims of involvement with a hacker group also called Cicada and other claims of doing illegal actions.
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#40 - Minnesota (01/05/2016) [-]
I found the message in the post. What do I win?
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#117 to #40 - uhhyeahfmebaby (01/05/2016) [-]
www.gateway-71.com/ you download the imagine right clicking outside of the door, you look in the exif data, comment shows john 1, in the beggining was the word, first password is word. I dont ******* know after that.
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#9 - badboyscout (01/04/2016) [-]
GIF
After using several different filters....
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#31 to #9 - imjared (01/05/2016) [-]
interesting genital placement
but what does it mean!?
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#6 - harbydeath (01/04/2016) [-]
i did my part. your move ******* . i got no idea what the dots are for i just found em
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User avatar #21 to #6 - internetexplain (01/04/2016) [-]
maybe it's an image of sorts.

perhaps it's one of those code things that you scan with your phone
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User avatar #25 to #21 - lathyrusvii (01/04/2016) [-]
This is the 2015 image, though. He put it up as an example.
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#45 to #6 - multicom (01/05/2016) [-]
Bit better and more clear, i cant remember what this type of image is called though and the program to compile it back together!
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#68 to #45 - vikingpizza (01/05/2016) [-]
All I see is a guy with a ****** up hand reaching for his boner
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User avatar #110 to #68 - distortedflare ONLINE (01/05/2016) [-]
Well team funnyjunk is ****** .
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User avatar #136 to #68 - condimentparty (01/05/2016) [-]
You're definitely on to something
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User avatar #133 to #68 - turopiyox (01/05/2016) [-]
it involves steganography. basically when they made the image they put a message within the coding of the image so when you use a program to analyze the coding of the image you can find what ever the message was. i don't know how to do this so i don't really care.
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User avatar #1 - wcpapier ONLINE (01/04/2016) [-]
Inb4 there is no hidden message or awnser and everyone is being trolled
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User avatar #2 to #1 - rui [OP](01/04/2016) [-]
That's what people thought until they realized there was an actual message and started following it. Idk might be a troll but if so, it shouldn't take long right?
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User avatar #3 to #2 - wcpapier ONLINE (01/04/2016) [-]
If i were them but thats me i would make multiple messages, like a treasure hunt but at somepoint just quit make 1 last message with no meaning in it
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User avatar #12 to #3 - danigoro (01/04/2016) [-]
well at that point people will give up and wait for the next one
at least you actually proved yourself worthy to very end or some **** like that
it might be fun too
who knows
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User avatar #34 to #1 - thevaulthunter (01/05/2016) [-]
Cicada has been going on for ages, mate. Even on the streets.
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User avatar #10 - controlstickone ONLINE (01/04/2016) [-]
Drink your ovaltine
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User avatar #65 to #10 - stealingbikes (01/05/2016) [-]
This needs more thumbs
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#16 - lolollo (01/04/2016) [-]
> on 4chan So its nothing, then. You guys realize these are the same sort of people who invented the concept of tricking people into destroying their property for entertainment value, right? Creating a fake society just to go out and tell people "you can find it if you're smart enough to decode the message" when there's not even a message sounds just about right up their lane. Tell a man there's something there, and he'll find it, regardless of whether there's anything to find...
> on 4chan

So its nothing, then.

You guys realize these are the same sort of people who invented the concept of tricking people into destroying their property for entertainment value, right?

Creating a fake society just to go out and tell people "you can find it if you're smart enough to decode the message" when there's not even a message sounds just about right up their lane. Tell a man there's something there, and he'll find it, regardless of whether there's anything to find...
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#148 to #16 - iexs (01/05/2016) [-]
GIF
I'm sure some cock on 4chan went around the world putting up flyers and **** to keep his meme alive.
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#59 to #16 - anon (01/05/2016) [-]
You obviously don't ******* browse it enough faggot.

Lurk Moar
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User avatar #39 to #16 - labree (01/05/2016) [-]
except that cicada 3301 is a well known "Myth"..or "Riddle" per say
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#22 to #16 - amalah (01/04/2016) [-]
Yea, but you can't deny that it's fun searching for stuff that might or might not be there, and when you actually find it, see how long of a chain of information you can get that makes some sense.
Sure, maybe it wasn't intended for any info or clues to be there, but cmon, it's ALWAYS fun seeing just what kind of BS you can uncover from sheer, for lack of better word, imagination. As long as nothing was fabricated, and something was linked to something else with a good, solid proof, it's just good fun. Not some dumb **** as in:
December 25
December = 8 letters,
25 -> 2 and 5
2+4 letters from December = 6
5+1 letter from December = 6
We are left with 3, there are 2 decimal slots in 25, 3*2=6
Jesus = Satan!

inb4 some mofo comes around all: "Uhhh actually, Jesus was born AROUND Dec 25th" and "uhh something something 666 is not actually devil's number its 616"
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#91 to #22 - anon (01/05/2016) [-]
Actually jesus was born in the spring and 666 is a number reference to an asshole king
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User avatar #62 - thatonecommunist (01/05/2016) [-]
"highly intelligent individuals" does this mean bored people? it sounds like it means bored people.
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User avatar #15 - thechosentroll (01/04/2016) [-]
I have two projects and a final in less than a week and I haven't even bothered reading what the two projects are supposed to be about.

Of course I've got the time to do this.
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User avatar #4 - talosknight (01/04/2016) [-]
What the heck, I'm in.
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User avatar #18 to #4 - distortedflare ONLINE (01/04/2016) [-]
**** it could give it a go.
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User avatar #103 - vladhellsing (01/05/2016) [-]
So the world's most secretive group of cryptographers are scattering clues all across the world which require only the most industrious and ingenious minds to crack... and you want a website full of autism to join the hunt?

Well, this can only end one way. Soon.
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#132 - girdsquad (01/05/2016) [-]
Its gotta be the illuminati, 3301, 3 sides, 3 angles, 0 answers, 1 eye.
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User avatar #135 - thepizzadevourer (01/05/2016) [-]
>posting this on FunnyJunk
Your first mistake was assuming any of us would be smart enough to find the hidden message.
Your second mistake was assuming anyone would be willing to overcome their slothfulness to try.
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#134 - anon (01/05/2016) [-]
I like to think I'm entellegent
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#157 - anon (01/05/2016) [-]
That... sounds very boring and without any discernable purpose.

Maybe mystery ******** will have a blast, but that's about it.
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User avatar #126 - Deavas (01/05/2016) [-]
No you ******* can't work as a team
That's exactly what happened last time
Some dude spent months decoding the thing on his own, and when he finally finished and got to the end, all there was was a message saying something like "shame on you for working together. Nobody wins"
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#168 - samoaspider ONLINE (01/05/2016) [-]
So appearantly the first time the Cicada 3301 appeared was 2012
>nobody has "won" or atleast publicly been confirmed winning so far
>its not set up by some basement-dweller as there have been confirmed clues set up
 publicly all over the world, including Russia, South-Korea, Poland, U.S.A*, Spain, Japan
* - more than once in U.S.A

I don't know whats the true purpose of it besides the claimed "finding intelligent people" but I know that I'm too lazy / stupid to solve all those puzzles that require high cryptography skills and overall knowledge.

Also no reward or seeing winners demotivates a lot.
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User avatar #155 - sedativechunk (01/05/2016) [-]
For anyone curious, this is a real challenge, and someone on the web has already figured out a lot of it: www.clevcode.org/cicada-3301/

I think the guy got as far as decoding it to find it references something in the encyclopedia britannica that asks "what is my first name?" or something. It's still an ongoing puzzle.
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