At 1:30 AM (not sure what day this is...no really I don't know) it was only Tim, myself and one stranger that decided to wander in and help. This was 12.5 hours after we received the first box. A small purple box containing clues.
1. A pad of paper with 1x21 written in it
2. An alphabet missing the letter e. Letters were printed on little books and were circular cut outs
3. A clue sheet with 185 (or 184 I don't remember) characters of cyphertext.
Lessons learned. Trust your instinct. The reason it took us so long was that we were using the wrong program (algorithm) to decode the text. If we had used the proper one it would have saved ohhhh about 6-8 hours of number crunching madness!
We can't get our hardware box or phase 2 box until morning because LosT has gone to bed.... will post screenshots, etc after the contest is done so I don't leak any info, but then again who the fuck reads this thing anyway?
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