The original image:
Enlarged:
Convo betwixt his Gorniness and Sen:
Gorn: Have there been any guesses?
or speculation?
about the riddle or the clue?
Me: Don't think so
Gorn:Gorram it.
Try enlarging the picture
Me:I did.
It looks like half a bear's head
Gorn:It's not a photo
...
It's an image.
Me: Duh.
Gorn: Pay attention to the size, and keep in mind how I've given clues before.
Also, you only have three months to solve it before it kills you
"Bwahahahaha! Kocho figured out the clue without meaning to. Baal Gon is an anagram for balogna. However it refers to the University of Balogna, not the city.
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Speculation:
A space invader.
Half of Batman's head.
Half a bear's head.
Half of Gene Simmon's head.
Half of Robbie Williams' head.
The original image is 8x8 pixels.
There are 64 squares: 28 white and 36 black.
The arrangement is thus, with black representing black and red representing white:
1 1 4 1 1
1 2 4 1
1 2 4 1
1 2 1 2 2
1 1 6
1 1 3 3
1 2 1 4
1 2 1 3 1
10111101 - 189
10011110 - 158
10011110 - 158
10010011 - 147
10111111 - 191
10111000 - 184
10010000 - 144
10010001 - 145
11111111 - 255
00000000 - 0
10001100 - 140
11111111 - 255
11101100 - 236
11101000 - 232
01111000 - 120
10011001 - 153
Random has converted the binary into letters, but she doesn't know what it means:
Baal@Gon
Gorn says: "You've almost figured out the clue. I will say that the @ is not important. You can freely remove it."
"Here are the possible Caesar Cipher results. None of them mean anything to me, but they may mean something to someone else."
AZZK FNM
ZYYJ EML
YXXI DLK
XWWH CKJ
WVVG BJI
VUUF AIH
UTTE ZHG
TSSD YGF
SRRC XFE
RQQB WED
QPPA VDC
POOZ UCB
ONNY TBA
NMMX SAZ
MLLW RZY
LKKV QYX
KJJU PXW
JIIT OWV
IHHS NVU
HGGR MUT
GFFQ LTS
FEEP KSR
EDDO JRQ
DCCN IQP
CBBM HPO
"This is interesting.
Input Baalgon and see what you get.
It gives you different results every time...
Soooo....
We might find something."
"It just solved to 'All Quit' for me.
That's irony."
Gorn says: "You're working too hard.
"Also, you can thank Risu for linking to my inspiration for this clue."
"Baalgon is not the final result of the clue. The clue gives a single word, and I will tell you when you get it."
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The Second Image
Stuff We Know:
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The Second Image
Stuff We Know:
The original image:
Enlarged:
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Speculation:
"Apparently, this one is an 11x8 unless I somehow read it wrong.
I think I messed up though.
11111111111
00000000001
10010010000
11011111011
11111011100
01111011100
01011011010
00010110101
None of this makes too much sense. I think someone ought to double check me because I don't think there're 11 digit binary letters."
Atomsk thinks the Binary comes out to be:
11010001
10010010
10001101
10011110
10111111
10010001
10011110
10111111
10001100
10011110
10111000
"The eight is significant, Val. Atomsk is doing the right thing, he's just kinda backwards. It's not a matter of rotation, you just need to look at it a different way."
"Ok, here we go.
10111000
10011110
10001100
10111111
10011110
10010001
10111111
10011110
10001101
10010010
11010001.
This concludes Atomsk second attempt."
Random decoded the new clue and got:
.mra@na@saG
"'Gas an arm' is an anagram for 'anagrams.'"
