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Background[]

On September 1, 2015 - players received direct messages (DM) via Twitter from the Moiraibot Twitter account. Some messages had just this link http://moirai.institute/test/machine2god/Self-aware.jpg Other DMs had messages along with the link.

The link leads to this image.

Self-aware

Puzzle Solutions[]

Solutions contributed by many sources including: Kelsey Morrison, Daniel Os, Crystal Rose, Gerwin Sturm, Mark van Heeswijk and others.

Spoiler Hint 1

zoom in and look closely for additional information

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Spoiler Hint 2

zooming in you find this hidden text
Selfawarehiddentext

5 8 7 7 7 7 8 8 3 7 8 3 5 5 3 8 3 8 8 8 8 7 7 → i f n b o j e j a j d a b j h d a a f k k m f ↓

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Spoiler Hint 3

Tweeting to the Moiraibot about this challenge - a player received the following reply from the Twitterbot: "The Self-aware puzzle is very hard and bewitching. It makes you feel hexed. "

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Major Spoiler Hint 4

Think about the 16x16 grid, only half of the grid seems to be referenced with the hidden text and the wording of the moirai reply, "hexed"

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Spoiler Solution

The matrix/grid is 16 x 16. The hidden text only uses half of the grid.

58777788378355383888877 ifnbojejajdabjhdaafkkmf

Take all the pairs, decrease the number by one. Then convert the letters a....p to the range 0....f.

You will now have:

48 75 6d 61 6e 69 74 79 20 69 73 20 41 49 27 73 20 70 75 7a 7a 6c 65

Which are hexadecimal numbers which fit nicely in the ASCII range, convert to get:

Humanity is AI's puzzle

(thanks Daniel Os for the final solution step)


Extra Notes[]

Player-made Documents[]

Post in the Age of Turing g+ community with information and solutions

Document with puzzle information created by Crystal Rose

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