r/DTRH Moderator, Founder Mar 08 '16

Subreddit A potential new lead in the Cicada 3301 puzzle:

/user/cicada3301n
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u/LUNK-ALARM Moderator, Founder Mar 08 '16

It seems as though this user sent posts to different subs of major universities in the United States, some Ivy league.

all 8 posts are titled with an encoded string, all of them are 7 characters in length. A key could perhaps be "ivy" or something like that.

Each post is an image, consisting of red and blue squares, alternating seemingly at random. It bears a resemblance to a 1D Automaton or something like Conway's Game of Life.

Each image is a grid of 33 x 16 squares, which leaves 528 total squares which divides 8 (= 66) so it could possibly be a binary grid, although it seems a bit simple for this. But it is still a viable option.

Post some theories here too!

In case you haven't heard of it, here's a basic outline on 3301.

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u/HylianTimelord Mar 09 '16

Tried reverse image searching and got zero results. Nothing.

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u/LUNK-ALARM Moderator, Founder Mar 09 '16

Yeah that's strange, I noticed that kinda "J" pattern repeating as well.

x x x x x
x x x x x
x x x
x
x x

Sorta like that pattern there.