# Hidden message in musical notes

Can you find it? The message might be a self-fulfilling prophecy

Here's a hint:

Original hint:

The musical notes are related to the squares they touch

• Hints please? :D – kiLLua Jan 11 '18 at 8:48
• I thought of youtube.com/watch?v=nRTdq0VsLGQ but it doesn't seem to be a fit – Thomas Weller Jan 11 '18 at 21:59
• It would already be puzzling enough to figure out the correct names of those two violet colors :-) – Thomas Weller Jan 11 '18 at 22:01
• names or hex codes? :|> – bleh Jan 15 '18 at 19:33
• The hex codes should be (left to right, top to bottom) #168645, #e840ee, #9e8cdf, #f6f647, #40cac2, #8c86de. – Reti43 Jan 20 '18 at 8:49

First we extract the hexcodes of the colors:

#168645, #e840ee, #9e8cdf
#f6f647, #40cac2, #8c86de

As it turns out, each hexcode has an operation applied to them:

Leftmost notes are reversed, so we unreverse them:
168645 -> 54 68 61
f6f647 -> 74 6f 6f

Middle notes are doubled in length, so we halve the hex values (it helps that the digits are all even)
e840ee -> 74 20 77
40cac2 -> 20 65 61

Right notes are inverted in colors, so we take the complement of the numbers:
9e8cdf -> 61 73 20
8c86de -> 73 79 21

Finally we convert using ASCII:

T h a | t   w | a s
t o o |   e a | s y !  

Or more readably, That was too easy!

For completion's sake, the hint explained:

Once again the hint had its colors inverted. Take the hexcodes and take their complements:
9edf97 -> 61 20 68
96918b -> 69 6e 74
Or, converted from ASCII: a hint

• Nicely done! And the hint? :) – ferret Jan 21 '18 at 8:28