Questions tagged [steganography]
Find hidden data in various media forms.
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A fairy tale in a golden toy
Once upon a time, long long ago, in the days when good stories were far more beautiful and far harder to come by, a king was asked by his spoilt but beloved princess daughter to give her a fairy tale. ...
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April Fool's Enigma
Every year, a famous French youtuber (e-penser) presents his enigma of April Fool, but this year, targeting specifically a group of people who have done particularly well last year, he raised the ...
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Sequence Puzzle - First Question of 42
Professor Tera was walking on Connecticut Road, where there are some public restrooms.
Tera saw some students standing in a row. They seemed to be playing a game called Evolution.
And it looked like ...
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Signatures of serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards?
This is from a real-life murder-mystery. In 2009 Edward Wayne Edwards was arrested and convicted of five murders, following a tip-off from his daughter April. Former detective John A. Cameron ...
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Ode to a Nightingale: a puzzling study in literary criticism
The field of literary criticism is an interesting and fruitful one, in which puzzlers might carve out a niche. This was recently brought home by a conversation I had with a sagacious old gentleman in ...
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Truly unexpected thingy in a Radcliffe novel!
Ann Radcliffe was an English author in the Gothic style at the turn of the nineteenth century. Among the many interesting points in her remarkable career though, one little story is but poorly known. ...
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What is a 255b Word™?
This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a 255b Word™.
Use the ...
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Is my colleague happy with me?
So I graduated last year with a chemical degree and I started working in a lab. I'm still pretty nervous about making mistakes, so when I had to prepare a tricky experimental setup, I wrote down what ...
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A multi-symptom affliction
"Kindly state your name." The nurse's voice was polite, but quiet.
"I'm sorry, I can't hear you, my hearing's bad."
Being mostly deaf was quite frustrating for our patient.
"Please tell me your name ...
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Trapped and gassed!
“Ouch!” I moaned as I slowly regained consciousness. Someone had knocked me out cold from behind. I now found myself alone, trapped in a small square room. The floor was hard and cold, and the room ...
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Image steganography / hidden message inside image (png, 8-bit gray+alpha)
I'm new to steganography and have been trying to figure this one out but some additional help would be appreciated. There is this image here:
It supposedly has a hidden message in it that should lead ...
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I need help retrieving files from this image
The person who sent this to me, says that there are some files in it, but I'm not getting anywhere. I looked at the hex with HxD trying to find something, there is information about the program the ...
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Stuck trying to figure out a hidden message
As part of an ongoing "treasure hunt" in an online game that I take part in, there have been several forum posts made in an attempt to hint the participants to finding certain locations. However, ...
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I say something. You say “Thanks!”. I say “You're welcome”. What did I say at first?
Work with this: https://pastebin.com/esJCuQAg
Clue 1:
Clue 2:
Clue 3:
