Be Amazed game
Contents
Discovery
June 25, 2008
A new text message was received by conspirators with cell phones, saying either:
To find the next sideshow, share these with your fellow goons. Then be amazed.
To find the next sideshow, share these with your fellow goons. There's no substitution for fun.
Included with each message was one image, appearing to be part of a puzzle or maze, labelled 1-6 and A-F. Some phones received additional images, with the message:
A couple extra for your trouble, clown. I remember favors...
Puzzle pieces
Solution
There are 21 individual, unique shapes in the puzzle, even though many of the repeats are rotated. If the first shape is assigned "A", the second "B", and so forth, in the order that they appear, left to right and top to bottom as shown, the following pattern appears:
Then use the following substitution cypher:
From:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U
To:
C O L R - M E I P S D J U T H N F W G A V
...to reveal this message:
color-me-imp
ressed-just-
use-the-seco
nd-letter-of
-the-fourth-
word-to-the-
right-of-eac
h-circled-fi
ve-letter-wo
rd-to-find-o
ut-where-to-
go-from-here
ressed-just-
use-the-seco
nd-letter-of
-the-fourth-
word-to-the-
right-of-eac
h-circled-fi
ve-letter-wo
rd-to-find-o
ut-where-to-
go-from-here
Using the circled words in third issue of The Hahaha Times, the next game was found at Whysoserious.com/redballoons.
