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Cicada 3301: The Mysterious Internet Puzzle That Only Genius Minds Can Solve!
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Cicada 3301: The Mysterious Internet Puzzle That Only Genius Minds Can Solve!

Cicada 3301 is the most baffling and enigmatic mystery on the internet that appeared on the 4th of January, 2012, and was ended after one month. A user on 4chan posted this image to the site's infamous /b/ or random board. The anonymous author, who went by the four-digit pseudonym 3301, challenged users to uncover a message hidden within the image. In a white text on a black background, and this was the beginning of the message: "Hello. We are looking for highly intelligent individuals. To find them, we have devised a test." Cicada 3301 Repetition Within minutes of the image being posted someone discovered that by opening the file using a text editor and an appended string of readable text could be found. The string contained a cipher that, once deciphered, formed a link to yet another i...