Some of you may remember this thread:
relpats-eht.. the game :--o. The first version of the already famous
relpats_eht online puzzle game, created in late 2005 by a 16 year old computer geek, quickly became an Internet craze and thousands of people attempted to solve its last page, the most difficult of all. The site was apparently hacked and the puzzle taken down. The guy was eventually persuaded into posting the solution to the final riddle on his blog.
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Those who discovered the "sha one the creator" message were astonishingly close. According to relpats_eht, the creator referred to "relpats_eht" himself; or to be precise, the three nicknames he was known by: "relpats_eht", "relpats", and "rel". Separate these nicknames with |s (a programming symbol for "or") and find the SHA-1 hash of the resulting string, "relpats_eht|relpats|rel". This hash, ac5d783345bf5117682ace31419d178487c29882, was the final answer.
The site was recently replaced with a new, similar puzzle. However this one is significantly more difficult.
Start playing:
http://www.relpats-eht.com/.
Please refrain from posting links to pages from the game in this thread. Also, be careful with spoilers and hints. It took me (and many others) weeks to solve the first few pages. I'm currently on page
eight ten.
The Stapler v2
