Please help me!
Last weekend I hosted a hell of a party at my workplace (I'll invite you next time, promise). Of course, my boss didn't know about it.
The next morning I entered the building and everything was just a huge mess! Naive as I am, I was expecting something less wicked and wanted to clean everything up before my boss would be able to see any of this. But see for yourself...
In the heat of the moment I've also created some rough sketches so you can see how the whole place is looking without the surrounding walls (for controls and all that see my other 3D riddle and for those who can't use the 3D I will provide screenshots on demand):
Meeting Room (click this link for 3D)
IT Department (click this link for 3D)
Main Office (click this link for 3D)
After some looking around I noticed the message on the screens and I started to get the idea. I'm now trying to figure out some kind of pass phrase hidden behind multiple layers of secrecy, so I can unlock the computers and won't have to pay the ransom. Not sure where to start, yet. I didn't move anything to make sure I didn't wipe any prints or clues.
I thought it would be useful to get some other views on this from different angles. So I wanted to ask you for your help. If you can tell me the password I'll pay 300 rep. Sadly, that's all I can pay at the moment (credit card bill coming soon). Meanwhile I'm thinking of a way to tell my boss about the party and all the rep her company loses... good luck to me and to you!
Hints:
Hint 1
Snooping around my desk might be helpful.
Hint 2
For some parts of the solution it may not be irrelevant to figure out how the floors stack.
Hint 3
For some parts of the solution it may not be relevant to figure out how the floors stack.
hint 4
Think bigger than last time.
Answer
The passphrase is:
AWESOME
How to find it:
It's basically an anagram of a couple of letters that can be found in the puzzle. Most were already found by others, I'll include them for the sake of completeness.
Hint 2 says: "For some parts of the solution it may not be irrelevant to figure out how the floors stack.", additionally hint 4 says: "Think bigger than last time.". Using both of them, we can find a couple of letters, when we place all floors correctly one above other.
Looking from the top we can see an S formed by the bookshelves and an E formed by the desks:
Looking from the side we can see an E formed by the couches:
Looking from another side we can see an O formed by the plants:
Hint 3 tells us the opposite of hint 2: "For some parts of the solution it may not be relevant to figure out how the floors stack.", which means we have to look for letters on separate floors as well.
There is an M, when we look through the window of the main office (from the outside):
One display in the main office shows the following message:
The first letter of the alphabet is A, and it is also the first letter of the phrase. The books on the coffee table in the main office contain "Avi's secret riddles", which is also a hint for A (the first letter):
In the meeting room is a board with "WC" on it, looking through the window we are supposed to see only the letter W (doesn't work very well with the viewers I have):
With all the remaining red herrings it wasn't really clear to me what the answer was, until the following comment in the chat: "I think the solution will be, like all my solutions, a very simple and meaningless word telling you how good you are"
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