Wednesday, 2 March 2016

riddle - The brain-curdling eldritch horrors and the third dimension


We're in the year 2016 so it's finally time to take puzzles to the 3rd dimension!



So let's see what those beautiful times bring us today:






(click to enlarge)




Everyone of you clever sods could as well have a look at the real thing
(please give it some time to load).

PC controls:




  • Hold left mouse button: rotate cube

  • Mouse wheel: zoom in and out

  • Hold right mouse button: move cube parallel to screen


Mobile controls (tested on Android and iOS):



  • tap: stop automatic rotation of cube

  • 1 finger: rotate cube

  • 2 fingers: zoom in and out

  • 3 fingers: move cube parallel to screen



The cube shown above appears to have, like most cubes, 6 faces of which each one carries a more or less mysterious entity. After decrypting all of them we should be able to find out what this is all about!



Answer



These form a rebus-like clue.



1: U-turn
2: flat (British synonym for "apartment")
3: binary for into (interpreting tall cylinders as 1 and short cylinders as 0)
4: wire
5: frame




So the message is...



"turn flat into wireframe". Doing that on the URL given lets us see a chest inside! It lines up perfectly with the magnifying glass and contains the number 5106 in it. Also, the room itself (the "flat") has the words "PSE ID" in it.

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So the solution is...



Avigrail himself! He's user number 5106 here on PSE.



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