The “Hac-Man” game returned for its third year at DEF CON, featuring 103 challenges across various tracks, including ciphers, radio technology, and social interactions. This year, prizes were predominantly hacker tools. Players navigated through tutorials, mazes, and physical puzzles, culminating in decoding a message. Contributions from collaborators enriched the experience significantly.
Our regular Puzzle Tool Highlight series is a collection of short posts highlighting useful tools that we regularly use in our puzzlecraft. Each post details a single or small collection of similar tools that can be used to create or enhance puzzles. We hope you enjoy...
Continuing with our wildly-popular "Hac-Man" theme that we introduced last year at DEF CON 30, I)ruid again collaborated with lots of hackers to produce Hac-Man for a second year! Using a vastly upgraded version of our Scramble gaming platform over the previous year,...
Easter eggs are hidden and often gamified surprises found in all kinds of media and technology, intended for consumers of the media or technology to discover through regular, accidental, or otherwise unconventional methods of interacting with the media or technology....
Wednesday, the new Tim Burton detective mystery thriller on Netflix centering around Wednesday Addams (yes, from the Addams Family) being sent to boarding school, is chock-full of Edgar Allen Poe references, both overt and some more subtle. Edgar Allen Poe, one of the...