WSO CCC OTD 2021-01-26 - SOLVED

[Lost User]

Participation in the 'treasure hunt' is completely optional. The plain text CCC will be revealed within an hour or two.

[pkfox]

Hi Richard I used ezyzip.com and it extracted a file instruction.asm with the following in

dec edi
jne 0x75
and BYTE PTR [ecx+0x6e],ch
jae 0x7c
imul ebp,DWORD PTR [esi+0x63],0x73612074
jae 0x76
ins DWORD PTR es:[edi],dx
bound ebp,QWORD PTR [ebp+eiz*2+0x73]
and BYTE PTR [ebx+0x6f],ah
ins DWORD PTR es:[edi],dx
ins DWORD PTR es:[edi],dx
popa
outs dx,BYTE PTR ds:[esi]
fs

"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

[5teveH]

It's obviously: CONSPIRACY THEORY. The fact that the number of letters doesn't fit is entirely consistent with conspiracy theory 'logic'! :confused:

[Lost User]

Thanks, I just got it from the link Randor gave me. But with all those fixed jump addresses it will not compile, so I am clueless as to what it means. :( However, to be fair to @Randor, it is clever, and he must have given it a lot of thought.

[Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter]

With that much _directive_s we will be here all day :-) Nice one!

"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012

[Lost User]

The fact that the x86 instructions might be gibberish is useful information and could be an indicator that it's simply another layer of indirection. :)

[Lost User]

:zzz:

[Lost User]

The answer is easy now, which probably explains why you hid it.

[Lost User]

Yes, But the real question here is... was it in your dictionary? :-D :-D

[pkfox]

Have you solved it ?

"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

[musefan]

Solved! Please find my answer (and the solution) hidden in my profile. Or just take my word for it and declare me the winner. :-D

[Lost User]

I just fed your avatar into my QR reader and your answer was wrong, and also NSFW or my granddaughter. ;P

[Lost User]

Randor wrote:

was it in your dictionary?

Oddly enough I did not need to look. :)

[pkfox]

What's the answer ?

"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

[Lost User]

Follow Randor's assembler link and then print the resulting characters.

[pkfox]

I did go to the site and pasted the code into the left pane - what do you have to do to assemble it ? Edit I see it now I was thinking so deep I thought it was a status message :-D

"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

[pkfox]

Converted to ASCII Our instinct assembles command Instruction - which I dismissed as the filename contained it V good clue though

"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

[Lost User]

pkfox wrote:

Instruction - which I dismissed as the filename contained it

I find it amusing that several members have implied that this clue took alot of work and effort. I spent less than 60 seconds constructing it. :laugh: The amalgamation of GIF and ZIP was done simply by using: copy /B pic.gif+instruction.zip newpic.gif Best Wishes, -David Delaune

[Lost User]

Randor wrote:

several members have implied that this clue took alot of work and effort.

Only because we had no idea what we were supposed to do. And when the unzipping did not work, and we could not assemble the code, well ... However, I applaud your creativity.

[pkfox]

I have to say David my immediate thought was instruction but when I found the instructions.asm file I dismissed it - I'm glad you don't compile entire crosswords ( or do you ? {{{shudder}}} )

"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP