Thinking Sideways: Cicada 3301

Shattered Souls

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🗓️ 4 December 2014

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

"Not all mysteries are solvable, but prize comes in the pursuit." Called "the most elaborate and mysterious puzzle of the internet", Cicada 3301 is the name given to an organization that posts complex puzzles for public consumption on or around the 5th of January every year. First surfacing in 2012 via a post on 4chan, users were given a month to solve a set of increasingly complex puzzles. Who is behind this group, what is the end goal of the puzzles, and how could anyone solve them?

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0:00.0	Hello! We are looking for highly intelligent individuals. To find them, we have devised a test.
0:07.0	There is a message hidden in this image. Find it, and it will lead you on the road to finding us.
0:13.2	We look forward to meeting the few that will make it all the way through. Good luck!
0:18.2	3301.
0:23.9	Thinking sideways. I don't understand.
0:27.8	Don't not go cute.
0:29.8	You never know. Keep the biggest things in the poll, you need to find what?
0:35.1	Stories of things we simply don't know the answer to.
0:40.0	Hey everyone, it's Thinking sideways, the podcast. Like usual. I'm Devon joined by Steve and Joe.
0:50.5	So yeah, let's just go for it, yeah?
0:53.5	Yeah, what are we doing? Solving the mystery?
0:56.1	Yeah, obviously. That's sweet.
0:58.0	Definitely not solving this mystery. This is actually Steve. This is one of the mysteries you're going to hate.
1:01.9	Actually, there's this quote about this mystery. It says that not all mysteries are solvable,
1:08.0	but prize comes in the pursuit. And I know you hate those ones where like there's not an actual answer or anything.
1:14.8	Yeah, that's about that.
1:16.8	So tonight we're going to talk about cicada or cicada, depending on you say the name of that insect.
1:22.2	Let's just call it, let's just call it cicada.
1:25.0	cicada is how I say it. So I'm sorry if that's not what you guys.
1:28.3	cicada 3301, which is, let's just talk about it.
1:33.6	Yeah, not even going to do a preamble.
1:35.9	Ready? Yeah.
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