Blog Description



This blog is a personal examination of the "Pizza Code Mystery" ARG created by Christopher Horn for the Black Mesa video game.
I will attempt to update this blog on a regular basis, for as long as the ARG is in existence and folks are willing to attempt to solve it.
This will not be a complete overview of the clues and such associated with the ARG--you can find a complete, up-to-date version of that material here.


Friday, September 27, 2013

Latest Attempt

My latest attempt at cracking the Hex Code was to run it through a binary conversion, then take that result and put that through a decimal converter.  The result is as follows:

179 43 0 58 53 186 221 102 87 124 36 193 79 201 25 6 67 70 209 49 167 197 75 184 47 254 3 224 34 97 87 119 36 121 35 220 33 246 44 212 24 46 145 195 178 103 181 69 171 202 237 175 2 97 81 13 78 234 30 135 205 51 199 199 113 49 48 156 196 40 14 180 36 61 17 84 240 68 249 207 98 150 217 191 247 57 126 67 144 152 127 230 50 3 218 13 228 2 120 179 165 79 93 220 105 117 250 4 247 73 132 158 26 98 89 90 159 99 11 7 149 145 61 224 21 62 58 172 56 140 69 251 157 133 12 254 145 53 65 214 192 131 152 242 200 131 50 168 47 223 0 40 29 98 252 220 79 231 228 106 233 12 81 197 200 6 180 17 100 227 58 185 44 150 134 46 6 139 12 22 192 153 144 184 56 26 0 218 121 21 182 127 228 162 15 89 155 15 27 109 72 25 19 199 185 83 140 238 99 145 68 244 21 97 186 146 228 254 117 29 30 36 44 216 143 81 214 149 81 152 135 19 106 124 21 170 189 123 64 4 73 34 1 65 48 169 31 23 15 102 204 179 193 57 70 58 126 144 154 55 170 134 63 178 120 5 252 151 49 192 156 140 121 6 126 121 147 10 64 101 70 178 76 154 98 155 38 194 206 42 75 228 143 88 154 55 95 235 115 31 196 171 34 92 17 132 140 248 158 41 31 148 113 51 151 12 6 54 24 71 74 137 40 1 237 214 143 84 105 140 94 91 80 103 70 246 118 90 111 127 18 37 222 164 218 17 64 254 182 15 101 7 69 36 28 105 54 149 136 61 203 33 230 251 254 251 184 90 41 145 148 128 54 165 43 93

I then took this result and examined it in a couple of different cipher detection programs--the resulting correlations were extremely high (a few points off a perfect match) for the following ciphers:

Tridigital
Monome Dinome
Morbit
Grandpre

I will continue trying different keys and attempting to bruteforce my way through it, but hopefully this will help others do the same and maybe, just maybe, this will lead to something!