[eNL] Escape Room Winner: MaartenW
Ministerie van Media en Recrui
Greetings, citizens of Netherlands,
After 48 hours MaartenW, djirtsdew and Shawtyl0w shouted 'Thank God it's Friday'. From a distant corner of the room, someone awakes and clearly not aware of the time. He stood up from behind his desk (or pillow) and started running towards the exit and left in seconds.
Eh, was that our President running off?
You walk towards the desk and have a look to the computer on it. The computer is locked, but everywhere there are hints on the password used.
There are post its attached to the computer screen, with scribbles on it. One mentions the password, with a drawing of some kind of wild animal next to it. What kind is hard to see, as drawing seems not one of his major talents.
Behind the desk there is a Dutch flag with some writing on it. Have a closer look on it to see what exactly.
MaartenW, djirtsdew and Shawtyl0w started to think and think and think. After a while MaartenW grabs the keyboard and entered 'Roar'.
By entering Roar, MaartenW gets into our Presidents financial account. There is 12500 NLG available and you send it to your account. After that you take the same door, the President used and you find yourself out of the room.
Thanks for joining and enjoy your prize!
Some hints you may have seen or misse
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In the first article, a link was hidden in the Dutch flag pointing to Perry the Platypus.
The answer of the first riddle was 84 19 10 25. Now change the order to 25 10 19 84 and you will get the birth date of Katy Perry - 25 October, 1984
In the second article, a link was hidden in the Dutch flag pointing to Youtube: Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger, a reference to a part of the chorus of Roar.
The answer of the second riddle as TGIF (Thank God It's Friday). You came to this by using the first letter of the given eRepublik accounts:
1306584 - Tim Veltkamp
1870339 - Garmr
9507196 - iVerNo
2036581 - Fhaemita The Apostate
Another hit of Katy Perry.
In the third article, a link was hidden in the Dutch flag pointing to a GIF, showing the password of the President.
Also in the third article, the line 'Eh, was that our President running off?' was added. This was not used in the same text that was send to the players. Clearly a hint to the most famous person in eRepublik who used Katy Perry as avatar.
Thank you all who joined this project. Hope you enjoyed it. Maybe we will do this again if people liked the concept!
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Comments
Congratulations MaartenW!
Thanks!
Wow, this was a well-thought out event!
Congratulations MaartenW you deserved it!
Great escape room ElGorro!
Well done, Maarten!
Awesome (though devious) contest, EG. Bring another one!
I'd beat the last riddle easily! 😉 One of the most elaborate challenges I have seen lately, we want more!
That last gif clearly doesn't work for me (at least not using Firefox). But I entirely missed the links on the flag spacers in the first place.
Good job MaartenW. You deserve the victory.
Am I late? No shit. Really you guys are out already. Sigh...
I for one missed all the clues in the articles to name one. Was close to the 2nd one I think but close ain't enough clearly...
Thx for the great work ElGorro!
Oh and ofc: Congratz to Maarten!
If Katy Perry was in that room I would have refused to leave it 😃 .
Glad to see you guys liked it. I will try to think of a new one and see if our President wants to spoil some more budget.