Cicada 3301 are three sets of puzzles posted online under the name "3301" between 2012 and 2014. The first puzzle started on January 4, 2012, on 4chan, and ran for nearly a month. A second round began
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The first message of Cicada 3301 posted on 4chan, beginning the first set of puzzles
11B-X-1371 is a 2015 viral video sent to GadgetZZ.com, the Swedish tech blog that publicized it. The black-and-white video is two minutes in length; its title came from the plaintext of a base64 strin
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…Apergis, and director Ritchson. The film follows a hacker who participates in Cicada's recruitment game while evading the National Security Agency (NSA). 11B-X-1371 Agrippa (A Book of the Dead), a poem used in the puzzle…
An image from the video
Interior of Zofiówka Sanatorium similar to that used in the video, 2010
A seventeenth-century depiction of a plague doctor