Hey cutie

I assume that most of you have already found the code in the underground r*p* as soon as you saw the title "UNDERGROUND REGULAR TOURNEY". When you take that code and search for it on the archive, then you will get a link to a spreadsheet of a vanilla tourney from 2023. When you go on the sheet then you will see a newly added page that is seemingly empty except field A130. There the code "fz4fx0" is written. This is where my deductions have...slowed down. Does any other detective have any other clues that he has found? It does seem like one anon already has found a youtube video. Whether he wants to help his collagues is a different question

>>11234 I won't help you, it's not that hard to solve this one

Jail Jane4! She keeps naming names in the thread everytime someone posts an ingame screenshot. This is unacceptable! She has to be stopped!

>>11235 can you just answer whether it's part of a catbox link?

>>11237 It is a catbox link, yes

You're telling me the new TO lied when he said there was no riddle?

>>11238 Can you check whether the link still works and send the image here if it doesn't? I feel like TO fucked up

>>11240 It's not an image

>>11241 o-ok, i finally got it. t-thanks

>detectiveslop

Any news?

>>11251 >2 anons have found it

Go on without me bros, I'm going to the bar

>>11302 soul, I'll tell you the solution if you want. Just form the first letter or first number of each entry into a string, which you will insert into a youtube link. That brings you to a video by TO.

>>11303 Holy nigger fuck you TO

>>11304 My initial shock was replaced by admiration, should've ran with that idea TO. I would've respected it

>>11305 I'm not TO and can you go and fill out the form for the amae koromo regular tourney that is in the description of the video? I want to see whether TO will update the sentence "Two anons have found it" to "Three anons have found it". If he doesn't do that then there is probably a clue in the horse video that I have missed

>>11306 I am just addressing TO as I know he is lurking here, but replied directly to you to let you know I found it

>>11306 I filled it out!

>>11308 To clarify I haven't actually used my details, just submitted the form with some comments for TO. I assume no one else divulged their detective status.

>3 unique posters

I know I'm one of them but who the hell are the other two?

>>11309 but how will I be invited to the super secret finals otherwise? >>11310 >4 Unique Posters We're inclining!

>>11312 If I dont get the secret finals because I didn't send my stuff for the form I dont know what Ill do

I doesn't look like TO will update it to 3 anons. Though I'm not sure whether one can even update the tourney description after having created the tourney already. One other possible clue that I have noticed is the time until which the tourney room is open. It was open from 9/19 21:00:00 until 12/01 17:01:52, which feels deliberate. Other tournaments always and I mean always have the same seconds count between the start time and the end time. So I think TO deliberately changed seconds counter from "00" to "52", which could mean that "170152" is a code. But maybe that's just my schizophrenia talking

>>11314 It shows your local time

so uh did we win?

>>11333 If you're a horse nigger then yes.

>In the end no anon was able to fully solve the mistery but many of you came close, good effort.

>>11343 nooo....

>>11343

Mentlegen, the game is afoot

This code was in /ugr/, posted about 18 hours ago. 2C5WS54MASAS Probably some kind of URL? Didn't manage to have it lead to any youtube pages or anything

shan't give free 30 uma to anyone but myself

looks to me like you need to go through several catbox links so that you finally reach a neocities link. the riddle in the code only gives you the file extensions and their order of the catbox links. how to actually get the first link I don't know. the codes in ugr are probably some passwords for some protected files? That two codes were posted at different times is suspicous though. sadly I don't have the time to keep trying to figure this out

>>11914 the codes in ugr are gift codes that were shown on catfoodbowl "My home is named after your home" is the thing that needs to be solved first to get to the first catbox link

i keep trying different ******.neocities.org variations but nothing's working

I found it (the wrong way though)

hint it to me

"thread name"-"room number".neocities.org

that's so shit, fuck you TO

>it's another TO expects us to find his clues by reading his mind or bruteforcing links episode

reminder that catbox filenames are 6 characters long

TO is a nigger

any clues?

>>11924 https://mjg-117633.neocities.org/ I am stuck at the web page anon hinted

>>11925 Maybe you are supposed to make some link or code to input somewhere using the characters... but this could be a false end as well, no?

>>11925 no idea what the "dora" is supposed to mean. I assume we're supposed to order the tiles by "m p s z", so that we get 0m 7p 3s 4s 3z. No idea what is meant with 0 3 5. If this doesn't result in a six character string for a catbox link, then I'll rape TO

>>11927 >My cat escaped from home, can you please bring her back? She seems to have jumped through multiple boxes. I think the box she ended up is made from textile. >Come to think of it... the first box she jumped into was also made of textile! >The second box was made of... Uhhh... I think it was imaginary... It wasn't a painting! It also wasn't a giraffe as well! Uuuuu... what was it again... >Anyway! At least I remember the one after that was a wavy box! Definitively wavy! >So what do you say? You can come to my home, it's in the cities of Neo. My home is named after your home. The room number is 117633. If you decide to help I'll wait for you there! No catbox links were supposed to be used to get to that site I think, so it probably is safe to infer that we are supposed to get to one from there. You are expected to come to her home if you want to help, and it is probably only afterwards that you will go looking through boxes. The first one is probably a text file. No clue as for what the second one could be, giraffe could be a hint for the file extension. The third one is probably an audio file, maybe .wav Also, the first line seems suspicious to me, specifically >I think the box she ended up is made from textile. The last box is an audio file, no?

>>11928 Oh, maybe you are supposed to get to a text file from the audio file.

>>11929 yeah that's what I think...there's still so many clues left...

>>11927 順 means order. As you said, you probably sort the tiles by it, 0m 7p 3s 4s 3z. And then you probably apply the numbers 0 3 5 one way or another. Is the numbers being under the suits a hint? Maybe as for what to remove or add? And is it intentionally that there are eight blank spaces below the numbers?

Hey, detectives. What does this mean? >a piece of paper with the text "ur mum's gay" written on it.

>>11932 it means your mother is a homo hope that helps

The kanji on the website changed to 替, meaning to change.

>>11934 替, exchange, spare, substitute...

And 順 can also mean turn and sorting besides just order...

Did someone type out the binary from the patch video yet?

>>11937 fuck you...

>>11938 I was just asking to know if I should do it...

>>11939 it's a [spoiler] rickroll [/spoiler]

>>11937 Do not go into battle alone. Two heads think better than one and three even more. Trust the people in your home. But only work with trustworthy ones... Other homes - /jong/, /bag/... You never know what they might be thinking. What is your home? Huh? She's coming. Forget what I said. Do not trust anyone. THEY will betray you? But why? It's better to work together. Everyone can win this race, why have losers? SHUT THE FUCK UP. YOU KNOW NOTHING. NO ONE DOES. ... ... ...but even if they don't... Help. With help I will be able to do it. But who is going to help? Who can I trust? I can only trust my own home... But my own home are the only ones that can betray me... Anyways... Who cares about that. We NEED to find this cat. And as soon as possible. Listen. I saw it. I know the boxes. You need to- Oh hello! Are you here to help me find my cat? Thank you! Welcome to my room...

Have the detectives figured out Fu Ji's real age yet?

>The second box was made of... Uhhh... I think it was imaginary... It wasn't a painting! It also wasn't a giraffe as well! Uuuuu... what was it again... .gif? Giraffe, not a painting, not imaginary...

>>11943 jpg you dumbass

Situation report. We are currently trying to get a six digit code from https://mjg-117633.neocities.org/ to input into a catbox link with the .txt extension, like so https://files.catbox.moe/123456.txt The kanji 替 can mean to substitute, to replace. Previously the kanji was 順, which in this context probably means order, turn, sorting. The website seems to have been made to resemble a WWYD, hence the word ドラ is included too. Below the kanji 替 are the tiles suits, m p s z Below the suits respectively are the numbers 0, 3, 5. There is nothing under z Below the numbers are also eight blank spaces. Perhaps you are supposed to use the number 8 in the place of z? The comment in the html code of the website got changed to >555843227 I'll be frank, I'm just dekinai and didn't pick a good kanji the first time Presumably referencing this post https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/555826546/#q555843227 Hence one may assume that you indeed are indeed supposed to somehow manipulate the given tiles by some logic. The given tiles are 7p 3s 0m 4s 3z Previously it was thought that the order of them had to be altered to 0m 7p 3s 4s 3z, but that may not be the case after all as the kanji got changed. Maybe. So, to perform some sort of action with the given hints to the numbers which results in six characters to find a .txt catbox link.

>>11945 >Below the numbers are also eight blank spaces I suppose it's TO's vibecoding and doesn't matter much

>>11945 I feel like the tiles being dora has some significance but can't tell what

>>11942 eternally 16!

>>11948 >16! So this is her real age... older than the universe itself

TO makes all japanese mystery writers look competent

Any possible patterns to try? I have tried replacing the suited tiles with the numbers below them and trying some such combinations, but to no avail so far. You probably do have to replace the numbers with something in the tile notations, but what and in what order...

I'm gonna stomp his head into the concrete if he meant dora indicators instead of dora

Replace manzu with 0, pinzu with 3, souzu with 5, remove jihai altogether and from 7p 3s 0m 4s 3z you get 3 5 0 5. But this is only four characters. How about replacing only the numbers or the letters and then removing jihai? Replacing numbers you get 3p 5s 0m 5s, with suits you get 73 35 00 45 If there were three tiles and the jihai which would you simply have to remove, the puzzle would be easier. How about replacing the suits with the numbers and adding 4z at the end? Maybe you are supposed to leave the jiahi as is. https://files.catbox.moe/35054z.txt 404 Are there some other combinations?

>>11953 I don't believe it was statistically possible for TO to get a catbox link that consists of numbers mostly. I guess the result should be more random

>>11954 Maybe... Replacing the tiles with numbers in the 0m 7p 3s 4s 3z order gives 0355 https://files.catbox.moe/03553z.txt 404 https://files.catbox.moe/35053z.txt is 404 too, I accidentally typed 4z in the last post.

It also might be litterbox that uses 16-character link format but that's quite unlikely

Some sample text files https://files.catbox.moe/0u7ale https://files.catbox.moe/07ozzd.txt https://files.catbox.moe/phl8hm https://files.catbox.moe/c9u4v0 https://files.catbox.moe/cxph48.txt https://files.catbox.moe/kawt81.txt All of them have multiple letters.

>>11957 So, I would probably try various combinations of the tiles with the numbers replaced.

>>11956 surely not when TO mentions a cat and boxes

I used this script to generate possible combinations of 3p 5s 0m 5s 4z which resulted in this file https://files.catbox.moe/kazzsy.txt I then used this wfuzz command to try going to the links wfuzz -w combinations.txt https://files.catbox.moe/FUZZ.txt But all of them were 404.

>>11960 I once again made a type with the 3z, will try again and with more tiles.

This was the output text file I used with the same wfuzz command https://files.catbox.moe/noyhw3.txt All 404. Here is the script https://files.catbox.moe/w221qu.sh

>>11960 based bruteforcegod

>>11960 >kazzsy How did you get a k in the 6 character string exactly when there's no k on the webpage? Just making sure that TO, who will absolutely be browsing this thread, is not wasting our time with red herrings.

>>11964 That is just the link to the text file containing the tile combinations I tried using with wfuzz.

>they still don't know the tiles are excel fields

I generated a text file with the tiles "3p" "0m" "3z" "5s" "7p" "3s" "4s" "5s" https://files.catbox.moe/irjai8.txt And ran all of the combinations through wfuzz again, all 404. This probably implies that you have to either replace a letter with a number or a number with a letter, as I only tested the tiles (0m, 7p) which come in a number and a letter in sequence.

I don't think there's a point to brute force it when TO made some puzzles last time pretty much unsolvable until you get a hint from one of the reverse message at the end of his videos.

>>11968 Yeah, seems like it.

you are going about it the wrong way when you upload a file to catbox and it has been uploaded previously, it will have the same file name, so TO would have to modify the file slightly every time to brute force a name that contains only numbers or suit indicators this is almost certainly not something he did what's more likely is that he took any name it spat out and applied some encoding to turn it into tiles one idea I have is something like: assign every tile a number corresponding to its sorting order (1-38) and convert that to a letter or number

>>11971 Cal it the TO's cipher, kek.

"All good stories start at the source" is the reversed audio from the patch notes video. "Here we go nya" is (probably) the reversed audio from the trailer

>>11973

>>11974 Get to work you lazy ass

>>11975 Let me know if there is something to do, I am simply waiting for TO's next message.

>Watson WTF, I only noticed it right now. I spent all this time thinking it's supposed to be Poirot What. The. Fuck.

Chop chop detectives, new hint dropped

thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJn_Ls-a5Ck

>>11978 Welcome to my room! Or as I like to call it... "MY BASE"! Pretty cool huh? Frankly, I've already found the first box, but it's also strong enough to be able to call it a base... As you can see I've brought 10 soldiers here, but you would need at least 36 to break through... So... what can you do about it?

>>11973 there were reversed audios in the videos!?

actual thread theme: https://youtu.be/kE7Qvi2V-8o?si=BJapMNuZcQTG1bQn

>new hint tells us to convert a base-10 number into base-36 >susbtitute the m for 0, the p for 3, the s for 5 and z with blank >get 733500453, which is C4PGKL in base-36 >surely this is it >404 ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

>>11983 >do the same with 632540252 because le dora indicator >get AGLJ6K >404 at least it gives me 6 character strings, so this method probably is correct...

>>11984 How about the 0m 7p 3s 4s 3z order?

>>11984 what if the dora tiles are supposed to be the indicators?

>>11985 In that order the numbers are 00 73 35 45 3, which gives 6VRGT

>>11983 It probably has something to do with "dora"

Has anyone figured out what the first catbox is?

no

>>11988 You were correct! 8p 4s 6m 5s 4z 83 45 60 55 4 = DSVJ1M = dsvj1m https://files.catbox.moe/dsvj1m.txt

But now what to search for. >The second box was made of... Uhhh... I think it was imaginary... It wasn't a painting! It also wasn't a giraffe as well! Uuuuu... what was it again... https://files.catbox.moe/123456.gif ?

But .gif is still an image file, so probably still a painting...

>it was imaginary (image) >not a painting (png) >not a giraffe (gif) so, a jpg

Okay but what about the new hint?

>>11994 >painting (png) Oh! I thought that by it not being a painting it was meant that it is not an image file...

textiles have little to do with txt files, so I think the words themselves don't matter

>just order the tiles by m p s z >did I say order I meant swap lol >just replace the letters with these numbers and a blank space giving you a long number which you aren't looking for >what?! You can't figure out that you're supposed to convert them to base 36, you BAKA! BIG BIG BAKA! >UGH FINE guess I'll have to drop another hint for you hmph >just add to all the numbers of the tiles +1 because the tiles under the word dora are obviously dora indicators >what you don't know that!? What, are you stupid or something??

>>11998 I don't think it's that complex anon. TO probably locked the solutions behind the hints, so the puzzle isn't solvable from the start unless you have the perfect intuition of what to do, like last year. If anything his previous puzzles are the biggest hints since from there you can tell he likes that kind >>11994 of dumb wordplay. He's already recycling the base thing as well

>>11991 So it was actually case-sensitive. I checked that link a couple times myself. also >>11952

>>11995 Wow you made it! Looks like my cate *spaced* out some white steps here. Surely if you manage to read the directions of the steps you can find the next box!

>>12001 which gives morse code --.--.. .--...- ..-.-.. --.-.-- .--.--- --.-.-- that translates to GZ WV FD GY WJ GY

>>11998 >just add to all the numbers of the tiles +1 because the tiles under the word dora are obviously dora indicators that one was fairly obvious to be fair

>>12003 no it wasn't, dora indicator is ドラ表示

>>12004 Surely that would be a bit TOO obvious, right? It is supposed to be a secret at the end of the day

>>12005 better go *secret* yourself

>>12002 can also be translated as QD PU UL QW PO QW

>>12002 or if you just copy the full text you get 6 binary 8-character strings that translate to l1*k7k, where * is not a character symbol. I tried to substitute it with every letter possible and all links with .jpg are 404

>>12002 How did you get the morse?

>>12009

newest videos gave a catbox string which led to this text: You actually managed to follow the steps?! You're more amazing than I thought...... You also figured out what the imaginary box was! Sorry that I forgot.... Something doesn't sit right...... I don't see any traces of my cat.... *sniff* Why did you run away...... Nuh uh, I shouldn't cry! Look! There are some traces under the box! That sneaky little bastard.... Guh, but they are all jumbled up...... Please!.... Please find out where she went!

>>12011 >TO is assuming we are already on the next step...

>>12012 yeah i cant tell if he's assuming that or not. some anon probably is already further than us and decided not to help the midwits...

>>12013 >some anon probably is already further than us like anyone would bother

>>12002 >>12007 Do such numbers ring any bells for some algorithm?

>>12011 >Look! There are some traces under the box! That sneaky little bastard.... Hmm... the yaku, yeah? Tanyao, pinfu, honitsu, chinitsu.

>>12016 that's a hint for the next catbox link, not the 2nd one

>>12002 why morse?

>>12018 because TO seethes that no one noticed it last tourney

>>12002 I just realized that tabulation symbol is fucked sometimes in txt files and redid recognition with https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/whatisit.html The actual code is .--.--.. ..--...- ..--.-.. .--.-.-- .---.--- .--.-.--

>>12020 which gives the second link https://files.catbox.moe/l14kwk.jpg holy fuck i'm such a retard

>>12021 in the file's properties is the commentary "dm9sdW1lIHdhcm5pbmcKanN2enA1"

>>12022 that is base-coded http://files.catbox.moe/jsvzp5.wav (volume warning)

uhhh I still don't see how you got the morse code from the txt but great job!

No one wants to talk about the new hint? ichihime-3.png

Detectives?

>>12026 [spoiler]download the wav. put it in audacity and use the spectrogram view feature. we're all gonna make it.[/spoiler]

TO here, as of now due to all instructions being in the thread, if 4han gets mentioned in any context on the main thread, it will count as breaking the contract

A whopping seven minutes for people to take advantage of the fact, now three.

>>12029 you can complete the riddle mid qualies anon...

safe!

" no more anons would be able to redeem the perk.". this means that it only affect anons who haven't yet >redeemed the perk but not the anons who already did, right TO? at least that's how I understand the wording

>>12032 Only ones after, so detectives can choose to sabotage their ink after solving the riddle

Investigate this clue *unzips dick*

all the 4han detectives should have gotten their perk by now so I'll just close the perk

>>12035 randombros...

I got the 6 characters from spectogram but tried every extension I could think of. Its....................... nyover

>>12037 anon...it's just a text file? https://files.catbox.moe/hfj0jb.txt

>>12038 >thinks +30 is that important to try limit it >every ichihime is getting +20 or +30 every match on their perks TO you disappoint me. I'll redeem these points next tournament when you stop being a faggot.

>TO thinks that a complete guide has been given and says the contract is now broken >anon still couldn't figure out the riddle proving that it wasn't complete oh no no no, the tourney is now illegitimate. redo it or I won't acknowledge the tourney

>>12039 >>12041 It's only +30 because it's way easier this time. Also if you couldn't figure out of the extension from "I think the box she ended up is made from textile." means you didn't do any of the work and just copied from 4han detectives because this becomes known information to you due to the first box also being textile

It's a good riddle, sir