As a Californian (and long-dormant member of these forums), I must apologize for our state's voters and, recently, our supreme court. Today will go down in history as the day when a religious value became more important than civil rights. Although there have certainly been precedents elsewhere...
Today is the deadline, and only Draka and Mister Emu managed to solve it.
The hex translated to a cryptogram that, when solved, would've rendered the infamous riddle of the Sphinx: "What has four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three in the evening?"
The answer, of course, is a...
Well... today's technically the deadline, but it's also a holiday important to people. So consider TOMORROW the real deadline.
Free hint: "gur" = "the"
Let's recap:
1. We've decoded the hex into the following:
Jung unf sbhe yrtf va gur zbeavat, gjb va gur nsgreabba, naq guerr va gur riravat?
2. I mentioned the character Dr. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley on the TV show House.
3. If you don't figure out what 13 has to do with this, you may rot down...
Let's recap:
1. We've decoded the hex into the following:
Jung unf sbhe yrtf va gur zbeavat, gjb va gur nsgreabba, naq guerr va gur riravat?
2. I mentioned the character Dr. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley on the TV show House.
3. If you don't figure out what 13 has to do with this, you may rot down here.
And we have an early winner... Draka answered correctly so she gets to escape.
For those still working out the answer, and those simply just curious:
I'm not sure if I'll do this again. If enough people want to go again then I will, but it's hard for me to come up with riddles on the fly. If...
Happy whatever*!
* May include any of the following: Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Yule, Saturnalia, Winter Solstice, Cephalopodmas, and/or any celebratory festive gathering or period either derivative or non-derivative thereof, whether invented by humans or not, batteries not included.
1. You already know you need to decode the hex into something...
2. Try decoding it using a hex to ascii decoder...
3. Maybe NickCiske.com | HEX- "sweet sixteen" will help?
1 hint down... how many did I promise you? :p
Well this hint is for free since the "code" displayed incorrectly. Ignore the extra spaces. You're on the right track with trying to decode the hex into something more intelligible...