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Beats me! I see no pattern:

~It can't be a numerical-alphabetical code due to the presence of zero.

~The double equal sign has some significance in coding, but don't know the significance here.

~The upper-case and lower-case mixture must have a significance that I am not aware of.

<Oh, and please don't give hints to other members >

This hardly counts as a clue.

I can't wait for the moment when a superior mind comes along to solve this, thereby exposing my neural deficiency

I'll drop off some hints later (around 4PM EST)

Alright, I promised some hints, so here's some hints!

There are two hidden images, both are in the main post. One is in the string of letters, just use the other hint below to figure out where to go with that. The other can be more easily found using the hint on the first image. When you combine the two, you'll get a string of letters that you can plug into imgur and solve!

Also, I'm removing the "keep everything to yourself" stipulation. Collaboration is now tolerated!

Fair enough - 1st clue: base 64

Haha, fair enough.

I suppose I can relinquish a hint, though it might make things too obvious, or more confusing.

Ok - got the 1st clue - and Reading have just scored against Arsenal, so thinking is difficult.

39, good work

Interested but have to work!

Is this one of the images?

9 alphas + 26 upper case+ 26 lower case = 61. We need 3 more for base 64 but there is only an = sign extra. We need two more symbols.

0 to 9 gives 10, so we're only one symbol short.

You need 2, the "==" is punctuation

I get:

But since I've never heard of imgur before, maybe that's because I don't have an account...

Mizuti: I can PM you the link if you want to check I got that right. I don't want to spoil JDG's fun.

This is the correct image, and you don't need an account. A big hint is that a lot of the puzzles I make revolve around getting the five alpha-numerical code that goes after an imgur link in order to find messages.

Anyways, that's half the picture, and there's a hint on the bottom of it

Just got back to this...Ah! didn't pick up it was a puzzle link...

Don't think I'll get much chance to look at it - I'm up to the proverbials in _work (sorry to use bad language in presence of a lady).

Random hint:

"Have you checked the source (code)?"

Bloody hell, are we getting into machine language now?

At first, I thought it might be somebody's record of a baseball game but I couldn't make that work. Since I never played the game and only went to a couple of games, that didn't rule it out.

I don't suppose a "Realm of the Mad God" screenshot was the solution.

Just going back to find out what this blog is about, that might help.

I don't belong here.

The blog area is really just a placeholder so that I can gauge interest in these kind of puzzles. I'm starting to suspect that they'd be better off in a random thread than in a blog

I'll leave this alone until around 3:30 EST, then I'll divulge the answer.

You should allow for the facts that a) you're awake while a lot of the CR4 membership is asleep (globalspec!), and b) some of us are a little bit busy (watching football/_working/making merry/dealing with 'orrible kids demanding sweetsmoney with menaces).

If there's any way you can do it, I'd suggest trying to give as many people as possible a reasonable chance. This would include not throwing in clues (or giving the answer) too quickly - let the slow and/or busy folks have a decent go. If possible, drip-feed the puzzle and the clues - how to manage this may pose a puzzle for you .

Jus' sayin'.

That's fair. I've got a million puzzles I could post that I've made over the years. I'll be putting up another one tomorrow :)

Doing some sort of edit to compensate for 'scroll overflow' might help. Post #1 was fine in itself, but more annoying than the puzzle.

Yes, I'm sulking because I didn't get it, but having to scroll l/r drives me (even more) insane..

I don't think I've yet seen a good explanation for part 1 to the solution, though the base 64 hint was OK. About the first thing I did was look at source on the page, and I missed the flipping line reffering to imgur ! (d'oh). I blame it all on my frustration at scrolling the screen.

The notion of such challenges becoming a regular feature is fun - you may have lost a fair bit of input from people who share l/r scroll annoyance syndrome. It may also be worth posting the 'answer' at top of thread (as with challenge questions) - those solving it deserve highlighted credit. Although you acknowledged them, it may get lost on people (like me) who get bored of hitting the scroll bar.

More, please, ya geek ().

No l/r scroll issues on this thread here....although I haven't bothered looking at the source

Where is/was it???

Here it is:

http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/81418

Just a normal thread to continue seeing what kind of interest level there was in this kind of stuff. The answer isn't posted, and there's additional hints in the comments, go ahead and see if you can solve it!

Thanks - I searched your "Threads by" and found it (ask first, then look...) I'll have a think when I'm a little less preoccupied.

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So, here's the answer.

You all figured out that you use base64 to get this url:

http://imgur.com/EXGC1

Which has this picture:

The hint was to check the source, implying the source code. If you take a look at the source of my post, you find this:

Going to that url get's you the second image:

Combine the two and you get the string Rizkc. Go to http://imgur.com/Rizkc/ and you find this image:

Yamdankee and Randall managed to solve it, as per their "random" numbers posted. Thanks for playing everyone! I'll try to make it a little more simple when I do another one.

As I said, I don't belong here. I don't have a clue as to how to into your source... or even if it is legal on CR4 to do so.

You can check the source on any webpage, and you can do so with your browser! Just right click and go

You are not alone pass, old fruit!

I must be too old for this. Not only don't I know the answer, I don't know what the question is. Please explain where you are all getting this stuf.

Totally agree.

Here's an even more puzzling puzzle:

WWII pigeon message stumps GCHQ decoders