CD-DC2304 (Sep 9, 2017)
Puzzle
“Looking for some top-notch, colorful advice.”
53 Trivia | 2 Words
Clue
Hover over the clues if you require!
Clue 1: Ignore the 'top' and 'color' for now. What meme gives out advice?
Clue 2: It's a dog, by the way.
Clue 3: What are the two top colours of the picture?
Answer and Explanation
Answer: Pink Blue
Explanation: The clue is a reference to the Advice Dog, whose background consists of colors. The two that are touching the top edge of the picture are pink and blue.
Summary of Receipt
53 manages to get seven of the Deep Corp's questions, and spends her time asking all five of its members what their favourite colours are.
Transcript
CAFE AND DINER RECEIPT FROM 9/09/17
MANAGER 53
RECEIPT: DEEPCORP04
STATUS: OPEN
You already know I got some of those Qs, babies! Did you really think I wouldn’t take the opportunity to play 20 questions with a shadowy clandestine hacker group? Clearly, you’ve never been to a Cicada 3301 tea party. Yes, they have tea parties. They’re quite cute, actually. They have like little cicada doilies and these teeny-tiny little cakes. It’s seriously a blast. Of course, you need to crack the Liber Primus for an invite, so it’s a very hush-hush type of deal. What was I even making a receipt for again? Oh, yeah! I got some of those juicy questions from the DeepCorp23! (Side note: how are we stylizing that bad boy? DeepCorp23 one word? Deep Corp 23 all spaces? DeepCorp 23 space after “DeepCorp”? DC23? Xx_D33PC0RP_23_xX to make them more hacker-y?)
So, to recap, on September 5th, during the big old DeepCrap23 Hack, the DeepCrappers held a sort of… game? I don’t know if I’d consider it a game, but they called it a game, so what are you going to do? Anyway, the game was the first to message them got to ask a question. Of course, messaging them became increasingly more difficult. And we know that the Astorian Losers got 5 of the supposed 23 questions. I call them losers because, well, they are, but also, I got 7. HA! And I’m just one little maniac—they had to have had like hundreds of experts trying to crack DeepCrap23’s increasingly tricky encryptions. Anyway, my seven questions with UNCENSORED answers are thus:
Q1: What is your favorite color?
A1: Teal. Is this a good use of your questions?
Q2: TEAL? How very interesting… Is the same person answering every question?
A2: Yes.
Q3: Can I talk to someone else?
A3: …Sure. If you can earn another question, someone else will answer.
Q4: What is your favorite color?
A4: Uh, green?
Q5: How do I know you didn’t just change your answer?
A5: You can’t, I suppose. But I am a different person than the last.
Q6: So you have PEOPLE. PLURAL. How many people are in your DeepCorp?
A6: Five.
Q7: Five people… interesting. What are everyone’s favorite colors?
A7: Teal, Green, Purple, Yellow, and Brown.
…Now… it might seem like I wasted my questions. Perhaps. Or perhaps I’ve just blown this whole DeepCrap23 WIDE OPEN! They say that a person’s favorite color is the eye of their soul. No, wait, that’s not right, is it? Well, we know that there are five of them (allegedly).