DeCoCiDiO#0 : The Ultimate Puzzle n Mystery(VIT Bhopal)

Lavish Garg
2 min readAug 31, 2019

What Does DeCoCiDiO#0 Means?

The name decocidio is a type of word play which refers to the act of killing code.The noun consists of the stem deco- means code and -cidio means kill and addition of the #0 in last just to make the word look cool.

What Exactly The DeCoCiDiO#0 is?

Have you ever listen about the famous dark web puzzle CICADA 3301 most toughest puzzle ever on internet.You can see more detail of this puzzle by clicking on CICADA 3301.This puzzle inspire us and we created a mystery puzzle game DeCoCiDiO#0 not as hard as CICADA 3301 but it is not very easy.To solve this puzzle the solver should know some basics concept which we discuss below and also logical thinking.

The Concepts Needed To Solve Our Puzzle.

Hashing

Steganography

Good knowledge of Caesar Cipher

Basic Binary

Basic Coding(any language)

ASCII Value

How To Solve The Puzzle

  1. We provide the google drive link below.
  2. Click on the link.
  3. Download the File naming “Lets Start The Ultimate Mystery” in your PC.
  4. First extract the file to move forward it would be easy don’t double click the .rar file.
  5. All .rar file is protected by password.
  6. To move forward solve the question present in file and solution of it may or may not the password of the .rar file.
  7. Those who are stuck to particular question can send the file name to our email.
  8. Just mail us for the answers. But first you should give it a try.
  9. There are 5 rounds in which total 10 questions are there. All of them are linked to one another. You can use internet (may be helpful).
  10. After solving every round you will receive a word file which will guide you further for the next round.

Now enough for the hints start solving it.

You should open these protected folders by

Right Click >> Extract Here

These questions has survived a competition very well. And we are providing these questions as a reference for upcoming competition in 2020. So, happy practicing.

It was held at VIT Bhopal University.

Our team:-

Siddharth Verma

Lavish Garg

Navjot Wig

Do read the word file -: https://bit.ly/2Zxc8Ao

To download the game -: https://bit.ly/2PxmADg

For any doubts and queries feel free to message us:

sidvish9901@gmail.com

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Lavish Garg

I write articles related to Cyber Security and Blockchain.