# The Arcade
This was a mini-hunt style puzzle with multiple levels and a meta

## Level 1 - Tetris
The flavourtext could be read acrostically to give the hint PIGPEN. Some of the contiguous blocks of a single colour formed characters of the pigpen cipher


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**THEOTTER**
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## Level 2 - Star Wars
Written in the Aurebesh alphabet from Star Wars https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Aurebesh
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The third paragraph reads "YOUR KEYWORD IS **FIRSTICE**"
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## Level 3 - Indiana Jones
The clues given in the "What?" column could be divided into two parts, with the first part clueing the English definition of some word and the second part clueing the definition of a homonymous word in another language

| Clue (English definition in bold) | Location | Word |
|----------------------------------------|--------------|-------|
| Was in **International Conflict** | Germany | War |
| Yet Another **Ancient Empire of Peru** | Romania | Inca |
| **Changing** Time | France | Temp |
| **Eyedrop** Loom | Brazil | Tear |
| A **Boat** for Hunting | Netherlands | Yacht |
| **Soda** Queue | Spain | Cola |
| A **Gorilla** of a Bee | Italy | Ape |
| **Silly Animation** of a Toe | South Africa | Toon |
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The first letter of each word spells **WITTYCAT**
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## Level 4 - Missile Command
The highlighted words "Porkchop" and "HAM" hint at using the Bacon cipher. In the image thre are five of each object each with two variations in colour, size etc.

The transmission messages spell out two-part clues using the phonetic alphabet. The second half of each clue gives a type of object and the first half gives the "1" bit for the bacon cipher

| Transmission | Clue | Bacon |
|----------------------------|----------------------------|---------|
| **BIG** BL_ST | **BIG** BLAST | `10001` |
| **BLUE** MIS_COL_ | **BLUE** MISSILE COLOUR | `01100` |
| **SCAT_ER** IN_MIS_PAYLO_D | **SCATTER** IN MISSILE PAYLOAD | `01111` |
| **YE_LO_** OUT_MIS_COL_R | **YELLOW** OUT MISSILE COLOUR | `11011` |
| **S_LID** SM_RTBOMB | **SOLID** SMARTBOMB | `11110` |
| **RIGHT** P_ANEDIR_ | **RIGHT** PLANE DIRECTION | `11011` |
| **YE_L_W** PL_NECOL_ | **YELLOW** PLANE COLOUR | `11011` |
| **BLU_** CITYCOL_ | **BLUE** CITY COLOUR | `01101` |

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**PUREBEET**
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## Level 5 - Batman
This puzzle consists of a riddle and a regular crossword with DC comic-themed clues

After completing the crossword, the circled letters spell out the string

ASSUMAEOURCOMICISTARRINGUABTATOSMAHNBEELTD

Subtracting the answer to the riddle, `ASSUME OUR COMIC IS STARRING A BATMAN BELT`, gives us our final answer

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**AUTOSHED**
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## Meta - Tetris again
Each level has an image of an arcade game cabinet with two tetris blocks containing a number 1-8 in each square. This could be indexed into the previous puzzle's answer to obain blocks of letters. When these blocks are arranged into the 4\*10 grid given in the puzzle, the grid reads "THEBESTWAYTOPREDICTTHEFUTUREISTOCREATEIT".

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Visiting the final URL and inspecting the comments gives answer **QUICKTATTLETALE** in rot13
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