

When ran through a Brainfuck interpreter, the output of the program is a line of over 14 hundred characters – this time letters, digits, and two equal signs at the end as an example, its last 50 characters are:ĪKwqAKMTYKSm9obiBQZXRydWNjaSdzIG1pZGRsZSBuYW1lCg= The type of characters in the entry, as well as its URL (which ends with ‘ /brain’), suggests that the string is a sequence of commands written in the esoteric Brainfuck programming language.
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Too long to be conveniently posted here, the content of the entry is a string of over 14 thousand characters, exclusively made up of dots, plus and minus signs, brackets, and greater-than and less-than signs as an example, its first line is: On Saturday, September 22, Freddy published on his WordPress page an entry:
#I saw black clouds walkthrough password
This suggests that the password ends with the result of 2731 – 65 + 2000 (or, simply, 731 – 65), which is 666.īy inputting Vacant666 as password, the puzzle is solved. That same morning, Freddy published on his WordPress page a password-protected entry whose URL ends ‘ how-did-we-get-to-it-add-four-digits’, and its title is: (See Gronsfeld cipher.)ĭecrypted, ‘XHFBHO’ results in ‘VACANT’ – the title of a song from Train of thought, Dream Theater’s seventh studio album. (‘+ OR -’.) In other words: this is text encrypted through the Gronsfeld cipher in both directions.

This –as the image labelled ‘2)’ suggests– is a ‘shift key’ to apply to ‘XHFBHO’: each letter shifted a certain number of positions in the basic, 26-letter Latin alphabet, either to the right or left. The picture labelled ‘3)’ shows drummer Mike Mangini in the studio where the band had been recording their new album since Tuesday, July 17.Ī paper is attached to the highest horizontal pipe on Mike’s drumkit: These symbols are characters in the Webdings font when the symbols are written in a text editor and the font is changed, the result is: The image labelled ‘1)’ is a photograph of a computer screen, with some sort of ‘labyrinth’ drawn in a text editor ordered according to the direction of the arrow, the symbols in the ‘labyrinth’ are: This is the fourth article, covering the next couple of puzzles.

See this link for the reveal! This is a series of several articles covering the entire process of solving the treasure hunt as released by Dream Theater and “Team Jacobi”. Dream Theater arranged, in collaboration with the fan clubs and fan communities online, a treasure hunt culminating in the reveal of the album title and artwork for the new Dream Theater album “Distance Over Time”, for release in February 2019.
