I did actually googled for forum threads for the first answer, but turns out googling for the answer itself wasn't that hard -- it's all-over the search results.
The key to "playing" this seems to be scrutinizing everything. And I do mean everything.
Page title, source code, a certain frame of an animated gif, source code, the clearly deliberately distorted and quiet background sound, and source code. Did I mention source code?
Unfortunately, I seem to have dug a little too deep in to the second puzzle, leading me to an obscenely confusing clue that was painfully tedious to decode in the first place, discussion threads on The Ring (movie), and Dutch tourist information sites. Oy! :blink:
*SPOILER*
From the second puzzle on, strings converted to ASCII decimals seems to be a re-occurring encryption device. Be ready to spend a lot of time with an ASCII chart, or code up an translator like I did. Of course, you can also find the decrypted messages in those spoiler threads.
The key to "playing" this seems to be scrutinizing everything. And I do mean everything.
Page title, source code, a certain frame of an animated gif, source code, the clearly deliberately distorted and quiet background sound, and source code. Did I mention source code?
Unfortunately, I seem to have dug a little too deep in to the second puzzle, leading me to an obscenely confusing clue that was painfully tedious to decode in the first place, discussion threads on The Ring (movie), and Dutch tourist information sites. Oy! :blink:
*SPOILER*
From the second puzzle on, strings converted to ASCII decimals seems to be a re-occurring encryption device. Be ready to spend a lot of time with an ASCII chart, or code up an translator like I did. Of course, you can also find the decrypted messages in those spoiler threads.