Cicada 3301: An Internet Mystery

[Credits, References, and More] www.lemmi.no/p/cicada-3301

Imagine reaching the final step and it says “you can now play as Luigi”

At the end there’s a small text saying: “The real prize was the friends we made along the way. Thanks for playing.”

For 4chan users, 2:53 was harder than the Liber Primus puzzle, because they had to go outside.

For anyone wondering, as of July 25, 2023, the puzzle is still stuck on the deciphering of the Liber Primus texts. Not much, if any, progress has been made since this video. There is a dedicated subreddit called r/cicada that is dedicated to the project if you are interested in learning more :)

Everyone’s talking about how intelligent the puzzle’s solvers are but not how skilled the puzzle’s creators were.

imagine a 10 year old calling his mom but misses it by one digit and ends up calling the cicada number

youtube randomly recommending me this after 5 years

5 years after watching this and I STILL desperately want to know what Cicada 3301 actually was (and this is still worth a re-watch!).

The winner receives tooth paste recommended by 10/10 dentists

The winner gets the ability to capitalize numbers

My toxic trait is thinking I could've solved this

People who assumed this was a recruiting test for a secret organization just don't get how passionate puzzle people can be about puzzles.

I think cicada is my dad, he pops up from nowhere with pointless shit and then vanishes for a number of years.

The winner of this puzzle gets the coordinates to Old Zealand

When I listened to interconnectedness, I noticed the chords were constant. This reminded me of Pythagoras for some reason. Pythagoras believed that numbers were the ultimate reality, he taught his students to worship the mathematical order of the universe. He was also heavily interested in music and harmony, and saw the universe as a grand harmony. Pythagoras, however, was a cult leader. A religious figure. Well, I searched for any relation between Pythagoras and cicadas just to see if my weird hunch had anything to it, and sure enough, our understanding of cicada behavior through mathematics begins with Pythagoras. This means nothing likely but who knows, maybe the cult of Pythagoras still exists. They believed in immortality btw.

One of the freakiest things is, that the first song sounds the same if played backwards

This guy is calling me an idiot for 17 minutes and 53 seconds.

This could’ve been the greatest Rick Roll ever in the history of the universe

Plot Twist: This video is affiliated with Cicada, and it contains the 4th puzzle. 👀