NOTES. if you scroll down, you get a picture of the Poster with all puzzles highlighted. If you don’t want to see all locations of the puzzles yet, don’t scroll down. Otherwise, use the hints as you wish.
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Blue Fish
1
You can see numbers and letters. Both are puzzles.
2
The letters spel something. Next hint letters is hint 2, next hint for numbers is hint 4
3
Read the letters from left to right (without reading from top to bottom.
solution
Orange bottles = order puzzles
4
When you solve the numbers it reads words. (without top to bottom).
5
What cipher do you know that changes numbers into letters(without top to bottom).
6
a=1, b=2 etc..(without top to bottom).
solution
International Maritime Flag System
Saw Shark
1
Take a good look at the “saw” part of the Saw Shark.
2
The teeth of the Saw are grouped in a specific number of teeth devided by scars in the blade. Could you use that?
3
What cipher uses 8 characters?
4
The teeth of the saw is binary code
solution 1
It spells “clean” but that is just the first part of the mystery. What else do you see in the Saw Shark?
5
There’s a key. Where do you use a key for?
6
Only if you solved all other clues from the complete poster, then look at solution 2
solution 2
Clean is the key to get passed the passworded section you found when solving all the other puzzles.
Sea Snake
This is not a puzzle. Although you might think it is because of the stripes or the way it swims.
Striped Fish
1
The white fish have stripes, what could that be?
2
If you look at the stripes closer, what stands out to you?
3
You have thin and thicker stripes, what cipher could that be?
Solution
The morse code spells: L3V3L
Flag Fish
1
These fish seem to hang like flags at the anchor chain.
2
What kind of cipher do you know with flags?
3
The cipher you’re looking for has to do with the maritime world, just like the theme of this poster.
4
If you solve the puzzle of the school of blue fish, you know what to do with the “flag Fish”.
5
It is the International Maritime Flag System
solution
The “flag fish” spell: International Maritime Flags. Fun fact: In Sponge Bon Square Pants is a bar/restaurant with these flags.
Bottles
1
Only read further if you solved all other puzzles except for all the orange bottles.
2
Have you solved the puzzle for the blue fish with letters on them? If so, you can read the next hint.
3
Put all the solutions from all the puzzles in the correct order using the orange bottles.
4
Some orange bottles don’t have puzzles but just a character on them. Use those.
Solution 1
If you put all the answers in the correct order, you get:
shop.l3v3l.nl/ocean. Go to this link. Once there it asks for a password. If you solved all of the puzzles you know what it is. If not, check Solution 2
Solution 2
The solution for the Saw Shark is: clean. That’s your password. Now use it and find the end result in the secret area, only accessible for the best puzzlers. That’s you!!!
Pink Men
1
Do you see the pink men? What are they doing?
2
Yes, they are dancing. Do you know a cipher with dancing men?
3
Maybe Sherlock Holmes can help you. (you can use google if you think you need it)
4
You are looking for the dancing men cipher.
Solution
The dancing men ciper spells: ocean
Sea stars and sand
1
Take a closer look at the sea stars and the sand around them.
2
In the sand you see a spiral and some letters.
3
If you read the letters in a spiraly (if that’s a word ) way, it spells…. (it could be you’ve got a version where some letters are switched, but even if you search in google with the word you find, it will give you the correct cipher.)
4
The letters in the sand spell: semaphore
5
Use the semaphore cipher together with the sea stars.
Solution
The sea stars spell: NL
