Message 1 for Player-1

You should have found a treasure chest with this message! To find out how to open it, read on ;)

Welcome to the big video chat treasure hunt on the occasion of Jane Does birthday!

The evil spies have stolen all your sweets!!!! Hrngrmblfx!! Cruel!!! But you are lucky, that these morons needed to
take notes where they have hidden them. One of our agents could get hold of these notes, below is the first part for
you.

However, before you can start, here are some tips:

- The spies start all of their secret message with the text "Top secret!" If you have figured out, how these words are
encrypted, you can decrypt the rest of the message.
- If you are stuck, ask the other players, if they have any ideas.

Have a good time!

A secret message for you:

20,o,p, s,5,c,r,e,20,!, a, f,21,r,t,h,5,r, s,e,3,r,e,t, 13,e,s,s,1,g,e, i,19, s,t,a,19,h,e,d, 21,n,d,e,18, y,o,u,18, d,i,n,9,n,g,
t,1,b,l,e

Hint: a=1, b=2, c=3, ...

Remember to look for 'Top secret!'
Message 2 for Player-1

A secret message for you:

Here's just a bunch of underscores, pipes, slahes, backslashes and brackets: _
| / \ ( ) _ | / \ ( )

Let see, how we can write with them:

_ _ _____
| | |_ ___ _ __ ___ ___ ___ _ __ __|_ _|
| | __/ _ \ '__/ __/ _ \/ __| | '_ \ / _ \| |
|_| || __/ | | (_| __/\__ \ | |_) | (_) | |
(_)\__\___|_| \___\___||___/ | .__/ \___/|_|
|_|
_ _ _ _ _
___(_) ___ _ _| | ___ _ __ ___| |__ | |_ ___ _ __ / \
/ __| | / _ \ | | | |/ __| | '__/ _ \ '_ \| __/ _ \| '_ \ / _ \
\__ \ | | __/ |_| | | (__ | | | __/ | | | || (_) | | | |/ ___ \
|___/_| \___|\__,_|_|\___| |_| \___|_| |_|\__\___/|_| |_/_/ \_\

_ _ _
_ __ (_) __| | ___| | __ _ ___ ___ _ __ ___ ___
| '_ \| | / _` |/ _ \ |/ _` |/ _ \/ __| '_ \ / _ \ / __|
| | | | | | (_| | __/ | (_| | __/ (__| | | | (_) | (__
|_| |_|_| \__,_|\___|_|\__,_|\___|\___|_| |_|\___/ \___|

_ _
___| |__ ___ _ __ __| |_ __ __ ___ __ _ __ _ _ ___ _ _
/ _ \ '_ \ / _ \| '__/ _` | '__/ _` \ \ /\ / / | '__| | | |/ _ \| | | |
| __/ |_) | (_) | | | (_| | | | (_| |\ V V / | | | |_| | (_) | |_| |
\___|_.__/ \___/|_| \__,_|_| \__,_| \_/\_/ |_| \__,_|\___/ \__, |
|___/
_ _
_ __ _ _ ___ _ _ ___ | |_ _ __ ___ __| |_ __ _ _
| '__| | | |/ _ \| | | | / _ \| __| | '__/ _ \/ _` | '_ \| | | |
| | | |_| | (_) | |_| | | (_) | |_ | | | __/ (_| | | | | |_| |
|_| \__,_|\___/ \__, | \___/ \__| |_| \___|\__,_|_| |_|\__,_|
|___/
_
__ _ _ __ ___ __ _ (_)_ _ _ __
/ _` | '_ ` _ \ / _` || | | | | '_ \
| (_| | | | | | | (_| || | |_| | |_) |
\__,_|_| |_| |_|\__,_|/ |\__, | .__/
|__/ |___/|_|

Hint: Remember to look for 'Top secret!'

Message 3 for Player-1

A secret message for you:

T,o.p+ s<e-c!r-e>t;!( T:h)e| n:e:x>t; s-e!c,r]e<t& m-e%s<s<a&g[e] i#s& h/i;d%d/e[n& i+n- y/o=u_r( f+r*i.d&g:e*
d.o>o_r-

Hint: Remember to look for 'Top secret!'

Message 4 for Player-1

A secret message for you:

Gbc frperg! N shegure frperg zrffntr vf uvqqra haqre lbhe qrfx

Hint: a=n, b=o, c=p, d=q, e=r, f=s, g=t, h=u, i=v, j=w, k=x, l=y, m=z, n=a, o=b, p=c, q=d, r=e, s=f, t=g, u=h, v=i, w=j, x=k,
y=l, z=m. This encryption is called Caesar cipher or ROT13. Each letter in the plaintext is replaced by a letter 13
positions down the alphabet.
Remember to look for 'Top secret!'
Message 5 for Player-1

A secret message for you:

54 61 42 78 73 32 39 73 54 ! 54 34 73 72 73 52 54 78 73 32 39

s e e ! e n e s e

73 54 43 78 32 61 72 32 73 35 92 73 91 43 72 54 34 73 92 35

e i s n e a e i n e a

39 33 73 78 54 32 61 61 83 43 72 33 42 61 54 . 35 72 91 34 73

e s i n . a n e

39 73 35 39 73 35 92 92 80 38 78 73 92 73 78 78 78 73 72 54 73

e a e a s e e s s s e n e

72 32 73 : 54 34 73 73 35 39 78 35 39 73 92 73 84 54 35 72

n e : e e a s a e e a n

91 39 43 33 34 54 72 61 54 90 73 92 61 76 !

i n e !

This message was encrypted using a random assignment of letters to numbers, an example would be a=421, b=178,
c=288, ... . It would far too long to try every possible combination but we can use the knowledge, that for example E,
N and S appear more often in the English language than Q or X. Some of the common letters have been pre filled by
the frequency of the respective numbers. You should be able to fill in the rest ;) (Btw, in cryptography this method to
break a code is called "frequency analysis")
Final Message for Player-1

Here you might find the the first 3 digits from the combination for the treasure chest! If it has 4 dials, just try the
last ;)

. .
/ `. .' \
.---. < > < > .---.
| \ \ - ~ ~ - / / |
~-..-~ ~-..-~
\~~~\.' `./~~~/
\__/ \__/
/ .- . \
_._ _.- .-~ ~-. / } \/~~~/
_.-'0 }~ / } { ; \__/
{'__, / ( / { / `. ,~~| . .
`''''='~~-.__( /_ | /- _ `..-' \\ //
/ \ =/ ~~--~~{ ./| ~-. `-..__\\_//_.-'
{ \ +\ \ =\ ( ~ - . _ _ _..---~
| | { } \ \_\
'---.6___,' .6___,'

Steganography is the practice of concealing a message within e.g. an image. This stegosaurus (original by R.Millward)
knows the secret! It looks a bit strange because it is painted with punctuation marks, mathematical symbols and the
like ;)
Special info on ultraviolet lamps for Player-1

The ultraviolet light will lead you to the next message!

If you do not have enough lamps for everybody: Youngest first!

If it is too bright to see the marks, make it darker.

Start searching on the floor with the lamp.

Instructions to hide the parts for the treasure hunt of Player-1
Welcome to the big video chat treasure hunt on the occasion of Jane Does birthday!

To prepare the treasure hunt, you need to hide several secret messages and a share of the treasure for your kids.
Place use the table below.

Some tips on hiding:

- Don't hide the stuff too well, it should be easily found if someone is looking in the right place. But the players also
shouldn't randomly stumble upon it.
- Don't get caught by the kids during hiding and also dispose these notes, because they contain parts of the
solution.
- If the proposed hiding place is not explicit, because e.g. you have two sinks in the bathroom or your kid does not
have a favorite lunch box, just use one of them and they'll have to be searched.

Checkbox / What to hide Where to hide (in perspective of Player-1)

❏ A good start: Set the combination lock of the chest to lockable treasure chest.
066. Put the treasure (whatever is valuable to the
players, usually sweets ;) into ...

❏ Message 1 for Player-1 together with the treasure under your kitchen sink
chest (do not hide too good, it is locked anyway ;)

❏ Message 2 for Player-1 under your dining table

❏ Message 3 for Player-1 in your wardrobe under to your pyjama

❏ Message 4 for Player-1 in your fridge door

❏ Message 5 for Player-1 under your desk

❏ Ultraviolet pocket lamps (ideally one per player) and in the largest cooking pot
note with title: Special info on ultraviolet lamps for
Player-1

❏ Use ultraviolet marker to make arrows on the floor near your vacuum cleaner
from "in the largest cooking pot" to ...

❏ Final Message for Player-1 near your vacuum cleaner

Optional: Instructions how to incorporate own puzzles

Including your own puzzles is easy:
- If it's some kind of puzzle box, just put any message inside it and place it, where the message was supposed to go.
- If it can point to another hiding place, just put it between two other messages. Let's say message 3 points to "your
largest cooking pot", where message 4 would normally go. Now just make up another place to hide, e.g. "under the
piano". Just put message 4 under the piano, make your own puzzle point there and put it in the largest cooking pot.
- Examples of puzzles you can create on your:
 - Take a picture of a very small but distinct detail in your place, e.g. a section of a picture on the wall or a part of the
doghouse. Hide the message there and print the photo as the clue.
- Get a wireless door bell and hide the button in one place and the bell in another. (Test the range!)
- Change something in your living room, e.g. flip the calendar to the next month or remove a vase. Hide the
message there, take a photo of the whole living room, reverse the change and give the printed photo as the clue.
- ... there are lots of ideas in the web.