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Cicada 3301 posted its first puzzle on 4chan on January 4, 2012: "We are looking for highly intelligent individuals." The line hidden in the picture, shifted back four letters, was a link to a picture of a duck. Five days later a countdown ran out and gave 14 sets of coordinates, from Seattle to Sydney, and a 15-year-old Boy Scout in Virginia had them on a piece of cardboard and no car privileges. A month later, Cicada said it had found the individuals it sought. Who was hiring has never been verified. This is the case file: the duck; a Welsh romance that spells out a Dallas phone number; a countdown that said "Reload this page"; 14 pins and a doctor who'd never heard of it; one rule, "You are not to collaborate," and the email for those who shared; a dead man's switch called CAKES; a book of runes that advises amassing great wealth; GCHQ, the CIA ("It's definitely not us") and the Navy's certificates of completion; and a page somewhere on the deep web that, if anyone has found it, they haven't said. Sources: Cicada 3301's signed messages (PGP key 7A35090F, checked 14 Oct 2026); David Kushner, Rolling Stone (2015); Chris Bell, The Telegraph (2013); Joel Eriksson, "Solving Cicada 3301" (2012-14); Cicada Solvers, DEF CON 31 (2023); the Uncovering Cicada wiki. ▶ Another code at the CIA's door: Kryptos: The Answer to the CIA Sculpture's Last Code Was in a Smithsonian Folder — https://youtu.be/wOgPW-ukn98 00:00 Woops 01:10 Just Decoys This Way 03:13 The Location Nearest You 05:55 Do Not Share This Information 07:23 Hello Again 09:47 It's Definitely Not Us 11:29 Beware False Paths Image credits (photographs cropped and toned for the film): Brood X cicadas, 2021: Forrest Blank, CC BY, https://youtu.be/uNZXPGHWRAE Cicada on a brick wall, 2021: Raul Riveros, CC BY, https://youtu.be/1YSgy7U8MDs J train, Williamsburg Bridge, 2014: Yanping Nora Soong, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=48315927 Williamsburg Bridge at night, 2020: the Dronalist, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=127726799 Roanoke at dusk, 2011: Joe Ravi, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=17140242 Seattle at dawn, 2018: Alex Spaeth, CC BY 3.0, https://youtu.be/SioSF-Q0_rU Two nymphs molting, 2021: G. Edward Johnson, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=105778923 Brood X cicadas, May 2021: 13winds, CC BY 3.0, https://youtu.be/3ulROO8qLrM Roanoke at night, 2009: Bckdraft911, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=5674935 Francis Street, Annapolis, 2013: m01229, CC BY 2.0, plate blurred, https://flic.kr/p/eWfnwv Cicada exuvia: Bruce Marlin, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=8844123 Cicada final molt, 2021: G. Edward Johnson, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=106130843 Cicada shells on a pole, 2021: Amaury Laporte, CC BY 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/2mPAYLj Solvers' slide, 2023: CicadaSolvers, CC BY, https://youtu.be/EU1ftYdZkkI William Gibson, 2008: Gonzo Bonzo, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/4yTpjt Red Book of Hergest (c.1382-1410), f.154v: Jesus College, Oxford, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=107363027 Cicada on a fingertip: Peter Chen, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/?curid=150374899 Creative Commons licences: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ · https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ · https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ · https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ · https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Public domain: American Numismatic Society; USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab; National Library of Wales; Lady Charlotte Guest; Boy Scouts of America; U.S. Department of Agriculture Motion Picture Service; McKenny & Parsons (attrib.); Carol M. Highsmith. Records shown for reporting: the 4chan /b/ thread, 4 Jan 2012; Cicada 3301's own images, pages and Liber Primus (2012-14), via the Uncovering Cicada wiki and rtkd/iddqd; solvers' photos of the posters (anonymous, via the same; codes, numbers and plates blurred by this office); GCHQ's unbranded 2011 puzzle, stage 1 (Crown copyright), via the Internet Archive; GCHQ aerial: Ministry of Defence; contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v1.0 (nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/1/); a solver's Kleopatra screenshot (2017); hash-alarm icon: tweqx, GPL-3.0; a keyserver index, 14 Oct 2026 (redacted). --- This video covers an anonymous online puzzle and the public record around it. The puzzle's own images, texts and audio are shown for commentary. Who ran it has never been verified. Reportedly True is an entertainment program and does not claim to present established fact.

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