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Dec 11: A-maze-ing GIFt

Challenge

Go find the codes!

Will you manage to recover today’s code from this strange picture?

It looks like a maze of some kind, and somewhere deep inside there might be more than what you’d expect at the first glance…

Solution

This is clearly a QR code we have to fix, the title hints at a maze. We see some lines are very light and not clear to the naked eys, so we make anything that is not white black:

Now we simply start coloring the corners, and any areas adjacent to black we make white and vice versa to get the nugget:

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HV16-otli-KbAg-MDVb-TMTO-WTDI