Copy Potection Pioneers

Challenge

The copy protection pioneers were really creative and lived the jet set life.

http://46.101.107.117:2209

Note: The service is restarted every hour at x:00.

Solution

Jet Set Willy was an archaic game with a copy protection card. Googling that finds a really nice article on its history

Helpfully this available as a python script

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$ python2 jswdecode.py | grep -e 'A 4' -e 'C 2' -e 'D 4' -e 'F 9' -e 'Q 2'
A 4 = 2 1 4 2
C 2 = 4 2 3 2
D 4 = 1 3 3 1
F 9 = 4 2 1 3
Q 2 = 1 2 4 3

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Statues

Hope you like statues as much as I do!

I created a little tour in my favourite city for you:

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Richard I
Peter Pan
Albert
James Cook

I will not reveal my favourite statue, though. Find it yourself!

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it's not the one on the challenge image (Joan of Arc)!
name of the person represented by the statue
all lowercase, no spaces, no special chars
e.g. he2022{johnny}

Solution

These all appear to be statues in London, let’s pull op a map!

Where the lines between the statues intersect is exactly the location of the Achilles statue!

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