The Unsolved Mystery of Perplex City
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- Perplex City was the greatest game of hide-and-seek you ever missed out on, but ten years later, it has one last mystery to solve.
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Plot twist: Satoshi has the start to Perplex City 2 and is just waiting to be found...
OuroborosChoked just what I was thinking
I felt like i'm high when i read this, it would be the most amazing thing ever.
That would be so cool though!!!
The guy it’s finally founded
@@7isu could you elaborate
Coming back after Satoshi was found!! PerplexCity is finally complete!
The Riemann card isn’t completed ;)
@@localjazz Well, if you ever solve it, you'll win 1 million dollars. Good luck. (No, I'm not kidding, look it up. The Clay Mathematics institute is offering 1 million dollars to anyone who can solve it. It is the Holy Grail of mathematics problems.)
@@bobwilson679 Actually it’s not really the holy grail, all seven of the Millennium Problems are (1M for solving any of them) although Riemann’s probably the hardest of the bunch. I hope someone cracks it in my lifetime.
Is this guy in marketing? Because I swear he should be. Every time he advertises an idea, story, etc. I am instantly hooked and want to take part.
Le Canadian no he's a film maker.
Le Canadian he used to be.
All TH-camrs are marketers. They have to market themselves to you. Don't ever think otherwise. That is not who they are. Not that they are all sociopaths that are hiding their true selves but they need to make themselves desirable to a demographic and then provide content as such.
I want too also but where do we start?
@@antediluvianspy1708 ok I get it, some youtubers are just liars, but not all. And to go THAT far, saying they are cold dark sociopaths, what? I bet YOU would fell different if you were a youtuber, and not to mention how hard it is to make a video, and they do that weekly, daily! But I dont think anything I say will change that, keep on hating everything that youtubers do. SMH.
Cicada did pretty much the same thing. Lots of webseries like Everyman Hybrid have quite a few codebreaking ARG elements. Just because they dont have cash prizes doesnt mean they arent things that happen.
Good point. Granted, Cicada 3301 was different in that it doesn't encourage teamwork--in fact, it actively _dis_courages it.
Also, nice to see a fellow Blockhead in the wild. :)
Blockhead134 there’s also one called “The House has people in it” which starts with a video but unravels into a website with clues. There is also Unedited Footage of a bear
Oh that fitness channel? It's the best, watching it has become a habit of mine.
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Austin, one of the things I love about your channel is that I have absolutely no idea what to expect each time you upload. Every video covers something completely random, but every single one is golden. Keep it up. You're quickly becoming my favorite TH-camr.
What.
what do you mean becoming...
Hoi Austin. You own a company. Missing Mozart. You have an audience that are more than willing to participate and support. And might I say, "Missing Mozart" is quite a perfect name. I think you should do something with it
You should create a playlist for this style of video that you make. We love them.
Nerd City watches austin? hell yeah
That would be all of his videos.
Your wish has been granted. I'm watching this right now as part of his video essays playlist
Satoshi has being found. A follow up video would be appropriate
not gonna lie here, when you said 'find him', I got chills.
SAAAMEEE
I'm so fucking glad you made this comment because I did too. I'm laying in bed in the dark and I couldn't move for ten minutes. I don't know where the fear came from.
bro hes my dad, don't know why no one solved this yet.
Fear just kind of crept over me
Syphon i had it when he said 'find me'
Aaaaanyone remember the gravity falls treasure hunt? No? Just me? Ok.
i remember...
Rip to the 4 anons /co/ sent out
Well 3.. one of them died in their backyard
Tear Kun yea its probaly juhst u, annnd becidez, im nawt uh Gravity Falls phan.
Yes, out of all 7 billion people here on Earth, only *YOU* remember it!
hey is your name Blake?
Man, Perplex City owned. One of my favorite memories from my college years was totally skipping out on a report to be a part of the last big live event, when we along with the game's characters worked together over IRC and phone calls to finally take down the game's antagonists, the Third Power. We had to call a fake office building and trick them into resetting the building's elevator systems, print out and solve paper puzzles, solve color-based codes to shut down security...and all this was live. If we didn't get this done in time we would have failed, and we would have lost characters. We had an impact on the story and it fucking ruled.
Cooldrew100 jeez, that sounds amazing.
Cooldrew100 Utterly godly. This is why we need government arts subsidies.
Erik Nielsen - 'Government arts'???
Aaron Luedemann - Thanks.
:) Great for y'all. I actually never new a kind of game like that ever existed and well, it's actually REALLY cool!
Ingress is actually similar to this. You know, the game Niantic Labs made before Pokemon Go.
We were, and still are, a small community, even by a large margin when compared to the kinda disappointing Pokemon re-theme of our game. But for people who've never played, our game isn't a solo thing like PoGo is. It's a communal, organized, team effort to connect locations far apart from each other, and capture sections of the world under "control fields". We have made control fields so big they cross oceans and BEND WITH THE CURVATURE OF THE EARTH. And can you imagine how proud that small, dedicated group must have felt? Just a few people making an amazing thing happen.
Not bigger, but better.
A.G. Palmer to be fair, any control field bend with the curvature of the earth.
Ohwait wtf I thought that this game is played by adults lol
its really cool how my city have an active comunity of ingress, i played a lot, but with the new scanner i cant play because my phone is rooted
God that guy must look so different now
fმɀპ ძმῆκ Or in all honesty the guy could be dead
JustJulia He was probably the original holder of the cube, or the creator.
JustJulia i doubt this with more than absolute certainty.
If he was dead mind candy would have put something out
Nah he's Asian, ten years of aging is nothing lol
Turnt Marshfellow What are you talking about? It's clearly Kojima.
This may already have been investigated (and also may be buried), but have anyone investigated Adrian Hon?
We don't know 100% that his name could be Satoshi. That may have been a huge red herring (which is common in ARGs sadly). Plus, Adrian Hon has similar facial features (including a mole/bump on the left side of his face). Maybe makeup could have been used to cover it in the Billion to One photo.
There's a photo of him shaking hands with the cube founder. It doesn't hurt to investigate. He's now the CEO of a company called Six to Start.
T3WGaming i'm intrigued
csa Same I wonder how it'll turn out
The chin is too different, not the same guy.
Billion to One? Six to Start? There's something here.
I love how 99% of your videos I have no clue what you're talking about beforehand but it ends up being amazing anyways
Justin Warthen ikr
"One on a billion..."
same as 7 in 7 billion.
He's a septuplet. Check septuplets born in Japan around his apparent age range and cross check Facebook profiles.
When I heard the name "Satoshi", and how he cannot be found, I immediately thought of another mysterious person with that same name: "Satoshi Nakamoto", the guy who created Bitcoin.
Then another wild thought popped into my head: What if Satoshi Nakamoto (if that's his real name) was hired as a programmer by Perplex City to help create the puzzles? Perhaps, after the Perplex City project shut down, Satoshi thought his skills shouldn't go to waste and thus started working on Bitcoin?
I know that's an absolutely crazy theory, and it's based on very little, but I felt the need to put it out there in case anything comes of it.
Basically: If we find an ex-Perplex City designer/employee with the same (aged) features of the "Billion-to-One" puzzle card, we can identify once and for all who this guy is (and, as a bonus, figure out who made Bitcoin)!
The company has already stated that he is not a member of the company, but rather somebody who allowed his picture to be taken. find more here findsatoshi.wordpress.com
Baka Senpie Hm ... or maybe that's what they *want* us to think!
In all seriousness, though, I just thought the connection was very peculiar. You could be right. However, if he's not an employee, than maybe he's a *relative* of an employee? Or a friend/business partner?
A direct quote by the creators of the puzzle "Satoshi has no connection with any employee of Mind Candy or Mind Candy’s business partners - pursuing them for information will be of no use."
So unfortunately it won't be that easy, but that's what makes it fun, tho slightly aggravating.
I'm wondering if anyone went around Kaysersberg, (the place where the photo was taken), and asked just door to door if anyone has seen him. As far as I can read people have just asked officials.
Baka Senpie Has someone confirmed he actually lives there? Could he have just been on vacation in Kayersberg? If it's the latter then things just got a lot more difficult.
No one ever said he lived there, just that the photo was taken there. I'm assuming that there are residence who might remember him, though it would be a long shot to just go around asking people and hoping that somebody remembers a Japanese man from 10 years ago.
I think the HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US flag was the modern perplex city
4chan might be able to solve it. The mechanical clusterfuck we call that website has the power. Maybe they hold the key.
mind candy went on to make moshi monsters, btw...
cullen wow pathetic and baffling they dropped so low
Really? Moshi Monsters was hugely profitable. If they wanted to do Perplex City they could fund it ten times over.
Is it a clue?
Thank you so much, as soon as he said Mind Candy my brain couldn't focus on anything except trying to think what else they made
Man, they could have done something good woth their brand!
Satoshi has been found!!! I found out from another channel, Inside a Mind, who did a video more specifically on the Satoshi mystery. I think that's really cool and I never would have known about Satoshi at all had I not seen this very video.
"I can revisit my favorite video games"
Tell that to people who want to play vanilla WoW or the Scott Pilgrim game.
i would like to revisit tf2 in it's prime again.
Finalblue1234 Why can't you play the Scott Pilgrim game anymore?
TheJrr it was taken of the digital stores it was on
or old school runescape. god i miss it so much :(
u can still play old school runescape oldschool.runescape.com/ i got u
We are pretty sure:
Satoshi is Japanese, based on the text on the card.
There used to be a large Japanese community in the area, but that has dried up in more recent years.
Things we know Satoshi is not:
He is not the Cube Thief.
He is not working at Mind Candy presently.
He is not one of a thousand random "Satoshi"s who look just a tiny bit like him.
He is (probably) not working at the Kaysersberg tourism bureau.
Satoshi may have:
...gone to Japan.
...been visiting France briefly.
...moved to the Alsace area years ago and is living there now.
...died last week. (though we certainly hope not!)
...moved to America seeking new riches.
...been a homeless man who was flown to France just to have his picture taken.
...no idea what any of this is about.
...a secret lair in Bombay, and another in Madrid.
From the will about the card.
It sounds like Cicada 3301
This.
Styrac Cicada 3301 is a real mystery. Possibly a cult - possibly dangerous, definitely not a safe or accessible game to play in the way that Perplex City was. Sounds like this guy digs ARGs. There's lots of those. A Recent One is This House Has People In It. The creative team behind it loves to do that type of stuff. But this video is correct in that most ARGs aren't profitable.
Styrac Literally the first thing I thought of.
Actually, I'm pretty sure cicada 3301 was a group of cryptographers and
mathematicians that worked to improve encryption software. They just
wanted the best of the best. I wouldn't blame you for think it was a cult, you we're kind of misinformed when sites everywhere were so flimsy that they couldn't even get the structure of the puzzles right, not to mention the dark-ish nature of the puzzles.
There is actually an interview with one of the "winners" from the first cicada 3301 puzzle. There is a video that explains a lot, just search for it here
OH MY GOD GUYS HE'S BEEN FOUND
THIS IS THE MOST HISTORICAL EVENT I'VE EVER LIVED THROUGH. SCREW THE CORONAVIRUS, THIS IS WHAT I'M GONNA BE TELLING MY GRANDKIDS ABOUT.
Just got here to see if anyone commented this.
Where is the evidence? could you show us proof and an identity?
I can tell its your video just by watching it without audio lmao good stuff
So can anyone because of his voice right
Dammit, that was amazing. And I'm not just saying that for the obvious reason. So many memories, so many feels. I miss that place.
Oh, snap! You're the guy that found it! Well, quit stalling. Go find Satoshi.
Shiiit its you!
I was a kid in the 1970s, and there was a book called Masquerade that was published that made kids CRAZY (even those of us in the US, since it was a British book) that had a golden totem buried somewhere in Britain that you could find via clues in the book. It made us crazy in school, trying to figure it out, even though the book was too complicated for 11-year-old me. This reminds me of that.
As well it should. As I understand it, Masquerade was the inspiration - a kid like you were went on to found Mind Candy and PXC.
Ah, cool! Masquerade was an amazing book. I can see how it inspired the founder!
Under the circumstances, it seemed only right to take the Cube to where the Golden Hare was dug up before I handed it in...
www.flickr.com/photos/rand0m/385084620/in/album-72157594520967005/
I think there's a cult vide game about that book, you should check it out.
In the States there was a book of 12 strange pictures and 12 poems called The Secret, by Byron Preiss. It came out in 1982, and was supposed to have 12 hidden treasures scattered around the US. Only 2 were ever found, one in 1984, and one in 2004.
The art in the book is a very 70s, but if you love a mystery, look into this a little, the treasures are still out there!
I, and a few other friends of mine, are setting up a game like this, though more secretive, look for it in a few years.
Did it start yet
Did it start
Drillas Covid-19 put in a block in being able to set it up, we're planning to work on it after this situation is over.
@@shawn_crabtree I'm responding so I get a notification if there are any updates
@@mariebookish4625 Thanks, as I said earlier, Covid is getting in the way so it's been put on hold, but I plan on getting back to it when we can.
If something like this was started now, it would be hacked in a few weeks.
how you gonna hack a trading card
@612shep hack the websites. Unless it's something on the Cicada 3301 level, which was more than a game, it would be hard to set up something like this. I'm sure people would also join with intentions other than finding the objective.
What good would that do? Unless you hacked directly into the company's data banks you're not going to find the location early
There was something similar to this a few years ago, with the tv show Gravity Falls. Alex Hirsch, the creator of the show, set up a scavenger hunt worldwide to find a statue of one of the characters. It was so fun to watch the clues being discovered on social media. There was a complication in the hunt so it was delayed, but eventually the statue was found and the pilot of the show was released. It was pretty interesting.
Was about to bring this up, this reminds me of the Cipher Statue Hunt
You would have loved Gravity Falls while it was airing and the Cypher Hunt that followed after. Many a sleepless night were spent listening to updates and speculation within the community. It was fantastic.
Alpharius I missed out on the Cypher hunt myself as I never paid any attention, but I absolutely _loved_ the mystery the show had.
I was actually just going to mention the Cypher Hunt! Even though it wasn't anywhere near as big, (and even though I wasn't an active participant,) it was a little taste of how much fun a good ARG can be. Just watching the hunt unfold was cool.
I was just watching as it happened since the clues never got to near me and I couldn't really do much.
Here, have the megathread thingo: m.reddit.com/r/gravityfalls/comments/4tte1f/cipher_hunt_megathread/?compact=true&
Yeah, I really couldn't participate but I still kept in touch with it by literally refreshing Alex Hirshs twitter page every two seconds.
Alpharius k
Inside a mind found him!! The coolest part was that they found out about this unsolved mystery from Austin McConnell!
It wasn’t inside a mind that found him it was someone else
I'm currently looking for an ARG to play that doesn't involve complex math. I just want something fun to be obsessed with for a bit.
Ben Locke - Did you find anything?
Ben Jamin I know its really late, but hey. Check out Waking Titan. Or anything else by Alice and Smith.
@@thepropladyI followed the link and it seems to be a page documenting a man's decent into madness over internet trolling
I recommend the still ongoing Pizza Time Pizza. Starts with a TH-cam video called pizza time pizza by alex bale.
@@theproplady There's some things about how Hillary and Obama are part of some global conspiracy. Take that how you will.
In case anyone doesn't know, he was found via an AI software developed by a team of Perplex city fans, an sbs documentary was just released, narrated by Willem Dafoe!
There was a similar concept in a children's book from 2004 called "A Treasure's Trove," which was about these bugs that are crystallized by some magic. The book contained hints to find the real world location of tokens which could be turned in to get the real "bug," which were made of precious metals and encrusted with jewels. All together the collection of about 12 or so was supposedly worth about 1 million dollars...
I remember reading that in elementary school. I couldn't for the life of me remember the book's name. Thank you!!
Quickly becoming one of my favorite channels bar none. I gotta admit, I started your channel with the KFC Video in my Recommended tab (according to the numbers that's where most are coming from I suppose haha) but each new piece of content does a beautiful job of giving this channel some serious backbone. Your editing, narration style, and unique presentation are all top notch Austin- Great moves, keep it up, proud of you!
oh also the music in this video was PERFECT, good underscore music REALLY goes a long way in editing :)
I can already tell this is going to be a great video!
Code 420 try watching it.
Code 420 what's with all the bots?
MrPancake What?
This reminds me of the Shia Capture the Flag game that went down on 4chan. InternetHistorian has some good videos on it.
The greatest meme war the world has ever seen
also, satoshi might die soooo....
solve it in the next 20 years or bye bye answer
Wait... Is it a coincidence that he shares that name with the creator of Bitcoin, of whom nobody knows?
*ahem* Satoshi..?? NAKAMOTO!?????
Yes! This exactly
That's what I was thinking!
Yah
We need /pol/ on the billion to one card now
Shit that's a good mystery! Seems impossible to find that guy but if someone posts this on reddit they'll probably find him by the end of the week.
RageFlameNinja ...Post away. :)
Looks like it's been tried multiple times to no success:
www.reddit.com/r/PerplexCity/comments/5nbmiw/the_unsolved_mystery_of_perplex_city/
www.reddit.com/r/ARG/comments/1w3qcz/perplex_city/
www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/5w45w5/til_there_was_a_game_called_perplex_city_which/
www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/5a7bma/the_untraceable_japanese_man/
www.reddit.com/r/ARG/comments/4cajtt/i_made_a_podcast_episode_about_mind_candys_arg/
I don't think Reddit is the answer, unfortunately.
Brad Johnson we may have to go for the network machine of 4chan for this
A university should do this within the campus. Something REALLY fun like this but not super easy to solve. Something that is truly worth parading around if you make it to the end.
You didn't put the guy's story in the description :c
Yup! Got ahead of myself while uploading. Should be there now. Peace!
austinmcconnell satoshi is chinese
Manuel Oribe that's what I thought since the clue is obviously 1billion to 1
Manuel Oribe Satoshi is a Japanese name, and the words were in Japanese. Kinda seems like he’s japanese to me
That dude looks like someone I worked with for a short while in Italy, but I never got his name because he only spoke Japanese and Italian. Probably not him though. Wouldn't it be rad though?
Well aparently the Riemann hypothesis has been solved.
While it is true that it is not _impossible_ to “solve” the Riemann hypothesis, as this video suggested, it has most definitely not been solved one way or the other. This was true when the original comment was posted and it is still true now.
i just figured something out go type Satoshi into google and it tells you about the people who made bitcoin look:
Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the unknown person or group of people who developed bitcoin. and satoshi was born in 1975 and is currently 44 years old so maybe mind candy wanted to stop him or something like that. its just a theory. hope this helps anyone whos still looking for him. ps love your content Austin
Satoshi is the same name of the guy who is said to have created Bitcoin but then dissapeared and no one knows who he is ....?
There is one other card that has not yet been solved: perplexcitywiki.com/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Labour
It kind of looks like hex code, but it comes out as completely random characters.
Perplex city: the og cicada 3301
This is amazing. I dunno why, but there is some unshakable draw to this whole thing. Tracking down one man, across the globe, in pursuit of the answer to a long forgotten puzzle?? THE MYSTERY IS INTOXICATING!
Billion to one? That broski is in China!
Good job! We have now narrowed the location down to one of the most populated countries in the world!
Satoshi is now found... And the puzzle is complete
what do you mean?
@@esteban-zamora They found him
yeah the puzzle has been solved finally.. it's so amazing.
Who's here after Satoshi was found?
who's here after satoshi was indeed found
How they find him?
@@nah6153 its complicated, go watch nick robinson’s video on finding satoshi
@@nah6153 Short version: someone ran the image through a deep learning algorithm's reverse image search, which turned up his face in a picture from the company he worked at. Someone emailed him about it and he was delighted to have finally been found. According to him, he'd forgotten the password he was supposed to give the person who found him.
I truly hope you saw that they found him
THEY FOUND HIM! THEY FOUND SATOSHI
The billion to one card has been solved.
I've watched a couple of your videos And your an instant new favorite TH-camr
i was practically a fetus when this happened but it sounds cool as hell i want something like perplex city to experience
Emily Dingeldein Stop making me feel old I'm only 22!
Erik Nielsen im 21 and i feel old
is this website still going? im curious, feeling like ive missed out all this stuff ):
we do the same thing in my town in a smaller scale. there is a medallion hidden somewhere and clues get released online and in the paper every day around fall and there's a big cash prize for finding it. pretty cool stuff.
Tell me more of this town...
Dark Link Boi how do I move there
Dark Link where is it t
If he never replies, there are at least four entries on Google for 'town medallion hidden' on the first results page. This is apparently a sort of common thing.
Cedar rapids has it, but im sure its nothing super originao
"His name is 'Satoshi'."
You're telling me he's the CREATOR OF FRICKIN' BITCOIN?!
2:24 South African Wallet representation appreciated.
Satoshi has been found!
Satoshi was found!
This is the best channel subscription in months! Great videos all around.
But....
Who can I subscribe to, so I'll get notified when stuff like "Perplex City" gets released? Is there a subreddit or something?
Nurpus I have not the slightest idea. Maybe ARG Network. They usually cover games like this.
Nurpus Also, thanks! :)
Came back to let you know they found him back in December of 2020, all probably because of your initiative. Probably should have done so back when it was announced lol
He has been found!
Mind Candy is the companythat made Moshi Monsters, right?
Steller yes
Stuff like this really makes me wish I was alive and old enough in the 2000s.
This Perplex City thing sounds like something I would have absolutely no interest in, but that a lot of people would be into, which would make me feel like maybe there is something wrong with me or something I don't get about this, so I would try to play it, and then after a while I would be like "yep, I was right, this holds no interest for me." But other people would totally love it and have no sympathy for the fact that it is totally unappealing to me.
The gravity falls ARG was pretty awesome
satoshi is the guy who is believed to have invented bitcoins
wrong satoshi
it's an incredibly common name
"I've never seen anything like this since"
Cicada: *Am I a joke to you?*
This is just a well funded ARG. You can find similar (but not as "extravagant") games everywhere if you look. I'm aware there was a lot more to it being a co-operative and large scale game but it being big wouldn't be profitable as you said. I agree though, something similar would be great
maybe satoshi is the mystery cantidate
There are many ARGs like this that are still going on to this day. Just find them online and go hunting.
Satoshi Has Been Found!
He's been hiding behind the couch in Dad's den for ten years.
Did u hear about the Bill-Cypher hunt?
bro the riemann zeta hypothesis lolol
its (prob) not unsolvable but would be greatest achievements in mathematics to solve it
I feel like this could be a GREAT phone ar game, like Pokémon go.
Easter = Resurrection of Jesus, proof of His Godhood :-)
SATOSHI HAS BEEN FOUND
Funny coming back to this years later after he’s been found
DUDE THEY FOUND HIM
This reminds me of that game I heard about once, where you have a few video clips and images and gotta collaborate with everyone else playing the game to win.
Extra Credits talked about it, but I don't remember the name.
They found him
Perplex City was just a high budget ARG. If you want more like it you can find smaller ones pretty easily. It almost certainly won’t have the exact same charm but maybe you could find some fun there
Benjamin Brady I don’t think his point is that ARGs don’t exist anymore. I think it’s more along the lines of something like this not happening in a global scale. Something so involved, complicated and so massive that is more like a buckshot on a lake than a needle in a haystack. Like you said, it won’t have the exact same charm, but the charm is exactly what he misses.
I feel like HWNDU was Shia LeBouf's attempt at recreating this
Satoshi? That's also the name used by the person (or group) that founded Bitcoin. I wonder if he/they got the name from this game?
love this channel so much
“I could spend all day talking about the intricate puzzle schemes and cool moments from the game-“
YES
“But you’re busy people…”
NOOOOOOOOO
mystery candidate
This makes me sad, that I am way too young to have experienced this, and I don't want to play a clone, a want to play the original, without all these apps that can be used to cheat.
THEY FOUND HIM! THEY COUND SATOSHI
LETS GO
Huh. Perplex City. Perplexity. Interesting.