{"id":5323,"date":"2017-02-15T18:09:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T10:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en-d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/?p=5323"},"modified":"2017-02-15T19:59:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T11:59:30","slug":"qoo-review-are-we-fooled-by-the-developer-or-are-we-just-too-stupid-to-solve-puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d27fq2mgp64qlg.cloudfront.net\/en\/post\/5323\/qoo-review-are-we-fooled-by-the-developer-or-are-we-just-too-stupid-to-solve-puzzles","title":{"rendered":"[Qoo Review] Are we fooled by the developer, or are we just too stupid to solve puzzles?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The game developer told us not to believe "his" lies, but whose lies?<\/p>\n

This is a question that has been driving most people crazy since 2014. So crazy that some actually traveled to a specific location to send a specific email to the developer, believing this would lead to an answer.<\/p>\n

Do Not Believe His Lies is a mobile puzzle game developed by Polish designer Lukasz Matablewski. The game is simple. Every stage features a mysterious picture, or a buzzing sound tape, or a video recording\u00a0that looks like an edited CCTV clip – there are so many possibilities, you name it. After solving the puzzle, the player should be able to get a line of English words. This line is the key to proceed to the next stage, and this\u00a0is a part of the story that is unveiled as the player clears more and more stages.<\/p>\n

The game is simple – yes, but no one ever says the puzzles are easy.<\/p>\n

The first stage is quite easy. It only requires me\u00a0to brighten up the screen in order to see the words on the top of the screen, which is "the first time".<\/p>\n

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This is the first line of the story. Type the words to proceed.<\/p>\n

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After the first stage, I felt it was a bit tricky. I thought every puzzle should involve a hint that leads us to think of a solution. This stage doesn’t even have a hint!<\/p>\n

The second stage is better. This is a Morse Code.<\/p>\n

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Translating it should get "I saw him there".<\/p>\n

The stages afterwards got more and more confusing, for example, a CCTV video that required me to play it second by second in order to spot a line of words, an\u00a0autostereogram picture that took me hours to look at and some codes from a computer language called\u00a0Brainfuck, which\u00a0I had never heard of.<\/p>\n

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These puzzles have got some people addicted. Some fans have even gathered on Reddit<\/a> to form a community and solve puzzles together. Yet, this is in fact somewhat necessary.<\/p>\n

The geniuses on Reddit are\u00a0now on level 48.\u00a0The puzzle starts out like this.<\/p>\n

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After a month\u00a0of decoding and looking up books, this picture eventually led them to five unlisted Youtube videos, which means the videos are\u00a0not\u00a0searchable on\u00a0Youtube. They\u00a0are basically identical except for the locations (Berlin, New York, Brasilia, Hong Kong, Sydney) and the numbers mentioned.<\/p>\n

Here is one of the videos.<\/p>\n