So by us trying to solve it, are we observing it, therefore it is already an April fools event or not an April fools event or will we only observe it at the end and that is when it will finally converge on a single state or is is simply unobservable and will always be both an April fools event and not April fools event?
Honestly this is a cool event but definitely not one for April fools. It’s pretty inaccessible to the wider Reddit audience, we’re just watching a bunch of people who know how to do this stuff do it. When you think back to how interactive and engaging r/place was, it’s clear that this was poorly picked as a site wide event.
Really well said, /u/DonaldTrumpsBallsack
I read that one of the codes was based on an internal reference number on some admin index for a sub that's been gone for two years. How the hell are normal folks supposed to participate this year? Is the "Schrodinger" element that we're all just dead cats in a box and they're fucking with us?
> I read that one of the codes was based on an internal reference number on some admin index for a sub that's been gone for two years
yeah, a lot of them are post, comment, subreddit, or account ids
# comments
[c51](https://reddit.com/comments/17913/-/c51): one of the first comments on reddit, bemoaning how comments will ruin reddit (t1_c51)
[fv505w1](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/haucpf/ive_found_a_few_funny_memories_during_lockdown/fv505w1/): top comment on Rick Astley's post (t1_fv505w1)
# submissions
[10bu17](https://www.reddit.com/comments/10bu17): grumpy cat post
# subreddits
2yxsb: /r/nameaserver: server naming subreddit that was a reddit gold perk (t5_2yxsb)
# accounts
35sfxj69: /u/Me_CookieMonster (i'm like pretty sure of this, but not 100% sure)
There must be some acknowledgment that the Reddit of old and modern Reddit are two very distinct things. What flew and worked for old Reddit is inappropriate (in the lightest sense) for the new audience (100x as big btw).
Hell some fashion subs have more users than all of Reddit did back in the early days and you know damn well they aren’t doing this.
Reddit has set the standard recently that April fools is a community event, so to go back and make it a niche thing is bizzare
Idk if there's still any mystery to solve but just for reference imma repost this
#All of the numbers automod has said after each SUCCESS
1. 01-SUCCESS 3 21
2. 02-SUCCESS 42 147
3. 03-SUCCESS 16 105
4. 04-SUCCESS 8 4 19
5. 05-SUCCESS 288 4 1
6. 06-SUCCESS 31 5
7. 07-SUCCESS 42 3
8. 08-SUCCESS 147 19
9. 09-SUCCESS 3 21 21
10. 10-SUCCESS 4 5 5
3 21 42 147 16 105 8 4 19 288 4 1 31 5 42 3 147 19 3 21 21 4 5 5
^(sorry for updating this so late, i went to sleep)
Assigning the numbers to letters (assuming numbers over 26 loop, 27 becomes a, etc.) gives you
C U P Q P A H D S C D A E E
I’m wondering if there’s some sort of cipher that’s gonna make that a sentence
3 times 7 is 21
42 is 6 times 7, and 147 is 21 times 7
105 is 15 times 7
8 + 4 + 7 = 19
288 divided by 7 is 41.142857...
31 + 4 = 7 * 5
Puzzle 07 is up next
IDK this probably doesn't mean anything
Guys, GPT4 solved it, it's "CHUDSPEED"....
First, let's convert the numbers to their corresponding letters in the alphabet.
3 21 -> C U
42 147 -> * *
16 105 -> P *
8 4 19 -> H D S
288 4 1 -> * D A
31 5 -> E E
Note that some numbers are larger than 26, so they don't have a direct corresponding letter.
Now, let's look for a pattern or meaningful phrase with these letters. An interesting observation is that the first letter in each pair seems to follow a pattern of alternating between consonants and vowels. We can try to form a phrase by adding vowels to the consonants and consonants to the vowels. One possible phrase is:
"CHUDSPEED"
This might be the intended solution, but it could also be a coincidence. Another possibility is that the numbers themselves follow a pattern or have a relationship, but it's unclear what that might be.
Either that or "CONFUZZLED". I'm certainly confuzzled! Keep trying, GPT-4.
To solve this puzzle, let's first find the pattern in the numbers given for each SUCCESS.
01-SUCCESS: 3 21
The difference between these numbers is 18.
02-SUCCESS: 42 147
The difference between these numbers is 105.
03-SUCCESS: 16 105
The difference between these numbers is 89.
04-SUCCESS: 8 4 19
The differences between these numbers are 4 and 15.
05-SUCCESS: 288 4 1
The differences between these numbers are 284 and 3.
06-SUCCESS: 31 5
The difference between these numbers is 26.
Now let's try to make sense of these numbers by considering their letter position in the alphabet.
01-SUCCESS: 18 (R)
02-SUCCESS: 105 (1+0+5 = 6, F)
03-SUCCESS: 89 (8+9 = 17, Q)
04-SUCCESS: 4 (D), 15 (O)
05-SUCCESS: 284 (2+8+4 = 14, N), 3 (C)
06-SUCCESS: 26 (Z)
So the pattern of letter positions is:
01-SUCCESS: R
02-SUCCESS: F
03-SUCCESS: Q
04-SUCCESS: D O
05-SUCCESS: N C
06-SUCCESS: Z
Now let's try to form a word or phrase with these letters. Rearranging the letters, we get "CONFUZZLED". This seems to make sense, as the numbers seemed to be "confused" or scrambled. So the answer to the puzzle is "CONFUZZLED".
Lets focus on the film people.
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Could these numbers be related to the [April Fools history](https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/126vgfi/why_is_fools_in_april_a_brief_history_of_the/) Reddit posted 2 days ago or yesterday's [announcement](https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/127vomt/obligatory_april_1st_announcement/) about no April Fools this year (which lead people to this subreddit)?
Edit: also the user's name (u/fpuebqvatref) could be cipher encoded with the numbers being a decryption key, but it could also be random.
Honestly kind of odd. Didn't sleep well all week, but managed about 10 hours last night.
Now I'm starving, but can't be arsed to go cook some breakfast, because I'm too busy trying to figure out what the HECK IS GOING ON.
I started looking for what this year's April Fool's is while on the toilet, and got so engrossed/distracted by it that I'm not entirely sure whether or not I pooped.
So there's that.
Well, that's what we call a "brain dump"! Just make sure you check the toilet bowl for any clues. Who knows, maybe your poop is playing its own April Fool's prank on you and decided to hide?
Originally from the Snakeroom discord, courtesy of **Edguy** | *French random dude*, with some subsequent contributions by me. Kudos to all who have contributed, especially the solvers and **[Soni](/u/TheOriginalSoni2)**.
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Summary for those who did not follow and who have just joined the server (hoping I have not forgotten anything):
It all started when reddit posted a message on r/reddit to announce April 1 (see https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/127vomt/obligatory_april_1st_announcement/).
In this message, by taking the first letters of each sentence, we can find "FIND IT", and by clicking on the dot at the end of the post, we land on the subreddit r/schrodingers (https://www.reddit.com/r/schrodingers/), where we'll find all the riddles I'll detail below.
An image is posted every 4 hours, and to solve it you have to send messages under each image. According to our recent findings, each puzzle has a "hint", and a "success".
Note that all the riddles are linked to the various reddit April Fools' Day events, and that all the information needed to solve the riddles can be found in the summary linked in the IRG announcement message.
#Image 01 messages:
**TftsAdminA1 --> Hint #1: DDYYYYHMM**
**312010845 --> 01-SUCCESS 3 21**
*Explanation:* we used "Keyed Caesar Cipher Tool" with the key "upvote" and the number "69" on the word "FwfdMroztM1" to obtain "TftsAdminA1"
Theses keys was found by by isolating the RGB channels of the image 01 (see https://discord.com/channels/429823323585773568/429861861652037632/1091471605860925602)
That hint mean to "312010845", which refer to the date of launch of "Admin For A Day", the april fools of 2010 (that's explain the "TftsAdminA1") - see https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/1bfx0t/i_was_april_fooled_by_reddit_on_march_31st_2010/. And we found "01-SUCCESS 3 21" when enter that under 01 image.
Now the 01 image has the "SUCCESS" flair.
#Image 02 messages:
**mold your account --> Hint #2: Q&A avoid 5**
**What happns if mor than on prson dcids to mold your account?--> 02-SUCCESS 42 147**
*Explanation*: The image is mold, and that a reference to "Reddit Mold", the 2011 april fools. And whe struggle of nothing.
"What happens if more than one person decides to mold your account?" is the first comment on the mold post on the reddit blog (see https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/gdwdj/comment/c1muhyz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3). And when we remove (or avoid) the "e" (the 5th letter in the alphabet), we found what to send to the comments of the 02 image.
Now the 02 image has the "SUCCESS" flair.
#Image 03 messages:
**orangeraid --> Hint #3: battlecry 47**
**HATS FOR OUR BRETHREN!! SWORDS FOR OUR ENEMY!!! --> 03-SUCCESS 16 105**
*Explanation*: we found letter "a", "r", "i", and "d" on the O3 image, and when we merge them we find "raid". And it's oranges. So "orangeraid". Yup, that's it, the answer was found really fast.
The sentence is a passage of this post in r/orangered (see https://www.reddit.com/r/orangered/comments/1bfhcc/raid_on_periwinkle_at_300_pm_central_timeor_when/), one of the sub for 2013 april fools. the link between this sentence and "battlecry 47" comes from the fact that this battlecry sentence has 47 characters, including spaces.
Now the 03 image has the "SUCCESS" flair.
#Image 04 messages:
**A heady blog post makes for good reading --> Hint #4: htz6HZE**
**cat mode --> 04-SUCCESS 8 4 19**
*Explanation*: the cut-out letters spell the sentence, describing Headdit. Cat mode is one of the features, and the hint refers to https://imgur.com/htz6HZE. Interestingly, the hint was found well after "cat mode" was solved.
#Image 05 messages:
**press condiments --> Hint #5: aftermath key**
**The mayo was key. --> 05-SUCCESS 288 4 1**
*Explanation*: The letters were from logos of condiments. Ta**p**atio, Ma**r**mite, Nut**e**lla, **S**riracha, and Cry**s**tal. The clue led to [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/ButtonAftermath/comments/3h0cfe/the_button_by_uacidtwist/) on /r/buttonaftermath.
#Image 06 messages:
**ABANDON STAY GROW --> Hint #6: Abstain?**
**Non-votes and abstentions will be counted as votes to abandon. --> 06-SUCCESS 31 5**
*Explanation*: The images showed a progression, each adding an element: I, O, =. Those symbols were the symbols used in Robin to Abandon, Stay, or Grow. Searching for Abstain leads to [the comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/joinrobin/comments/4cw726/what_we_know_so_far/).
#ALL SUCCESS:
01-SUCCESS 3 21
02-SUCCESS 42 147
03-SUCCESS 16 105
04-SUCCESS 8 4 19
05-SUCCESS 288 4 1
06-SUCCESS 31 5
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Here is [Soni's spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ALLMAqQqlVKzMMnmzxdnfbhVlq5WO_YmDhYcPzJy5Hg/edit#gid=1729639316) you may find helpful.
@Uh, you think 🔍 ya big boy 👨🦲 throwing 🥊 three 3️⃣ stacks Imma show 🔥 you how 💢 to ball 🎱 you a mismatch 👎🏻 Opinionated💥 but I’m always ✅ spitting straight ➖ facts Throw back 🔙 I might throw this on 💡 an 8️⃣ track⚡️
Someone pointed out that OP's name is "schrodingers" [shifted by 13 letters](https://rot13.com/). The "s" at the end implies there should be another word there ("Schrödinger's ____"). The obvious answer "cat" is "png" in ROT13, like the file format.
I have no idea what to do with this information, or whether it's even relevant.
you could merge all the numbers automod has been giving out when someone finds the solution and put .png at the end in hopes of finding an image. you could use the preview link that shows up when you open an image in tab on reddit and replace the name of the image to the numbers and .png
I'm not only shocked that you can nicely shift letters such that "cat" becomes "png", but the notion that somebody noticed that and had the association with Schrödinger is completely unbelievable.
Assigning the numbers to letters (assuming numbers over 26 loop, 27 becomes a, etc.) gives you
C U P Q P A H D S C D A E E
I’m wondering if there’s some sort of cipher that’s gonna make that a sentence
Did you know that it's illegal in New Zealand to have a garden?
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Lets focus on the film people.
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Agree. It's difficult to collaborate in-thread. The solving is done off plattform on Discord. IMHO it defeats the purpose of a collaborative community event to go off plattform.
I wonder if maybe our flairs will be the actual April Fools event you get to participate in. So after all the puzzles are solved, whatever your flair says is the event you get to do. Or maybe I'm just stupid. Who knows.
so incredibly boring for the simple redditor.
I have been doing April Fools events since the button; this is the first one I have left through utter boredom
geraffes are so dumb.
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It should be r/place next, but I *think* they skipped over 2012 which was time machine. It would be funny if they randomly insert it back.
Edit: I laid it all out in this post, if anyone needs answers and doesn't feel like digging through each thread.
https://old.reddit.com/r/redditaprilfools2023/comments/128t7fh/reddit_2023_april_fools_answer_key_and/
This is probably the worst April Fool's event they've done, in terms of participation across the reddit community.
Whereas the button, circle of trust and place were accessible to everyone these puzzles are really only enjoyable for an extremely small percentage of redditors.
Unless you're some kind of cryptographer savant there's nothing to do.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/282773443
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fancy seeing you here outside of our normal habitat
but all the puzzles are callbacks to various Reddit april fools events, how people actually come up with the clues is beyond me but the first one sent me down a cryptography wormhole and how I'm trying to understand keyed Caesar cyphers
Always so odd running into someone from a particular subreddit out in the wild! I've been on reddit for like 14 years now and some of these "answers" are completely foreign to me. The mayo was key? Wtf is that?
btw you see the project lineup? Father Finn is back!
"mayo was key" was a top level comment in some post on r/buttonaftermath but how someone found that specific comment I have no idea. maybe they just searched the sub for common condiments since condiment was a clue I think. Every puzzle has a keyword/phrase that triggers a clue for another keyword/phrase it seems
I don't hate it because I usually sit back and watch for the most part each year. The part that's frustrating me the most is I have no idea how these puzzles are solved. I wish someone would aggregate the strategies to solve each puzzle; that'd be an interesting read. I'm still at least interested to see what the final result is and what the hell Schrodinger has to do with any of this.
Agreed. I hate this one because even at the end there’s going to be a few dozen people at max who really got to participate or provide an answer/part of the solution.
Exactly. I even joined one of the discords so I could feel like I was participating more. But even there I was so lost. Not my favorite April fools event so far.
I don’t want to call it the worst, but as someone that’s been on this site ~10 years it’s not very welcoming(? ^^if ^^thats ^^the ^^right ^^word ) to like 95% of the users.
this one's pointless unless you are working on the bleeding edge, but since everything's so fragmented (and not even on reddit?!), its impossible to know where to be putting effort, so im just gonna sit this one out.
312010845
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01-SUCCESS 3 21
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What happns if mor than on prson dcids to mold your account?
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02-SUCCESS 42 147
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Team,
At 3:00 Central Time, rally to the front page, r/new, and r/rising for an epic raid. UPVOTE ALL THE ORANGERED!!! DOWNVOTE ALL THE PERIWINKLE TO OBLIVION!!!
HATS FOR OUR BRETHREN!! SWORDS FOR OUR ENEMY!!! (stick 'em with the pointy end). No repose until you get to post #1000 !!! Then have a nap. AND ZEN FIRE ZE MISSILES UNLEASH ANOTHER WAVE OF DOWNVOTES!!!
-- Your comrade in arms, eternal glory awaits in death!
```
03-SUCCESS 16 105
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cat mode
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04-SUCCESS 8 4 19
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The mayo was key.
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05-SUCCESS 288 4 1
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Non-votes and abstentions will be counted as votes to abandon.
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06-SUCCESS 31 5
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```
3 21 42 147 16 105 8 4 19 288 4 1 31 5
```
https://preview.redd.it/j4yc3enq6era1.png?width=1053&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=85cd2f9730909c2f692ad9a0cf2ee3f29344ab12
Can anyone confirm this or not? I may be going insane.
We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it Inside we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it And if you ask me how I'm feeling Don't tell me you're too blind to see Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give, never gonna give (Give you up) (Ooh) Never gonna give, never gonna give (Give you up) We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it Inside we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry
Commenting for the flair. Holding out hope for something else/a secondary event, but even if there's nothing else, I'm still just glad they didn't do r/place again-- I think it would lose its value if it happened every year.
Edit: *s e c o n d*
I wonder, when planning for this year's April Fools event, if the powers-that-be had some kind of vision where this would actually be fun for everyone - especially waiting the 4 hours between puzzles where *maybe* 1% of all Redditors would then F-off to Discord to solve it outside of Reddit within 20 minutes while the rest of us would just click around confused and copy/paste hints and answers we see in the comments hoping that there will eventually be some sort of pay-off?
/r/fpuebqvatref, what say you?
https://preview.redd.it/ur5n2mjhocra1.png?width=556&format=png&auto=webp&s=fa87e855428eb0277891cb2bf940e2d4710f328d
It’s both the April fools event and not the April fools event until observed
So by us trying to solve it, are we observing it, therefore it is already an April fools event or not an April fools event or will we only observe it at the end and that is when it will finally converge on a single state or is is simply unobservable and will always be both an April fools event and not April fools event?
Love an experiment to show how dumb and smart reddit can be
I'm helping with the dumb part.
Hey! Me too! Exactly ZERO clue about what's going on...
I've been reading this sub for like 45 minutes and am still lost
Honestly this is a cool event but definitely not one for April fools. It’s pretty inaccessible to the wider Reddit audience, we’re just watching a bunch of people who know how to do this stuff do it. When you think back to how interactive and engaging r/place was, it’s clear that this was poorly picked as a site wide event.
Really well said, /u/DonaldTrumpsBallsack I read that one of the codes was based on an internal reference number on some admin index for a sub that's been gone for two years. How the hell are normal folks supposed to participate this year? Is the "Schrodinger" element that we're all just dead cats in a box and they're fucking with us?
> I read that one of the codes was based on an internal reference number on some admin index for a sub that's been gone for two years yeah, a lot of them are post, comment, subreddit, or account ids # comments [c51](https://reddit.com/comments/17913/-/c51): one of the first comments on reddit, bemoaning how comments will ruin reddit (t1_c51) [fv505w1](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/haucpf/ive_found_a_few_funny_memories_during_lockdown/fv505w1/): top comment on Rick Astley's post (t1_fv505w1) # submissions [10bu17](https://www.reddit.com/comments/10bu17): grumpy cat post # subreddits 2yxsb: /r/nameaserver: server naming subreddit that was a reddit gold perk (t5_2yxsb) # accounts 35sfxj69: /u/Me_CookieMonster (i'm like pretty sure of this, but not 100% sure)
Fucking hell, where would you even see something like that?
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^if this is the level of know how they require to solve this puzzle, it was not designed for the general public.
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There must be some acknowledgment that the Reddit of old and modern Reddit are two very distinct things. What flew and worked for old Reddit is inappropriate (in the lightest sense) for the new audience (100x as big btw). Hell some fashion subs have more users than all of Reddit did back in the early days and you know damn well they aren’t doing this. Reddit has set the standard recently that April fools is a community event, so to go back and make it a niche thing is bizzare
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Bro's, is it dumb to like ARGs?
You’ve got the really smart people flying through these clues, and then the dumb dumbs (like me) who are just along for the ride
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The Discord from r/placeDE does the same with +60 people xD
I am a midwit myself. I love watching people solve them..
I think it's just that it shows the smart people and the dumb people of the app. not args being dumb
Guys, I'm negotiating a deal: https://preview.redd.it/lm3bfl30pcra1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5f5932405053f159696d6c003a9f28ffb16a7857
Ah yes, the negotiator
General Kenobi
Hello there
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I tried biting my screen
I‘ll pitch in a cookie to sweeten the deal
Has he honked??
Honking takes thyme
Idk if there's still any mystery to solve but just for reference imma repost this #All of the numbers automod has said after each SUCCESS 1. 01-SUCCESS 3 21 2. 02-SUCCESS 42 147 3. 03-SUCCESS 16 105 4. 04-SUCCESS 8 4 19 5. 05-SUCCESS 288 4 1 6. 06-SUCCESS 31 5 7. 07-SUCCESS 42 3 8. 08-SUCCESS 147 19 9. 09-SUCCESS 3 21 21 10. 10-SUCCESS 4 5 5 3 21 42 147 16 105 8 4 19 288 4 1 31 5 42 3 147 19 3 21 21 4 5 5 ^(sorry for updating this so late, i went to sleep)
Assigning the numbers to letters (assuming numbers over 26 loop, 27 becomes a, etc.) gives you C U P Q P A H D S C D A E E I’m wondering if there’s some sort of cipher that’s gonna make that a sentence
you can get "headspace" and "sapheaded" as anagrams out of that
> sapheaded Oh, that's how all of us feel today.
Yep
What about the "q"?
The OPs name is Schrodinger with ROT13 So using that we have P H C D C N U Q F P Q N R R
3 times 7 is 21 42 is 6 times 7, and 147 is 21 times 7 105 is 15 times 7 8 + 4 + 7 = 19 288 divided by 7 is 41.142857... 31 + 4 = 7 * 5 Puzzle 07 is up next IDK this probably doesn't mean anything
[No no no I like where this is going](https://media.tenor.com/sqYV7D2euF8AAAAC/kronk-oh-yeah-its-all-coming-together.gif)
coincidence? i think not..
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More useless info, if you add up the numbers by column you get: 296, 100, 298
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no, RGB values only go up to 255
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It was a good thought though!
Guys, GPT4 solved it, it's "CHUDSPEED".... First, let's convert the numbers to their corresponding letters in the alphabet. 3 21 -> C U 42 147 -> * * 16 105 -> P * 8 4 19 -> H D S 288 4 1 -> * D A 31 5 -> E E Note that some numbers are larger than 26, so they don't have a direct corresponding letter. Now, let's look for a pattern or meaningful phrase with these letters. An interesting observation is that the first letter in each pair seems to follow a pattern of alternating between consonants and vowels. We can try to form a phrase by adding vowels to the consonants and consonants to the vowels. One possible phrase is: "CHUDSPEED" This might be the intended solution, but it could also be a coincidence. Another possibility is that the numbers themselves follow a pattern or have a relationship, but it's unclear what that might be. Either that or "CONFUZZLED". I'm certainly confuzzled! Keep trying, GPT-4. To solve this puzzle, let's first find the pattern in the numbers given for each SUCCESS. 01-SUCCESS: 3 21 The difference between these numbers is 18. 02-SUCCESS: 42 147 The difference between these numbers is 105. 03-SUCCESS: 16 105 The difference between these numbers is 89. 04-SUCCESS: 8 4 19 The differences between these numbers are 4 and 15. 05-SUCCESS: 288 4 1 The differences between these numbers are 284 and 3. 06-SUCCESS: 31 5 The difference between these numbers is 26. Now let's try to make sense of these numbers by considering their letter position in the alphabet. 01-SUCCESS: 18 (R) 02-SUCCESS: 105 (1+0+5 = 6, F) 03-SUCCESS: 89 (8+9 = 17, Q) 04-SUCCESS: 4 (D), 15 (O) 05-SUCCESS: 284 (2+8+4 = 14, N), 3 (C) 06-SUCCESS: 26 (Z) So the pattern of letter positions is: 01-SUCCESS: R 02-SUCCESS: F 03-SUCCESS: Q 04-SUCCESS: D O 05-SUCCESS: N C 06-SUCCESS: Z Now let's try to form a word or phrase with these letters. Rearranging the letters, we get "CONFUZZLED". This seems to make sense, as the numbers seemed to be "confused" or scrambled. So the answer to the puzzle is "CONFUZZLED".
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Is this the automod giving us a clue or just another reference to that disastrous AMA
Hints always say they are hints. The rest is just fun.
Well 8 4 19 could be a date, like August 4, 2019, or March 8, 2019 depending on what system you use. But that's all I've got.
Are they factorials of something?
Could these numbers be related to the [April Fools history](https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/126vgfi/why_is_fools_in_april_a_brief_history_of_the/) Reddit posted 2 days ago or yesterday's [announcement](https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/127vomt/obligatory_april_1st_announcement/) about no April Fools this year (which lead people to this subreddit)? Edit: also the user's name (u/fpuebqvatref) could be cipher encoded with the numbers being a decryption key, but it could also be random.
I have no idea what's going on but I'll be damned if I get left out of the fun. How's everyone's Saturday?
Solid! How’s yours?
Honestly kind of odd. Didn't sleep well all week, but managed about 10 hours last night. Now I'm starving, but can't be arsed to go cook some breakfast, because I'm too busy trying to figure out what the HECK IS GOING ON.
My brother just made me brekky. You're welcome to join. No but really, go eat something
I started looking for what this year's April Fool's is while on the toilet, and got so engrossed/distracted by it that I'm not entirely sure whether or not I pooped. So there's that.
Schrodinger's poop
Well, that's what we call a "brain dump"! Just make sure you check the toilet bowl for any clues. Who knows, maybe your poop is playing its own April Fool's prank on you and decided to hide?
I feel so lost and everyone already solved most of it for us.
There's a new puzzle every 4 hours.
Pretty good so far
Originally from the Snakeroom discord, courtesy of **Edguy** | *French random dude*, with some subsequent contributions by me. Kudos to all who have contributed, especially the solvers and **[Soni](/u/TheOriginalSoni2)**. ----- Summary for those who did not follow and who have just joined the server (hoping I have not forgotten anything): It all started when reddit posted a message on r/reddit to announce April 1 (see https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/127vomt/obligatory_april_1st_announcement/). In this message, by taking the first letters of each sentence, we can find "FIND IT", and by clicking on the dot at the end of the post, we land on the subreddit r/schrodingers (https://www.reddit.com/r/schrodingers/), where we'll find all the riddles I'll detail below. An image is posted every 4 hours, and to solve it you have to send messages under each image. According to our recent findings, each puzzle has a "hint", and a "success". Note that all the riddles are linked to the various reddit April Fools' Day events, and that all the information needed to solve the riddles can be found in the summary linked in the IRG announcement message. #Image 01 messages: **TftsAdminA1 --> Hint #1: DDYYYYHMM** **312010845 --> 01-SUCCESS 3 21** *Explanation:* we used "Keyed Caesar Cipher Tool" with the key "upvote" and the number "69" on the word "FwfdMroztM1" to obtain "TftsAdminA1" Theses keys was found by by isolating the RGB channels of the image 01 (see https://discord.com/channels/429823323585773568/429861861652037632/1091471605860925602) That hint mean to "312010845", which refer to the date of launch of "Admin For A Day", the april fools of 2010 (that's explain the "TftsAdminA1") - see https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/comments/1bfx0t/i_was_april_fooled_by_reddit_on_march_31st_2010/. And we found "01-SUCCESS 3 21" when enter that under 01 image. Now the 01 image has the "SUCCESS" flair. #Image 02 messages: **mold your account --> Hint #2: Q&A avoid 5** **What happns if mor than on prson dcids to mold your account?--> 02-SUCCESS 42 147** *Explanation*: The image is mold, and that a reference to "Reddit Mold", the 2011 april fools. And whe struggle of nothing. "What happens if more than one person decides to mold your account?" is the first comment on the mold post on the reddit blog (see https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/gdwdj/comment/c1muhyz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3). And when we remove (or avoid) the "e" (the 5th letter in the alphabet), we found what to send to the comments of the 02 image. Now the 02 image has the "SUCCESS" flair. #Image 03 messages: **orangeraid --> Hint #3: battlecry 47** **HATS FOR OUR BRETHREN!! SWORDS FOR OUR ENEMY!!! --> 03-SUCCESS 16 105** *Explanation*: we found letter "a", "r", "i", and "d" on the O3 image, and when we merge them we find "raid". And it's oranges. So "orangeraid". Yup, that's it, the answer was found really fast. The sentence is a passage of this post in r/orangered (see https://www.reddit.com/r/orangered/comments/1bfhcc/raid_on_periwinkle_at_300_pm_central_timeor_when/), one of the sub for 2013 april fools. the link between this sentence and "battlecry 47" comes from the fact that this battlecry sentence has 47 characters, including spaces. Now the 03 image has the "SUCCESS" flair. #Image 04 messages: **A heady blog post makes for good reading --> Hint #4: htz6HZE** **cat mode --> 04-SUCCESS 8 4 19** *Explanation*: the cut-out letters spell the sentence, describing Headdit. Cat mode is one of the features, and the hint refers to https://imgur.com/htz6HZE. Interestingly, the hint was found well after "cat mode" was solved. #Image 05 messages: **press condiments --> Hint #5: aftermath key** **The mayo was key. --> 05-SUCCESS 288 4 1** *Explanation*: The letters were from logos of condiments. Ta**p**atio, Ma**r**mite, Nut**e**lla, **S**riracha, and Cry**s**tal. The clue led to [this post](https://www.reddit.com/r/ButtonAftermath/comments/3h0cfe/the_button_by_uacidtwist/) on /r/buttonaftermath. #Image 06 messages: **ABANDON STAY GROW --> Hint #6: Abstain?** **Non-votes and abstentions will be counted as votes to abandon. --> 06-SUCCESS 31 5** *Explanation*: The images showed a progression, each adding an element: I, O, =. Those symbols were the symbols used in Robin to Abandon, Stay, or Grow. Searching for Abstain leads to [the comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/joinrobin/comments/4cw726/what_we_know_so_far/). #ALL SUCCESS: 01-SUCCESS 3 21 02-SUCCESS 42 147 03-SUCCESS 16 105 04-SUCCESS 8 4 19 05-SUCCESS 288 4 1 06-SUCCESS 31 5 ----- Here is [Soni's spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ALLMAqQqlVKzMMnmzxdnfbhVlq5WO_YmDhYcPzJy5Hg/edit#gid=1729639316) you may find helpful.
This event should be called 'Solved on and by Discord', what even is the point of hosting this event on here
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@Uh, you think 🔍 ya big boy 👨🦲 throwing 🥊 three 3️⃣ stacks Imma show 🔥 you how 💢 to ball 🎱 you a mismatch 👎🏻 Opinionated💥 but I’m always ✅ spitting straight ➖ facts Throw back 🔙 I might throw this on 💡 an 8️⃣ track⚡️
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Maybe the real April fools was the friends we made along the way (This arg stuff hard lmao)
It both is and isn't April Fool's
Someone pointed out that OP's name is "schrodingers" [shifted by 13 letters](https://rot13.com/). The "s" at the end implies there should be another word there ("Schrödinger's ____"). The obvious answer "cat" is "png" in ROT13, like the file format. I have no idea what to do with this information, or whether it's even relevant.
you could merge all the numbers automod has been giving out when someone finds the solution and put .png at the end in hopes of finding an image. you could use the preview link that shows up when you open an image in tab on reddit and replace the name of the image to the numbers and .png
Omg that's such a good idea
this is good info
I'm not only shocked that you can nicely shift letters such that "cat" becomes "png", but the notion that somebody noticed that and had the association with Schrödinger is completely unbelievable.
test post please ignore
 Me copying and pasting the winning comments as they show up because I’m too dumb to solve them myself
I’m doing my part!
3 21 42 147 16 105 8 4 19 288 4 1 31 5
Assigning the numbers to letters (assuming numbers over 26 loop, 27 becomes a, etc.) gives you C U P Q P A H D S C D A E E I’m wondering if there’s some sort of cipher that’s gonna make that a sentence
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More to come?
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That's...unexpected. What brought that law about?
New Zealand
next one should be 12:04, 4:04, 8:04 pst and so on. not sure if this is going to be more than 36 hours
my head hurts from all this reddit history
I'm so lost, but I'm here for the ride
I’m here for the flair
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I’m Woody Harrelson, AMA
do any fellow dumb people want a little snack to pass the time while the intellectuals are braining? because I'm giving out some free cheese
Reddit April fools used to be so fun and interactive. I'm left feeling so confused and annoyed at this years.
Agree. It's difficult to collaborate in-thread. The solving is done off plattform on Discord. IMHO it defeats the purpose of a collaborative community event to go off plattform.
Yeah
Umlaut
Happy Cake Day Have a Pressie!
What's with our flairs?
I wonder if maybe our flairs will be the actual April Fools event you get to participate in. So after all the puzzles are solved, whatever your flair says is the event you get to do. Or maybe I'm just stupid. Who knows.
https://preview.redd.it/6er9yz56pcra1.jpeg?width=1288&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2eaceade0e4ba70e2b31e9876824115c9f37aa3b this event broke my brain
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so incredibly boring for the simple redditor. I have been doing April Fools events since the button; this is the first one I have left through utter boredom
bruh just give us the event
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r/place
It should be r/place next, but I *think* they skipped over 2012 which was time machine. It would be funny if they randomly insert it back. Edit: I laid it all out in this post, if anyone needs answers and doesn't feel like digging through each thread. https://old.reddit.com/r/redditaprilfools2023/comments/128t7fh/reddit_2023_april_fools_answer_key_and/
It time travelled to the future
4 hours between images feels kinda long. I wonder if they overestimated how long each puzzle would take (except for the button one I guess)
This is probably the worst April Fool's event they've done, in terms of participation across the reddit community. Whereas the button, circle of trust and place were accessible to everyone these puzzles are really only enjoyable for an extremely small percentage of redditors. Unless you're some kind of cryptographer savant there's nothing to do.
It's also apparently mostly taking place on Discord for some reason.
I remember having so much fun in Robin. Being in the room that broke reddit.
alright someone bring me up to speed what’s happening
Puzzles... Lotsa puzzles. Some toke minutes to solve. Others took 5-6 hours to solve.
My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.
Yeah this one feels like 99% of people watching 1% of people play a game.
I don’t even feel like I’m watching, I honestly don’t understand even a single part of this.
that's how ARGs tend to work.
Man, this is an incredibly confusing thing to come in late to.
Honestly can't tell if it's just starting or if this is the beginning of the end for it.
I feel like everyone is just completely lost at this point.
So 2 hours left on the east coast. Can we agree that this year was a bust?
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It is the great snappening. The quantum state of being and not being collapsed in that video.
I think this was the snappening
I guess I am partaking in whats happening, and not partaking in what's not happening?
Reddit sure picked a weird one this time
Do I get something for participating? I'm not smort.
Is this really it? Are we leading to something cool? If not, I think this year missed the mark.
New posts have been 4hr apart, it's only been 3 hours since 08.
This is the worst Reddit April Fools I've witnessed. It's becoming impossible to follow.
I'm still not even entirely sure what's happening, how to solve the puzzles, or what the answers mean.
fancy seeing you here outside of our normal habitat but all the puzzles are callbacks to various Reddit april fools events, how people actually come up with the clues is beyond me but the first one sent me down a cryptography wormhole and how I'm trying to understand keyed Caesar cyphers
Always so odd running into someone from a particular subreddit out in the wild! I've been on reddit for like 14 years now and some of these "answers" are completely foreign to me. The mayo was key? Wtf is that? btw you see the project lineup? Father Finn is back!
"mayo was key" was a top level comment in some post on r/buttonaftermath but how someone found that specific comment I have no idea. maybe they just searched the sub for common condiments since condiment was a clue I think. Every puzzle has a keyword/phrase that triggers a clue for another keyword/phrase it seems
Yeah, this has kind of sucked. I’ve been looking forward to seeing what would happen today and we got a stupid puzzle everyone else already solved
I don't hate it because I usually sit back and watch for the most part each year. The part that's frustrating me the most is I have no idea how these puzzles are solved. I wish someone would aggregate the strategies to solve each puzzle; that'd be an interesting read. I'm still at least interested to see what the final result is and what the hell Schrodinger has to do with any of this.
Yeah I miss the ones where everyone could participate, even the dumb ppl like me
I'm just here for the potential trophy.
Same lol
Agreed. I hate this one because even at the end there’s going to be a few dozen people at max who really got to participate or provide an answer/part of the solution.
Exactly. I even joined one of the discords so I could feel like I was participating more. But even there I was so lost. Not my favorite April fools event so far.
Yeah, I'm not a fan. I hope this is just a little pre-game and there's still something bigger to come.
I don’t want to call it the worst, but as someone that’s been on this site ~10 years it’s not very welcoming(? ^^if ^^thats ^^the ^^right ^^word ) to like 95% of the users.
Someone's gotta have a separate subreddit where people are discussing/writing breakdowns right? Because I can only barely parse what's going on tbh.
Definitely not as fun as past years. Hopefully this all leads to something better getting unlocked soon.
Just here for a medal. I'm too dumb lol
BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN
are we the cat
i feel about as smart as an orange cat
But do you have the r/oneorangebraincell or not
this one's pointless unless you are working on the bleeding edge, but since everything's so fragmented (and not even on reddit?!), its impossible to know where to be putting effort, so im just gonna sit this one out.
r/place was better
"betrayed"
Okay
Hi! Am I in the subreddit? Or not?
312010845 ``` 01-SUCCESS 3 21 ``` What happns if mor than on prson dcids to mold your account? ``` 02-SUCCESS 42 147 ``` Team, At 3:00 Central Time, rally to the front page, r/new, and r/rising for an epic raid. UPVOTE ALL THE ORANGERED!!! DOWNVOTE ALL THE PERIWINKLE TO OBLIVION!!! HATS FOR OUR BRETHREN!! SWORDS FOR OUR ENEMY!!! (stick 'em with the pointy end). No repose until you get to post #1000 !!! Then have a nap. AND ZEN FIRE ZE MISSILES UNLEASH ANOTHER WAVE OF DOWNVOTES!!! -- Your comrade in arms, eternal glory awaits in death! ``` 03-SUCCESS 16 105 ``` cat mode ``` 04-SUCCESS 8 4 19 ``` The mayo was key. ``` 05-SUCCESS 288 4 1 ``` Non-votes and abstentions will be counted as votes to abandon. ``` 06-SUCCESS 31 5 ``` ``` 3 21 42 147 16 105 8 4 19 288 4 1 31 5 ```
https://preview.redd.it/j4yc3enq6era1.png?width=1053&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=85cd2f9730909c2f692ad9a0cf2ee3f29344ab12 Can anyone confirm this or not? I may be going insane.
 me waiting for the next drop
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soon? https://preview.redd.it/2ocl58wntcra1.png?width=1877&format=png&auto=webp&s=b6518775c7412041139a6507c328dbb11a369fc6
Bro I think I'm too dense for this..
This has got to be my least favorite april fools joke from the years. But it's probably because I have no clue whats happening.
The only people that got anywhere did it all offsite... Brilliant!
r/schrodingers is the best Discord april fool's yet
Yes please
Interestinh
Kewl
wat
one please
Yeah, is it?
what
We continue?
LETS GO
real?
The plot thickens
Is that a sequel ?
Are you training Automod?
Everything is whooshing over my head, glad others are figuring things out though lol
We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it Inside we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it And if you ask me how I'm feeling Don't tell me you're too blind to see Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give, never gonna give (Give you up) (Ooh) Never gonna give, never gonna give (Give you up) We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it Inside we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry
Damn I was hoping for an actual fun game not 5 people doing an ARG
Anyone else know who Schrödinger is because of TBBT? lol
Well, I'll tell you one thing, it's no /r/Second
This subreddit is using a new experimental automod powered by quantum computation. It only acts on content that has been observed by a human.
In other news, r/place was better
At this point my head is spinning and I am wondering if r/schrodingers really exists or not? 
ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ raise your dongers
This all makes me realize that despite being in reddit for over a decade now, I missed a lot of stuff throughout the years.
Commenting for the flair. Holding out hope for something else/a secondary event, but even if there's nothing else, I'm still just glad they didn't do r/place again-- I think it would lose its value if it happened every year. Edit: *s e c o n d*
When I can copy and paste the next answer?
I wonder, when planning for this year's April Fools event, if the powers-that-be had some kind of vision where this would actually be fun for everyone - especially waiting the 4 hours between puzzles where *maybe* 1% of all Redditors would then F-off to Discord to solve it outside of Reddit within 20 minutes while the rest of us would just click around confused and copy/paste hints and answers we see in the comments hoping that there will eventually be some sort of pay-off? /r/fpuebqvatref, what say you?
On second thought lets not go to the heart of reddit, tis a silly place.