what is cicada 3301? Cicada 3301 was a puzzle started in 2012 when an image was posted to the 4chan boards, the image read: "Hello, we are looking for highly intelligent individuals. To find them we have devised a test. There is a message hidden in this image. find it, and it will lead you on the road to finding us. We look forward to meeting the few that make it all the way through. Good luck, 3301." Opening this image in a text editor revealed some hidden text which read " TIBERIVS CLAVDIVS CAESAR says "lxxt>33m2mqkyv2gsq3q=w]O2ntk"" this was quickly found to be a ceaser cipher and was decoded into an imgur link, which brough up an image of a duck saying something along the lines of "oops only decoys this way." This was decoded using outguess which revealed a message: "Here is a book code. To find the book, and more information, go to http://www.reddit.com/r/a2e7j6ic78h0j/ 1:20, 2:3, 3:5, 4:20, 5:5, 6:53, 7:1, 8:8, 9:2, 10:4, 11:8, 12:4, 13:13, 14:4, 15:8, 16:4, 17:5, 18:14, 19:7, 20:31, 21:12, 22:36, 23:2, 24:3, 25:5, 26:65, 27:5, 28:1, 29:2, 30:18, 31 :32, 32:10, 33:3, 34:25, 35:10, 36:7, 37:20, 38:10, 39:32, 40:4, 41:40, 42:11, 43:9, 44:13, 45:6, 46:3, 47:5, 48:43, 49:17, 50:13, 51:4, 52:2, 53:18, 54:4, 55:6, 56:4, 57:24, 58:64, 59:5, 60:37, 61:60, 62:12, 63:6, 64:8, 65:5, 66:18, 67:45, 68:10, 69:2, 70:17, 71:9, 72:20, 73:2, 74:34, 75:13, 76:21 Good luck. 3301"