SRL Archive - SRL Member Goodies

https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2011/

Dropbox made a little treasure hunt. If you complete this 'hunt', you are awarded 1GB of extra space! Because it's quite a difficult hunt, here are the answers to the questions


**SPOILER ALERT**
Step 1: Go to https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2011

Step 2: https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2011/D

5305404/18681 = 284. It tells you to go to the forum, so 284 is the topic id.

Step 3: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=284

Step 4: Read the third post from the top at the above link, there's a link to http://dl.dropbox.com/u/211024/Step4.zip.

Step 5: Look up the coordinates given in the .txt file for Step 4, it should be for Blue Valley North West High School (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Valley_Northwest_High_School). Enter huskies as the password for Step5.zip.

Step 6: Solve the slider puzzle here: https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2011/r. Use this if you need help: http://analogbit.com/software/puzzletools.

Step 7: https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2011/0. What's the 3612th prime number? 33739.

Step 8: https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2011/p. The first letter of each line spells BLOG.

Step 9: Go to http://blog.dropbox.com/, view the first picture. Visit the URL in the background which should be https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2011/b.

Step 10:
OWIREDFSA
DEFAWSIOR
RSAOIFWED
EIDFRASWO
FAOISWDRE
SRWEDOAIF
IOSDFREAW
WFRSAEODI
ADEWOIRFS

Step 11: https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2011/o

Step 12: Go to https://www.dropbox.com/ and click the link that appears at the top.

Step 13: https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2011/x

Step 14: http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?page=18&id=18&replies=1173#post-9111

Step 15: http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=18, click on Katana-ya.

Step 16: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/211024/Step16.zip

Step 17: http://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2011/h. Answer is the hex colour code of clue16.png (baff1e).

Step 18: https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2011/e. Each line represents a scrambled composer's name.
The number on the left is the nth letter of the rearranged name, assembling those letters spells out Drew Houston.

Step 19: https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2011/a, the braille spells out HELP 206.

Step 20: https://www.dropbox.com/help/206

Step 21: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/211024/Step21.zip. An email address is hidden in clue21.png as a faint watermark in the lower left.
Create a folder named 1F75CC and share it with [email]dropquest@dropbox.com[/email] (FYI: 1F75CC is the hex colour code of the predominant blue in clue21.png).

Step 22: Open Step22.txt in the 1F75CC folder.

Step 23: https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/3712/frozen-yogurt

Step 24: Go to https://www.dropbox.com/about, click on Rian Hunter.

Step 25: https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2011/R. It's a Chrono Trigger reference, rainbow shell.

Step 26: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/211024/rainbowshell.zip

Step 27: https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2011/t. The answer is the notes being played in the midi from Step 26 (badcabbage).

Step 28: https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2011/s, fold it into a paper crane. See http://h-3.abload.de/img/photojan152302126ewz.jpg.
Answer is 11696 x 96911 = 1133471056.

Step 29: The letters used in the dropquest URLs spell out Dr0pbox heaRts U, so that's your answer.

(source)


—

Also, I'm kinda back at SRL. Sssh, don't tell anybody..

I created a Dropbox yesterday, coincidence!