vaishnaviporwal / chasingthecountry-treasurehunt

Introduction

Hi. I am Vaishnavi Porwal from Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur, I have created an online Treasure Hunt game(Chasing The Country) on MERN Stack.

Chasing The Country Treasure Hunt is an online Puzzle type Game where you need to reach the final destination using the clues in th paths. This Game has a central theme of India's great heritage, culture and history of Cities. Every clue in this game resvolves around this theme only. This game has clues hidden in a very creative way. Various type of encoding has been used here- 1. Language encoding 2. Base 64 encoding 3. Unicode encoding 4. image steganography.
The game has very visual hints and clues apart from the main key to help the player reach the correct key.

Perks of the Game

• This game checks the visual skills and intelligence of the player.
• This game has various online encodings to decode which provides the player more vigilence about the data security.
• This game focuses on finding clues on the basis of your knowlwdge about India. So if you are curious about our country India you will definitely play this game and will get to know about many cities while gaming.
• This game lets you to interconnect the clues and teaches you patience while solving the puzzles

Game Specification

Admin Username

: [email protected]

Admin Password

: 1234

Player Username

: [email protected]

Player Password

: 1234

The hints are in Camel Case Format except that of level1

Note:

When you found 404 error while playing restart the game after finding the correct key and travel again.(This is the dead end at the cost of giving you hint).

Level 1

This level will check the knowlwgde of how well you are aware of the diversity in our country.

Key

: hyderabad

Hint

: Decode the text written in Telgu to get the riddle, solve it to find the starting city.

Level 2

This level will check your visual awareness and knowledge on Indian History- Kings and the Queens.

Key

: 284002 | 282002 | 226002

Hint

: Go to the link given there you will get a text file where the code has been given. You have to decrypt that code using Base 64 decoder. Now when you guessed the city you have to enter it's Pin Code as the key out of the Valid Codes in the footer of the website.
This Level has 1 Deadend : 226002

Level 3

This level will helps you to know what is image stagenography.

Key

: if you have reached through 284002 -> Possible Keys are: Gwalior and Kanpur(will leads you to the dead end)
if you have reached through 282002 -> Possible Keys are: New Delhi and Mathura

Hint

: Here two doors are given, download the doors' image and decrypt with online stagenography tool to get the riddle and check the answer through the input feild.
Note: Then correct input field is the one in the footer.

Level 4

This level will check your patience and your hit and trial efforts.

Key

: Haridwar
Note: Jaipur will leads you to the dead end that might be the answer inferred from ig post

Hint

: The main clue reside in the bottom right corner of the page which leads you to an audio file and the name of that file will leads you to the key

Level 5

This level will helps you to know what is text encoding.

Key

: Rishikesh

Hint

: Go to the link given there you will get a text file where the code has been given. You have to decrypt that code using Unicode decoder.