This is a walkthrough of the riddles for Pride, the first of the seven sins in The Money Game.
You can find walkthroughs for the other sins here: The Money Game Walkthroughs
On 29.09.23 at 17:00 GMT the main page of moneygame3.com displayed this riddle. A 24 hour countdown appeared after which a password could be entered. The riddle was:
In shadows and signals, secrets reside, Hidden deep within, where truths often hide. Yet amongst the sins, one stands tall and wide, To mask the message, which sin is your guide?
If you viewed the html source code (”shadows and signals”) of the page (usually viewable by right-clicking and clicking ‘View Source’ in browsers) you would see this comment:
<!-- ibb=djSjzRZ | U+1F4F1 U+1F41F | 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 -->
This is a message split into three parts:
ibb.co is a free image hosting service and each image uploaded has a unique identifier. Going to https://ibb.co/djSjzRZ gives you this image. Download it, it will be needed later.
These are two Unicode characters. Unicode is a way of encoding almost any letter, character or symbol. You can convert them at sites like https://symbl.cc/en/
U+1F4F1 = 📱 (mobile phone)
U+1F41F = 🐟 (fish)
There is a website called www.mobilefish.com which provides various online web development and encryption tool including steganography, which is the process of hiding information in an image.
https://www.mobilefish.com/services/steganography/steganography.php