Cicada 3301 Super Puzzle - Internet's Biggest Mystery

Are you smart? Can you solve extremely complicated puzzles? Have you ever heard of the Cicada 3301? It is an impossible internet puzzle that spans the entire globe and was created by some mysterious organization that no one knows anything about. Watch today's crazy video to learn about one of the secret corners of the internet and maybe you will be inspired to try and solve the Cicada 3301 puzzle.
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[@vlmtllv1554]

imagine this was a guy just trying to promote his soundcloud music.

[@nathanmaxon1]

Exactly what I was thinking.... Genius marketing move

[@5oups]

vl MTL lv Harry styles made a fake ag about his album, it’s really interesting tbh

[@wesleycollins7486]

They're in the wrong profession in that case😂

[@hazaltiger5601]

Hahahha

[@allmybasketsinoneegg]

Has to be better ways of attracting like 4 new listeners.

[@randommemes2059]

“Only for smart people” Me: trying to balance the light switch in the middle

[@florida294]

Im guilty tbh

[@Hello-qg4yk]

ThatKiddAndrew me too

[@garykerwin9924]

Same I accomplished. That feat too

[@slahser]

Cicada 3301 wants to know your location

[@brandon_leeroy135]

I did that and started smelling ozone shortly after accomplishing said feat. Fuse blew shortly after.

[@soapy2587]

"hello we are looking for highly intelligent individuals" i don't have the facilities for that big man

[@fourlamb1]

Lol, lipop.

[@ajdexter4195]

2+2 is 4 - 1 that's 3. Quick maths

[@Queen_Umbris]

Aj's allotment garden everyday man’s on the block

[@GastonRamierez]

Mans not hot

[@ronyb2948]

intelligant people these days man.... i literally got asked if africa was a country

[@DreamlandRoses]

Plot twist: it's an advertisement for Nord VPN

[@TheIconicHat]

The references were obviously to... *RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS*

[@ishkadish4813]

Path to no where is a poem book I believe

[@JuanGarcia-fv9ph]

the most AMBITIOUS RPG game

[@YoGottem]

“Rated #1 on the Google play store”....

[@daveTHEdirty]

I was playing it before they offered to sponsor me

[@mtndewkraftmacnchztacobell3990]

Battle your way through a visually-stunning realistic fantasy RPG with hundreds of Champions from 16 playable factions

[@niald7605]

"hello we are looking for highly intelligent individuals" my narcissism: "you mean me?"

[@marcelaaleman8372]

Okay, but I relate to this on a spiritual level

[@lemonaidenagain2697]

Marcela Aleman wut

[@niald7605]

@@hazaltiger5601 my narcissism reaches a higher plane of existence

[@jefferynelson]

Bet that's your job interview speech & it works

[@LuneLeo]

BigBrain69 Vanity is a weakness. 978/CCxIp664;VcOm

[@SchroomMetanoia]

put the song on repeat on a youtube video, see who claims copyright. Cicada identified 😂

[@rareuses]

Smart🤣

[@jago7071]

underrated😂

[@BigBangAttack-mt6pz]

I made all comments have 4 likes

[@TheLaLaLegend]

Big Bang Attack4561 gave you one, three to go ;)

[@dataexpunged3914]

This is big brain time

[@MrGeekFreek]

I solved it. It shows Colonel Sanders recipe for KFC, the secret ingredient in Big Mac sauce, and the recipe for Coca-Cola.

[@Primeandrazzi]

MrGeekFreek are u serious??!

[@roscojenkins7451]

2 out of 3 of those can be googled lol

[@reversev9778]

It also shows Obama’s last name

[@michaela5586]

@@reversev9778 And who Joe is

[@liviuenache8510]

@@michaela5586 Joe mama

[@AmarMohanty]

Lemmino's way of explaining things and excellent narration with editing makes me feel he deserves more

[@lucky_lol]

Dude he have 27M views what talking about?

[@mattb6646]

​@@lucky_lolwell he wrote that 2 years from your message, possibly closer to 3 years

[@WitchyWagonReal]

@@mattb6646And yet… less than a day later, we’re still pondering this…. 🤔 🐇

[@rahul_ji21]

Me- * looks at the puzzle* Also me- **_opens incognito mode_**

[@bsavage5128]

Be mindful if you do try to take on the puzzles. Incognito mode won't save you

[@lukmly013]

Incognito mode means nothing! It just doesn't save history and deletes SOME of cookies after closing tabs

[@florida294]

@@bsavage5128 vpn or public wifi

[@bsavage5128]

@@florida294 preferably both. And set up your own vpn. DO NOT USE A VPN SERVICE!

[@mithunm8266]

@@bsavage5128 how do you do that?

[@GizmekGalaxy]

*_The last piece of the Puzzle is located in Area 51_*

[@NASALunarLight]

People gonna die for that puzzle *litterally*

[@hazaltiger5601]

Imigine broooo😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@widevader]

Sooo the guy who wanted raid on area 51 was trying to find the answer

[@electro___]

I wish this comment was posted before the raid.

[@kendisnauss]

@@widevader raid shadow legends wants to raid on area 51

[@Arbbym9er]

3:38 There's speculation that they weren't that big of a team since these clues were found within relative proximity of international airports.

[@mohammedsaad3503]

Smart 😂

[@zkaonegyakwav1040]

Makes sense. The less people the better concealed and devoted to the cause.

[@yahyabaker8535]

LEMMiNO's video??

[@bullmeatt]

did anyone try to get public CCTV footage to see who put the signs up

[@mavenfeliciano1710]

mike lang they paid strangers $20 on CL.

[@amithamurali4589]

I wish there were more internet puzzles, they seem so cool and interesting. And I've never been this early for a video before! I feel so proud!

[@fracturedframe1462]

Same I always wanted to learn cryptography but couldn't find any courses that would be helpful to me I also wanted to learn locksmithing

[@albosang8452]

I have never been so late for a video 😛

[@SheepFreak2]

Try notpron, or amnesya. OddPawn is nice too. 'Hackthissite' if you wanna get more serious.

[@austiniscoolduh]

There are tons... they’re called ARGs. There aren’t any that are this complicated though

[@hazaltiger5601]

But the thing is for a puzzle to be entertaining, you need a reward. The reward with this one is that you don't know the reward but it seems like a hidden knowlage of some kind. People really do got obsessed with that puzzle, some of them spent year's to solve it and built communities around it. And after all of that, the reward will probably never be shown to the public, it might be just a cult trying to get people so invested in something like solving a puzzle to obeying anything in search for the next reward.

[@IljasMS]

For the second puzzle, stenography is a completely different thing. Hiding information inside another file is called steganography.

[@Jp-ue8xz]

I was wondering for a while whether they got it wrong or I had been wrong for all these years xD

[@legendaryju7560]

I think they‘re probably searching for the opposite of me.

[@twilightfox014]

Yeah bro same.

[@Gangster88232]

"We looking for..." "pff, who cares." *back to steam sales

[@rebbattt7526]

Steam sale ended lol

[@hazaltiger5601]

@@rebbattt7526 lol I missed out 😢😂

[@psun256]

The posters was put up close to airports, meaning this could have been set up by a less huge organization. Some people think they aren't even global.

[@davidswoffer4094]

They are

[@divad7137]

Man,if you think it was hard for the players,imagine what a hard time those who made this puzzle had to put all into place.

[@agriculturalbankofchina9554]

At the end, if you are of impure heart you get rickrolled. If your heart is pure, then the Krabby Patty recipe shall show itself to you.

[@dontsueme]

Thx

[@mr.jumbofrog1385]

Nice comment epic man

[@BreadApologist]

It’s pretty obvious what the group actually is. Space werewolves from the future.

[@Hello-qg4yk]

Liono liony there we have our highly intelligent individual

[@zkaonegyakwav1040]

Yes your right about them considering themselves as wolves. In cicada. Ci is the repeated pattern and ad is another. Between a and d on the keyboard is the letter s. And between c and I roughly is h. 33 is leet for ee and 0 and 1 rearranged is a p. Combine these to make the word sheep. Ha.

[@deinmaoremodu326]

I mean, duh.

[@timo42069]

LEMMiNO’s Video on Cicada 3301 explains it a whole lot better.

[@Coronavirus-qx6eg]

Timo legit

[@officialdiscorderiz5904]

yep, highly recommend.

[@jayeshkumar9516]

Totally recommend that video

[@jarrelmatthews7792]

Thank you! I was looking for this comment to make sure I didn’t have to make my own lol

[@kobewei9262]

this is very true

[@drowzy_rick2718]

You guys should check out Lemminos video on this if you want to know the whole story in detail and see a beautifully crafted KZbin video (edit) I am glad to see that so many of you had already heard of Lemminos video. His videos really are amazing and well researched

[@AnuragDhruw]

ya lemmino's video was way better than this

[@ttecram]

Men of culture

[@NomadicWanderer11]

I will!

[@_nexus5943]

Indeed

[@tictac8305]

That's why I'm came here

[@sunwukong4497]

The fact that they made a puzzle in a puzzle in a puzzle in a puzzle and so on is amazing and they are legends 😍

[@DefinitelyTheRealFBI]

Yeah so we know who the mysterious organization is but we can't tell you who they are

[@xshadow2042]

tell me or you don't know

[@judemaretzki2752]

Mm hmm.

[@sketchysquirrel7368]

Yeah, so you're not the FBI, you didn't even include grammar at the beginning of your sentence, "Yeah, so", and your attempt at a verified checkmark is funny.

[@rizeqt758]

@@sketchysquirrel7368 he did it as a joke u brain dead person

[@DataDev]

@@sketchysquirrel7368 r/woooooooosh

[@bsavage5128]

I personally got as far as receiving a phone number. I called the number. It was almost as if someone picked up and hung up immediately after the first ring. About 5 minutes later I started receiving cryptic text messages and automated phone calls from unidentified numbers. The first message I was assigned what appeared to be an id number and password. Phone never worked the same again and I abandoned the puzzle for fear of my own security. I tried to find information about the original number I called and according to others who have done the same thing it was traced to a random pay phone in the Mojave.... Still perplexed as to what this could all be building towards. And for anyone who believes it's the recruitment method for the collective known as anonymous, it is not. We had a group of about 70 dedicated to solving the puzzles.

[@ErroTheCube]

i love how happy the "Hello." sounds

[@CodeNameCheese_]

Just LEMMiNO if you get more information

[@bestredditstories1158]

Top10Memes

[@watermelon2485]

Ah, yes

[@hridayfcb]

one of the references is " It remains unsolved" which is the staple dialogue of BuzzFeed unsolved series.

[@GigTube]

all you have to do is create something with Cicada's IP and see who sues you for infringement. lol

[@abyssalblade7507]

When the we are looking for leaders not servent screen pops up u got to ready your uno revers card Thats the way to win

[@taralieberman8086]

Um, explain? please?

[@collinnelson3010]

YES!!! I have been waiting for this!

[@hmmm7667]

At the end it's a rage comic

[@darkdoe8614]

Intelligent people : trying to solve the puzzle Infographic : *NO WE JUST CHEAT*

[@14chema14]

They might even be working for The Infographics Show 🙃

[@okie3300]

ive seen multiple videos on this but i still came because i wanted to hear you commentate it, you honestly do it the best

[@kingsconsoles9835]

SP000KS I’m getting some SP00KS here

[@rohitvijayan5548]

"Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" ''Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.'' W.B&R.W.E

[@sethadkins546]

You messed up the rhyme at the end...

[@rohitvijayan5548]

@@sethadkins546 or maybe I didn't ;)

[@noyes266]

What

[@charmaineframe7382]

buffy the vamp ;)

[@hazaltiger5601]

Fak you said about my brothers, they are burning? 😱😱😱😂

[@aakibsuhail7621]

Imagine it being a university project by a bunch of students

[@chonk442]

The animations in this video is so awesome

[@brbuff]

i was waiting for this

[@slambobambo4152]

I love how basically every hacker group who DO HAVE THE POWER to bring things and the internet to rubble and make it infinitely better. But they never do

[@nopenope4354]

Little did we know it was the recruitment for the group only known as the infographics show

[@apersonontheinternet2231]

I am astounded by the sheer intelligence of people. Like these peeps are out here decoding complex intricate online puzzles, and I'm out here eating chips watching people drop phones...

[@RavenStarMedia]

Regarding the references you snuck in at that last bit of dialogue, one of them was a reference to The Tyger by William Blake, where "in the forests of the night" comes from. I think the second was a reference to "The Path That Leads Nowhere" by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson.

[@DemonDragonGD]

Well, you don't necessarily have to finish the puzzle to get the price tbh. It was a recruitment tool to see who would be the best their new leader in a since. Their whole team worked together to make that puzzle so 1 person can solve it. With their ideology, they are looking for a change but they don't really have all the tools they need to set the path. The few who did solve the puzzle by themselves are capable enough to do "in Cicada 3301 thought" anything they want to change the current state of the world. But for me, I have believed in this one simple fact, when any country went for their independence they had an organization with many different leaders and suppliers that have drastically different specialties. Having a one-trick pony only gets you so far until you get stomped out by somebody can do the same thing as you and more. But that my thought though, besides that I would be interested in their perceived "end game." "Infomation and knowledge are useless unless you have the will to act."

[@armanyusaf5019]

Remember when you said you would make a video about the new virus?

[@XeonGame]

Arman Yusaf They will. Tonight.

[@XeonGame]

Arman Yusaf *_WELL WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT_*

[@blakeholland1562]

XeonGame3k BAHAHA

[@aryaan4867]

yup he did

[@jesscarter94]

I remember seeing this in a Lemmino video. For a second I thought KZbin had recommended it to me again 😂

[@deathbydesign6r623]

Idc how many views other videos got. Infographic uploads are life.

[@happyjohn1656]

7:00 Rip that guy's screen 6:49 PM 1/28/2020

[@mrsirman2177]

His desk too lol

[@martrietman]

I'd love to see another video on were to start if you wanted to learn how to code, hack and solve these kinds of puzzles I've always been interested in stuff like this, but one of my problems is that I just don't know where to start. Anyways great vid!

[@ordoabchao33]

It's strange how I always stumble upon a Cicada 3301 video. The time gap between the time when I last watched it and when I'm watching it now doesn't matter, it seems that the youtube algorithm doesn't want me to forget about Cicada

[@sethadkins546]

You were chosen...

[@yannisvh]

Haha well I got the same 🤣

[@timotheevinciguerra8788]

Last two references is "tapping away in the digital forests of the night" to William Blake's poem The Tyger, "Tyger, Tyger, burning bright, in the forests of the night" and "the path they created [...] led nowhere" either refers to Corinne Roosevelt's "The Path that led Nowhere" or Aleister Crowley's "Book 6: Liber O" where he deals with what he calls "the Paths". Am I correct?

[@fadethechannel]

What’s funny is I was just thinking about this today, wondering what happened with this bs.

[@austiniscoolduh]

It’s not BS

[@ihitballandballgoes1516]

Our minds are being read. I was thinking about Cicada today as well.

[@WXKFA]

I believe the first recruitment attempts failed as the recruited group failed to do the task and they released new puzzles to replace the people until they either succeeded or gave up. Most likely Tor based stuff.

[@helloguys8141]

Hello i just thought about this while sleeping. And that my theory about Cicada is already finished. Meaning that Cicada stopped giving out puzzles because someone has already finished the whole puzzle. And by what the email said they cant talk about it otherwise they will be disqualified-ish since Cicada is like a group of people that have no identities and ofcourse if you gave out the outputs of the finished puzzle they cant accept you since your identity is already known. Anyways thats just a theory, A GAAAAME THEORY

[@SexyFace]

not bad but how could only one person on earth out of everyone else discover the end?

[@balazstoth3734]

fun fact: the 2017 puzzle is still ONGOING, they are translating a book made by CICADA 3301 called the "Liber Primus", its written in runes, even 3301 himself said "the Liber Primus is the way". Correct me if im wrong tho. *not part of the Cicada group and not partnered with 3301*

[@user-oy8oq5gm8n]

friends: what’s the wifi passcode? me: 1:31

[@TechDunk]

I still find this so interesting

[@belacoak5796]

Is that a game that takes place in a alternate universe where we collanisd the solar system by 1990 instead of 2266 and someding strange happened on titan.

[@lazkari8003]

Yes very cool, you posted this very interesting video. WHICH HAD ALREADY HAD ITS VIDEO MADE ABOUT

[@ahlixemus8903]

Everybody gangsta until you hear the FBI at your door asking you about Cicada

[@Pulko172]

Im just gona write this because i don't know what to write this early

[@SerosJoker]

How about not talking if you don't have anything to say?

[@Pulko172]

@@SerosJoker that's a great advice, you deserve a medal!

[@velvetsky3451]

Why’d it take you so long to make this video, seriously. I love Cicada 3301 and I love this show. Both of them is a jackpot!

[@l.m3731]

This seems like a great idea for a movie

[@ThisOldSkater]

What a great way to keep a bunch of smart people preoccupied.

[@DEERAF2k]

Can we get an info video about coronavirus? Thanks for the content

[@crazybrickstudios7482]

Yeah that’d be great

[@marib5440]

1:28 my guy thinks hes google translate lol

[@dataexpunged3914]

Imagine in the end it just tells you to get a life and you get nothing but a paper that says this

[@kendrickllama9790]

Wasnt this posted somewhere else? Like i saw the exact same info and video in other videos.

[@duchi882]

*This reminds me* of the Anime _"Zankyou no Terror"_ wherein two highly intelligent Young Adults give puzzles to the Citizens of Japan and try to solve it or else buildings will explode and people might die.

[@seventwentyseven]

weebsquad

[@___Zack___]

Thanks for an idea for my next anime! Ignore the other losers here 💁‍♂️

[@centurionpan3400]

What was the point of finding out who these people are? And if they don’t advertise then how did people see the test?

[@nickels4052]

Because it’s fun

[@tomas.2267]

you don't have to advertise something for it to be seen.

[@blakeholland1562]

do you see lamborghini ads?

[@tousikdey2562]

@@blakeholland1562 ya cause they don't believe in advertising there brand value is enough for anyone to buy there car.

[@davidswoffer4094]

My phone was hacked thats how i was given tge test and passed it in record time im not going to re eal who it is but its friggin obvious who it is really

[@LevelRyan]

The last part, one of the references is it remains unsolved like BuzzFeed says

[@chill3569]

Me:*Finds a Video* Me:Cicada 3301 Me:Srsly?

[@71bw]

One of the references was the Krabby Patty formula and I can't believe you just leaked it out into plain sight

[@patriciariley5922]

Hey I resemble that

[@burtrutz7275]

"Keep watching for the answers" then doesn't answer any of the proposed questions...

[@mr.johnson3844]

I wonder if Cicada puzzles surface every prime number of years just like the real life cycle of cicadas. That would be a nifty clue to some larger puzzle, perhaps.

[@comment9382]

i think im addicted to your channel, bro

[@v.emiltheii-nd.8094]

This must be the work of the Organization. Too bad Riddler didnt make this.

[@thadboy3267]

Could this be the will of Steins;gate?

[@v.emiltheii-nd.8094]

@@thadboy3267 El psy congroo!

[@enzodapan5016]

7:12 *"i understood that reference."*

[@christophermeaney3050]

Enzo Dapan what was it

[@RavenStarMedia]

@@christophermeaney3050 Fight Club. A memetic line from that movie is "The first rule of Fight Xlub: You don't talk about Fight Club."

[@3kay3H]

DAYUM dats some GOOD VIDEO

[@Soul-zj3wi]

Imagine this being similar to the "Escape Room".

[@Lord_Starry]

This feels like a repost, I remember watching this elsewhere! Also WHEN DO WE GET THE SOLUTION of the referrences. Me wanna know! ~Just a Random Forgotten Discord Starry☆♕

[@Anonymous-lw5lw]

Even i felt that

[@I-Maser]

Maby the qr code at the end of the vid and the sound as the wird lag efect happend

[@ZodMagus]

Pretty sure it's called steganography. Great video none the less. Thanks for sharing.

[@martianassassin1035]

Video idea: what would happen if the internet never existed or if it was taken down worldwide

[@markgoggin2014]

This is how I got my Illuminati membership card

[@kingmac6638]

As a somewhat winner of the puzzles (I completed everything with my friends then we really did not think it was worth it to actually go outside lol) I just wanna say you need to actually look at everything to solve these puzzles From he width of the message to the words in a book This is likely for a group of some really talented people or talented puzzle makers at the very least

[@im8081]

don't believe that at all lol. Yes, people needed to translate and decipher the messages in Liber Primus, and use the dimensions of the first puzzle image but that's public knowledge.

[@jordanjamison97]

Instead of watching this video, watch Lemmino's video. Super high quality and suspenseful to watch. Covers all the aspects in a beautiful story.

[@sxumys1923]

buzzfeed unsolved last 2 sentences

[@abrahamlincoln7907]

Can you do a video on the virus in China? I would like to know more about it and what’s going on.

[@Howthetoastcrumbled]

Wished granted. He did made it. Corona virus

[@ackta5690]

My guess is that "In the Forest of the Night" is the tenth episode of the eighth series of the British science fiction television program Doctor Who.

[@rohitvijayan5548]

Ur almost Close

[@RavenStarMedia]

I'm a huge Doctor Who fan so I applaud that reference, though I'm pretty sure they were referencing "The Tygre", a poem by William Blake, since that starts out "Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night;"

[@akmemeopsyt8483]

I think one of the references at the end was that people still havent solved the 2p14 cicada 3301 puzzle

[@steviefrostbyte]

I'm somewhat speculating that this secret organization might have something to do with the works and phenomena of the Randonautica app

[@arturitogarrido1389]

I KNOW WHO CICADA 3301 ARE!!! The topics of this video😎

[@ishaqtayab4965]

I watched another video on cicada that was made years ago by a random youtuber

[@ranga8850]

"hello we are looking for highly intelligent individuals" Entire American school system: >:o

[@astroception3461]

1:31 is me when I read an essay in front of people

[@fleurdepapaye9635]

Analysis: 1. Cicada: important insect in origamy world 2. 3301: prime number, someone with math skill involve here 3. Encrypted massage: someone who has the expertise and works in daily basis with crypto 4. Many locations in the US: the home country of the circle members 5. Other locations around the world: mostly are US allies and well developed countries 6. 2012 till 2016: when the politic in the US dominated with middle lefties 7. Silent after 2016: unsolved riddle and the changing of political situation in the state. Temporary deduction: A bunch of US citizens who have expertise in cryptology, have huge interest in math and origamy, and work for an institution related with cyber security make this viral riddle. Probably the members are NSA workers or former of NASA officers who move to NSA. Purpose, to recruite a new member with like minded ideology.

[@tjrex1915]

Then they defeated the purpose of their belief of privacy as stated in the video the NSA has spied on people, so the NSA are probably the last people they are, unless you mean they were former NSA.

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

2:05 - 🤦 It wasn't stenography, it was _steganography_ as in hiding information within something else. Let's see if this video is taken down and fixed or kept up with the massive error… 🤔

[@YSRTheWave]

ok nerd

[@Macabujita]

@@YSRTheWave he's got a point there, jim

[@TheFinalMB]

It’s only a minor difference. It’s not like anyone cares about factual inaccuracies, right?

[@Reihynn]

@@TheFinalMB 1 typo can ruin your life

[@TheFinalMB]

Glitchstery that indeed it can, especially when you have to animate and research it aswell

[@ravin6771]

Who else waited in anticipation for a jumpers during the audio clip?

[@jds77sam]

At the end "Congratulations, you can now join the auction to purchase Wu-Tang-Clans new one-of-a-kind album".