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[melovehockey]

Tools for beginner?

[catherwood]

Re: Tools for beginner?

[melovehockey]

Thanks you

There just seems to be sooooo much going on right now, alot to take in as a beginner here!

Your help is greatly appreciated, hopefully see you around in one of these ARG's!

[pancito]

Here's some links I use a lot:

Binary to text to Base64 etc. converter. Link.

Cipher stuff:
Cipher Tools at Rumkin. Link.
UnFiction used to have a link to a ROT x tool but it's broken... Link.
Kender's Vigenere Guesser. Link.

WhoIs etc.
Whois lookup. Link.
Domain name lookup. (Find if a domain exists). Link.

Sound manipulation:
Audacity. Link.

Of course, wikipedia, google, youtube, facebook, twitter, etc. etc.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, and every game is different, as catherwood said, but I tend to use these things fairly often. Different people different answers, of course...

You might also look at the tutorial... Link.

[melovehockey]

[pancito]

That's it...

[Euchre]

Keep in mind that not all ARGs or CF (Chaotic Fiction) is just 'puzzly' stuff. Wikipedia, Google, UrbanDictionary, and even Uncyclopedia and EncyclopediaDramatica can provide insights into some CF out there. Unless you are particularly drawn to the puzzle filled games, I recommend poking into one of the games more on the fringes of the genre to have a broader experience. It doesn't hurt to try to play more than one game at a time, because you never know how long a CF may really be or where it might lead.

[jamesi]

I'm surprised that no one has pointed you towards http://www.unfiction.com/resource/toy.html yet. I've had that bookmarked for years, and when I click the bookmark link in my browser, it opens in a sidebar and makes it very easy to find some great cryptography and decoding tools.

[mfd18]