The Golden Bowl - prototype
Your favorite recipe blogger, Ellie Voss, just posted that she's closing down her blog, The Golden Bowl. You noticed something weird in her last post though, something that kind of looked like... a cipher?
Well, you've got a free afternoon, you've got a hobbyist cryptographer site for reference, you've got a color filtering browser extension for if your eyes get sore, and you'd like to know if there's something more to why The Golden Bowl is shutting down. Time to get sleuthing!
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This is a prototype - content and graphics not final. Project was created for Mystery Game Jam 2025.
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That's strange - I wonder why she decided to close down her blog like this and what secret message she's trying to send with the cipher?
You look like the type of person who'd enjoy this jam: WOW JAM
They have a very interesting platform and are even offering prizes xD
Oh, that...took a turn. A really good one, too.
I didn't find the cryptography terribly hard (but I've been solving puzzles like this for decades), but kudos for working the text in so seamlessly. (One slightly misspelled word which is actually a Caesar shift? Impressive!)
I played the game with my friend and got the secret page. I was not familiar with cryptography at all really but I still found it super fun and interesting! It was a really unique mechanic how the whole game was in a web browser.