DEF CON 23 Scavenger Hunt

It was the first year with our 16 screen video wall, which we got dumpster diving after CES one year.

Description

The strangest, loudest, most chaotic and quite possibly the most infamous game at DEF CON...the Scavenger Hunt! Back once again with a list full of crazy tasks and hard to fnd items. It's a test of creativity, determination, brains, and above all, the hacker mentality.

VHS Tape

Folowing the success of the floppy disk at DC22, we produced a VHS tape with a number of items hidden within; you can watch it here.

The items included on the tape:

• A number station of ASCII in hexidecimal.

  Item 214 (5 points): Photograph of your entire team in front of a Temple23 double helix sculpture.

• SSTV in Robot 36 black & white format.

  Item 215 (5 points): Burn a DVD of this VHS tape.

• Morse Code

  item216returntothescavengerhunttableandtunetothefrequency914.1mhzforfurtherinstructions.

• Written on the tape, at the very end, using a silver Sharpie.

  217: show this to a judge

List

The list can be found here.

Final Scores

This was the closest game, two teams battled to break the tie.

The winning team members were Biom, D, Terje, Stephen, and Jack.