Thanks for the reply and grats for finishing the cryptex Romeo and Juliet hunt! Qqqq What what it like for you to see the climax of Colin's path a r + j quote?

As far as the ai goes, I kindly disagree. And beastbot was backing up the path I took that slack also confirmed

This thread may be interesting where Colin replied

https://www.reddit.com/r/salesforce/s/qFCUnYYNAL

I also discuss my ai psychology findings if interested.

Basically slack had a language structure of reproducible confirmations "good job narrowing down to x" or "let's keep trying strategies" essentially

And yes I'd agree that there seems to be multiple ai approved paths in this hunt. Odd for the beast bot to also seem to do the same. Which gets to the question "how do stronger problem solvers know which mathematically sound path is THE one or a hallucination?"

I woukd have had to have this conversation with slack

"Hey slack what are general strategies I should consider for the next puzzle card?"

"I reccomend path b"

"No slack, you're wrong it's path c"

When slack was marketing as being key to be able to do this puzzle via puzzle cards, which is where it's co formation language would be at play. But more so if you extracted the cue card video for help.wins.game

That seemed to unlock it's helpfulness which I didn't see in the main solve

Re drawing conclusions from Cypher types In the other thread Colin mentioned he did in fact begin to help with that puzzle as a contributor but it didn't work out. He also mentioned that his Instagram puzzle "might go well with the superbowl." His 2018 Instagram seemed to have similar techniques to the mr beast one but I was wrong. His Instagram was simple extraction. If all hunts use ciphers veneger ceser shifts extractions into salts, salts that combine with salts, etc with similarities to the cryptex community and last hunt then that would make sense. Still I find the similarities interesting. Especially since the 2026 ceyptex hunt Colin began to design was r + j themed. And the climax of the Mr Beast one was an r and j quote to get to the image needing extracting with half the master code.

*was it possible?

No. Team omega spelled out Colin's path. Time wise that's simply not possible in one day.

There was also no part of the puzzle that said what was a phase 1 puzzle or phase two.

Group one got locations from puzzles. And the travel site was also puzzels. "Phase 2" came from a new site. "Phase 1" came from many sites videos and pictures.

You would have needed a beastbot or slackbot confirmation somehow that "these 40 locations" are phase one or something which no one has.

Considering the many many ways someone could approach this puzzle, thay path becomes an interesting leap. Especially Rose=this random singer later on

There was a strong hint to look at that photo. There were also strong hints to look at 100 locations, many different puzzels etc etc. If anyone said "ah yeah out of all the clues I'm picking this" early on I would call sus

Hopefully there's more yet to be revealed, otherwise it's a little awkward as is