Crypto
Quest for the Key

Total prizes worth INR 10,000.

Season 2 - You can play here
Quest For the Key:

Undertake a thrilling journey through a series of mind boggling questions that will test your brain to its limits of thinking, imagination and ingenuity. If you love unravelling secrets and mysteries, love solving puzzles or have no formal exposure to the World of Cryptology but has always been interested in something that engages your mind then you are at the right place.


The unprecedented success of last year has motivated us to create an event of even higher degree of secrecy. We promise you this time you will see the most bewildering codes, enigmatic patterns and even more thrilling mysteries waiting to be revealed. We guarantee you that the puzzles will be like nothing you have ever seen. 

"Unleash your brain”

Event Format :

  • The ‘Quest for the key’ would be based on a theme which would be made public when the event is launched.
  • Each question would have some secret message associated with it, which you would need to decipher in order to move ahead in the game.
  • Answer to the current question would provide you the link to the next question.
  • Answer to each question would also serve as a clue for future questions.
  • The time taken to solve each question would be recorded, & would be used for judging, for more details see judging criterion below.
  • Each time you are directed to a new question, time is noted & when you submit that answer the time would again be recorded.

Judging Criterion:

  • The contestant who solves the maximum no of questions would be declared as the winner.
  • In case of more than one contestant solving the equal number of questions, the one who solves in minimum time would be declared as the winner.
  • Prizes are up for the grab for 2nd & 3rd spot as well.
  • There would be some marked questions in between & special prizes for contestants who solve them earliest.
  • Anyone caught cheating would be disqualified.
  • The discretion & judgement of the co-ordinators is final.

For any queries contact us at crypto@techkriti.org or any of the co-ordinators -
Event Coordinators:

Pulkit Bansal
 pbansal@iitk.ac.in 9452048799
Ashu Verma
 ashuv@iitk.ac.in
 9452530167

 

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