Instructions and General Help
Game 1: Tarot Card Trivia
Navigate to ‘Game Menu 1’ within the badge. You can choose to either practice or play. The practice option will allow you to refine your tarot card trivia information. When you are ready, select play and get 15 of 20 questions right in order to pass this challenge.
Game 2: Steganography
Steganography is a way to hide text in pictures. There are many ways to go about decoding steganography but I would suggest starting with a simple decoder found on Github https://stylesuxx.github.io/steganography/.
For this game, the steganography is hidden within our very own DC540 Shitty Deck (also featured in the badge but use the deck located at our GitHub Page. You’ll need to decode three pictures and then concatenate the answers to get a six-digit number. This six-digit number is what you will put into the badge.
Game 3: Tarot Card Reenactment
For this game, pick your favorite tarot card and reenact it. Take a picture and post it to our DC 540 Tarot Badge channel to receive your six-digit code. Be creative. Have fun.
Game 4: Scavenger Hunt
Find 10 of the items pictured on the Rider-Waite tarot deck to include:
– a Fool
– a Magician
– a Hermit
– a staff
– a robe
– Lovers
– old school scales
– a pair of knee-high peasant-looking boots
– a throne
– a white dog
– an Angel
– a chalice
– six cups
– eight stars
– a chariot,
– YOU MUST INCLUDE a picture with another person wearing the DC540 Tarot Badge
Post your photos to the DC540 Tarot Badge Discord channel. Once you post all 10 items and we’ll send you the six-digit answer to this game. Points for creativity (not like points really matter but you do get imaginary DC540 points).
Game 5: Tarot Flashcards
Navigate to ‘Game Menu 2’ within the badge. You can choose to either practice or play. The practice option will allow you to refine your tarot card flashcard knowledge. When you are ready, select play and get 15 of 20 questions right in order to pass this challenge.
Game 6: Personalized Tarot Card Deck
We at DC540 created our own terrible Tarot deck. To get credit for this quest, create your own deck. It must be original and posted to DC540.org/shittydecks to share with the world. Send us a message on our discord channel DC540 – Tarot Card Badge and make sure to include @DC540BAAB and @LYRATHEDAMMED in order to get credit for this game. We will send you a code and you can enter it on the badge.
Game 7: Morse Code
Have you ever wanted to learn morse code? This game will help. We have two modes – practice and play. The practice mode will display the letter, number, or word on the screen, and then the badge will “flash” in morse code. When you feel confident, you can select play. You will have three separate strings of words displayed on the screen. Use the left (dot) and right (dash) buttons to type out the morse code. If you get all three right. The badge will “flash” the morse code and let you pass the game.
Game 8: Decryption
There are three encrypted messages which can be found below or on the badge. Each of the three ciphers has a piece of the final answer. Your final answer should have six digits.
Cipher 1: Hsle td esp yfxmpc ehpyej-escpp?
Cipher 2: dGhlIGFuc3dlciB0byBsaWZlIHRoZSB1bml2ZXJzZSBhbmQgZXZlcnl0aGluZw==
Cipher 3: Mhv bnfbvf rhu rfx eofybgg wck bs kvx ttfabv nlauxr ft mbtrbbnm.
Game 9: Malort Recipe
Malort is the alcohol beverage of choice among the DC540 members. Make your own drinkable recipe using Malort and share on the Discord page. Have fun and be create your own
Game 10: NFC
In a previous post, one of our members describes his NFC tag stickers. There are several of these distributed about DEFCON. We will drop hints on Twitter and our Discord website. This will provide a clue to the next sticker location. Find all the stickers and locate the code you need to enter into the badge.
Game 11: Tarot Badge Pair
Find another player wearing a DC540 Tarot Badge. Go to the Extras menu on the badge and select “pair”. Once paired, you’ll pass this game. While you are at it, say hello and get to know a fellow DC540 badge player.
Game 12: Boss Pair
There are at least two DC540 Boss Badges wandering around at DEFCON 30. They belong to several of our DC540 members. Introduce yourself and give us a unique sticker we can add to our collection to pass this challenge.
As a hint, we will be posting on Twitter occasionally or find us on the Discord site and ask us to meet up. Two of our handles are already included in this document but another Boss Badge holder was instrumental in programming this badge. His name is all over the documentation.
Important Tips and Hints
- The DC540 Tarot Card channel can be found using the permalink located on the right side of the DC540 website’s home page. If you run into issues or questions, you can reach out to @DC540BAAB and @LYRATHEDAMMED on Discord.
- Games do not need to be played consecutively.
- If you reset the badge you lose the games you won.
- Any answer that you have to input will be six digits long and consist of the numbers 1-4. For example, the answer for a game might look like 112114
- Once a game is won, the badge will light up in a pattern and a red LED will stay lit in the corresponding number on the wheel.
- Complete all twelve games to win. The first person who completes this game during August 11-14th and brings their badge to one of the DC540 founders wins a prize (To Be Announced).