Acid Puzzle
12Me21Created:
https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAACAAADV0aB_D5yPQ
If anyone can figure out what acid this represents then I will start to release all of my games. Good luck.
It's clearly sulfuric acid
Probably not, but why would I care even if it were?
It's a zoom-in on Pac-Man's mouth, rotated at 90 degrees with added teeth and pixelated then put into BW and stretched.
Obviously.
I noticed the grid is exactly 8*8, so I tried turning it into binary with black square=1 and white=0.
Both
11001101
11001111
11000111
11001110
11000110
11001110
11110101
11111111
and
11111111
11111111
11000000
11000000
10101011
11111111
10111110
11000111
yielded nothing significant in a binary-to-text.
It's not acetic acid, is it?
If you search "8x8 grid representing an acid", you get a few results about amino acid identification using said 8x8 grid. don't know if this helps, but still interestingI read the abstract of the paper on that, it's just about looking for patterns of codon usage. It's interesting research though.
I noticed the grid is exactly 8*8, so I tried turning it into binary with black square=1 and white=0. Both 11001101 11001111 11000111 11001110 11000110 11001110 11110101 11111111 and 11111111 11111111 11000000 11000000 10101011 11111111 10111110 11000111 yielded nothing significant in a binary-to-text. It's not acetic acid, is it?I got this from going from left to right then top to bottom. 00110010 00110000 00111000 00110001 00111001 00110001 00001010 00000000 The last two are nothing, so I came up with 208191. I googled this and came up with a page for pyruvic acid, which had a catalog number of 208191. That's my guess. Without knowing what the pKa(s) are or what definition of acid he used...then it'll be hard to know what it is.
I was poking at it some more about translating two-bit sets WN->ES to nucleotides, but since codons are pairs of 3 the numbers don't really match up.
I think this would map to 0=T 1=C 2=A 3=G but I don't remember what the one thing said. Anyway, I think this is the wrong direction now.
Spoiler
Either way, it came out like this 0302 0300 0320 0301 0321 0301 0022 0000inverted
3031 3033 3013 3032 3012 3032 3311 3333https://miiverse.nintendo.net/posts/AYMHAAACAAADV0aB_D5yPQ
Answered: It was Pyruvic acid.