Pachelbel's Song Bird
On 7 July 7 2022, Billy Basso posted a blog post summary of the Blue Bird Puzzle.[1] This article contains a few strange inconsistencies, most notably in the image referencing the blue bird nonogram. The numbers on the blog post nonogram do not match the original numbers[2], so by using these new numbers we get the following image:
![Solved nonogram[3]](/wiki/File:Pachelbels-song-bird-nonogram.png)
![Clean QR Code[4]](/wiki/File:Pachelbels-song-bird-clean-qr-code.png)
This leads to an interesting new web page[5], requiring an 8 number input to unlock its secret. Take note of the name of the sub page: tune. If we go back to blog post, there are 4 unique images which, when clicked on, lead to a YouTube video of a song[6].
- Blaise de Vigenère: Vitamin C - Graduation
- Map: Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space
- In game picross: Vampire Weekend - Step
- Second cipher: Canon In D - Pachelbel's Canon
Each of these songs have the same relative chord progression: “1 5 6 3 4 1 4 5”[7]. This just happens to be a set of 8 numbers, exactly what is needed for the web page.
From the solved web page, we get an image titled "instructions" with text "congratulations" displayed. In the metadata of this image[8], we find the message "THE FIRST TEN PEOPLE TO FIND THIS AND EMAIL ME WITH SUBJECT LINE ‘SONG BIRD’ WILL RECEIVE A REWARD." marking the end of the puzzle.
Notes
The original author of this puzzle summary in the Google Doc was starling#9598.
- ↑ Billy Basso (7 July 2022). Animal Well Day of the Devs Puzzle Solutions and Some Thoughts
- ↑ Noticed by badewaxter#9432
- ↑ Solved by chandahulk#8899
- ↑ Image from Alayric#8271
- ↑ Mr.Redstone#7069 was first to notice it's a micro QR code
- ↑ Compiled by Angeryball#4938
- ↑ Alayric#8271 noticed the similar chord progression, BurningSpade#5989 compiled the chord progression
- ↑ Discovered by superALA1217#9189