Solution to the Sleuth puzzle
Sleuth is one of the puzzles of the Melbourne University Puzzle Hunt 2005 competition co-authored by the founder of Wikileaks, and likely organizer of the Cicada 3301 community, Julian Assange (the other author of the puzzle is Andrew Kwok). The puzzle was part of the fourth act of the game and consisted of a long dialogue in multiple languages. It was preceded by a short narrative that provided context and moved the script forward. You wake up from your ether-induced sleep, once again regretting your poorly chosen sleeping places. In fact, you don’t remember falling asleep here. The grassy plain is the same, but in front of you is a lake surrounding the dark castle you saw earlier, which seems much closer than you remember. You wonder if the raging wind brought rain, which caused a flood that carried you closer to the castle. However, judging by the lack of moisture on your clothes, you figure that it is yet another result of Chan and White’s dia...