Hey everyone,

I participated in the most recent NCL individual game and had a blast, but there were three challenges that completely stumped me. I’d love some help understanding how to solve them or at least get pointed in the right direction.

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This one gave me 142 files, each with some sort of chess notation. Apparently, when interpreted correctly, these would somehow lead to an image with a flag. I wasn’t sure if the files represented moves, positions, or something else entirely. Any ideas on how to approach this kind of challenge?

This involved analyzing network packets, but they were Bluetooth packets (maybe BLE?). I’ve done some basic Wireshark stuff, but I couldn’t figure out how to extract meaningful info or identify what I was supposed to be looking for. Any tools or techniques that could help here?

This one gave a list of hashes, and I had to figure out a custom password pattern. The format was something like word-liber8-word, but there were variants with capitalization, digits, maybe separators. I tried some common wordlists but couldn’t crack any. How would you go about generating combinations like that efficiently?

Any insights or ideas would be amazing. I’d love to learn from these so I can do better next time!