How to Play

To play simply:

1. Register on the site
2. Log in
3. Find a challenge or game and submit answers

Extracting Game Files

To make the games as realistic as possible some of the games require interacting or analyzing with downloadable files.  To lower the bandwidth required to download these files they are compressed using 7-zip.  To extract these files you will need to go to http://www.7-zip.org/ and download and install 7-zip.  Once installed you can extract files using these steps:

Right click on the downloaded file and select 7-Zip.  Then click on one of the Extract options such as Extract to FILENAME\ which creates a folder in your current directly with the title of the filename you are extracting.

Submitting Answers

For online quizzes and courses answering questions takes on standard multiple choice.  However, when playing any of the game challenges you will see a "Convert to Hash" button.  This button is required to convert your answer into a hash for submission to the game engine.  

The hash type performed is SHA1 but some answers are not required to be case sensitive.  When this happens the "Convert to Hash" button lowercases your answer and then performs a SHA1 hash.

Submitting File Answers

During the course of some of the game challenges you may be asked to submit the hash of certain files.  To perform this on Linux simply type "sha1sum file_name_goes_here".  For example this is how to find the hash of a file called test.txt:

In this example the answer that would need submitted would be 3c1bb0cd5d67dddc02fae50bf56d3a3a4cbc7204.  You can perform this on Windows by downloading various free hash generator tools such as the MD5 & SHA Checksum Utility or you can also download a Windows version of sha1sum.exe.