Minetest & Mesecons challenge in Google CTF 2019

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Minetest & Mesecons challenge in Google CTF 2019

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Edit: Google is no longer hosting this webpage, as the next CTF has started. See below for a back up of the page and download.

Website: https://capturetheflag.withgoogle.com/# ... e-minetest
License: Apache 2.0
Download: https://minetest.rubenwardy.com/googlectf2019.zip

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There is a gigantic mesecons logical circuit which you need to solve.

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Source: liveoverflow.com

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Here are some videos and write-ups which explain the problem and the solution
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Re: Minetest & Mesecons challenge in Google CTF 2019

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Cool project. thanks that you did share that. I like to do anything look like that now.
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Updated the post with a link to the official Google CTF page, the license, and a download.
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Saw this a few days ago. This is fucking crazy! I love how he created a parser for 2D Mesecons circuits directly extracted from the world file and how the parser also includes a logic solver.

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Google has open sourced the tool they used to create the map: https://github.com/google/minetest_pnr
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Re: Minetest & Mesecons challenge in Google CTF 2019

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very cool, if there was a like key it would get a thumbs up

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