11) Open the Sleigh Shop Door¶
Challenge¶
Visit Shinny Upatree in the Student Union and help solve their problem. What is written on the paper you retrieve for Shinny?
For hints on achieving this objective, please visit the Student Union and talk with Kent Tinseltooth.
Answer¶
The Tooth Fairy
Solution¶
We used Google Chrome to solve this.
Tip
To open the Dev tools in Chrome either: Right click and choose inspect element, click on options > More Tools > Developer Tools or press Ctrl + Shift + I
Warning
The codes change everytime. DO NOT RELOAD while completing this challenge
Note
To submit the codes, click on the lock display, write them and click on unlock.
Lock 1¶
The clue refers to the console in the dev tools. Hence, open Dev tools and select the console tab.
When you scroll up (using the scroll wheel, for example) you see a code in the following form:
Lock 2¶
As suggested by the hints, when you click on print, you get a print preview which displays the code.
Another way to get this is to look at the DOM tree (Inspect element)
A nicer way to view this is to click on the display property (set to none). Removing the tick makes the code appear.
Lock 4¶
Open Dev Tools.
Click on Application
Click on Local Storage. The code is found in the value field of the element found there.
Lock 5¶
We first tried the easiest suggested solution, hovering over the tab. This works for Edge but not for
We then looked for the title element in the DOM tree
To do this, open Dev Tools
and scroll up to the title
Although this method works, we also tried the Console method which appeared to be a bit cleaner
Lock 6¶
Right click on the hologram and then click on inspect element. Change the perspective field to a (really) large value
The code is revealed on the hologram.
Lock 7¶
Right click on the text and click on inspect element. The code is found in the font property
Lock 8¶
Right click .eggs and inpect element
click on Event listeners. There is an event called spoil
start expanding this event, until you see ='sad'
VERONICA is the code and doesn’t change if you refresh.
Lock 9¶
Right click on the text, inspect element. We can see 5 chakra classes.
find the active attribute (click on :hov)
click on the tick box next to :active, repeat for all chackras
The code appears around the text with red letters
Tip
You can see the hidden text instantaneously by clicking on it.
Lock 10¶
Right click on the cover, Inspect element
select the cover element, right click and delete/hide it
You can see the code KD29XJ37 on the edge of the circuit board.
However, when you try to input the code, the button doesn’t work.
Instead, an error (missing macaroni) is shown in the console
Searching in the DOM tree reveals an element called component macaroni
When you drag it down to lock 10, a macaroni appears.
Repeat the process until you have all components (you’ll get a missing cotton swab error followed by a missing gnome error)
Tip
You can find the images in the sources tab. Curiously, the cotton swab is named qtip
Result¶
Once all codes are found and all locks are unlocked, you are redirected to the following result page:
In the console, the page challenges you to solve it faster
We couldn’t resist a nice chalenge and eventually got a time of 172.35s
This time the challenge was much harder
Hint¶
Note
Solve the Smart Braces terminal to get this hint
Kent Tinseltooth
Oh thank you! It’s so nice to be back in my own head again. Er, alone.
By the way, have you tried to get into the crate in the Student Union? It has an interesting set of locks.
There are funny rhymes, references to perspective, and odd mentions of eggs!
And if you think the stuff in your browser looks strange, you should see the page source…
Special tools? No, I don’t think you’ll need any extra tooling for those locks.
BUT - I’m pretty sure you’ll need to use Chrome’s developer tools for that one.
Or sorry, you’re a Firefox fan?
Yeah, Safari’s fine too - I just have an ineffible hunger for a physical Esc key.
Edge? That’s cool. Hm? No no, I was thinking of an unrelated thing.
Curl fan? Right on! Just remember: the Windows one doesn’t like double quotes.
Old school, huh? Oh sure - I’ve got what you need right here…