Marla's Puzzle

Finding the puzzle

On September 15th, 2007, Marla posted a video, called The Journals, stating that she didn't feel comfortable reading Maddison's journals to us. To make it up to people, she decided to create a "tiny game" for us. This hint about a "tiny" game suggested that we should look for a tinyurl. By looking at her YouTube tags, we were able to find an unusual one - 25w2un. We put this together in a tinyurl and came up with http://tinyurl.com/25w2un.

The pictures

This URL led us to a PNG image with a series of drawings on it:

From: http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa303/maddisonatkins/asdffdsafdsa.png

Solution

• The first picture is pi, missing it's 6th decimal place, which should be 2.
• The last picture is 2 squared which is 4
• Taking those 2 numbers and the first letter of all the rest of the pictures gives us: 2hmxh4, another tinyurl. (http://tinyurl.com/2hmxh4).

The hex

Our new tinyurl led us to a JPG image with a Hex code written out on it:

From: http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa303/maddisonatkins/asdfasdfasdflkjlkjsdflksdf.jpg

The Hex Is:
4d 61 72 63 68 20 31 37 74 68 2c 20 32 30 30 37 0d 0a 0d 0a
43 68 72 69 73 74 69 61 6e 20 4d 75 73 69 63 3f 21 21 20 49 20
6c 65 61 72 6e 20 73 6f 6d 65 74 68 69 6e 67 20 6e 65 77 20 65
76 65 72 79 64 61 79 2e 20 57 65 6c 6c 2c 20 68 65 27 73 20 6f
75 74 2e 20 48 65 20 77 61 73 20 6e 69 63 65 2c 20 61 6e 64 20
68 65 20 73 65 65 6d 65 64 20 74 6f 20 62 65 20 73 6d 61 72
74 20 74 6f 6f 2e 20 54 68 61 74 27 73 20 77 68 61 74 20 67 65
74 73 20 6d 65 2e 20 48 6f 77 20 69 73 20 73 6f 6d 65 62 6f 64
79 20 73 6f 20 73 6d 61 72 74 20 77 69 6c 6c 69 6e 67 20 74 6f
20 6d 61 6b 65 20 73 75 63 68 20 61 20 66 69 6e 69 74 65 20
73 74 61 74 65 6d 65 6e 74 20 61 62 6f 75 74 20 74 68 65 20 61
66 74 65 72 6c 69 66 65 2e 20 49 20 6d 65 61 6e 2c 20 77 68 6f
20 63 61 6e 20 6b 6e 6f 77 20 72 65 61 6c 6c 79 3f 20 48 65 20
72 65 6d 69 6e 64 73 20 6d 65 20 6f 66 20 4e 65 64 20 46 6c 61
6e 64 65 72 73 2e 2e 2e 6f 6e 6c 79 20 68 6f 74 2e 20 4d 69 6c
64 20 48 65 61 72 74 62 72 65 61 6b 2e 20 55 67 68 21 0d 0a
0d 0a 54 69 6c 20 74 6f 6d 6f 72 72 6f 77 2e

Which Decodes To:
March 17th, 2007

Christian Music?!! I learn something new everyday. Well, he's out. He was nice, and he seemed to be smart too. That's what gets me. How is somebody so smart willing to make such a finite statement about the afterlife. I mean, who can know really? He reminds me of Ned Flanders...only hot. Mild Heartbreak. Ugh!

Til tomorrow.

Solution:
In spite of Marla's comments suggesting otherwise, this is, in fact, a journal entry by Maddison.